Large numbers of us live in areas where we fully understand that in winter it gets cold and snow falls. Sometimes a lot of it. This is not anything that far out of the ordinary, except for ill-prepared political idiots who think that global warming means now.
They'll survive, maybe update their thinking about ecotopia.
ROFL - re: the governing idiots you have to endure. We have those here too. Our water shortage solution? Up the cost of water by 50%! Now that will solve it!