Then off came the layers and we'd have to start over. 2 hours before I'd be ready to go outside. Other times, when the snow wasn't so heavy, my sisters and I would sit next to the radio and listen for the school delays. We really hoped that snow would be canceled and we could watch the mid-day movie. Or just fight all day.
Some towns can just plow the snow out of the way.
In Bufalo the snows were so deep that they dug tunnels through the snow. We'd have tunnels from the house to the garage, from the garage into the street. The streets were just tunnels in the snow. In time the walls of the tunnels would thaw a little from the heat during the day, when people went by, and freeze at night. Sometimes the ice would get real thick.