It’s like that in the States (or at least where I go, which is used to hard winters) unless it’s a polar vortex blizzard. Streets are being cleared as the snow is falling. Everybody is expected to clear their own drive. Mind you the flights are buggered endlessly. And the driving is appalling. Due to a cancelled flight from Chicago to Indianapolis I foolishly rented a car to drive through a snowstorm a few years ago. Usually 3-4 hour drive, this took six, but not too bad in a rented saloon, no heavy braking or sharp steering, nice and slow. Every 200 yards I drove past a big 4x4 which had slid off the road into a drift, precisely because the drivers felt invulnerable with their winter tyres and all wheel drive. Worst snow experience was on an alpine pass near Chatel trying to get to Geneva airport. I was putting the chains on the rental car in a stationary queue of traffic when a twat in a BMW trying to sneak past slid into the back of us in slow motion. He was very apologetic, especially as the locals were about to lynch him, but it took months to sort it with the rental company.
After a couple of days it gets irritating here, but still no economic sense in having fleets of snow ploughs etc on stand by for such a rare event.
