Growing up I was accustomed to being snowed in for several days at a time. There was plenty of warning for this storm so we prepared to be shut in for a few days if necessary. I may not like living in town but it seems pretty cushy compared to life out in the country. I knew that if we lost power it wouldn't be for more than a few hours. - And I knew they'd get the streets cleared off pretty quickly.
One of the things that was stolen from our farm was our big John Deere snowblower so I've been using a shovel to dig us out. Although we haven't warmed up that much here yet, we had drizzly precipitation since that has shrunk the size of the drifts.