You got it bad your way . I can remember when I lived in Scotland when young I would open the back door and the snow would fall in. We would dig ourselves out to get school. But we coped .Down here everything come to a standstill.
Dark and minus 4 on the shore of Lake Ontario, and I do mean the shore. I just dropped a friend off at his house, and at the end of his garden is a short stretch of beach and then that large brooding mass of water!