Snow day

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At the beginning of the week, it snowed: 5-6 cm. It's not particularly common anymore, so we're a little lost when it snows.
Our cars aren't equipped for it, so we can't go out. The school buses couldn't run, so the children didn't have school for two days.
The mountainous regions of France laughed at us.
What about where you live? Is snow common in winter ? If not, does your life come to a standstill until the snow melts ?

Snow is short lived when it happens here where I live. We don't get it every year. Most years when we do it's overnight, shallow and melted or rained away the following day. This year is one of those not normal years. We had and inch of snow last Thursday night that stayed on the ground for 4 days before starting to melt as it stayed below zero degrees. Last night we had heavy snowfall from early evening right through to the early hours. The snow is so deep out there that community centres, sports facilities and the local schools are closed. Joy and my husband went for a walk at 10pm last night during the snowfall to experience being out in it. Their 3 inch deep footprints can no-longer be seen.

I can relate to both the above. I'm quite close geographically to Angela so her experiences resonate most. I like to see the snow and now I work from home and my kids are adults, we don't get as impacted by it as we would have done previously. Unfortunately, in our small home we don't have much room to keep 'stock' of items so the worst thing is running out of food (bread, milk, cheese, eggs) particularly. I did have to venture out in it the day before yesterday which was a little precarious as we live on an unadopted dead end lane off another dead end lane so the gritters don't get out here. At least I no longer have a huge driveway to be dug out of, which is something!