Snow up to your KNEES? Wuss!
The snow I remember from childhood was piled up over my head by the snowplow....we dug tunnels and caves in it. The driveway had to be shovelled several times a year, not just to keep it clean, but because the snow was too deep to actually drive through without getting stuck. This wasn't wussy pushing-the-snow-off-to-the-side with an aluminum snow shovel--those BROKE under the scoops of snow we had to pick up.
It's still like that sometimes...the last 5 years or so have been mild, though. Last year I could actually walk my dog through the woods in January, and the year before, it was so warm in December that I was actually considering camping...we tell kids stories about the snow we had when we were kids, and they don't believe us!