My best snow experience was Chicago (I think) in 1978. We had a blizzard that dropped 3' or so.

At that time my commute from Valparaiso IN was an hour and 10 minutes on a good day. The first day the office was open it took me an hour and 5 minutes to get to work only because the hike from where I had to park took longer. The expressways were clear but the people who lived in the city couldn't get to them because the residential streets were impassable so I made record time from Valpo.

To clear the residential streets they first plowed the church parking lots. Then a fleet of tow trucks towed all the parked cars to the church lots. Finally the plows could come in to clear the streets. Some of the snow had to be hauled away in dump trucks because there was no place to stack it. It took weeks.

Next election mayor Bilandic lost his job.