I had 12 inches in my driveway two hours ago when we finished our first round of shoveling. The snowblower turned out to be useless; it starts with fluid, but dies under load. Probably just a carb adjustment issue but I quickly lost patience fiddling with it, covers off for access, and testing it in leftover snow. Some other time.
Then the power failed! Just over half an hour for us, but there were a lot of separate outages across multiple towns. According to the National Grid map, we're still out right now! But we're not. We have a fire station right around the corner so we tend to get restored first.