especially since I’m the one who has to shovel us out.
that is all.
You need to train other people in your household to shovel snow. It ain’t rocket science. 
Actually, a heavy snow is at the rate of an inch/hour. NOrmal, not excessive.
Now, -9 F. is excessive to me, who is at 50 F. in Akron right now.
Well, you do live in a winter wonderland…
It is. It really is. We haven’t had any snow to speak of this year, but in early 2012 we had 1.5’ one day. It stayed cold so nothing melted and then it snowed another foot and a half. It was just rude.
An inch an hour may be normal, but 24 of them in a row is indeed excessive.
Our town is not equipped for that kind of volume. It was awful. You have my deepest sympathy.
We got the same storm, Northern Piper. I just came in a while ago from digging out. Phew! But it looks like its over for now.
We got soft last winter (I rode my bike to school every day), so when we got dumped on, we discovered that we’d lost our shovelling muscles.
But it was fun! All the neighbors were out coping together, and pushing people’s cars up our hill.
And nobody could get to work, so every business in town had a Snow Day…
WHY our neighbor, the 85-year-old Communist Former Hitler Youth (nope, not kidding here), just HAD to go to his office and therefore get pushed two blocks uphill in a foot of new snow…
-33 with the windchill right now, and we are expecting 15 to 20 cm by tomorrow, but it’s the blowing and the freezing that really sucks.
Just left Calgary and arrived home to a foot of snow and more coming down, tomorrow is a powder day. Woot woot as they say on the Internet these days, apparently. I have tried training the small creatures in the house to clear the deck, unfortunately not successfully.
It’s been a record year for snowfall here in Ottawa thus far. We are going through our somewhat typical January thaw right now though and it will apparently be plus 6 tomorrow.
In somewhat mangled English.
Scarcely a flurry up here. Have you considered that you might be living in the wrong city in this province? 
The Greater Toronto Area has only melting dregs, and never had a lot to start with this year. It’s supposed to be +10 and raining tomorrow.
Either last winter or the one before, this happened. Over night.
Just about every business in Milwaukee was closed. That never happens. Sure, schools close from time to time. But the entire city never shuts down. Cars really couldn’t get back on to the road until about 6 hours after the snow stopped. EMTs that I knew said they were driving as close as they could and then hoofing it the rest of the way to get to medical calls. A few of them brought their snowmobiles into the fire stations and loaded them up because they could get around the side streets faster that way.
But, yeah, today it’s like 47 and raining.
Blacksburg VA, first weekend of '96. 40 inches in 36 hours, IIRC…
I dug out my front walk, the city sidewalk, the driveway, and my car, all in -20C temps.
I’ll be there tomorrow. 
I thought a Newfie would have been starting this thread? But according to CBC they’re all too busy building outdoor beer fridges. http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/01/newfoundland-humour-shines-through-blizzard-tweets.html
<envy> I miss a cold snowy winter something fierce… 
In Albuquerque on the last day of 2006 we got about a foot in less than 12 hours. I was very annoyed when I had trouble getting the front door open and even more annoyed when I waded to Lowes to get a shovel and was told that there were none left in Albuquerque and that in fact the last shovel in the state had been seen somewhere near Las Cruces. I cleared the driveway with a broom and a garden shovel.
The following November a couple snowflakes were reported and there was a mad rush to the stores to get shovels before they sold out again.
My tweet yesterday after watching the local news was, "They’re getting hammered in Newfoundland? This is news? "
So, Piper, how was waking up to -30 before the windchill? 