[maxerickson]

I dunno, not having much of a plan seems like an appropriate measure for storms that only happen every 5 years or so.

Which sounds glib, but it takes a lot of equipment to be able to rapidly deal with snow on a lot of roads, equipment that would be sitting around rusting a lot of the time.

[mikeash]

This is more like a 25-year or 50-year event, I'd say. I think this was the #2 or #3 biggest blizzard recorded here. It's ok for something like that to screw things up for a few days.