For, as Espen points out, if we didn't treat snow as an emergency, we wouldn't get our snow days.
Some schools in upstate New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut closed, adding a few more snow days to the calendar.
In New Haven, Yale University was set to reopen Wednesday after having its first snow days in 35 years.
The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.
Classes were cancelled in some districts in Massachusetts, Connecticut and upstate New York, adding a few more snow days to the calendar.
The central protagonist of this tale is Jack Frost, a Puckish prankster whose powers appear to be confined to giving children snow days.
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Which brings us to the second reason we don't bite the bullet and snow-proof our infrastructure: We think of snowstorms as emergencies that inevitably bring with them power outages and snow days, so we don't demand a snow-proof infrastructure.
And then he warned about the Halloween snow storm several days before anyone else.
The event took place on a course that had to be sprinkled with fertiliser to harden up the snow, after days of rain and sleet in Whistler.
North Wales was hit by very heavy snow for several days from 21 March with large drifts that prevented farmers in many areas reaching their sheep at the height of the lambing season.
The storm started to wind down Thursday night in Wichita after leaving 14.2 inches of snow over two days -- the second highest storm total in the city's history, according to the National Weather Service.
In Scotland, drivers have been warned about ice and snow on the roads in Grampian, Tayside and the Borders after several days of heavy snow.
After a week without power and two days of snow in Manhattan, the outing felt especially liberating.
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It found that at present 90% of the 666 slopes had enough snow cover for 100 days or more each year.
In a bid to overcome disruption to services caused by the weather, the council is introducing a "take all" policy after three days of snow-affected collections.
In the upper Midwest, thousands of homes and businesses also lost power because of heavy wet snow, ice and wind in the past couple of days, while rain and snow raised flooding concerns in various areas of the Midwest.
The airport was closed for two days as heavy snow caused problems on the runway.
Bins are being collected in Coventry after services were suspended for three consecutive days because of snow.
The report singled out Heathrow, which was at a virtual standstill for days when the snow hit.
Thousands of passengers were left stranded at the airport as 4, 000 flights were cancelled over five days for heavy snow before Christmas.
It says icy surfaces will continue to be a threat across much of the UK, especially where snow has fallen over recent days.
Mark Diggins, co-ordinator of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, said weather conditions were fairly dry and there had been little snow over the last four days.
Braving grizzly bears and subzero temperatures, he searches the snow-covered wilderness for days before finally finding his quarry and making his kill, one of only four permit-holders to do so.
The cloth is washed in hot water and massaged with the feet, after which the wet fabric is placed on the snow-covered fields for ten to twenty days to be lightened by the sun and the ozone released by the snow s evaporation.
The west London airport came under severe criticism in the winter of 2010 over its failure to cope with snow after it was shut for days.
Numerous accidents were reported in the area, and Mayor Sly James declared the emergency in an unwanted encore to a major snowstorm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on his city just five days earlier.
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Her body was found several days later, partially covered with snow in a desolate field outside of town.
"In my high school days, we'd have snow typically for our first couple of games of the high school baseball season, but never that much snow, " he said.
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