Along the coast, the problem wasn't snow, but high winds and the threat of flooding.
For, as Espen points out, if we didn't treat snow as an emergency, we wouldn't get our snow days.
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.
"(Many of) the big cities aren't seeing snow accumulation, they're seeing very heavy rain with the wind, " she said.
Because others are ignored, they don't vote, Snow says, and because they don't vote, they are continually ignored.
With the exception of a rare October snowstorm in the Northeast, slopes in the region weren't pelted with snow until this month.
"It created this terrible situation in which the plows that were out couldn't move the snow because they were lighter vehicles, " he said.
Still, plenty of fashion fans wouldn't let a little snow get in the way.
This year we didn't have the early snow that we had last year.
"With Minnesota, ain't no telling when the snow's gonna come, you know, " said Showers.
One weather model predicts that the snow won't make it that far, said CNN Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera.
"The recent snow couldn't stop progress on the largest resurfacing scheme carried out by East Sussex County Council since 1994, " she said.
Fake snow can't hide the fact that it's 80 degrees and humid.
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"There were a lot of Americans and Canadians on the plane who couldn't understand why so little snow had brought everything to a halt, " he said.
"I couldn't believe the amount of snow that had piled up, as well as the many fallen branches, " said CNN iReporter Molly Schulson in Providence, Rhode Island.
"A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.
He always wore snow-white T-shirts, black pants and black penny loafer shoes, and as he blithely dog-cussed his brother he bent over, took off one loafer and dumped several neatly folded bills into his hand.
Mr. Snow doesn't play down his subject's bigotry or his "cranky certainties, " which ripened with age, but he concentrates on Ford's inventive period, when he was not only designing cars but also inventing the parts that went into them.
"If everybody made a snowman, it doesn't actually take up that much snow, " he said.
But city officials point out the days are getting warmer and longer, so any new snow likely won't last long.
We would probably have done it a week or two earlier but because of the snow we couldn't do it so it was an ideal opportunity to have it with Leicester.
The Costa Rican Football Federation filed a complaint with soccer's global governing body, FIFA, arguing that markings on field weren't visible, and suggesting the snow affected the "physical integrity" of the players and hampered movement of the ball.
Its new operating system, OS X Snow Leopard, wasn't mentioned by Apple this week.
In Vancouver there was no snow so they couldn't build the finishing line.
"When it comes to politics, you don't get that immediate effect, " Snow says.
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