Massachusetts and Alaska:

I've been listening to the blizzard news regarding Northeast USA and my old New England, Boston area inundation by a practising blizzard bringing feet of snow and negligible visibility to towns I was quite familiar with. Boston is loaded with people so there is more snow than places to put it. I remember the days of clearing your space on the rowhouse street, then guarding it.
But the most alarming thing I heard this morning was that they anticipate temperatures into the 50s F (= 10 C) so there could be an unholy mess of snow, ice, slush, with problematic drainage.
My extreme sympathies for those in these conditions.

Alaska has been having some relatively minor weather compared to the rest: We had a minor earthquake a week ago ("You call it an earthquake, we call it 'Thursday'"). Anchorage has had some light snow falls. We had some high temperatures with meltdowns, followed by snow, meaning we have a slick layer under the soft stuff which promotes the slips trips and falls for folks on feet and wheels alike. We hawe bicycle riders with studded tires.

The only reason I'm including this in the cold weather care where it's rare thread is that when I lived in Beantown the snow removal equipment was quite specialized, large wheeled vehicles with giant maws full of awesome rotating machinery. In Anchorage I was surprised that they mainly use what I called road graders. These are the long trucks with two large steering wheels in front, four large about half a block back, and a huge metal cross blade in the middle with a control cab over. They have their own snow clearing algorithms: They'll come along very early mornings after a strong blow, but in general they are scheduled to do major street clearing after enough of the white stuff is piled on AND beside the roads. Then they do mini convoys where two of the graders go down the road in stagger formation with a blower behind which picks up the tall pile left by the grader and spins it to toss into the top of a sizable dump truck. The snow and ice are compact but not nearly as heavy as gravel, so the dump truck has an extra ridge on one side composd of a back board so the truck is carrying a snow and ice mixture far above its usual limits. Ultimately the gathered stuff ends up in piles on city or rented property, and you see them lasting right into Summer as a sign of what kind of precipitation we went through.

A phenomena of using these graders is that when they are done they often lower the big metal blade so that it scrapes the surface. They may be adjusted by lasers or something, because they leave a shiny surface of glare ice that is better left un traveled by car or pedestrian. Only something sharp will have any purchase. But, being so thin, they sublimate down to asphalt fairly quickly.

Anyhow, my thoughts are of Bahston at the moment. And the wicked pissah times I had there.

If you are from points south of Mason Dixon I'm interested in how wintry the unaccustomed weather has been and what you've done about it.