These people are digging tunnels to get out of their homes. The Army was deployed to thaw em out. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/newfoundland-reeling-blizzard-buries-capital-68370915
If anyone can withstand 2.5ft of snow and 110 mph winds and see the humor in it - it's Newfoundlanders. A hearty bunch. I have a lot of family back there and the images have been pretty amazing, yet it's not really fazing them much. Cops are snowshoeing to work, a husband took his pregnant wife to the hospital on their snowmobile to deliver their baby, and a Cab driver is pissed as this officially breaks his 40 year streak of not missing a days work for anything - that's how they are handling it. LOL...
The news had a video of a guy who raised his garage door only to find a wall of snow. If I was him I'd blast out of the garage and dig a tunnel through it with the car. What could go wrong? We had a 30" snowfall back in '93, if I remember correctly. Anyways plowing didn't work, had to use the tractor bucket. I had a pile 14 ft high (as high as my bucket would go). It lasted into May. Good news was I didn't have to cut that grass until June.
The Sierras got something similar, a few years ago. I had to go over Donner that winter. I came back over July 4th and people were still skiing up there. I want to say they measured ~13’ of snow sitting on the rest area roof, at the summit.