Earlier this winter we had 18" of the heavy wet stuff.
No big deal...
But...We have the luxury of all our power lines being buried underground. I can't remember the last time we had a power outage. And our counties and our townships and cities each have a slew of snow plows. And mountains of sand and salt. Most have large many-horsepower personal snow blowers. So it's a different "deal" for us than for many of you folks.
Stay home if possible. Stay warm and stay safe! Help your neighbors out. Especially the elderly ones... 
Half of our subdivision is underground utilities (our half). But we still get plenty of outages.
Hurricane Sandy, we lost power for 13.5 days. About a week after the storm we had a snowstorm, 12+inches of really heavy wet snow. Took down about 50% of the repaired power lines.
The problem with our area is the substation that supplies us is only a couple of feet above sea level. Sandy brought in a 14' tidal surge and completely flooded the sub station. JCP&L brought in "tractor trailer" sub stations for temporary power (took 13 days to do that) then rebuilt the station. Guess where? Same location.
We were expecting major coastal flooding with this storm, possibly even surpassing Sandy, so the utility ?sand bagged the sub station
First pic is filling in the bags along the gate
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