Do you get a lot of snow in the winter like we do out in the northwest ?
Where I grew up, we were a lot closer to Lake Michigan. This meant more lake effect snow, to the point where sledding was just a given as a kids' Winter activity and a lot of us had ice skates as well.
Many years we'd get big snows, and after road plowing the snowbanks were easily taller than any of us. Of course that just became something else to climb and play on. A little further West my grandparents and some double-cousins (my Dad's sister had married my Mother's brother) tended to get even more. This meant even bigger snowbanks, and though we were not supposed to we often tunneled into them.
Of course we routinely made snowmen, and snow forts for snowball battles. I also can recall how hard it was wandering the trails in the woods after a few good snowfalls. We often had to keep an ear out, because those winding trails were also used by snowmobilers, and when the trees held onto a blanket of snow it could muffle their approach as they rounded a curve or topped a rise and bore down on us.
Where I have lived since 1974 it more central and we don't normally get as much snow. But we get our share and sometimes it can be substantial. I remember one Winter storm that left us with broad snowdrifts topping five feet. I was living off a main drag, and the entire thing took days to reopen. There was too much to bank up, so trucks and loaders took it to the bridge and dumped it into the river.
This was January of 2014. Not our deepest or close, but plenty. Taken the next day after clearing it once the snow had stopped the night before.
