it was snowing last night. started about one o'clock and snowed off and on 'till I woke and had to go to work. My snow boots were the worse for wear, but a few quick squirts of KrazyGlue and uppers and soles were reunited and off I trod. We have a lot more rain in Oregon than snow, and I can use the boots when it pours, too
When I lived in South Dakota and in Minneapolis, the snow was a presence about 8 months of the year. And they just walked and drove around on it, climbed over it, salted and graveled it down and it snowed over it and they salted and graveled it down until you had archaeological layers. . .they had designed open lots into the building of the city just so they could pile it up when they finally got around to scrape it up.
I am glad I live in Oregon where they keep it up in the mountians so we don't have to walk over it. . . usually.