Growing up in Arizona, i never saw snow. When I was 19 i moved to Colorado and we had snow, but where I lived we never saw more than a few inches. A few years later we moved to North Carolina, we never saw more than a few inches. Now we are in NY and WOW-WEE I have never seen snow like this. We received 14 inches of snow in a blizzard. There are snow drifts that are 3 feet high.
My kids wanted to go play in the snow, and my daughter ended up getting stuck in the snow. I walked the the snow and some snowdrifts to get her, snow was all the way to my butt. it was crazy.
It would be pretty odd the first time 🙂 That was the same weather system that went thru the MidWest just days before- and we got about 8″ but that was on top of 5 or 6 ” a few days before.
Glad you survived it- although it is fun to stay inside when it is nasty out everyone goes bonkers for awhile!