My most striking memory from that Storm was Southbridge not canceling school. We didn't get hit as hard as a lot of the surrounding towns but conditions outside were still very dangerous and a lot of our teachers didn't live in town so they were expected to commute from areas that were hit a lot harder than we were.

Also if you lived within a mile of school you had to walk, couldn't bus. (Or something, don't remember the actual distance.) Which was DANGEROUS.

Needless to say almost no one actually showed up. I didn't go in, even my 1/4 mile walk was kind of terrifying downhill after an ice storm, and a lot of teachers just called out. One of mine remarked that she took ten minutes to get down her frozen steps, hit the pavement, immediately busted ass, and said fuck this and called in too.

I played a lot of Fallout 3 cause we were lucky enough to not lose power.