Lived in Greene County for the 98 snowstorm. I remember that it was my senior year in High School and I had a marketing co-op class that allowed me to get credit for my job (K-Mart) and I also had an off-campus. So I got out of school at like 11:30. I came home and told my dad that he might want to go get my sister from school because it was really starting to snow but they hadn't called schools out yet. He didn't want to listen to me for a couple of minutes then said oh crap and headed out to get her. They closed schools while he was on his way.
I was supposed to work that night from 4-10 and called in sick. My uncle was the assistant store manager and was not happy with me. But then the storm just blew up and everything got impassible. I'm pretty sure they closed most of the stores down by mid-afternoon with the snow just hammering down. Dad made it home with my sister from school just in time. Plenty of people were stuck trying to get their kids home.
I remember that storm as being kind of out of nowhere. Maybe I just didn't pay enough attention to the weather then but I'm pretty sure we got like 20" of snow or something close to that and if they were calling for snow it definitely wasn't that much to my recollection. The main takeaway I had was that it came hard, fast, and the flakes were gigantic. It was the hardest I've ever seen it snow in my lifetime.