I will never forget that storm... epic it truly was. People were stuck everywhere, begging to get pulled out of the middle of the road. Cars getting quickly & completely engulfed in snowdrifts. The CB was crackling with municipal and private plow guys saying "F THIS!". I will never forget being down at the shoreline of Lake Champlain on Mallett's Bay in the middle of the night in a plow truck & not being able to see. one. single. thing. Sideways, whiteout, face-hurting ice & snow: intense blizzard conditions. A telephone pole and the rear right quarter panel of my pickup had quite the disagreement too, lol.
Memory-wise, second in line to that was the overnight instantaneous-fluff-bomb where those in BTV who woke up early had like 30 inches of the lightest, purest powder snow I've ever seen/felt in my life. I forget exactly how that anomaly happened but man that was nuts too. Who knew driving through 30 inches of unplowed snow could be so easy??
Wild winter stuff happened in the late oughts through the early tens... it doesn't seem to happen too often anymore... or maybe I'm just getting jaded in my "older" age.