Hey James,
It's been a wild ride! I live in Boston (and have been biking to work irregularly depending on the morning ice situation). One of the biggest issues is that the city streets are really cramped. It's not just a matter of running a plow down the street. Almost all cars park on the street and the city wasn't designed (it just happened as people built), so it's effectively a series of horse paths that got turned into roads around the year 1680. There is literally nowhere to put the snow (and I use the word literally literally). There were 4 big storms separated by about a week each, so there was more snow on the ground before the last storms snow could effectively be cleared from the sides of roads. So, the already narrow streets became even narrower...and narrower...and narrower...