One day it snowed about 1-1/2”. They shut the entire base down. No traffic in or out. They also shut the whole town done. I couldn’t believe it. But then I learned that they had absolutely NO snow removal equipment! Zero, zip, nada!
(We had some Texans in our Company that had never walked on snow before. We laughed our butts off until it got to the point that we realized we’d better help them off the grinder because they were starting to physically injure themselves.)
I spent the winter of 76-77 at Great Lakes RTC/NTC going through basic and ATF. Coldest winter on record at the time I think. During Basic before Christmas we suspended marching and uniform of the day on several ocassions. Survival was the rule. Get to chow or where ever the best you could as quick as you could to get warm.
Back home here in East Tennessee even the lakes were freezing over. But unless the temps dive and stay below freezing during the next two weeks we likely won't see any bad snow storms. I doubt you would fine complainers if we did. Any form of percipitation now is very welcomed here.