About 50 years ago,while a proud member of the United States Army Reserve,my unit did a summer camp at Camp Drum.NY...back when its main use was for summer training for the National Guard and Reserves.
While there I got talking to a Regular Army 1LT who "wintered over" at Drum the previous winter.He said that they didn't bother plowing many parts of the installation because of its status and that the buildings in those areas were entirely buried in snow by the end of the winter.
Interestingly, the heaviest snow doesn't even fall during the winter months in parts of upstate New York. "Lake effect snow" is typically seen in the late fall and early spring. Once the Great Lakes freeze over there is no evaporation from the lakes to feed the weather systems that drop all that snow to the east.
I live about 80 miles south of Fort Drum. But a little south of Fort Drum is the Tug Hill Plateau, which averages more than 200 inches of snow a year. One small hamlet had 466.9 inches in one year (winter 76-77).