PilotDAR should be aware that there are many different kinds of snow dry powder is easy to deal with you just get a snow blower and shift it.
In the UK and other nearby parts of Europe we get wet sticky snow that has to be shovelled, moreover we get partial thaws followed by refreeze that leave wet sticky snow sitting on a layer of solid ice. That is extremely difficult to deal with and is why most major European hubs like Heathrow, Schipol, Brussels and Frankfurt are having a tough time just now.
In the past it has happened pretty rarely and been generally not that widespread:
1942 1947 1963 and 1981 are the last major occurrences before the last couple of years.