RicOlie_2 said:

A whole week...as far as I am aware, that never happens where I live. We're too used to snow. Last year it snowed a meter (a bit over a yard for you old-fashioned Americans ;)) in about a day and school wasn't cancelled (the buses might have been, but I can't remember).

I just realized that was incorrect. It did snow almost a metre once, but that was over a period of a few days. As for the snowfall I was talking about, we only got about a foot and a half (I know, I'm not consistent with my use of the metric system, but we kind of have to know both since we interact with you old-fashioned Americans so much) in one day.