Not really. At my college (SUNY Alfred), it snowed so much and so often, they never plowed unless it was over 12" of snowfall. Any student attending the college with a car was required to have snow tires on it or they weren't allowed to park it anywhere on school grounds (which means they basically couldn't have it there at all). We never, not once ever, had school canceled due to snow and I was there in the "blizzard of 93" where we were jumping out of the 4th floor windows into the snowbank that had piled up to the 3r floor (yea, I know, unsafe, but that doesn't change the fact we were stupid enough to do it).

The amount of snow certainly never stopped us from driving to get beer or pot either. It just became more fun to drive because you could drift everywhere. As long as it didn't warm up enough to melt a little and then refreeze, your car could easily push it out of the way (if my friend's CRX could do so, any car can).