I live in Rhode Island. We got walloped with snow the other day: the 24 hour snowfall blew away the previous record by over a foot! We had some idea this would happen, but not really the extent of it.

Some of my colleagues stayed the night in the hospital, but I have a Hiace and drove in around 5am, pushing through about a foot of snow on my street. The major streets were plowed. Later, in the afternoon, they pulled the plows off the streets because the visibility was so bad. This is also when I decided to drive home.   
  
I dug out the old van then drove a coworker home, passing and helping a few stuck cars on the way, then I went home myself. I passed a stuck plow near the Whole Foods, high-centered on a solid snowbank. Parked in the middle of the road and offered to help, but they didn’t want help, nor did the next stuck guy in a sedan with no chance of getting anywhere on his own (is it some kind of ego trip to require a hand to dig your car out?!). Better to get home, I would think. Anyway, then I passed a cross-country skier and a guy walking his unfortunate tiny dog, and came to my little side street, which had not been touched by a plow.

  
I should have headed to the closest commercial parking lot and walked home! But no, with no real plan, I drove around, and it wasn’t long before more stuck plows, dummies in sedans, and people who thought their mini AWD SUVs would be capable blocked my way. About an hour of digging people out, gunning it through drifts in ditches, and reversing while holding the door open for visibility, and I made it back to my street. 

Finally the Hiace met its match: 3 feet of dense snow. I made it a car length or so before getting stuck. having had enough, I backed out, went to the closest parking lot, and walked home, arriving four hours after I left work.

  
TLDR I’ll take my 4wd Hiace with snow tires in any snow, anywhere. As long as it’s less than 3 feet deep.

A Beast in the Snow