Countries like Canada have a whole infrastucture dedicated to winter snow removal. Within hours of a snowfall all of the streets in our city of 150,000 are plowed. Highways are constantly plowed and sanded and salted to keep them clear.
Our airports, each have literally enough plows to clear a small town.
Most of us have snowblowers. Mine is a 10 horse, 36 inch wide two stage blower, and is self propelled. I can blow the snow across the street if I want to. My driveway is 90feet by 20, and I can do it in less than an hour if we have a foot of snow.
We use winter tires and we have three sets of cloths, summer, fall and winter. Boots, gloves, hats, and insulated coats.
I have a gas fireplace in my family room and of course cental gas heating. We have insulation in our homes up to R40 plus in the ceiling and 25 plus in the walls.
We have specially made insulataed doors and windows to keep out the cold.
I think that a lot of places that are getting whacked recently by "unusual" snow and ice should take notice, and adjust. It is not going to get any better in the future. Those places are not equiped for it. We have to be.
We have done more to change climate in 200 years than what took millions to change.
Most of us who can, will take holidays in the warmer climates in the winter, and a lot even move there for the winter months to avoid the cold.
Last year was the worst year in Florida for many years for cold.
I was there for a month and only got a handful of days over 80 F. The rest were as low as the 30s and usually in the mid 50s. That was in Feb. March and April.
That is how we cope here.