Our school has a "snow team" of parents, who have. Role to clear the main paths around school, put down salt and make the school safe in the hour from 07:30-0830. School then opens 30 mins late at 9am. I am part of the tam, but we haven't been called out much.
In 2010, when Dublin had seriously bad snow, all the schools locally closed for more than a week. Our school close for 1 day when the boiler broke' but it was fixed by next day.
In our family, we have winter gear and outdoor gear. So we just get on with things when the weather is bad. We grew up in rural areas, so we know about keeping stores and keeping warm.
When the snow starts here, even though we are urban, there is a very steep hill that's gets very sloppy so buses stop very quickly. Slippy. Stop as in stop running, not slide or skid. So I tend to drive up one hill and down the next, park the car rather than drive all the way to town and get the bus. Because the buses will run to the top of the next hill and I can walk back down that if they stop running all the way. And we need te car at home more than stuck in town.
I have never not gone to work apart from one day that dd was actually sick, so not a snow day but an illness cover day. I have arranged to work from home one day in the midst of it one year, but my work allows me to do that occasionally.
It does annoy me though when others don't come in who gave a lot easier commute. Usually it's the people far out or int he hills who make it in, but the ones living close to the city or who generally walk who can't make it. But then again. They don't have the coping skills that us country folk have ....