Just got through shoveling out in Ontario. Sometimes when the cops say not to drive if you can help it they really do mean it.
I have no problem waiting out a storm either at home or at friends until the storm blows over.
Sometimes being prepared can be about being prepared not to go out and get stuck.

By the way, it is nice and sunny today and most of the roads have been cleared but not all of them.
It was a pretty good dump of snow considering it was the first real snow of the season.