Sometimes when you get that much snow there's no way to remove it without damaging surrounding stuff, unless you hire a backhoe, a dump truck and a place to dump it... and give the hoe operator a GPS plot of everything that's under the snow. The time we had to hire a backhoe because plows couldn't handle our lane, they damaged the stairs to our garage deck. I doubt they even knew there was anything under all that snow. It'd be no different if you lived on a public road served by government plows...



... and if you read about some of the undisclosed chemicals that they use to treat fabrics, you'd wash them before wearing regardless of how they smell ...