It is very rare to get as cold as you see in the picture - normally in Denmark it just rains and rains and rains and rains in winter. Sometimes we are lucky to get snow that melts after a day or 2 and once in a couple of years we get a real....blizzard might be too strong a word...but we are advised to stay indoors and schools are cancelled.
Once in a decade we get huge amounts of snow and everything stops - shops, schools, factories, trains etc. It is always a chaos and if you're not going anywhere it is really cosy and fun!
I remember one winter when I was child where we saw army tanks driving across the ice to a small island with food. And a winter in the nineties we had so much snow at the same time that all cars were gone and people were skiing to get around.
Last winter we had a week in Skagen where the snow stopped whatever little traffic was on the roads (Skagen is a huge tourist attraction in summer, almost dead in winter - 12.000 inhabitants) and the heat went out - thank god for burning stoves
My very good friend in Texas calls me when it snows there - it is quite funny - getting a few flakes is a sensation for him: "Mette, Mette, it's SNOWING - WOOOHOOO!"
I think the Boston area resembles Denmark some regarding the weather, but really I know so little about the weather in the states.
I visited my friend when there was a huge flood - was it in 2001 (?) - and that was amazing to be part of
His wife and me were at a danceplace in Houston and we had to sleep in the car since the water was so high we couldn't drive the car home...
Sorry the topic is off and I am rambling!