I sometimes feel the same way about some places in America. Then again, i'm from north Idaho (100 miles south of canadian border) and the only time we ever closed school was when it snowed 3 feet in 12 hours. Everybody had a minimum of 4 hours of work to clear their driveways and even then anyone without a subaru or a 4wd truck was stuck at home waiting for the snowplows to clear the roads. It took all day to get the major roads plowed and they didn't even get the residential areas completely cleared over the next week.

Its cuz they dont have scandinavian balls.

Grew up in northern Sweden. Had two snow days when I grew up, because it came a meter of snow overnight. Dad would have taken me to school on the snowmobile, but the teacher called and gave us the day off. Had to showel snow instead.

In southern Sweden they shut down everything for 20cm of snow. I don't even bother to choose the pickup truck over the golf for 20. So I agree with you.

However, northern USA, especially around the rockies, can get snow like us Scandinavians wouldn't believe. Seen some pictures on the internet and from when my brother in law visited colorado, and I have NO idea how they cleared the roads. Just from one nights snowfall, nothing of the plough cars could have reached above the snow. Kinda cool.

School is only closed if roads cannot be cleared in time, because most students ride the Bus.

Depends on where you're from, honestly. Some places that don't usually get alot of snow won't be as likely to be prepared for large amounts whereas others will be because it is the norm. This particular incident shows what may have happened just before a large snowstorm was expected to hit, meaning they were probably preparing for something like power-outages/excessive amounts of snow.