Certainly 6-18 inches of snow presents real risk to traveling in any circumstance. As a lifelong North East resident I enjoy the snow and look forward to it, however just because you live where it's cold doesn't mean you love snow or are equiped to deal with it. We also have kids involved and I won't be the person to ask anyone to take any unnecesary risks. We won't let the kids operate a paperclip without saftey glasses.I believe that for more reasons than just the weather there should be a sliding date on the "stop build". That might be a good topic for another discussion.