As someone in Michigan I always find these things a little funny, but I had my perspective properly set a couple years ago. I was traveling for work and was in Sweden working with some great people over there. We were making small talk at lunch (their English was great, my Swedish is non-existent) no communication difficulties at all until I mentioned that after speaking with my kids I found out that they had a "snow-day" after getting about a foot of snow (I was even fancy enough to say about 30cm). Lots of puzzled looks at the table, some back and forth in Swedish, when they smiled and said:
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Oh we had one of those in 1976, when we received 1.5meters of snow in one day, but if we shut down every time 30cm fell, we would be closed most of winter.
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So it really is all about what you are accustom to, and prepared for -- be safe and good luck.