Dave1949--I lived there long enough to learn the dangers assuming the winters of old will be the winters of new. First, you aren't ready for winter when you should be and that could subject the whole state to an early storm. If so, don't come looking for help when the natives come looking for you with pitchforks and torches.
Second, you speak of prior winters and how they were not so bad. Oh, boy is that a prescription for blizzards, high winds, more blizzards and then an ice storm followed quickly by 25 below. It will take a whole day to get your plow truck unfrozen and then there will be so much ice you won't be able to plow anyway.
These things happened to me and I feel responsible for the blizzards of 1977 and the the great Quebec-Maine ice storm of 1998. Most people lost power for a couple weeks and it could have been prevented had I only not commented to the whole office that the storm was going to blow over.