> Up here in New Hampshire, it's a different story. We get a foot of snow during the night, it's already plowed off the roads an hour or two before the sun comes up, and school's on.

Well, I'm not that lucky. The plows get stuck. We caught 3 on our cul-de-sac at the same time, once.
These monster cars can be helpful. My family and I went to a movie or something someday, and by the time we got home [it'd only been a few hours], it had snowed several feet. We were in the Suburban and ended up just plowing straight through our rather long driveway-- even though the snow came up past the bottom of the windsheild.
Glad we didn't take our Audi.