Thanks for letting me know it worked. This was about halfway through the storm. Total was 12" in 16 hours. We passed several people with front wheel drive vehicles who couldn't get going even on the flat. (Probably no snow tires.). At one place where we stopped for a red light, the guy trying to go when his cross street light turned green kept trying and trying until our light turned green and it was our turn to go. (He had a front wheel drive minivan.) As we drove through the intersection, my daughter said "I wonder how long he's been sitting there trying to make it through the intersection each time his light turned green, and getting nowhere?"
People need to get snow tires in the winter. Period.
The ironic part is that all those buses were on the road because the subway was down. I wonder how those buses eventually got going? (The snowplows were out in full force, so hopefully not too long.)
BTW all is clear now and main roads are bare (but sidewalks are a mess, and the kid runs to work).