Up to your knees, you put on extra socks and a good thick pair of boots. Up to your waist, add longjohns and snowpants.
Up to your chest, might be time to start thinking about laying in extra firewood.
Up to your head... build an igloo. (Actually, that's not a bad idea.)
In all seriousness, though... the trick to handling deep snow is to stay warm, don't sweat (and I mean that literally), and stock up. If you absolutely need to go somewhere, any car with front-wheel drive and a set of chains (cost: $20-$60 USD, as far as I know can be shipped worldwide) can handle up to two feet of the stuff, properly motivated. Chances are if it's knee-deep on you it's about six-eight inches on the roads, so a shovel will get you to where you can get moving. Keep a shovel on hand and a bag of sand, gravel, and/or salt. Despite what you may have heard kitty litter is NOT a substitute -- it soaks up the water and turns into foul grey slush, worsening your situation rather than helping.
But really, don't go out and about any more than you have to. Stay home as much as possible, stoke the fireplace if you have one, enjoy a cup of cocoa and have a snowball fight or three.
(My area routinely gets 2-4 feet at a time, though the year before last we had six feet in a matter of days, peaking at eight in spots. Was much fun! (I left the car parked two blocks away at a grocery store for most of the winter rather than try to get in and out of my street)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Up to your chest, might be time to start thinking about laying in extra firewood.
Up to your head... build an igloo. (Actually, that's not a bad idea.)
In all seriousness, though... the trick to handling deep snow is to stay warm, don't sweat (and I mean that literally), and stock up. If you absolutely need to go somewhere, any car with front-wheel drive and a set of chains (cost: $20-$60 USD, as far as I know can be shipped worldwide) can handle up to two feet of the stuff, properly motivated. Chances are if it's knee-deep on you it's about six-eight inches on the roads, so a shovel will get you to where you can get moving. Keep a shovel on hand and a bag of sand, gravel, and/or salt. Despite what you may have heard kitty litter is NOT a substitute -- it soaks up the water and turns into foul grey slush, worsening your situation rather than helping.
But really, don't go out and about any more than you have to. Stay home as much as possible, stoke the fireplace if you have one, enjoy a cup of cocoa and have a snowball fight or three.
(My area routinely gets 2-4 feet at a time, though the year before last we had six feet in a matter of days, peaking at eight in spots. Was much fun! (I left the car parked two blocks away at a grocery store for most of the winter rather than try to get in and out of my street)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs