Input Junkie

Blizzards in urban areas are pretty much never widespread death zones. They kill a few randoms per storm, who couldn't get out of it in time or whose heat broke down or something, and they kill an unfortunate number of homeless people who don't *have* anywhere to get out of it (although many cities, Chicago being one of the best of them, have some pretty good emergency arrangements for the homeless in winter, if they're together enough to take the help, which is always its own issue), but they don't do the wiping out large chunks of the city bit that hurricanes or earthquakes do. For that matter, tornadoes don't actually damage very much at a time, because they are small and they only harm what they touch down on. They're just *very* nasty if they happen to hit you directly.