... by a few poxy inches of snow, feel righteous in your frustration and anger

After all, it wouldn't bother the Japanese one iota. Have a look at what they contended with here on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route...

Nope, that is not a Photoshop job, which was my first thought when I saw it as a joke on "Very Demotivational", it is in fact entirely real. In places along the route, snow up to 20 metres deep (allegedly, none of the images look that deep) was cleared :-o
The thing which gets me about it is just how neat and precise the path carved along the road is.
Wouldn't like to see what it's like when it starts to melt, my guess is that road becomes a natural river :lol:
More, including a video of a drive along this amazing "snow corridor" here:
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/12/deep-snow-really-deep-snow.html