Sounds like us in north central Arizona!
Lowes opened a store here in Prescott. They didn't stock any snow shovels. We're in Arizona right?

I tried to tell them, but they're not from around here.
They waited until January when their whole parking lot was iced in. We couldn't even get in. Then they got some snow shovels in stock, as well as ice melt and such.
In the SW, it is all about altitude. Down low, it never snows. Up high, it snows hard, and then the heavy ice sets in.
On the East Coast, snow falls, then melts. Things get mucky. In the Midwest, the snow has the courtesy to stay frozen. In the SW at high altitudes, it snows overnight. It melts in the afternoon, and gets wet. Then over the next night it freezes and turns everything into a skating rink. Then it snows again to hide the black ice really well. It's a lot of fun!
My wife's parents live on Cape Cod, and her sister on the coast of Connecticutt. For the last three winters in a row, we have had more snow in Prescott AZ than they have had in New England. Yet we have a fairly low snow level for Northern Arizona. Higher areas get a lot more than we do.
Note my avatar, a pic of my 80, inverted, on a snowy trail. That is less than 15 miles from my hut at the end of March. In fact, it is snowing hard outside right now. We'll likely be snowed in until 9 AM in the morning.