In east central wis, remember that i had put out rain guage before blizzard, i was supprised to find 3 1/4" rain. We had sleet and rain the first day, about 1ft snow after that. Wow, if that had been all snow, thats 4ft! I doubt the snow added much to rain guage. We had about 2-3" ice, frozen shlush under the snow, soft ground under that, made plowing difficult. If you stayed on top of frozen slush, you could get stuck driving on it, if you got under the slush, you couldnt push thru it, or you were digging into dirt and gravel,wow. Checked my planting book, the last 2 years i planted oats,peas,and alfalfa on april 18