George wrote:

Maybe the 4wd vehicles can handle it but people need to be able to get
from the vehicles to the house and vice versa. It can be a real
challenge to do that once you have lots of icy built up ruts
especially as you get older as the OP described was part of his
situation. Plus it is nice to have some consideration for visitors
including those who are driving cars.

Do you recall the commercial, shot at ground level, of a VW bug rolling
slowly through the snow, stopping, and these feet enclosed with boots step
out? The camera follows the boots to a big garage where you hear the sound
of something like a goddamn locomotive start up, and the world's largest
snow blower comes rumbling out of the garage, ready to move mountains of
snow off the Donner Pass.

Then a voice comes on and says: "Did you ever wonder how the guy who drives
the snow plow GETS to the snow plow?"