Your reply is rather oversimplified.  First, the majority of people, at least in my neighbourhood, are doing their best to keep the sidewalks clear but there is only so much you can do and, yes, I agree with you that people are displacing their anger at the City when they should be directing it at Mother Nature.

But, really, there is much more the City could have done to be prepared after lessons learned in the snowmagedon of 1996, and 2008.  Yet they never learn their lesson.  That's WHY people are upset and frustrated.

Also, it's in your reply.  If the city services shut down and our leaders are like chickens with no heads during a snow storm what's going to happen in a real catastrophe.

BTW, you talk insensitively about people being "wimps" and "whiners" but are you helping out your elderly neighbours or those with mobility issues during these times?  Because that's what we are going to need to do in a real catastrophe and, yes, I do keep surplus food, water and heat source.