If you have the room and the funds, it never hurts to be prepared. I've lived in New England all my life and every year I'm amazed at how something so cheap and simple as say - a snow shovel - is so sought after on the day before a major winter storm, even though they've been out in the hardware stores since October.
The same thing happens with snow tires.
I have 6 snow shovels. I used to peruse the bulky item pickup piles back in the big city picking up broken shovels and rakes, took them home and fixed up good ones from the various parts and tossed the unusable parts into my discard pile.
The last snow shovel I bought was a roof rake when we moved into the low pitched roof house here.
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