In Hamilton, 3 inches is nothing. Granted this year I doubt we've even had a cm let alone an inch. But anyways, in Hamilton in the past we've had some major snow storms and like malls and what not will close, but it has to be really really bad. The schools though only close once a school year for snow. Its the Hamilton School Board policy. Only one snow day a year, so like we had one snow storm that wasn't too bad, and schools closed, but everything else stayed open. About a month later we had a worse snow storm. Malls closed, buses including the school buses were shut down it was brutal, but schools stayed open. From what I understand almost no one teachers and students showed up, but they stayed open.
However in the next city over, Burlington, the schools close everytime Snow falls. Its pretty pethetic and sadly it shows. Kids in Burlington are really really dumb.
