Oh yes we have done that!! December 25, 2000, we left right after lunch, got to New York, had seen no snow, then got hit and hard!! Our wipers quit working, thank goodness hardly anybody was on the road. We pulled off the highway and NOTHING was opened. I prayed harder then i ever had in my life, and all of a sudden, the wipers started!! Oh what a releif!!
Another time we decided to stop in Myrtle Beach on the way home from WDW. The first snow they had had in 12 years, and the mall was closed, and none of the locals knew how to drive in the snow.