I'm siding with the neighbor who is sleeping while it's dark out over the guy who seems to think that those vehicles need him to clear 4" of snow out of the way in order for them to be functional.
Maybe some shoveling is required of the walking path from the house to the vehicle doors, but there's this really cool thing tires can do to 4" of snow: drive over it.
Most of that shoveling was an NPC task.