I have gone back through my old forum posts and I see that the snowstorm we are thinking of began at 3 AM on February 20, 2013. The initial fall was six inches at a rate of two inches per hour, which badly strained state- and city-owned snow clearance assets. Eventually we had fourteen inches, which was deemed the second heaviest on record, just behind a fifteen-incher on January 17-18, 1962.
In a number of forum posts I talked about having to do lifts of more than three inches on various parts of the driveway, especially the apron, which had accumulated nine inches by the time I could get to it. I reported having spoil heaps as high as my chin and having to lift shovelfuls quite high so I could tip them behind the nearest heap, which was necessary to avoid having the snow avalanche back down onto the cleared surface. I also established that three inches is the maximum for shoveling in windrows; with deeper lifts you are looking at pilot trenches and a job that takes longer per inch cleared (e.g., six inches takes a lot longer than twice the time for three inches). When the sun comes out, a thin but cohesive ice layer forms on top of powdered snow, which results in slabbing and chunking when you attempt to shovel. I had to deal with this, as well as cutting through two spoil heaps, when I finally got to the nine-inch accumulation on the sidewalks.
The road network was essentially unusable for about 36 hours and at our local supermarket we noticed shortages attributable to late or cancelled deliveries, e.g. no house-brand 1% milk.
Besides the snowstorm that began on February 20, there was a smaller follow-up storm on February 25 that was dispatched pretty quickly but still drove the February snowfall accumulation to a record-setting 21.5 inches. In the vicinity of Hutchinson, snowfall that February totaled 40 inches, forcing extended road closures and National Guard deployments.
In Wichita, the two February snowstorms were followed several days later by an extended thaw. It took 17 days from the first snowflake to disappearance of the last patch of packed dirty snow in the spoil heaps on the lawn.