I grew up on the west coast in Southern Calif.. We never had snow unless it was a pile of ice pellets that someone ground up and blew out of a machine, then called it snow.. it wasn't snow.. a giant snow cone perhaps... but not snow.
I didn't see snow fall out of the sky until I was a LOT older. Even so, I think I would have figured out how to make snow bricks and build a wall.. Like many thousands of others we had to make our own fun out of whatever we could get our hands on.
On the other hand I could be outdoors, gone all day, running in the grape vineyard, playing baseball with a wood slat and an green piece of fruit, wandering in the canyon behind us, and no one had to watch out for me, or wonder if I would be taken, raped or killed. It was a safer and simpler time. We had a lot of hours to figure things out.