Could snow help most see the need for curb cuts?

I'm not a winter outdoor sports kind of person. Snow mobiling, cross country skiing or ice fishing are not on my to do list. So for me, lots of snow on the ground is basically just a menace.
I couldn't really think of much good that might come from all the snow we have on the ground in Wisconsin this year. That is, until I read this article regarding a drive to get additional curb cuts in the Orange County, Calif. area.
We have had so much snow this winter that in the mid-sized city where I work snow is really piled along the curbs of streets. It's not uncommon for there to be no good way to cross a street very gracefully at the sidewalk, because the snow is piled so high and perhaps hasn't been cleared by a property owner that well. Downtown, for example, lots of people suddenly found themselves walking in the streets rather than clamber up snow hills to use the sidewalks.
Hmmmmm, being forced to use the street instead of the sidewalks because of a physical barrier at the crosswalks. Sound familiar to anyone out there?
Curb cuts can be one of those things that the general public might just not appreciate the importance of for wheelchair users. But the snow situation here -- and I'm sure it happened elsewhere too -- is about the closet situation I can think of to drive the point home. Not being able to get to a perfectly fine -- and safer -- sidewalk because of a physical barrier that doesn't have to be there is frustrating.
Maybe the snow experience won't compel many able-bodied people to start up a curb cut drive. But maybe it will help more to understand the difficulty of getting around faced by wheelchair users in a high curb only environment.
That is, if the empathy doesn't melt along with the mounded snow and ice

Curb cut photo by Kenn Kiser via morgueFile.com