A friend of mine, (also in Michigan) plows snow as income during the winter. He starts closest to his house and moves outward. Like the storm we got on Feb. 2, he was out by 3 am BEGINNING the cleanup process. His major plow is a huge church and school. Plow it, go do neighboring friends, family and return to big job by the time the storm winds down (noon in our case).
In my none educated opinion, if your landlord has his own plow truck, his tenants should have been his FIRST priority. No excuses there. But again, imo.
I worked for an employer that gave out so many "inclement" paid days. Back around 2000 or so, we got a huge blizzard. State of Emergency, no one could go ANYWHERE. We were already over our paid days. We never got paid for those days when it was a state of emergency. Union fought but it never happened.
One more note. Michigan is mostly rural. Unless you live in Detroit or Flint or the like.......we don't have access to buses. Smaller transportation vans, (if your lucky to have that availability) etc. have to be set up ahead of time and STILL it isn't a guarantee.
My Aunt works at a hospital, the hospital volunteered to come get the nurses to bring them to work.
Michigan is an at will state unless you have a contract. In a perfect world, at will employers would give rural, stuck in the snow, can't get a plow down the back roads employees a break. Have employees close to the "job" come in.
Hope it can work out for you.
Is there a definition of reasonable time? 2 days after a huge storm, 3? In the Michigan case, the kids were off school for 2 days so it seems reasonable to me, if the county were able to remedy not only the main roads but also the horrid back roads for a SCHOOL BUS, the LL should (in this case with a plow truck) be able to help within hours. Also, in my experience with residential plowers.......if you are a smart one, you start clearing when there's 3- 4-5 inches, to make it easier to plow out and it may have made a difference with this poster getting out to work earlier. Although treacherous, leaving an hour early would have made it easier. I had to drive in storms to make a 7 mile trek and left an hour early.

