Eh. I lived in many apartments in Minnesota. I kept a shovel to ... wait for it ... free my car after a snowstorm. I think in the Twin Cities or Madison, WI, it might be true that apartment dwellers can get away with not having one, but go down in size to even Duluth or Rochester or Green Bay, WI, or Superior, WI, and people have shovels because we know how snow plows function.