冰雪: ice and snow...
住户: household, inhabitant, householder...
姥姥: (coll.) mother's mother, maternal grandmother...
哪怕: even, even if, even though, no matter how...
戒备: to take precautions, to guard against (emergency)...
匆匆: hurriedly...
兹: now, here, this, time, year...
穿小鞋: to make sb wear tight shoes (idiom), to make life difficult for sb...