The question might more accurately be asked "just how hard do you have to work to kill one of these?"
The one I cut down kept sending up shoots for months. I had to put a big pot saucer over the top of the root where the stem had come up and it finally stopped trying. I think if you cut it way back you'll be surprised at how soon it's a large shrub again.
I had a few things get smashed in the snow also, and have been doing some odd pruning as a result. Cutting the whole thing back is probably going to result in a better looking plant. My juniper looks kind of like a saucer since the center of it cracked (and had bugs running in and out) so I took the entire center of it out. It's one of the big hedge types, not a tree, but it still looks a bit odd. And I've had to prune the rosemary, but I know what to do with all of those extra branches! Mmmmmm! Chicken!
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