Excuse the faint sounds of suppressed laughter from ME!
I originally hail from Rochester, NY. Now THERE, you might see some SNOW.
Here in Atlanta the city will shut down for a week on 6 inches of snow. In Rochester, we called that a 'light dusting'.
But being here for a while, I do understand. They have NO snow clearing equipment, salt, or the means to spread salt. Makes it a lot tougher.
Not to mention those Alabama (or fill-in-the-blank) drivers who:
- Have only seen snow landing on their windshield and/or the road in nightmares.
- Don't have any notion on how to get said snow/ice off so they can see to drive. (My all-time fav was a newly arrived neighbor lady who was going to pour a teakettle full of water on her car to defrost it one 10 degree morning.)
- Don't have the faintest clue of how to deal with driving in ANY amount of snow or, worse yet, snow on ice.
(Rochester, eh? I got my first years in Northern Illinois, then a spell up the hill west of Denver and finally back to The Homestead. Yeah, we both kinda know that snow stuff okay.)
I lived in Raleigh for two years (2010-2012)---holy crap. It was a suicide mission to drive in two inches of snow. Not only do they not have the means to deal with it, they don't have the skills either.
It literally looked like Mad Max every time there was a storm. People just abandon cars, wrecks every where. I told my employer, if it snows, I aint driving.
I also lived in Albuquerque for a while. Same story, except there they use sand instead of salt on the roads. It's a frikking disaster, mud and snow everywhere.