This event happens in many other parts of the country too.
Understandably, southerners generally, don't know how to drive on ice or snow.
I am from the Deep South, by the Grace of God. I also spent four years in Alaska. What arrogant yankees don’t understand is the temperature problem. I can drive on eight inches of Fairbanks Alaska ice, nicely frozen with a bit of gravel at intersections. Try driving in the icy south, let me demonstrate. Take an ice cube, rub your finger over it... then add a drop or two of water... much slicker.
Add a few inches of ice, several miles of pavement and water floating on top... Drive on that. It is hard to understand when I have live coddled in the Frozen Alaska tundra, driving on solidly frozen ice, then slip and slide on the watery, icy mix.