Let me add my 2 cents.
I am now a Seattlite.
But I come from the Midwest.
When I lived in Indiana, I couldn't care less if it snowed.
I had my trusty brush/scraper combo.
I'd go to work for 12 hours, come out and there'd be 8 inches of snow on my car.
Brush it off while waiting for the car to warm up and drive home in 10 minutes.
You can do that when the ground is flat as a pancake, and people are used to snow.
However, Seattle is very hilly in several places, and people just don't KNOW what to do.
I've found myself enraged when people are trying to go anywhere in their little 2 wheel drive sedans when they don't *have* to.
They block traffic and spin out because they don't know about "stopping distance".
One of the worst examples was where some cretin stopped in the middle of the road to chain up his Prius.
Blocked roughly a mile of traffic.
He COULD have pulled into a parking lot to do that, but NOOOO.
He couldn't even figure out out how to apply the chains.
I have to say: GRRRRR!
I’ve encountered multiple streets in Seattle and other parts of the Puget Sound that I could not traverse with a 1985 Toyota 4WD Pick-up.
And that’s the Gold Standard.
I’ve encountered multiple streets in Seattle and other parts of the Puget Sound that I could not traverse with a 1985 Toyota 4WD Pick-up.
And that’s the Gold Standard.