I agree, I live in the mountains in Eastern California and it amazes me how many tourists here have no idea of how to drive in snow, plus they blindly follow the GPS on their phone leading them up snowbound closed roads. For some unknown reason, they either can't read, ignore, or don't truly understand what road closed in Winter signs really mean.
It's like that EVERY year in Indianapolis!
Seems like Hoosiers have a problem with year long memory loss.
However, one year found me on the way to Casper WY, heading west, when it began to snow. It was coming down pretty fast and folks were bailing off of the interstate and heading into town to be safe.
When in Rome, you get a motel room, too.
Now the snow was 1-2 inches by this time, but the locals were sliding all over the place!
Surprised me, asI thought that if ANYONE could handle a little snow, it would be these guys!
Felt Like was back home!
Bottom line: the snow ended at that point and never got very deep at all.
Stopped the next morning at Independence Rock and the snow was 1/2 gone by then. Interesting rest stop.