I gather the problem is from very thick ice, rather then snow.
It is still hard to understand how it could have gotten that far out of hand.
They started out in a warmer part to the day and after the melt froze they were lost.
If there aren’t salt trucks, it can get out of hand very rapidly.
“It is still hard to understand how it could have gotten that far out of hand”
It usually doesn’t. They close all the schools and everybody stays home. This was just poorly handled.