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Was there ice underneath or on top of the snow? Most snow plows in urban areas have rubber bits to prevent damaging the road. If there's a thick layer of ice on top of or underneath snow, a rubber bit does absolutely no good. We ran into this problem a few years ago at my workplace when we had freezing rain over a 6 inch base of snow.

Steel bits will cut into the ice but the plow has to be able to have them attached. Of course, if it wasn't for the eco-nazis we could just salt the crap out of the road in a emergency like this and have the roads open in a couple of hours.

It's wet snow because it came from down South, and it's freezing cold, so no doubt the lower level is frozen. I've been hearing spinning car wheels ever since the storm hit. The roads - not just the sides of the roads - are still littered with abandoned sedans. If you don't have 4WD, you are in big trouble out here.

I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado. Salt works fine back East. But a side effect is that you have a fair number of fine old classic cars on the road, much more than I see in the Northeast, that haven't rusted out.

A relative of mine drives a plow, so I'm not attacking snowplow drivers, who live a rough life during times like this.