and most people here do not have four wheel drive vehicles... AND they have no clue as to how to drive in this weather. Those all weather tires do not give you jack when you are on roads that are nothing but glazed ice.... that’s true even in snow country....even chains may not give you enough traction
And again I say you obviously live in an area that is subject to sever weather.
I also lived in Ala. a couple of times.
Now I live pretty much North of 40 deg. at various longitudes all year.
Living in a place like Fairbanks, Alaska or International Falls, Minn. is a whole different and serious thing.