dpb wrote:

Not enough snow/ice here to bother to change the automobiles out and the
4x4 PUs all have all-weather on them, anyway. When it does snow here,
it almost always blows so much that car can't do anything with the
drifting anyway because such low ground clearance so the tires really
make no difference.

The temperatures here tend to hover around 32 for much of the winter. Add in
an inch or two of fresh snow, sometimes every night, and you have a perfect
environment to turn roadways into ice rinks. All weather treads don't do
much, nor is 4WD all that useful when all four are sliding.

The city is very religious about snow removal; God put it there and God will
remove it when He feels like it. The main arteries wear down to pavement
eventually, but the side streets just turns to ice, with nice frozen berms.