I'm getting a kick out of all these yankee responses about folks not being able to drive in the stuff.
Neither can yankees. We average better than 2 feet a year here and most of the folks complaining are northern
transplants, who ain't prepared.
For the information of all snow drivers, the best snow tires are Bridgestone Blizzacks. 
And if your dealing with ice these work great too, without studs.
You're probably right. Even here, where we average about 4 feet per year (though almost 90 inches the past two winters 
) everyone forgets when the first snow hits. Short memories. 
Ha! that's it. When the first one hits us I drive like I'm sitting on an egg. We have quite a bit of ice on our roads to and that
stuff on a road that changes elevation and has banked curves is treacherous for everyone.
One particular mountain side I have to go across hauling logs had a spring running across the road and made black ice
quite a bit. I was coming off the mountain up to the black ice and the State was finally trying to stop it (after who knows how many wrecks). well the way I run it is put my off side tire off the road in the gravel and go round the curve, wouldn't you know the State truck was hogging most of the road side so, I came real close to the their truck.
I've almost flipped a load once on black ice and I'm not taking a chance when I can see it.
Had to come back and add one more tale.
When I was teenager in NC (far south eastern corner of NC) we had a 2 foot snow storm.
It snows about once every 4 years there and there is no snow removal equipment.
This was during the annual Canadian migration to Myrtle Beach.
We pulled Canadians out of the ditches all day. And heck, that was in the flat lands.
