Well, when a snowstorm "surprises" Raleigh even when it started almost exactly the time it was forecast to start, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. You leave BEFORE the snow is expected to fall, and you give yourself plenty of time to get home just in case. They waited until it was coming down and then tried to get home. Grrr.

I get by just fine in my FWD no special tires in 6 inches of snow. You just need to learn to slow down in any kind of weather.

Irrelevant. OP has no frame of reference, having just recently relocated, and while you are privileged to live in an area with the equipment to handle such storms, others do not have such good fortune. Many southern states are already cursed with poverty and nigh-incompetent leadership that exacerbates the problems in these emergency situations. In the case of Mississippi, whole swathes of people across the delta region live without electricity; the roads in many places through the state are cracked and cratered to the point that they are dangerous to drive on in the best conditions, much less after being iced over. It's true that often southern drivers make their problems worse by overcompensating on the icy roads, thus increasing their risks for accidents. I agree panicking does not help in these situations. But minimizing the well-warranted anxiety (I remember five bone-racking days without power during the ice storm in 1995) of so many people into a judgmental statement about how southerners should just chill out (pun intended) is not going to make anyone less afraid of what they see on the news.

@44 people still have to work. Not all employers give their workers a break in bad weather

#35 Why don't you go drive without 4 wheel drive. See how far you get. I bet not far

Ok 60 I will I'll bet you I'll do over 10000miles without 4 wheel drive in storms...oh wait I already have

Yay!!! You can actually drive good in winter storms! Let me give you a cookie for that. It's called chains around your tires

Agreed 57. And that's exactly what grinds my gears about the storm from 2 weeks ago. The storm was forecasted to begin mid-day, so employers had no business forcing their people to come into work (except for essential employees) and children shouldn't have been required to come to school that day.

#80 I'm from Minnesota and I can't think of a single time I've seen someone with chains on their tires. And the majority of our cars don't have four wheel drive either. It's definitely possible to drive on bad roads without chains or four wheel drive, you just need to slow down a bit!

80 I don't have have chains or studded tires both are illegal here.

#30 I live in MA and I don't have snow tires or snow chains and have driven on the highway during a snow storm and actually passed the salt trucks on my way to my college. So I was driving on an unsalted highway. Not everyone is as extremely prepared as you think for snow. Driving just needs to be much slower. I couldn't go passed 40 mph.

Y'all are used to ice and snow. We aren't.

#115 being used to ice and snow does absolutely nothing for you when it knocks your power out.

It's does when the temperature inside your house is the same temperature outside

And it was 20 F in Toronto when that happened. Also as all Canadians know Toronto is our wussiest city

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