It all depends on what you're used to. Seldom getting snow means people really don't know how to drive in it. Here it's really odd to not have snow. We've had snow storms even the end of April covering the magnolia flowers that are in full bloom.
We've had some doozies though even for us by Lake Michigan. There were 2 really bad blizzards that I can recall where you couldn't even move cars in the city. In 1967 I remember helping my dad carry groceries home a few miles walking, there was no way anyone was moving their car for any reason.
Then in
1979 that snowstorm lost the election for a Chicago mayor, but honestly there's no way in the world anyone would have been prepared for that winter. It was far more snow than usual and constantly cold weather, so nothing melted for months. There was literally no place left to move any more snow to and it just kept coming and coming that year, the city had run out of salt. I had a GMC Jimmy and lived close to work, so I was able to get around and get to work easily. Coming home late one night I had to push another car down a street, the guy was literally begging me because I was reluctant in case of any damage, he didn't care. One of the city snow plow drivers went nuts while on the job and started just intentionally smashing into cars with the snow plow.
Loving snow and skiing as I do, I was happy... I even wore one of my "Think Snow" shirts to work one day and had everyone swearing at me as they walked in.
