Couple years ago we got, oh about 1/2 inch of snow.
Driving on it in NKY scared the hell out of me, it was scary slick and the interstates were rightly shut down.
Ohio the roads were clear and dry.
Kentucky had sprayed brine on the roads, so the first little bit of snow had melted, then frozen and they had a skating rink of snow on top of slush on top of ice.
ODOT just plowed the crap off
We get our share of snow around here, no doubt about it. But the authorities usually do a very good job clearing it up. That, a good set of snow tires or A/Ts, and some common sense, are really all you need. I also took winter driving training two or three decades ago when I was with EMS in the Central New York area (where it's measured in feet), and that training has stuck with me.
It's really not hard. Winter driving courses go into a lot of detail, but the most important differences are doing things more gradually (accelerating, decelerating, preparing for turns, etc.), learning to understand and control the vehicle's momentum, allowing more stopping time, learning how to avoid and recover from a skid (not doing stupid stuff like braking in turns, for example), and that sort of thing.
Long story short, in Upstate New York, I don't remember a time when I
couldn't go somewhere,
if I had to, because of snow. There have, however, been many trips that I
chose not to make because, well, it's kind of idiotic to drive 25 miles through white-out conditions, or on a night when the snow is coming down faster than they can plow it away, just because you feel like a Big Mac.
If you take driving at all seriously, then go / no-go decisions are a part of it, just as with flying. In my case, they're pretty typical because almost all my driving is either recreational or photography-related, both of which take me on less-than-wonderful roads and trails much of the time. A rainstorm could be a very serious thing on a road like this one:
-Rich
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