I remember sitting in my apartment in Albany NY many years ago watching a snowstorm that got all the way down to Atlanta. Everything was closed in Albany because we had 52 inches over a couple of days. In Atlanta they got 3 inches and everything was closed. There was a news reporter standing in the middle of an empty road with a bewildered look on his face and saying that they didn't have any snow removal equipment so they would just have to let it melt. At his feet there were little swirls of snow on a partly bare ground.
i've only had one bad experience with snow - totaled my care after trying to avoid a sideswiping driver. but i still love it. next time i am driving in snow i will be better prepared. that time i was an idiot and listened to a tire guy who sold me "touring tires" instead of my usual snow tires.
here it's a requirement to have snow tires on your car by december 15, which makes a good thing because we will get to go to plattsburgh earlier and i can order things i need (like printer carts) and get them sooner. one printer cart is $60 here - that's what i paid for the printer.