I understand closing things down when folks are not used to it; it saves a lot of grief and overtime for the safety folks if there aren't a lot of drivers out having accidents.

There is a lot of contrast to where we live now in Colorado, in the "Banana Belt," to Casper, WY where there was always plenty of snow: 2nd day of Autumn 2000 out my front door.

Here it hardly ever snows and rarely stays around, though this year has been the exception. There are always a few idiots out and about causing accidents when it does. There were those kinds of drivers in Casper, but generally people know how to drive in it up there.