Last Friday we had small amount of ice under a thin dusting of snow. The police reported 230 accidents in the city alone, never mind the suburbs. And we get snow fairly often.

Slick roads are nothing to sneeze at.

The last time I looked, that island with England at the bottom, Scotland to the north, Wales at the hipline and Cornwall off to the left was called Great Britain. The geographers needed to name it something, I guess.