@canidmajor Florida obviously isn’t the problem. I’d argue the South is where a lot of ignorance is. Their snow is very wet and heavy (too warm during the day) and when I’ve lived in the South they talk about wanting big vehicles like trucks and big SUV’s to “drive through the snow” when it’s 2–3 inches deep and every normal sedan can drive on it even if it was t cleared, but they don’t understand it’s the braking ( and needing to drive slowly like you have no brakes) that’s the problem not the driving. They don’t have winter tires on their cars, they don’t have experience shoveling snow, and there is not a lot of warnings about anything, because if the snow isn’t cleared they expect everyone to stay home.
One of my best friends got stuck driving home to Michigan in Tennessee after my Florida wedding. Her whole family stuck in a hotel for three days because the news kept saying you couldn’t get through to the highway or on the highway, not sure. Finally, they just left against advice. It was fine. They slowly drove north, and eventually the roads were cleared.
In the South they get lots of ice (too warm during the day, freeze overnight) and no one can drive in that ice, but they don’t even function well with the snow either, and overall clueless about it.
I went to school in MI, grew up in NY, I know snow.