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Al Gore is responsible for this. He taunted Mother Nature. Consider this her memo: Don't Presume To Know What I Have in Store.
Here in Fairfax County, we thought we were prepared. I had purchased enough milk to last our family of five for a week. We had plenty of food. As the blizzard raged Friday night, we were tucked comfortably in the family room under blankets alternately watching a movie and observing the snow blowing sideways past the windows. The only interruptions to our comfort were the obligatory trips to the (decreasingly visible) driveway for Cali, our 10-week-old puppy....
Frontier Suburbanite
The problem isn't snow as much as ice. You drive on the inch of snow, it compresses and melts, then it gets real cold that night and few people drive on it and then the next day it become invisible and people driving as they are prone to do--too fast and too close and it becomes bumper cars at Six Flags.