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Originally Posted by 1075guy

As a Canadian it amuses me every year when some Middle-US state gets 'hammered' by <2" of snow and brings the whole state to a grinding halt.

This morning, I beached my car trying to get out of my driveway, (~7-8" of snow), had to pull back into my garage and run my snowblower before I could leave for work, then drove an hour to my workplace over roads covered by 3-7" of snow. Since I've been at work another 3-4" have fallen, and its still coming.

It makes a big difference when everybody is familiar with driving in the snow and many have snow tires. There are a lot of awd crossovers and 4wd trucks. We also have a lot more plows available to keep the roads clear.

With that being said, uWaterloo still shut down today, along with a lot of other universities and schools, with the 8" on the ground and more coming down. It took 4 of us to get a guy's rwd BMW with bald summer tires moving after he buried it in a right turn lane.