Tonight on the drive home, I spied (in order):

• one car-meets-snowbank accident (intersections are icy!)
  
• one out-of-state driver making maddening driving decisions
  
• one stalled car in the middle of traffic, getting a jump
  
• one ambulance, headed away from the hospitals.

I haven't had any issues driving in the snow this year, and while having a new car with new tires and all that is helpful, I don't think that it's the only reason. It's beyond me how in the state of Wisconsin, at the end of the month of January in the middle of an exceptionally snowy winter - we've had over 55" already - a relatively small snow of an inch (at the time) could cause so much headaches. Shouldn't we be proficient at maneuvering in that much snow, before the snowplows have gone through?