Rankeri, please pull the panty-wedgie out of your ass.
I've been to fucking Northern Europe, I know it's different there. I've also lived in Wisconsin, where there is considerably more snow than here, and that's how I know enough to say this:
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHETHER WHERE YOU LIVE KNOWS HOW TO FUCKING HANDLE SNOW OR NOT.
In Wisconsin this would have been nothing. In Wisconsin, I remember cross-country skiing in my Halloween costume and waiting for the school bus when it was -40F (I guess that would also be -40C) out. But then they plowed the roads and stayed on top of it so that it never got the chance to be a big deal.
Here, in southern Ohio, people shit themselves when it snows. People crash into ditches and run to the grocery store to stock up on junk food in case they're not able to get out for a week. They wait to plow until it's too late and as a result the snow on the roads is deeper than the car can get over. For that reason, things shut down. Because they don't know how to handle snow here. Thus, something that I AM QUITE AWARE IS NOT A BIG DEAL turns into a big deal through general ineptitude.
Don't try swinging your Nordic balls around

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