Yep, Snowmageddon around here the instant snow starts falling. "Oh my god, I have to get water, and milk, and groceries that can be cooked without power" takes over in an instant.

And they drive like fucking morons! You've got a 4x4, the road has maybe 5 snowflakes on it per quarter mile, you have no right to do 10 miles per hour up a hill. Also, there's no reason to pile on the brakes a half mile away from the stop sign in a school zone on a Sunday. There's not that much snow yet.

These then become the same people who wreck when the first real snow falls, they get brave, and floor it, suddenly finding out the hard way that, hey, guess what, snow and ice are slippery.

Well, here in North Texas a little snow is actually a big problem because we don't have the means to handle it. The ice- pocolypse we already went through killed at least 3 people on the roads. One girl lost control on a bridge over a lake and went over. Her family is suing the city because the plowing on the bridge was done wrong apparently and created an ice ramp that her family says is how her truck got over the barrier. She might have been alright if she was in a place used to handling those conditions. Winter precipitation 'round there parts is no joke, no matter how little there is.

I've been told that in some parts of Missouri that it's referred to as "French toast weather" b/c the panicky run out for milk, eggs, & bread before they're snowed in!

French Toast Run?? I Think I'll do just that!

Heh. One year, we had a few inches of snow in my town, and it turned into the Snowpocalypse! We had one guy come in and start mouthing off abour how he was from the Midwest, and that this kind of snow was nothing, etc. Not more than half an hour later, he comes back. He wrapped his car sideways into a tree. In this town, we have hills, and they don't go with snow.

(sits in a month of 80 degree weather in Florida) What is this 'snow' you speak of? (hides under desk to avoid barrage of snowballs)

We have the same problem here with rain. Three drops of rain hit the ground and suddenly everyone is driving 5 mph on the interstate with their hazard lights on. Despite the fact that the specific description of hazard lights is 'This vehicle is a hazard', not 'it's raining'. All the dumbasses that come to Florida to avoid winter drive exactly the same way everyone above is describing snow-drivers... either 5 mph or 500. One drive home on the interstate, I saw three separate SUVs upside down in the ditch... on a slight hill in a straight line. That takes TALENT.