I live in Indiana.  In Indiana during December and January and February and March and sometimes November (but not this year) it snows.  We have flurries, blizzards, big flakes, small flakes, sleet, ice, powder, wet snow, really every kind of snow imaginable.  It's expected and even wished for by many people (like my boys).  For native Hoosiers (really anyone native to the middle to upper latitudes of the United States) we have had to deal with snow every winter. Yet somehow, people around here forget how to drive when it snows!  How does this happen?  It's like they've never seen snow before and don't know what to do with it.  They lose all driving ability instead choosing to go 5 mph everywhere.  They brake randomly and stop way before the intersection.  They swerve into the next lane without looking but refuse to turn right on red even if it's clear.

I really don't mind driving in the snow.  Over the past 12 years of driving, I have learned to manage it well.  I go slower if there is packed snow or ice.  I try not to tail people.  I test my brakes when leaving the neighborhood to see the state of the roads.  I try to be mindful of other cars.  But I still drive.  I don't go 5 mph unless the road is completely covered in ice.  And if that's the case, I try not to drive anywhere.

It's comical really.  All the people on the roads cannot be new to driving in snow.  And yet that's how they drive.  My advice: be cautious, but please keep driving.  If you can't handle driving in the snow, don't drive anywhere.  Get a friend to drive you or just stay in the house.  It would make everyone's commute that much better if you stay off the roads.  Please...