I hate it. You'd think people would be used to snow here in the Northeast, but every time there's a storm everybody acts like the sky is falling.
I was talking to a buddy about something similar yesterday. To me, it all generally comes down to people being ill-equipped for driving in snow, and so they think that a) nobody can possibly drive well in this snow, and b) there is no such thing as a vehicle that can handle well in snow.
And it all usually amounts to bad tires. Here in Ohio, finding people who regularly use a dedicated set of winter tires is a rarity. For about 10 years of driving, I didn't use winter tires either, and generally just had the cheapest all season tire that could get me around town. I'll never do that again. Now I use a dedicated "three-season" or "summer" tire, and then swap them in winter for a set of wheels with winter tires mounted.
How many times I've seen cocky 4WD trucks and SUVs, and probably some AWD cars, in the ditch during winter storms is unreal. Now I could really use AWD and basically every next car I'm eyeing is AWD, but I've never been more sure of myself in the snow than I have now. I was always confident because I could recover from slip-ups in previous vehicles, but sometimes I'll admit I just got stupid lucky. Tires that just did not belong on the road, nearly cost me severely on a few occasions. The one, a Dodge Dakota RWD only, even with sand in the back, I had some frightening fishtails on the highway among other mishaps. I look back and it wasn't necessarily 100% the fault of the vehicle, or driver, but a lot to do with the shitty tires.
So people with bad tires go out there in this mess, slip and slide everywhere, feel like they never have real control, and promptly freak the fuck out. I went out last night during some crap, mostly after the snow was over and now just blowing/drifting, and I felt fine. Yes I definitely had tires spinning slightly on occasion trying to push through some deep drifts at the ends of residential streets off a still heavily snow covered thoroughfare, but I had it covered, and even just getting out of my lot required some rocking back and forth. In other vehicles I had this may well have been impassable, but now it just requires maintaining my wits and knowing how to work the traction and momentum. My car is definitely still limited being a lower to the ground and kind of light sedan (just shy of 3000 Lbs), and of course FWD only, so when trucks and SUVs struggle I just have to sit back and laugh/cry wondering how shitty their tires must be for this weather. And then I'm reminded that yeah I still dislike driving in this weather, not so much because I'm worried about my own car and ability, but because I know the majority of those around me are even more terrified driving a vehicle with basically no traction, and I have to somehow share the road with them.