For as bad as the winters are here, I am surprised that more people don’t have studded tires.
I do seem to recall that they are illegal here, though. They didn’t used to be but I think that the problem was they were ripping up the roads too much.
That said, if the weather is bad enough that what I have isn’t going to work, I don’t go out in it. I keep a close eye on the weather and am always ready to hunker down for a storm. I do my shopping days before it’s expected arrival instead of in the teeth of it, like most idiots who live here.
You’d think that someone born and raised in this climate would have a clue, and yet they are caught off guard almost every single time and the stores shelves are stripped bare of milk, bread, eggs, bottled water, etc by people who have no business driving in the conditions they’re out in.