It's true that the city royally fouled their own nest with the recent snowstorms. And not to defend lib mismanagement... But snowfall in Seattle and snowfall back east are two completely different animals. I've been to Chicago, Denver, Jersey, DC, New York in snowstorms. There's at least two HUGE differences: Back there, it's flat. Everywhere. They also salt the roads. When roads get icy in the northwest everything is uphill and downhill, and on steep hills it doesn't matter if the ice is a half-inch thick or a foot thick. It's still a frictionless surface. Salted roads mean that nobody ever really has to drive in snow. All the roads are bare and wet, pretty much all the time. Me, for one... I'm glad they don't salt roads here. The trade-off in rust damage just isn't worth it.
“Salted roads mean that nobody ever really has to drive in snow.”
It also means your car has a limited life...