At least, the North Carolina DOT brought-out their heavy equipment for the most recent storm. 
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Just in time for me to give the McRib another try.
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That’s funny, in 17 years with Firestone, the Nashville district (a few states, 90+ stores before expanding from district to reginal, then over 300) only closed all day for the 4 to 5 holidays scheduled days off a year other than the very rare couple closed on Sunday, The Nashville are flood of 2010, the flooded stores that had power (had to be checked daily) were still open at least to have someone answering the phones and selling product or transfer product to stores in need, yes we transferred tires daily between stores… Snow, no matter what, we opened, even if only running one sales and one GS, never know if someone will have a flat or whatever… lol… Th earliest we ever closed with snow was 3pm but mostly 5 or 6pm during the week…
But just talked to few old co-workers and one was closed for 5 days, another one closed down at noon on Saturday (NEVER happened that early before) and then didn’t reopen till Tuesday or Wednesday, he was just watching movies, no customers… I told them upper management was getting soft… lol
I knew a guy back in the mid 2010’s that retired living in Pennsylvania (life long), he said when he decided to move, he strapped a snow shovel to the hood of his U-Haul and drove south until a few people asked him what it was, he landed in Charleston South Carolina, around 2017 he sent me a video of it snowing, he was like WTH, time to move even more south again… 
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It snowed in Florida this week. You can avoid freezing only when you are south of Alligator Alley (I-75). I’ve been in Cocoa Beach when there was ice throughout Central Florida. Farmers used irrigation systems to spread water on the citrus. The water froze and provided an insulating layer from the cold that might have frozen the fruit. I consoled myself while there by thinking that their low for the day was still higher that the high back home.
Yes I know it snowed in Florida this week, they called it the Gulf effect or whatever, like the Lake effect thing the north can get in places…
He was obviously joking when he told me that, I just thought it was funny…
My brother lived in Tampa for 21 years, years ago…
I remember in 2007 ish when all the Firestones store managers did there yearly trip to Florida in Feb that year, my store manager as with many others went with only short sleave shirts besides their Tux required for the awards ceremony, they all had to go buy jacket or coat if they could find them, when they got off the planes the temps were mid 30’s… They were freezing… lol
About 10 years ago Nashua NH hired a new school superintendent from the Nashville area. Then Nashua got hit with 3" of snow and she closed the schools. You don’t close schools in Nashua for only 3" of snow. I have a cousin who’s a teacher in ■■■■■■ NY. They’ve had school with over 10" of snow. If they closed school every time they received 6" of snow they’d be going to school in the summer to make up the days missed.
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Conversely, many years ago, my Central NJ school district hired a new Superintendent who came from upstate NY. The first snow storm of the season was more than 10”, and he opted to keep the schools open. Because many of our teachers drove from the NJ shore (and a few even drove from PA), the number of absent staff that day was VERY high, thus leading to an essentially useless day for the students who were gathered in the cafeterias and auditoriums. But, the number of students who were absent that day was also very high, so at least it was manageable for the Principals.
When the School Board grilled him as to why he kept the schools open, he said essentially the same thing that you stated, and he added that, in upstate NY, they were much more skilled in dealing with a lot of snow.
The one is Nashua is just a little inconvenience because they lost one of their scheduled snow days. But that one in NJ has the potential of being very very dangerous.
Many years ago now, I worked for a company that was going to show equipment at the CES show in Vegas. I was going to drive one of their big RVs from WI to Las Vegas. I had to dig it out of the snow before we left. It had probably 3ft of snow on the roof still when we left. We drove almost straight through just stopping for gas. I recall pulling into a gas station in Oklahoma with most of that snow still up there and people just gawking at it, asking where in the heck did you come from? And, I can see why you left 
That’s now against the law in NH and MA. I’ve seen people get ticketed for it.
My old shop partner back in the late 90’s - early 00’s, was from Dearborn Michigan and was a 20 year repo man from there, he and his family used to laugh at the fact that we close the schools for snow, well that was until he was coming to work one morning while driving the repo tow truck into work and came around a corner and ended up in the creek running close to the road, then he understood, it is different down here… He grew up and had more experience than most, do to driving day and night repo’ing vehicles, so yes he towed vehicles in the bad stuff also… The tow truck had a few bullet holes in it, but no real dents and he ran it for years doing repos before moving down here… He also rode his 48 pan head chopper with a ridged frame year round… lol
Our school systems are set up per county and if one school in the county has a potential hazard, no power, Icey roads, whatever, then every school in the county is closed… Heck, the Dr offices all close as well as a lot of business if it snows a little…
NES (Nashville Electric Service) only services the greater Nashville are, I am barely in their service area, anyway, NES has about 470,000 customers that they service and over 320,000 of us lost power when the ice hit, they still have almost 22,000 without power right now, and I know plenty of people outside of the NES area that lost power also, we still have some ice on the roads today, hopefully the warmer temps and rain tomorrow will wash all the ice away, but I still have ice on trees, yard and driveway(s), I saw this morning where chunks of ice from the pole to pole powerlines are finally falling off in my yard, weren’t there last night… Our tree service and power lines are not set up like some of the north, mother nature is the only thing that melt the ice off the lines, so we have a lot of outages here…
Now also think of the equipment that the north has for dealing with the snow, it would be a huge waste of money in the south. What I mean is, the way things like wires and trees are, and not having the equipment to deal with it since there’s no need 98% of the time.. Not economical to have, for example, a c.r.a.p load of plows when they’d just sit and rust majority of the time…
BTW, I have never even seen a personal snow blower thingy in person that y’all take for granted to clear y’all’s sidewalk and driveway, it would very rarely if ever get used, huge waste of money, heck nobody even shovels our walkways we just walk through the stuff rather it is 3", 6", or the twice in 25 year 9" of snow, unless it is someone from up north that is used to clearing it around the house, now business will do it some, but big parking lots just bring in skid steers to clear the parking lot and walk ways, and then throw some deicer on the ground…
After I got back from Nam I was stationed at Ft Campbell for a couple years. We had a 6" snowstorm, and it crippled the area - especially Nashville. Then in the spring they had major flooding. The 101st was deployed in spots to help and several of our helicopter crews rescued about a dozen people.
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I am about 45ish minute south by south east of Ft Campbell, and 16 miles north by north east of Nashville, we tend to get more snow than Nashville does, my buddy about 13ish miles from me (way less as the crow flies, have to go around your elbow to get to your thumb to cross the river) only got 1/2 of the snow we got… Both him and another buddy a couple of miles from him never lost power, and my daughter never lost power, yest we lost it twice, 6 days apart (1st time for 15 hours, 2nd time for 3 hours)… Many parts of Nashville just got power back a couple/few days ago, and some still without…
NES still showing over 18,000 outages, started at 320,000+…
That instant torque can catch you out if you stab the pedal but with traction control and a light foot it feels pretty normal on slick roads. The bigger difference I’ve noticed is tires and smooth inputs because no drivetrain can save you on a glaze of ice.
Same when I was at Shepard AFB, TX and Edwards AFB,CA. While at Shepard we also had sleet, covered everything with a quarter inch of ice.
On the plus side, we a Pinto as a second car, that Pinto was so underpowered it handled the snow easily.
It is all in the throttle mapping and how it is tuned from the factory or aftermarket, and of course like you said, how your foot controls the pedal… You can even go the cheaper route and use something like a pedal commander and customize your own throttle mapping with it’s adjustability if they make one for your vehicle…
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I do most of my driving in Eco Mode, in order to save as much of my battery charge as possible. This which reduces throttle response, but I’m not sure how much it really saves. It’s very helpful if road conditions are slippery.