"Yeahbut®, a few inches of snow doesn't require any shoveling or plowing, if you know how to drive in snow. Therein lies the problem. I've seen people driving in a quarter inch of snow and slipping sliding all over the road in Washington, DC."
And here I thought the problem was people expecting other people to deal with a situation about which they are almost wholly ignorant. Last time I heard about folks in Chicago dying of heat stroke I went around these parts (Atlanta) trying to find people making fun of them for not drinking water and having air conditioning. Still looking with no results to report.
During the time I lived in Nashville it snowed heavily every winter. There was no equipment for dealing with it in spite of the fact that it occurred regularly. The really hideous problem was that a high percentage of Nashvillains drove pickup trucks. Big engine in front, no weight on rear axle. We could hear the tires spinning every winter night when we went to get the battery out of the car.
Block warmers aren't just for the protection of the battery, are they? Don't they also keep all the vital fluids from freezing and bursting the hoses and whatnot? We had one in our car in Ontario but we never needed it.
