I lived in WI during the late 70s-early 80s

That 78-79 winter was horrible. Snow was piled everywhere. Couldn't get out of driveways safely due to 8 foot piles of snow. This went on for weeks...I thought it would never end.

The city looked like a moonscape. It was crazy you would get on the subway and it never announced what stops it was going to bypass. It was a gamble where you were going maybe you could get to work maybe the subway would never go there and one stopped during a storm between 2 stops , the conductor and front car left and walked down the tracks . They never told any of us in any of the other cars. After quite awhile we realized what happened . We had to help old folks and people with kids off and get to a station walking with everyone in a terrible storm on the train tracks . No clue if a train was still running the other way and gonna kill us
Buses were no better-One would run in the morning then you would be stuck when they stopped and never came back in the evening.
I didn't have a car but did a lot of hitchhiking those winters . You'd get stuck somewhere and it was that or freeze in snow.
Of course more than once I wound up helping the driver when they got stuck too.
Everyone was saying he had to go. He made a lot of wrong calls . There is a "can do " spirit and then there is just taking chances that can affect people city wide . Big difference.

What?? You didn't stick around for '99 or '2014's " Chiberia" ??

Ok you are in TX now so maybe you can tell me why does just 2-4 inches of snow cause so many driving problems in the south ?
No plows ? Different terrain? Not used to driving in it? All 3?
I remember being in LA area when it rained and realizing wait these people can't drive in rain holy crap slow down or get me off the road. Is it like that ? Or ?

I've lived here since 1982

We had a freak snowstorm in 1985 that dumped about 15 inches on the city.

And stupid me drove in that stuff. My car did donuts beyond belief. It was the scariest drive of my life. I wanted to dump my car and duck in a business, but not a single business was open.

ETA: You're lucky you didn't run into Gacy while hitch-hiking!