As you're quite aware, even "just around town" can get pretty hazardous in the winter. Seattle, with it's mild weather, had a freeze a few years ago and EVERY road was blocked with stuck cars. Some of those people ended up sitting in their cars for 4 + hours while the roads were cleared and reopened. Others walked and just abandoned their cars in the roadway causing other problems. Even if you had a 4WD with 4 wheel chains you would have had a hard time getting around because of all the stuck vehicles.
In addition to the warm stuff, I have used my recovery strap more than once to get someone either back on the road, or to the shoulder so I could get by. Sometimes it doesn't take a lot to get a stuck vehicle moving, or at least out of the way. As you said though, when you have "ice-mageddon", and multiple cars blocking you in, you're pretty much SOL until a couple wreckers can clear things out. I've always carried at least one recovery strap, assuming also that one of these times... I might be the one off the road
and maybe a kind soul with an appropriate vehicle will stop and I'll be able to hook up to them.
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