Also, even in places like Anchorage, where driving on icy roads is an everyday thing in winter, people seem to forget over the summer. Every fall, on the first slippery day, I see lots of cars sliding around or in the ditch. After a day or so, winter driving habits kick in, and things get much better. In an area where most people have never learned proper winter driving, when icy roads come just at a high traffic time it should be no surprise that chaos results.
Agreed! In SD we have almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction season. You'd think the people would be pretty used to snow since we're buried so much of the year but it's the same- that first snow and everyone acts like they're taking their first turn driving a rover on Mars. Either they're going 5 mph in a 35 or blasting by at 50. You usually catch up to the latter folks down the road a ways in a snow bank or on top of a fire hydrant.
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