What sucks about it here is what happens when it snows:


Seattle has crap-all for snow removal, so it stays on the roadways. We can't use road salt because the run-off would harm the fish, so there's no fighting it before it hits the ground. (There's a new ice-preventer in experimental stages, and it's made from effluent waste from brewing beer. However, it smells like a horrible huge beer fart wherevever they've sprayed the stuff down.)
Anyhow, snow falls, everyone drives on it and gets stuck on the hills because they have no traction in their RWD luxury sedans and lightweight sports cars, so they LITERALLY give up and leave their car in the middle of the icy road. I'm not kidding; people leave their cars in the middle of the friggin' 405 freeway and walk to the nearest hotel. So, the slush now freezes into solid ice overnight and all the cars are stuck there until everybody gets their shit together and (during the day when it's sort of melted) drives home, randomly bouncing off all the other stranded cars.

It's pretty sad, really. What's worse than the sports cars are the SUV pilots who don't understand that 4wd isn't a Cloak of Invincibility +4, so they go hauling ass down the road at 45mph. Then they have to turn. Or stop. Or, at least try to. *ooops*

Riding in the snow up here isn't nearly as difficult as back in the midwest. It's never very deep, and once a car goes over it, there's a solid tire track to ride in. None of that fluffy deep stuff that makes it hard to turn and impossible to see what you're riding over. In 3 years, I've only encountered that once up here.