of ice if the roads aren't cleared.

I grew up in NY and also lived in Evanston IL and in NH for several years - the South is particularly bad at handling snow.

Some of it (maybe most) is related to not investing in the quantity of removal equipment because it doesn't snow as much here; but the fact that they never plow the side streets in my area (ever, in 15 years of living at my address) is frustrating to me.

My Camry does okay in snow, but my wife's Hyundai is useless in it.

It was like a carnival ride.

Driving on snow is way easier than driving on ice (ie possible vs. impossible). Temps Around me usually fluctuate between above/below freezing, so the snow will melt but when it freezes the melt turns to ice. Couple that with the costs of investing in ice trucks and plows for 1-2 annual snowfalls outweighing the benefits, and Mother Nature is effectively the snow removal plan, which takes some time.

Plus southerners are shitty drivers when it snows.

The plows would eventually get to our forgotten little street days after the storm. After a few years, my parents would call DPW and they'd often show up, apologize profusely and then clear everyone's driveway apron as well as the street.

I live in a semi-rural town at the end of a dead-end street and we are always plowed not just after the storm but even during it. Certainly different than places points southward in which I have lived.

I grew up in a semi-rural town in upstate NY (to be clear, I'm not talking White Plains, try ~1 hour north of Albany) and snow was cleared on my neighborhood street several times a day during a heavy storm. The only way school would be closed when a snow storm was happening is if several inches of snow an hour were falling while buses would be running. It was much more common to have ice cancel school, and even that was uncommon with as quickly as they salted the streets.

St. Joseph county has to be one of the most inept counties in the United States of America. I suppose Cook County, IL is more corrupt, but certainly not more inept. There are still huge piles of leaves on the streets in Granger and they will likely stay there until spring. Maybe it is still like that all over the county. I can usually count on a snow plow to arrive on my street about 2-3 days after a significant snowfall. It is not uncommon to have cars stuck on our street for multiple days. I don't know the exact % of taxes paid to the county by the people living within 1 square mile of my house...but I am willing to bet it is a significant portion. For that we basically get no county services. Granger should have incorporated long ago...but it is too late now.

Leaves fell late and snow came early. People threw a fit there leaves weren’t picked up. We have 5 leaf crews. Those trucks are also snow plows which means a change over in equipment every time it snows. It will take another month to get caught up on leaves here, and that is if it doesn’t snow.
Be patient.
Footnote: I don’t live it St Joseph County

But I get the challenge for whoever agrees to do the leaves pickup. What amuses me is that it's the same outrage every year despite the same thing happening every year. You'd think after a while the town would try to figure out a more appropriate solution and/or people would stop depending on something that has always been a problem every year (and that is regardless of trying to assign blame out to Mother Nature and/or public works).

Signed: Your superiors from Elkhart County.

Why people still count on leaf pickups happening and then are surprised and outraged when it doesn't is beyond me. It has happened every single year I have lived here.

Who knew there is winter weather in the area, often times which happens before or very shortly after all the leaves fall from trees!?!

The home of Detroit. I don't even think Chicago can match the level of corruption in Detroit over the past 40 years.