Actually, if we got 2 INCHES of snow, everything would shut down! Nobody knows how to drive in it! I used to work in Paradise CA (just below the place where that family got lost in the snow). Everytime it snowed, all the old folks jammed to the store to stock up--lots of fender benders!
Way back when I lived in Seattle, there was this one huge snow storm. I was driving north on I5. Cars were blowing off the road. And, of course, you have the hills and the two snow plow trucks. Almost every bus was stuck on the side of the road.
But, I still don't think they closed the schools. And, certainly not the legislature.
