The real problem with Houston isn’t drivers, it’s the design of the roads. They don’t shed the water like the roads in the Northeast, and the turn radii on the on and off ramps are too tight for slick surface conditions. I don’t care if you have studded snow tires, you have to slow to a crawl to use some of the ramps on Houston’s roads. I know that because I have been through Houston with studded snow tires during the winter on my way to Florida from Northern California. I needed the winter tires for the start of the trip, and I needed them in Houston. I had chains in the car because I thought the California Highway Patrol might require them to let me through the mountains, but they wouldn’t have helped.

If you got the snow, even an inch, on top of that ice, there would be no way of moving without a tracked vehicle. That used to happen the first snowfall of the year in Rochester, NY, and is how I learned to leap over patrol cars to avoid being crushed.

Yes, I remember the massacre at the weather service and military, as Bush I went to austerity to try to coverage up the deficits he and Reagan created. It was a major factor in the election of Bill Clinton.