We have snow for 6-7 months of the year where I live, so it doesn't really make the news. We know that its on the way when the highways people put up little pole flags along some of the curbs and traffic islands so that they can see where they are once the snow piles accumulate, so that they don't crash their plows into them.

By this time of year most us have had our studded winter tires on and, for those that have them, snow plow blades on the fronts of their trucks (mine isn't on yet). Others have put away their cars for the winter and have dragged their road-salt corroded jalopies out of their garages...or out of the back 40, as the case may be.

We even have an "Ugly Truck" contest during the winter.
Last year's winner was a beat up 1978 Ford pick-up truck that had a cracked winshield (most vehicles need a new one by spring from the flying rocks that they put on the snow covered roads for traction), shot gun bullet holes in the tailgate, a 26 inch round of log for a front wheel, a gun rack with a full compliment, and a partially frozen road kill moose carcass with chunks hacked out of it's rump (apparently for dog food), being guarded by a couple of well fed, howling hound dogs in the bed of it.

Got to love the Northern Canadian region!
Once the tourists leave and the snow flies, pretty much anything goes up here.
The police retire to the local doughnut shop to shoot the breeze with the locals, the sanding crews and tow truck drivers; who all pretty much get dispached from there.
Its kind of a fun time.

With love, Erika