Here's the thing, guys: you are all getting pissy about this shit.

1. Snow covered roads in CO may be different than roads here. If it's straight medium-packed snow then you can safely drive faster. Here, however, you don't see much of that.

This is what people do here: Dump shitloads of snow piles from the driveway onto the road, creating a snow pile that can spin you outa control if you hit it with one side only (as it usually happens). The pile slows down one side of the vehicle but the other keeps going - you spin.

We don't get much hardpack here. It's either fresh powder or plain slush. You can't safely drive in either at even 50 mph. You get pulled into someone's tracks in half powder - half slush and it can easily spin you out.

The last snow storm we had here it was safe enough to drive around 40 on open roads. Slushy highway was not more than 50.