Man, we just got nailed with one hell of a snow storm today. Weather service, or dis-service in this case, was saying 1 to 3 inches around 11am when it started snowing, ended up with a winter storm warning with 4 to 8 inches with freezing rain and sleet. I left work early at 1 and begin my 25 mile drive home which normally takes 45 minutes, ended up being 2 hours!! Snow was coming down at a rate of 2 inches an hour, temps dropped from 30 when I left to about 25 while I was going home with windy conditions, no salt trucks or road plows to be seen! People were all over the road, if you had a FWD car with all seasons, forget it, you weren't going up the slightest incline. The road covered fast with snow and ice and it got slicker than I've seen in quite a few years. I'm running Continental Winter Contis with my AWD, and it was virtually like I was driving on blacktop, was actually passing cars creeping along at 10 mph and easily maneuvering around all the cars that slid into the side of the road and were trapped. If you're even considering snow tires, make the investment, you really won't believe the difference.