You must be new here: Springfieldians maintain a dormant form of PTSD that is triggered by the possibility of driving in snow. This allows them to get one or two snow days a year for only nominal snowfall.

Some of us come by this honestly, as the early aught pre-Christmas traffic jam had everyone I know in stop and go traffic for six to eight hours. The fact that this has been sublimated into a culture of having inappropriate freak outs whenever snow begins to fall is unfortunate (and a bit of a chicken-egg thing).