That Bronco bit was on Queen Anne. For the life of me, I can't understand why people think they can scoot around on those hills just because they have a 4x4. The streets are narrow, the hills are steep, there are always cars parked there and...well, you see what happens.
I grew up in NY. My dad taught me how to drive in the snow by taking the family truckster - a '73 Dodge Coronet station wagon - into a large, empty parking lot in the middle of a January blizzard and going at it. Donuts and powerslides were fun, but I eventually learned how to handle a vehicle in low-traction situations. Then he would load up the back with a few 80lb bags of sand, and make me drive up and down our hill, and into our driveway. Park, and back it out, do it again. Up and down the hill. Back and forth. Back and forth. I got stuck a few times, but really, those were the best driving lessons I could have had.
The people in Seattle are - by and large - completely clueless when it comes to driving in bad weather, but snow is the worst. If I had a dollar for every 4x4 or AWD SUV is saw stuck in the snow in 2008, I could have retired to somewhere warm and sunny.
