Puget sound has crowned roads so that runoff hits the gutters and doesn't stand. It means that when the roads do freeze, getting a little bit off to the side means you're in the gutter. It also almost never snows, emphasis on "almost." I believe the city of Seattle occasionally has four snow plows. What has happened twice in my memory is we had a ridiculous snowstorm and no snowplows, so the city council gets outraged and demands Seattle buys snowplows. Then it doesn't snow and the city council gets outraged and demands that Seattle sells these giant waste-of-money snowplows. The ironic part is there's this guy that basically arbitrages Seattle's stupidity. At least twice he's bought the snowplows at auction, stored them in a warehouse, then sold them back to Seattle at about 1000% profit within 18-24 months.