OK, it's a funny joke. You can turn the snow off now.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. We like to joke here in the North

But in reality, places in the South just aren't set up to deal with any snow at all. There are no plows or salt trucks to clear the roads. No one has a snowblower. Most people don't even have snow shovels, and even if they do, don't have the very specialized muscles built up to do so efficiently. There are levels to the shoveling game, and I got a first look at that here in Michigan when the house next door had people move in who immigrated from Siberia. They had a 12 year old girl living there who was an amputee, she had 1 leg. But shoveling snow in Siberia is like walking apparently, this 12 year old girl with 1 leg would go out after a snow with a shovel and I swear it would look like a cartoon, just a blur of snow flying through the air an an impossible pace, she shoveled snow like Buddy the Elf throws snowballs in Central Park.

And there are different building codes for everything because they don't have to be built to withstand cold and snow. This includes stuff like homes not having their pipes wrapped or ran away from the cold parts of the house to prevent freezing and bursting. Includes things like roads and bridges not having to be built to withstand expansion and contraction of freezing and thawing ice and snow. Utilities aren't built with this stuff in mind. They just don't have to worry about that stuff as a cost of construction.

And yeah, it takes experience to be able to drive safely on snow and ice. Experience that most people in Alabama have no way of getting.