I sum up my response to the weather as such: You can be assured that if I had a tail, I would be freezing it off.
Wow, that's pretty damn cold; I feel sorry for you Canucks. I thought I had it bad in the Seattle area...
It's worse to drive in the kind of weather I get, though. The snow falls thick during the night, but come daytime the temperature moves up into the mid-30s and it melts somewhat, so that the top is just water and/or slush. Then, the next night, it drops below freezing and the top layer becomes a sheet of solid ice. The surface of this sheet consists of crystallized ice, though, so it looks like plain snow - until you try to drive on it and end up with your car sliding sideways down a hill.