More than anything, it’s a lack of the bits that make winter survivable elsewhere.
That cold hit us first, but for just a day and a half. Yeah, yeah, we are getting another drop in a day or so, but to us, it’s tourism!
We NEED snow, for the ski hills, for water come summer, to crack the drought.
what is so rarely needed in the south (I include TX and OK in this) are things like snowplows, the sheer volume of mag chloride to deice, building codes that put pipes through inner walls.
So an inch of ice is very problematic. You close school for a day, maybe two depending on the bridge situation. (In middle school, we often got dismissed early when storms came through North Texas, because our busses had to go over a LOT of bridges. Our county used sand, but the school went conservative in decisions.)
where I live now? Schools might open a couple hours later.
When you have six plows for a metro area, you can’t keep on top of such a wet storm.