It's all relative.
We don't get much snow in the lower parts of Texas - just not the right latitude for it to be a regular thing. So, many kids grow up not learning to drive in it and we don't have much clearing equipment when we do get something. Most bigger cities have some spreader trucks to put sand/salt/melt on the roadways, but it isn't like cities up around the Great Lakes, for example, where the annual snowfall is measured in feet. I think the cumulative snowfall for my part of Texas is probably under two feet during my almost 60 years of existence.
And, like a lot of places, you get yahoos thinking it's a great way to have some fun after a couple of drinks and they create all kinds of mayhem. I was always "impressed" by the guys in 4WD vehicles going nearly 80 on ice and snow covered highways when I was up near St. Louis - they thought they were invincible. Just means they had four wheels slipping when they hit the black ice.