Illinois is really flat until you get down south (and I'm talking almost out of the state south) so we don't really have a lot of hills and stuff to worry about. But even in the country, the plows usually get to you before too long - you might be stuck for a day, but by the second day you'll get plowed out. In the country, though, because it IS so flat, your biggest problem is the blowing and drifting. So even though the roads will be cleared, snow will drift back on and visibility becomes an issue. But that's usually not a "CRAP THERE'S STILL TEN INCHES OF SNOW ON THE ROAD" thing - you just can't tell where the road starts and stops and surprise, you're in the ditch because you just drove straight into it. You also have the problem of your vehicle just straight up being blown off the road, too.
Normally we don't get a lot of ice (actually, we normally don't get this much snow - in January alone we got more snow than we typically get during an entire winter) but this year has been really bad. As soon as it starts to get above freezing, the snow starts the melt - then the very next day it's down below freezing again, and for more fun it dumps snow on top of what just melted so you're not even sure if there's ice underneath it or not.
They do a fair job of plowing the roads (unless you're on a little side street like my parents) usually, but they've had major problems being able to keep up. Normally they are out with the salt trucks, too, but the salt doesn't work when it's below freezing so... yeah. It's a mess. This is the worst winter I can remember and I'm nearly 30. Even the year we had the big ice storm... that was just the one time. I asked my mom and she said she knows we've had storms, but she can't remember a time we had storm after storm after storm like this. It's just bad all around.
I'm moving to Hawaii. Auggie and I will buy an island and we will call it Sheltie Island and we will get sheepums and there will be NO SNOW EVER and it will be lovely.