@deb922 - Thanks for reminding me about snow tires. I’ll run it by my mechanic. We are in the MD suburbs of DC, and our winters tend to be mild by my IA childhood standards. Most things flat-out shut down when there is snow, and I just stay off the roads for that day or two because of the inexperienced-with-snow drivers who decide that they do need to be somewhere :). A college friend who is in St Paul MN swears by her snow tires (Nokia maybe? In any case, a Scandinavian brand I’d never heard of) She reports that they “glue” her Prius to the road.