Winter Wonderland?

Yesterday marked our first significant snowfall of the season. It appears we received five to six inches of snow, making it the largest snowfall we've ever received this early in December.

My only question is why do people forget how to drive when it snows? In driving my less than two miles trek home yesterday I saw tons of people stuck in ditches and one car skid so that they were settled going away from the direction of traffic. It's like people see white stuff falling from the sky and then they panic and getting awfully stupid.