if you could pay attention you would see that in my first post I said I was in Dallas and we just got 4 inchs of snow last week that just started to melt off.Well, since you'd like to get technical, sir; Houston, TX is not a heavy snow area (see OP's location). Here are some statistics to back that up:
Houston, TX Climate
Please, pay particular attention to the Houston, TX Precipitation Table...:beer:
highways around here still have salt/sand on them! could have played a role in the traction issue