Different snow, no roads plowed, the crews are interviewed with TV cameras all around them, then nothing is done. Or, it doesn't snow at all. This is Vancouver in nutshell. But when it does snow, more than half the people driving have never driven in it, or don't have snow tires. -11C in a damp climate is not mild. I saw -54F in the interior of BC back in the winter of 1968, and happened to come down to Vancouver for a weekend, it was around 0F, I couldn't wait to get back to the interior.