This is a picture of the snow we got in Chapel Hill yesterday. This really about as bad as it got, it stopped soon after I took this and by the time I left work, the roads were clear. I'd say it was maybe a half inch of snow.

Here's an account of what happens to this part of the country when a half to 3/4 inch of snow falls in the middle of the day. Panic sets in. My experience wasn't this bad, but luckily I didn't have to deal with the freeway. I only had to wait 35 minutes in the low-20° dusk for a bus. For an amount of snow in which Iowan drivers would still be flying down the road at 70 mph!