Why can't Seattle handle snow?

The city and that side of the state is run by moronic idiots.  On Monday night, some poor travelers endured 11 hour commutes.  Thousands of commuters just gave up and abandoned their vehicles. The state patrol had to run heat seeking aircraft the next day to look for people still stranded.  I have heard all the excuses as to why the City of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Transportation can't cope with snow events and they are completely lame.  Spokane has hills, many of them steeper than Seattle's.  We have ice. Yet in Spokane, they do just fine.  Up in Pend Oreille County, we are as large as some east coast states, with well over a thousand miles of highway to maintain and just 12,000 residents to support that effort. 

We do just fine.

But over the Cascade Curtain, all you find is incompetence.  Below is a link to a Seattle Times story where our trusted public officials, who are paid to prevent these kinds of disasters, try to explain away this latest f*ck up.  Its enough to make you want to kick every one of these numb nuts out of office and put the snow plowers, the guys actually out there in the field, in charge.  You can bet the roads would have stayed open, no matter what happened.  Oh but I forget, the snow plow drivers aren't worth 100k salaries.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013507661_weathermain24m.html