Are you driving around with actual summer tires (not all-season or all-weather)? By winter tires do you mean winter tires or studded?

If you do mean summer tires that seems almost unbelievable to me. I have some experience both on the roads as well as skidpans with both.

With actual summer tires on even non-icy light snow cover you:

- have almost no braking

- get nothing but wheelspin on any sort of hill

- start spinning out in corners if you go >10mph.

The worse the winter weather gets, the more stuck you become if there has been no salting for an hour.

Meanwhile with winter tires you can safely go up to 60mph on compacted snow and actually get to a stop within a mile.

Hell, even just the fact that summer tires are hard as rocks in cold temps would make me wanna at least buy all-seasons.

Just how aggressively and how often do they salt in WI, considering the climate?

disclaimer: grew up in a country with mild-ish winters where winter tires are mandatory, never spent much time in the parts of NA that do get winters.