I disagree that ice sucks more than snow. Well it DOES suck more than small amounts of snow, but we're dealing with 2 feet of the stuff in northern VA and it is not fun. It'll take forever to go away, many secondary roads as well as exit ramps to major roads are extremely narrow due to piles of snow covering half the road, and to top it off we're supposed to get a whole bunch of rain this weekend which means flooding! I wish all we got was ice!
Of course too much ice can be very bad... like a few years ago in my hometown we had a huge ice storm complete with power outages...