For most people living in Phoenix, snow feels like something that happens to other people in other places. Arizona doesn't do winter, or so the mythology goes. But this week, that comfortable fiction crumbles as two powerful storm systems sweep across the state, transforming the high country into a winter landscape and forcing desert dwellers to confront an uncomfortable truth: Arizona winters are real, treacherous, and demand respect.
As residents pack their vehicles and head northward seeking snow, the Arizona Department of Transportation is sounding an urgent alarm about behaviour that could cost lives.
