If it's bad enough that they're not plowing the roads at all, it's bad enough to stay home. Short of that, 2wd cars with the right tires and sensible drivers get the job done as well as anything else on the road.

Not trying to give you a hard time on this, just saying it's not the CR/V that's keeping you safe. It's you. And your tires.

I've lived here for 22 years and only had an all-wheel drive vehicle for the last 7. One of the big factors for how well a vehicle handles snow is, IMO, ground clearance. When I first moved here, I had a 4 door Honda Civic. It was front wheel drive and had good tires but was easy to get stuck because the ground clearance was so low.

Our winters here where I live aren't really severe, they're just long. We had far more snow last year than we've had for most of the years I've lived here. My CR/V, gutless wonder that it is, handled snow up to a foot deep very well. There weren't many two wheel drive cars on the road under those conditions.