One caveat to my experience with this. We do not get snow here, maybe one day a year and melted by next day. (aside from the pummeling we got 2 weeks ago, 10" overnight). Because of that and the uber greenies out here, we do not use salt on roads either, so we do not get the toxic rust other areas do. That said we get steady rain 9mos a year so def have the wet climate.. Just something to keep in mind.