I'll only go out when there's nothing coming down and both the sky and the roads are clear, because of the plow trucks. I've lost several mailboxes to these monstrosities; their blades are so wide they clear everything to the edge of the pavement, which is over three feet outside the fog line on the federal route I live on. Also, they seem to always like to travel at the legal speed limit (45mph at my house). So even if they swerve and miss you, you're gonna get hit with a huge bow wave of salt-laden slush. Not for me.