You guys seem to be having bad commuter luck. Here's my positive story to balance it out:

I decided to take my "normal" route home through the side streets thinking they might be cleared (they weren't) and right at the worst of it as I was blasting through a good 6-8" of heavy rutted slush I hear some guy from his porch call out "way to go brother!" I almost didn't make it through, but when I did, I earned a "woo!" from the same guy. Didn't run into a single aggressive driver all the way home.