OHIO — While Monday’s first winter storm caught some drivers off guard, they said it’s nothing they couldn’t handle.

“This [is] Northeast Ohio. It’s Cleveland so you don’t ever know what you can get,” said Shawn Banks.

At first, Banks told News 5 he was upset when he looked outside Monday morning.

"I was mad, I thought somebody had thrown snow on my car. I was kind of upset. Like, man, who did that?” asked Banks.

But Banks said he accepted his reality.

"I got through it. I’m from Cleveland. I’m a Clevelander,” said Banks.

Chrystal Aden said she also got through Monday’s snow, even though she says she wasn’t happy to see it.

"I woke up and I looked outside, and there was a whole bunch of snow, and you know I was kind of not feeling it,” said Aden.

What Aden described is probably som

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