Snow

I grew-up in Syracuse. I know a lot about Lake Effect Snow.

👽 Hopefully, It Will Be To Da' North Of Me, I Hate Driving In Snow/Ice.
Watch Out For Black Ice, Which Is Ice You Cannot See Building Up On Da' Road Surface, So You Have Ta' Look Out For It & Feel For It Before You Slide.

People freak out in Philly about snow. It’s crazy. I don’t have to drive to get to work so I don’t really stress.
I work in a 24/7 manufacturing industry and never had a job or boss who gave a shit about snow. A capable person should be able to deal with it.

@shailynn is your area also getting hit with freezing rain/an ice storm? I’m somewhat tolerant of some amount of snowfall, but I really, really hate those ice storms!

I guess I'm a Floriduh yahoo, so I'm not worried about the snow. But, they're talking about it at my company. They've been on a big RTO push, have been preaching about how we can't work effectively from home, but are pushing now for WFH again.

It's not going over well with the masses and I find it fucking hilarious.

The national hysteria over the fucking weather makes me ashamed to be an american. Its fucking snow, deal with it pussies.

The weather channel were the first assholes to start trying to gin up needless hysteria about snow by naming winter systems like hurricanes. If it's going to snow, it's going to snow. I saw it twice in New Orleans and people lost their fucking minds. the second time, they got about an inch or so in the morning. Everyone freaked out and all of the non-essential personal in the refineries and plants were sent home. Our contract administrators grounded my crew and I (riggers do it in the air). The snow melted by noon. It was sunny and mid-60s by 2pm. I try to explain to people in Florida about shoveling your driveway when you got home from work. Shoveling it again before you went to bed. Shoveling it a third time when you woke up. and having to go a fourth time and shovel all the fucking snow the plow built at the base of your driveway so you can back out your car for work.

I prefer that to hurricanes.

It's climate change. It's always climate change.
Too hot? It's climate change.
Too cold? It's climate change.
Too much snow? Too little snow? Always climate change.

Pron star snow; 10 inches, in Cincinnati. Still falling at 2 pm Monday.

I woke up to about 3 inches today - roads were fine. Now it’s up to 6 inches and more tonight.

I love when everything around me shuts down, because then I can stay home.

Snow doesn’t scare me, ice does.

I don't mind the snow. Last March, with 15" on the roads in Maine I departed my Hotel for Hour Place, some 40 miles away. Freezing rain was pounding so hard I had to stop every 10 minutes to scrape, then it turned to snow. 20" down and yup, its Maine and the strip club was open, 2 hours later I left. 27" down. I was driving down rt 4, when, fuck car accident road closed. Plotted a route on the map, none of the roads plowed so I am driving in the snow, with over 2 feet on the ground and in addition to 3" an hour snow and high winds, we now have my car scooping up the top 10" of snow and throwing it onto the windshield. I finally said you need to slow down, this is dangerously close to flying. I look at the speedometer: 17. 3 hours later I arrive at my hotel. To this day I still don't believe the car made it. All I can think of us 4 brand new tires saved me.Had the car gotten stuck where I was, it would have been literally life threatening.

I feel like we don't get as much snow as we used to on the east coast or winters don't get as cold (although this winter is an exception been pretty cold so far) I've heard it's the gulf stream moving closer but who knows.

In Colorado Springs we have been growing like crazy. What scares me are drivers in SUVs, no winter tires, and license plates from the deep South, AZ and CA who have never seen snow.

True story: when my wife moved her from San Diego with her then-husband they leased a Volvo. She said they picked a Volvo because it snows in Sweden. I gave a pregnant pause and said, "Well, you know it snows in Detroit too, right?"

When I've gone out a day or so after a storm, I see cars and SUVs in ditches and rolled over. My only way out is via a state highway, and it is well maintained, only shitheads think an SUV is invincible in snow as it is 4WD. If I don't need to venture out I don't bother. A few days at home is no big deal.

Some people have to get out for work or emergencies. I get it. They just don't need to be competing for Twit Of The Year or a finalist for a Darwin Award.

Skibum: I really loved the Maine story, Excellent. People from New England can handle snow.

Skibum: ever do Mt Washington?

We’ve got 8+ and it’s still coming down for another few hours. That’s a lot for Maryland as we don’t have the snow removal equipment to handle as it comes down. Worked from home today and they’ve not plowed my street yet. Cul de sacs are last on the priority list. They plowed the cross street and they should get to ours tonight sometime so I’ll head into the office tomorrow. My car is AWD but I may take my daughter’s SUV if it’s still messy. It was cold enough that the snow was pretty light and easy to shovel.