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Edited by bobcast:
2/4/2013 5:57:31 AM
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LOL, it is just snow!
I'm in Pittsburgh for the month for work. I am from a part of the world where snow is a very common part of winter life...apparently it is not in Pittsburgh.
I'm watching the local news here and they are calling for 1-3 inches. The weatherman then says to check the scroll at the bottom for delays and closures. EVERYTHING IS CLOSED OR DELAYED! Simply because of the threat of 3 inches of snow, they are shutting down the city...lol!
Were I live we got 10 inches in about 8 hours. Nothing closed. We then got another 10 inches over the next 36 hours. Nothing closed. I grew up in Michigan. It snowed there too and snow rarely closed anything. I cannot fathom why the threat of a mere 3 inches of snow is shutting down a city.
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In Northern Indiana, we received 5-ish inches and school was cancelled. Yesterday was a good day.
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Michigan = Greatest state in the world I was born and raised there too.
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Yup gotta love bi-polar michigan weather, I literally had 12 inches of snow on top of my car and still had to go to both work and school a few days ago.
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1 ReplyI live in Arkansas, the other day they PREDICTED snow and closed everything. Naturally, it never snowed.
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Well clearly where you live isn't important. The infrastructure of their city isn't built around snow, which is why it's a big deal.
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As a Montanan, I laugh at this.
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I live about an hour away, if it is below 5'f we aromatically get 2 hour delays.
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That is what the cold white clumps are on the ground? This is my first year visiting around these parts and I was afraid to step out into the crisp, cool night.
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I understand what you're saying but southern states (not that I consider Pennsylvania southern) are not equipped to remove the snow. They lack the number of plows and salting/sanding trucks that more northern states have
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I feel that way when it rains around here. If there's a hurricane every one acts as if the world is going to end, then it comes and we only get maybe 10 inches of rain.
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I'm sorry you had to grow up in Michigan. Anyway, if it snows enough to barely stay on the ground here, everything is cancelled. No one has snow tires, and no one knows how to drive in snow here. I've seen snow twice in my entire life. One of those times, it melted upon hitting the ground.
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As a canadian when it is the first snow day literally everyone gets in accidents.. Its like everyone just got their learners. Also according to weather channels it is called "white stuff" not snow. Which always makes me cringe.
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Last week I went from Dallas, TX (where if it snows any amount, nearly everything shuts down even though the snow is usually gone by mid-afternoon) to Madison, WI (where it was coming in pretty good, I am guessing about 1-2 feet total, had a wind chill of -25 F which was really blowing it around). The cold was more of an issue than the snow and the snow/ice wasn't really all that bad. Now if it had been nothing but Texans in that much snow? Car-tobogganing carnage, definitely. But I was one of the few Texans in Madison and other than freezing my ass off, it was fine. Very pretty actually. Especially when I was looking out of the window on my departing flight.
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Hey, I live in Michigan.
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My school closes with only an inch of snow... and we get two-hour delays with 1/2 inches of snow or when it's around 5 degrees.
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You'd be surprised. I gave your mom 10 inches for about 8 hours, though she stayed open.
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Perception is relative: all the people that are used to extremely cold temperatures should spend a week in Arizona or summat.
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I think its funny how when there is a massive snowfall (say 4 feet) everything in the neighboring towns shut down... but I'm still in school that day. But anyway, I think snow has a thing for bringing the stupid side of people. *Observes person hitting brakes randomly on icy conditions in dense traffic with me(god forbid otherwise) behind him*
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Some places are more prepared for snow than others. Even the places more prepared are a little insane. Back in highschool when I lived in Ohio my school was the only one that refused to close in the area. They didn't want to close because it was finals (lame excuse). Trying to drive to class I saw so many cars stuck on the side or wrecks. More than half the kids didn't even make it to school and they said "screw you" basically to them that couldn't make it. Pretty harsh and stupid but yeah places like Ohio that got more snow than say Florida don't usually close down unless things are really bad. In this case they were just dumb for not closing trying to pretend it wasn't bad when it was pretty hard to even stay on the road to get there lol
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Your town EXPECTS snow and is able to deal with it more efficiently. It'd be idiotic for a city that rarely snows to have stockpiles of salt/sand and plow trucks to deal with it if it's so rare.
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1 ReplyHere in northern Alberta, we got 2 1/2 feet in about 30 hours. But we don't shut down for anything.
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I used to live in rural New York. Nothing was closed down until we had at LEAST two feet. The snow here in Tennessee is utterly pathetic.
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1 ReplyIn the UK, we get around 20 CM of snow and everything literally stop. Flights are cancelled, public transport cancelled, schools closed etc. Worse part is... people panic buy. Pretty embarrassing. I also remember reading in the newspaper that a school in Russia only closes if it goes below -50.
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I think the government is not telling us something... Maybe the snow is very dangerous.
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Edited by Butane: 2/4/2013 7:18:37 AMHey, we do that here! But then again it is Oklahoma and we don't plan very well and enjoy getting screwed over by ice storms and blizzards every other year.
