Re: You Know it's a Snowpocalypse when.........

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said:
On 2/12/2014 adelle38 said:
On 2/12/2014 chickenbutt said:
...when people are freaking out over two to six inches of snow?

It's actually the ice and freezing rain we're freaking out over here.

When i lived In pittsburgh we often had ise, sleet , freezing rain followed by a few inches of snow. Couple that with mountainous terrain. But yet we were not leaving our cars by the roadsides and going to seek shelter -nor were we sitting at home afraid to go out. We were expected to go to work and come back home and go again the next day. I don't understand this whole Atlanta or Raleigh phenomenon. It's snow , not armageddon for cripes sake.

I lived in Buffalo for most of my life and drove all the time in the winter and never even had a fender bender because of snow. Having said that freezing rain and sleet here make it extremely difficult to drive, it is absolutely not the same as snow or packed snow, and even 4 wheel drives are useless. I know how to drive in the snow but because the majority of people here don't know how to because they never see it or see it very rarely. Get a highway full of people going home to work and have a couple cars get stuck or run out of gas because they have been sitting there for a couple of hours and it is quite easy to get gridlock. People even trying to go up the smallest hills slid right back down because of the ice. Maybe if they had snow tires it would make a difference but snow tires are not needed here. I drove up to the store a couple of hours ago and I had to turn back because I kept sliding down the very small hill at the end of my street. I was in a 4wheel drive SUV with about 30 yrs of experience driving in the snow, that never happened to me in NY where I have had to turn around. It is a complete sheet of ice.

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Melania · ‎06-12-2013

Stay safe everyone dealing with the bad weather.

RedHeadedWench · ‎03-21-2010

The Walmart is closed.

(It actually is where I live in South Carolina. Yes, it's that bad)

MrsLorraine · ‎07-05-2012

On 2/12/2014 SusyQ22a said:
On 2/12/2014 chickenbutt said:
...when people are freaking out over two to six inches of snow?

Hi CB you have to understand that we don't get weather like this here in NC and SC. This has basically shut us all down. Now we are dealing with sleet and freezing rain which puts us in danger of losing power. 6 inches may not be a biggie to some but it is to us.

Exactly.

People laugh at us in Seattle because the place shuts down when we have more than an inch or two of snow. What outsiders don't understand is that Seattle is very hilly and most people don't have chains or any kind of experience negotiating snowy, hills streets. And the city doesn't have much in the way of snow plows, sand, etc., to deal with it.

A recent mayor, Greg Nichols, got voted out of office because of the way he handled a snow emergency: he made sure his OWN home street got plowed before any place else. There was a s*it storm (so to speak) over it and the voters turned him out. (He was a bad mayor anyway.)

Jannabelle · ‎03-09-2010

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said:
On 2/12/2014 adelle38 said:
On 2/12/2014 chickenbutt said:
...when people are freaking out over two to six inches of snow?

It's actually the ice and freezing rain we're freaking out over here.

When i lived In pittsburgh we often had ise, sleet , freezing rain followed by a few inches of snow. Couple that with mountainous terrain. But yet we were not leaving our cars by the roadsides and going to seek shelter -nor were we sitting at home afraid to go out. We were expected to go to work and come back home and go again the next day. I don't understand this whole Atlanta or Raleigh phenomenon. It's snow , not armageddon for cripes sake.

Exactly, you dealt with it all the time, huge difference, for cripes sake.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

On 2/12/2014 Jannabelle said:
On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said:
On 2/12/2014 adelle38 said:
On 2/12/2014 chickenbutt said:
...when people are freaking out over two to six inches of snow?

It's actually the ice and freezing rain we're freaking out over here.

When i lived In pittsburgh we often had ise, sleet , freezing rain followed by a few inches of snow. Couple that with mountainous terrain. But yet we were not leaving our cars by the roadsides and going to seek shelter -nor were we sitting at home afraid to go out. We were expected to go to work and come back home and go again the next day. I don't understand this whole Atlanta or Raleigh phenomenon. It's snow , not armageddon for cripes sake.

Exactly, you dealt with it all the time, huge difference, for cripes sake.

When you live where it snows - no matter how little or how infrequently - is it not your responsibilty to know how to drive in the snow, ice, sleet etc? it isn't rocket science to figure out to go down to a lower gear going down a hill instead of hitting the brake and sliding all over the place. now a days cars have antilock brakes too. And you aren't driving up and down steep mountainsides or crossing several bridges every time you go out either.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

People who say they don't know how to drive in the snow so they slid all over the road should NOT BE DRIVING IN THE SNOW THEN. If you don't know how to drive in the snow - stay home or at work. My former boss who was from Houston would often stay the night in her office so she didn't have to drive home and then back in the snow. This is just normal common sense. Don't know how to drive in the snow - take a bus .

Jannabelle · ‎03-09-2010

On 2/12/2014 Irshgrl31201 said:
On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said: People who say they don't know how to drive in the snow so they slid all over the road should NOT BE DRIVING IN THE SNOW THEN. If you don't know how to drive in the snow - stay home or at work. My former boss who was from Houston would often stay the night in her office so she didn't have to drive home and then back in the snow. This is just normal common sense. Don't know how to drive in the snow - take a bus .

You sound so stupid. You do realize not everyone has the luxury of staying home or even being on a bus line don't you? I know how to drive in the snow and even I had to turn around!! It is a sheet of ice, not snow. Many people were driving home when it started and got stuck then.

You get it Irishgrl, many do not....consider this as another consider the source poster.

adelle38 · ‎03-09-2010

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said:
On 2/12/2014 Jannabelle said:
On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said:
On 2/12/2014 adelle38 said:
On 2/12/2014 chickenbutt said:
...when people are freaking out over two to six inches of snow?

It's actually the ice and freezing rain we're freaking out over here.

When i lived In pittsburgh we often had ise, sleet , freezing rain followed by a few inches of snow. Couple that with mountainous terrain. But yet we were not leaving our cars by the roadsides and going to seek shelter -nor were we sitting at home afraid to go out. We were expected to go to work and come back home and go again the next day. I don't understand this whole Atlanta or Raleigh phenomenon. It's snow , not armageddon for cripes sake.

Exactly, you dealt with it all the time, huge difference, for cripes sake.

When you live where it snows - no matter how little or how infrequently - is it not your responsibilty to know how to drive in the snow, ice, sleet etc? it isn't rocket science to figure out to go down to a lower gear going down a hill instead of hitting the brake and sliding all over the place. now a days cars have antilock brakes too. And you aren't driving up and down steep mountainsides or crossing several bridges every time you go out either.

You obviously don't have a clue about what's going on in the South. Nobody can drive on ice.

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Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said: People who say they don't know how to drive in the snow so they slid all over the road should NOT BE DRIVING IN THE SNOW THEN. If you don't know how to drive in the snow - stay home or at work. My former boss who was from Houston would often stay the night in her office so she didn't have to drive home and then back in the snow. This is just normal common sense. Don't know how to drive in the snow - take a bus .

I've lived in the north south east and west.

Granted, some don't know how to drive in snowy, icy conditions but seems there were a lot of pile ups and deaths ALL OVER THE COUNTRY in the past few weeks attributed to the road conditions/weather.

Common sense makes your statement a bunch of bs.