Timex
3197
Maybe don’t take pictures with your phone while driving, jackass
I feel like I’m missing something. Those roads don’t even look particularly bad. That’s about what ours look like after the plows have gone through.
I thought the same thing. So many layers of idiot asshole.
From my time in metro DC, my recollection is that DC people lose their shit every time it snows. They are surprised by snow every single year, like clockwork. And they can’t drive in any amount of it.
I feel dumb, but what does the snowstorm have to do with BLM?
I’m guessing the implication is that DC has money to paint a street with BLM, but not to plow the roads.
GOP logic.
I think it has to do with Biden deciding to not to return to DC early because of the storm, so that journalists were forced to drive in the snow. There’s a bunch of griping about that sort of thing flying around Twitter, e.g. the poor warriors at Andrews having to make the runway safe, etc.
But it’s pretty amazing that we can’t really tell for sure WTF it is about.
Edit: Lol here he is explaining what it is about:
I…still don’t know really know.
I think they got 5", a major storm. Friend is complaining he shoveled two hours today
CraigM
3205
What a maroon
Seriously, Chicago knows how to deal with snow. It’s a part of life, several feet every year. 5 inches barely even registers. In fact unless you get a foot or more overnight it basically is background noise.
The plows are always out in advance prepping the roads, and salting and plowing as soon as it hits. And you know what? There are always still roads that look like that. The main roads may be perfectly clear, but secondary and residential will still be snow covered until the snow stops. I am not surprised DC has snow on the ground, because that is literally what snow storms do.
Guy is a pansy. Learn to drive noob.
KevinC
3206
Seriously, and it’s flat. Those folks would have a meltdown anywhere in the Mountain West and other similar regions, I guess.
Timex
3207
In fairness, people in DC and places in the south not only have no experience dealing with snow, but they also tend not to have any of the basic equipment and materials that we in the north take for granted, like road salt.
Driving on a totally unsalted road does in fact suck, but it’s something you will rarely encounter in places that regularly deal with snow.
But you’d think they’d prepare at least some for such things.
But I’m still not really understanding how any of this is related to BLM.
Lantz
3208
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Was lucky to get a little sand down on most the roads I drove when I was younger. When I moved to Chicago I was shocked by how much salt they put down.
CraigM
3209
To be fair Portland does basically shut down for anything over 1/2". But we don’t often get snow, have little infrastructure and equipment for non interstate roads, and are very hilly/ mountainous.
I still laugh at the locals, but admit crossing the Sylvan ridge into downtown on a snowy day, especially coming down Burnside? Not a good plan.
Matt_W
3210
It was 65° here in San Diego today. A bit chilly, but sunny and very nice. Whatever snow driving ability I once had has atrophied… and I’m pretty ok with that :)
The biggest problem with snow in DC and points south–and I’ve been through snowstorms in DC as well as what passes for snow in Atlanta more than once–is no snow tires. Many people don’t even have all season tires. Combined with the lack of snow clearance or road treatment resources, it makes for seriously dicey driving. Not much the city can do about that though. The problems are exacerbated in a place like DC by the lack of enough public transit routes actually going from where the people are to where they work. When I was there, in NOVA, you could get into the heart of DC from the burbs but many of us lived in one suburb and worked in another, and there were no effective ways to get back and forth other than driving by car.
Yes, this is what I was getting at. The entire DC metro area lives in an alternate fantasy where it never snows, and yet, every year, in the real world, it snows. So nobody at any level is prepared for it.
Timex
3213
The pictures that have been coming out of Seattle over the past week are wild.
It took quite a few bad decisions for that to happen.
Thrag
3215
I’m getting spared the snow (which is good since the replacement parts for my snowblower haven’t even shipped yet) but the winds are crazy. Peak gust on my weather station is 59kt so far. It’s whipping snow, and chunks of ice off my roof, everywhere again. Not the full Antarctic experience I shared last week, but definitely “is this trip really necessary?” weather.
Yeah, it’s best to just stay off the roads altogether when it snows in Seattle. Heavy snow is pretty infrequent so snow tires are rare and we have a relatively small fleet of plows, de-icer is only minimally used because of the environmental impact on the waterways, and with the tech industry we have a lot of transplants from regions without snow (or much driving). Take all that and add narrow streets with extremely steep grades, and… well… that happens.
