3367

I was recently in Oregon when they got just under 2 inches of snow. They don’t know how to handle it at all. People were passing us at 60MPH in the left lane and they didn’t salt or plow the highway, so that’s incredibly dangerous. Multiple exits were blocked off because they were on a slight incline and cars managed to slide down. Jack-knived trucks everywhere, and you’d think truck drivers would know how to drive in snow.

And then some of the Portlandians just decided to give up, stop their cars, and wait out the snow. But the truly unbelievable thing is they didn’t pull onto the shoulder first. So you’d be driving down the highway carefully at 30MPH and run up on a parked car, hazard blinkers on, with a family of four inside sitting in the middle lane.

Apocalyptic.

3368

Are you intentionally trying to get me to ignore my self imposed rule about not mocking people not used to snow driving poorly in it? Because this

Makes it really hard.

Here if we get a foot of snow overnight they still expect you to be at work the next day. Now, certainly, they will make exceptions. If you live an hour or more away, workplaces tend to be understanding. Still usually at least 80% of the people still show up to work.

We had a real scary combo back in January. It rained with temps in the mid 30’s overnight, then dropped below freezing and started snowing. I remember having my wife call the state police for a car in the ditch, still running, on the highway, and by the time she finished the call had passed two more. I want to say I saw a total of 10 cars off the road that drive.

3369

I went to college in Rochester, and on one day where blizzard conditions were expected to prevail from about 8am to 5pm and yield two feet of new snow, we were advised that classes were still on and that we should take snow shovels to dig our way into and out of buildings.

3370

That was embarrassing. Part of the problem was that we just had the local news promising us a snowpocalypse a few days earlier and it didn’t happen, so most people didn’t believe the warnings.

It’s not us! It’s all these damn transplants from California! They’re responsible, just like they are for all of our problems.

At least the government learned from that and has started salting the highways again.

3371

You folks talking about snow are making me nostaligic for it.*

*This is a lie.

I always think, if it ever snowed here in Los Angeles, there’d be so many deaths…

3372

I went down to the pool today and was told that it wasn’t open yet. Something about it being winter. Fucking HOA.

3373

Almost 90 here today. Too hot for February.

3374

London still has its dusting of snow and barely subzero temperatures (not counting a fierce windchill), but Scotland is now cut off from the rest of the UK by train and apparently we’re running out of natural gas for heating.

3375

Heh

3376

Must be that dry English humor I keep hearing about.

3377

Hah, I feel for that writer. Nicely done :)

3378

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

Crazy tight isobars here near DC. Federal government and a bunch of schools are closed for high winds (been here half a century and this does not often happen). Hatches are all battened down and I’m ready to ride the storm out!

3379

Love me some Nor’easter! Signals that spring is on the way!

3380

Yeah, screw you.

30 hours without electricity, finally back on. Dominion Energy making progress, but still nearly 300,000 in the Commonwealth without power.

3381

With hurricane Irma I lost power for 4 days, but I can’t imagine that when it’s freezing out.

3382

Heh. It got a wee bit chilly last night. :)

With that said, the derecho of 2012 was WAY worse. That hit on June 30th, and knocked out power where I live for about 28 hours, but the overnight low was 83, and the afternoon high was about 95. With no AC, that was MISERABLE. Much rather be cold than stiflingly hot like that.

3383

Hey, Trigger, where are you? I’m over in Williamstown. We never lost power, but we had a several-hour long blizzard. Started with huge wet flakes and then as the day got colder the flakes got smaller. Today all the snow is melting off the roofs in avalanches.

3384

Northern Virginia. We got pasted with the high winds, but any precip was rain. Last night was eerie, literally no lights at all up and down the Gallows Road corridor from Merrifield through Old Courthouse by where I live. Normally at 10pm on a Friday, traffic central.

3385

I remember 1998. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt in January! In the Mid-West!

3386

Whole neighborhood (county, really) took quite a beating from this most recent storm. 30k homes out of power, traffic signals down for 36 hours with no police directing traffic in the wealthiest county in the country. Ridiculous.

Our little cabin is surrounded by downed trees, and the most snapped power lines I’ve seen since Sandy. Estimate is another 72 hours for power. At least we have the wood stove for heat and a propane range to cook on, but the well and furnace are out, so no showers, and manual fill toilet. Dog is getting grumpy and the wife already smartly jumped ship for relatives. Breaking out the Bourbon County Stout, at least it loves this 40 degree Smarch weather.