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[Post New]01/10/2011 22:01
Anonymous
I want a snow day damn it!
[Post New]01/10/2011 22:07
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I want a snow day damn it!


Me too! Me too!

(Though DH is happy since he is hosting a meeting for a bunch of out of town folks on Wed., and they need to be able to get here so they can actually have the meeting.)
[Post New]01/10/2011 22:08
zumbamama
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me too! Why does the snow always go around us? : ( I'm crossing my fingers for a snowy February.
[Post New]01/11/2011 09:38
Anonymous
You people are crazy!! Snow sucks. If anyone knows of somewhere on the east coast I can move where it doesn't snow/ice and still has bearable summers, Lmk.
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:09
Anonymous
Go away party pooper! Snow is fun! ....Well, not 15 feet of it like we got last year, but a nice frosting to make everything lovely and wintery is IMO the only thing that makes winter bearable.

I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:13
Anonymous
If we get the 2 to 4 inches they're predicting this evening/night, I think there will be at least a school delay tomorrow. That means I can go back to sleep for another hour or two and get to work only a little late. That's the perfect amount, enough to cover up all the ugly brown grass, but barely enough to shovel.

I have to drive my DC to tutoring at 7:30 tonight, though, so I'm hoping it won't be too bad at that point.
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:20
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


See, I deliberately DIDN'T wear my snow boots this morning, thinking that if I'm unprepared, we're sure to get slammed.
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:21
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Go away party pooper! Snow is fun! ....Well, not 15 feet of it like we got last year, but a nice frosting to make everything lovely and wintery is IMO the only thing that makes winter bearable.

I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


Snow is fun in areas where road crews know how to clear it quickly and effectively. It's not fun here. Here it's awful and inconvenient. Here schools let out hours early but the roads are so bad the school bus rolls around near it's regular time. Here snow plows don't put their blades on the road and create larger icing issues. Here people will drive either 70mph or 5mph and go off the road. Too fast and you loose traction. Too slow and you loose momentum and traction. Here people still hit the breaks like they would on dry roads and just slide through the stop signs.

Snow is fun other places.
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:25
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


See, I deliberately DIDN'T wear my snow boots this morning, thinking that if I'm unprepared, we're sure to get slammed.


You must wear your pajamas on BACKWARDS tonight & we will get a snow day tomorrow. it is a sure thing!
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:30
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go away party pooper! Snow is fun! ....Well, not 15 feet of it like we got last year, but a nice frosting to make everything lovely and wintery is IMO the only thing that makes winter bearable.

I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


Snow is fun in areas where road crews know how to clear it quickly and effectively. It's not fun here. Here it's awful and inconvenient. Here schools let out hours early but the roads are so bad the school bus rolls around near it's regular time. Here snow plows don't put their blades on the road and create larger icing issues. Here people will drive either 70mph or 5mph and go off the road. Too fast and you loose traction. Too slow and you loose momentum and traction. Here people still hit the breaks like they would on dry roads and just slide through the stop signs.

Snow is fun other places.


Can you elaborate on this? Why wouldn't they put the blades on the road? (Displaced southerner here!)
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:34
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy!! Snow sucks. If anyone knows of somewhere on the east coast I can move where it doesn't snow/ice and still has bearable summers, Lmk.


Just move to PA -- they get snow, but the road crews clear it in freaking minutes. I grew up there and we only had snow days for 18+"!

Plus, the summers aren't disgusting and swampy humidity-fests. Ah, DC, you task me!
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:35
Anonymous
Party Pooper, do you think you're telling us something we don't know? What vitamins do you get from being a downer?

Since we have all lived through a couple of snow scare in the midatlantic, and we still are looking forward to it, why don't you go find some children to disillusion about the Easter Bunny, hm?
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:36
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go away party pooper! Snow is fun! ....Well, not 15 feet of it like we got last year, but a nice frosting to make everything lovely and wintery is IMO the only thing that makes winter bearable.

I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


Snow is fun in areas where road crews know how to clear it quickly and effectively. It's not fun here. Here it's awful and inconvenient. Here schools let out hours early but the roads are so bad the school bus rolls around near it's regular time. Here snow plows don't put their blades on the road and create larger icing issues. Here people will drive either 70mph or 5mph and go off the road. Too fast and you loose traction. Too slow and you loose momentum and traction. Here people still hit the breaks like they would on dry roads and just slide through the stop signs.

Snow is fun other places.


Can you elaborate on this? Why wouldn't they put the blades on the road? (Displaced southerner here!)


Probably because they fear tearing up the road. However, by not getting all the ice off the road, they are guaranteeing zillions of potholes (which are caused by the expansion and contraction of precip that's on/in the pavement).
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:38
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go away party pooper! Snow is fun! ....Well, not 15 feet of it like we got last year, but a nice frosting to make everything lovely and wintery is IMO the only thing that makes winter bearable.

I'm wearing snow boots and thinking snowy thoughts. I hope we get a real snow that lasts longer than noon this time!


Snow is fun in areas where road crews know how to clear it quickly and effectively. It's not fun here. Here it's awful and inconvenient. Here schools let out hours early but the roads are so bad the school bus rolls around near it's regular time. Here snow plows don't put their blades on the road and create larger icing issues. Here people will drive either 70mph or 5mph and go off the road. Too fast and you loose traction. Too slow and you loose momentum and traction. Here people still hit the breaks like they would on dry roads and just slide through the stop signs.

Snow is fun other places.


Can you elaborate on this? Why wouldn't they put the blades on the road? (Displaced southerner here!)


I don't know about the truth of the original statement, but if it is true, my guess is they don't put them on the road because they don't want to completely tear the roads up (which happens anyway, but would probably be a million times worse if the blades were against the roads).
[Post New]01/11/2011 10:38
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy!! Snow sucks. If anyone knows of somewhere on the east coast I can move where it doesn't snow/ice and still has bearable summers, Lmk.


Just move to PA -- they get snow, but the road crews clear it in freaking minutes. I grew up there and we only had snow days for 18+"!

Plus, the summers aren't disgusting and swampy humidity-fests. Ah, DC, you task me!


I agree, PP. Former Scrantonian here. The snow is 18+ inches and all you get a 1.5 or 2 hour delay.

Here - before a flake falls, schools/work is closed. I LOVE IT!
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