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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - you are comparing apples to oranges.

"A foot of snow in NE" is drastically different than 7 inches of snowcrete. 
Mid Atlantic states don't have the resources. They just don't.  [b]NE states, given their consistent winter weather, do have endless parades of snow plows, dump trucks to haul away snow, a cavalry of workers and contractors. [/b]
The mid Atlantic, not so much.

Plus, ice is a different beast . I'd love to have a foot of snow instead like what NE gets.

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and sometimes they simply suck it up.

There was one year where the snow in my parent's Boston suburb was so high you could barely see the stop signs. and, no, there were not magical workers out there shoveling and removing all the snow. Due to all the snow sidewalks could not be shoveled. Did they cancel school for a month, no. They accepted that risk it part of life and went about their school days.

Even last week after they got 18 inches of snow and, according to may family with school aged kids, did a terrible job plowing streets kids were still back in school by Wednesday and their neighborhood doesn't even have sidewalks.

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DS didn't even get til Wednesday. He has Monday off and a 2 hr delay on Tuesday. Which I thought was crazy because there were definitely roads that were still slippery and areas where I had no idea how a bus would get to.  Not to mention we also have no sidewalks in a lot of our small town.   I also had to work and drove through the worst of the storm and dealt with horrible roads for a couple days.  But we had snow, followed by some slippery compacted snow that got a little frozen over. Nothing like the mess of ice DC and other states are seeing.  You really can't compare a lot snow (that wasn't particularly heavy) and ice.  [/quote]

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