Hey, Bostonians!

[allizon]

This much snow utterly shut down Greensboro this morning:

(To be somewhat fair, everyone's more concerned with the ice and freezing rain we're getting than the snow.  But still.)

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[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

In December of 1980, I was working in RTP and driving a POS '74 Chevy Vega. The Triangle got all of 2 inches of snow, which was enough to prompt most of the businesses, the schools, etc. to call a Snow Day and send everyone home.

I was driving along at the speed limit, zooming past the mud trucks and other "utility vehicles" while the rest of the traffic skittered and slid into the ditches. It was utterly unreal to me.

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm making a gross generalization here, of course, but: people in North Carolina don't know how to drive in the rain and they don't know how to drive in the snow. I grew up in Florida, so rain's not a problem for me, and I lived in New England long enough to have a pretty firm grasp on driving in snow... but the problem is that even if *I* know what I'm doing, or close enough to it, I'm not confident that the other drivers around me do. Therefore, I'm working from home today and staying off the idiot-infested roads.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Oh, if IBM had called a Snow Day before I'd gotten to work, I wouldn't have joined the Clueless on the roads either. But they were shutting the office down. For two inches of snow. Which was all gone by the next morning.

Any snowfall that my windshield wipers can handle without assistance just Doesn't Count.

[ignescent.livejournal.com]

I'd point and laugh, but an inch crippled the Triangle a few years back. The south does not know how to deal with snow.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I remember I was in the Dallas airport waiting for a connection to Boston. It started to snow and they couldn't find their snow plow. First, they had only one snow plow. Second THEY LOST IT. I quietly lost my mind. Then when I was trying to figure out a new flight they uttered the words "It's too late in the evening to get you out of the south." I snapped "get me as far north as you can" which ended up being Atlanta. Oy.

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Bwaaa haa ha haaa hah! OMG, that's priceless. I mean, it sucks that it happened to you, but at least you got a good story out of it. :)

You just totally summed up the whole problem with snow here: we're just not prepared for it. At all. Even though it snows pretty much every year here (or so I'm told, this being only my second winter here), neither the government nor the citizenry seem to have the least idea how to deal with it.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

WTF

WTF

OMGWTFBBQMBTA

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah. Exactly.

[fraterrisus]

. o O ("...MBTA"?)

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Sometimes things are so bad, you need to invoke the MBTA as well.

Stuff. Things.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

The version I've seen is OMGWTFBBQALPACA, which I expect amounts to the same thing.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

In fact, this, to be precise: http://cadhla.livejournal.com/860352.html

[keyne.livejournal.com]

(snicker)

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Pretty much what I was thinking. :)

[redjo.livejournal.com]

*snort*

*looks around, grins smugly*

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say you're allowed. :)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Hah.

Heh.

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

I look at the pic I posted, and then I think about the pic you posted from out the window of your office when the Apocalypse struck Boston a few weeks back... molehill, meet mountain. :)

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

uh oh. My BF is flying into Greensboro tonight. Last I knew h was still at Dulles waiting for part of the flight crew and the flight kept getting delayed. I hope the airport opened back up.

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

I think everything should be fine for flying in tonight -- the snow's long since passed, though it's possible ice could still be an issue. Hope he makes it in successfully!

Nope

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

His flight was canceled and the only flight he could get was to Raleigh/Durham and He'll have to drive from there. His flight crew got stranded in Pitts. Thanks for the well wishes.

Re: Nope

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Well, boo. At least the drive here from RDU isn't too bad.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ha! Wimps. ;)

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally. :)

Man, I do miss me some *real* snow... not the shoveling, mind you, but I miss the snow itself. *snf*

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Snow on the ground here now (and the trees, and the roofs)... is beautiful. :)

[veracity1.livejournal.com]

Snow is quite infrequent here. Much different from where I was born and lived most of my life. It is illogical AND fiscally irresponsible to spend large sums of money on snow removal equipment and supplies.

Adaptability to weather conditions is regional. Will you be as apt to comment this summer about how well these people handle the heat? ;)

[rintrahroars.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the snow removal issue at all that we both found funny. It was the juxtaposition between Greensboro's snow dusting and Boston's recent blizzard -- and the fact that our kids' schools closed, my doctor's office canceled my appointment, etc., NOT because of a snow removal issue, but mostly out of fear of THE DRIVERS! THOSE FOLKS OUT THERE ON THE ROADS who don't seem to know how to drive in inclement weather!

All the roads in this area were well salted in preparation for the snow/ice the day before, so it's not that. The weather that we got was really rather... anticlimactic!

I think it's human nature to gripe about the weather, no matter where you're from or where you live. But, Bostonians have raised this to an art level, especially how it relates to the issue of driving and transportation.

Hence the funny. :)

[veracity1.livejournal.com]

ah...missed the nuance...I get that.

I get more concerned with the SUV drivers who think they are invincible on icey roads, just because they have 4-wheel drive. :)

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Will you be as apt to comment this summer about how well these people handle the heat?

No, but I routinely make fun of them when they're buried under eighteen inches of snow and I'm walking around outside in short sleeves. :)

This wasn't at all a serious post -- much more of a "pointing out humorous differences between life experiences in different parts of the country" than a complaint about governmental preparedness.

[veracity1.livejournal.com]

Yep...I have been here about 17 years from the mountains of West (by God) Virginia, and I am still not used to the heat and humidity.

Days like yesterday are a plus for me...less traffic to deal with.:)