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In case anyone was wondering how much snow it takes to shut things down in North Carolina
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In case anyone was wondering how much snow it takes to shut things down in North Carolina
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Where’s the snow? – A confused Canadian who just had 40cm of snowfall the other day
Winston-Salem here. That 3 inches that took on freezing rain had our residential streets messed up for a couple days but at least the power stayed on!
I’m sure it was preemptive shutdown, over precautionary measure for a region that doesn’t get feet of snowfall every year and thus wouldn’t invest in what it takes to “deal” with it at either the personal level or the government level. If it had gotten a few degrees colder and a inch or two more of snow, and everyone with their rear wheel only cars, all weather tires, and almost no plows on the streets trying to drive on an inch or two of slush that might freeze overnight, that would be quite disastrous. But weather being weather, it ended up barely a dusting…but nothing wrong with over precautionary measures or closing non essential offices and schools…why wait until 7am to make that call?
Of course now if that’s all that happened, then feel free to go out and get Taco Bell or whatever you want with your day.
I work for one of the big poultry companies and we shut two plants down today in NC.
FYI, it’s not the snow per-se. It’s icy roads that shut things down down here.
Source: I live in tennessee. Same shit here.
I’m in Georgia and just the word snow is enough here.
Winston-Salem.
I hope you can survive this winter storm, looks like you won’t be able to make it to the stores and the power will probably go out soon.
That looks suspiciously like a complex I used to live in near Crabtree in Raleigh.
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Looks like enough for French Toast Emergency to me.
All the salt must be stuck in the ocean near LA
Funny Ha!Ha! But the truth is we do not have road clearing vehicles in the south or road treatments. I’m in Charleston and it is abnormally cold today and we are expecting freezing rain. It would be extremely dangerous if the school were to let out as the roads begin to freeze. Remember Texas last year? We had a few inches a couple of years ago. The snow lasted for days on the roads. No one has snow tires or knows how to drive in the snow. Imagine if a school bus crashes. Someone is going to get blamed for not taking precautions.
Meanwhile here in NY, I drove to work yesterday on a 3 inches of snow-covered, unplowed mountain highway. 24 miles drive took 90 minutes, mostly downhill.
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I am from PA. I was in Birmingham and got caught in a blizzard of spring 93. I was interviewing for graduate school when someone came in the room and said we needed to evacuate the campus. Because it had started snowing. People were bugging out like the North Koreans were coming across the DMZ. The professor I was with drove me to the apartment were I was staying with a student host. The roads were just wet and snow was starting to lay on the grass and people were panicking. It did turn out to be a fairly large amount of snow but not by PA standards.
I was staying with a grad student from India. He had just come back from India with his wife from arranged marriage. She did not speak any English. The power went out and the temperature inside dropped to below 40. We had nothing to eat except cold India food. All the stores closed. The airport closed.
My host was fascinated with the snow. He had never seen it before so he opened the apartment door and stood there looking at it. I had to tell him he was going to freeze us to death.
All the power poles there are basically 4×4 posts. They have no snow plows or salt spreaders. I saw highway workers trying to move snow with a road grader and a bulldozer while another spread salt from bags with a shovel while standing on a slowly moving pickup truck.
im in virtual school right now because there might be a milimeter of snow today night. theres none
Yep. I’m in Durham. I can attest that’s what it’s like.
Come on I want a REAL snowstorm. A huge storm
Oh wow. Dumped pretty good
Yeah all the chicken , orange juice , sold out in stores just because of a snow day
Lol, I live in Southeast Virginia and I can totally relate.
In Louisiana, they have to shut everything down. People here can’t drive in normal conditions, much less icy ones
I’m in Louisiana. No snow, but also like everything is closed down today
Bruh
In Iowa we could probably have like a foot or two of snow and they’d have school still
Come to Seattle. No one can drive in the snow. Or the rain. Or the sun. Hell we can’t drive for shit. But it’s beautiful when it snows
In Winnipeg right now, they’re just letting people know that the blizzard might make it a bit hard to see at the moment, but considering it’s only -12 when it was almost -40 a few days ago, it’s an overall good day.
This is exactly why I moved south from New England. I like being able to work from home in snow vs having to drive in even when it’s like 30 feet of snow and climbing.
(I mean, not that it matters now since I’ve been WFH for 2 years but… Still) 🤣
“snow”
https://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/weather/2014/02/13/13390408/image_1_-363×485.jpg
When it really snows there, this happens.
Raleigh was scary when it snowed. You had folks who had never driven on anything, terrified of phantom black ice who would jerk the wheel avoiding said phantoms, or folks riding their brakes driving 3 mph, and then you’d have the transplants from up north getting fed up and angry at the folks not knowing what they are doing, so they’d end up driving faster out of spite and frustration, and the mix is just particularly bad.
That’s adorable!!!
-From Canada
If it was like that here in Canada I wouldn’t have to work most of the time haha
[One of my favorite pics of all time is from when Raleigh got a whole 2 inches of snow](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8592140a1871fe253d08dca4770c3fac-c)