Snow

Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:23 pm

Hey Red, or any of you guys who live up in the north, how much snow does it take to disrupt daily life up there?

I mean, we have about 6 inches predicted here (Georgia) for Sunday night and I can almost guarantee you that everything will be ground to a complete halt for at least two days.

Once, when I was in high school, they cancelled school the night before on a 40% chance of flurries the next day. We woke up the next day to 50 degree temperatures and a sunny, cloudless sky. It was a great day off.

I was just wondering, since I figured that six inches of snow to you guys would be nothing, but here it is almost like a blizzard. (Although, in 1993, we did get 32 inches of snow. That shut down everything for over a week)

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:40 pm

School bus cancellations seem to be very random here, I seriously think they have a quota of maybe 5 per year, so they just roll a dice whenever it's snowing a bit out. I have seen busses cancelled over 6 inches but I have seen them run in 12, so there's no consistency in that area.

As for colleges/university, and work, I cannot recall any time where anything like that was canceled. Whether there's a foot of new snow in the morning, or 3, or freezing rain, you still have to get to work.

There is one time where we were all at work and they started sending people home, which is kinda pointless when you're inside a building that is fully functional, but w/e. Only certain people were allowed to leave, mostly management.

I have never seen or heard of any instance where the entire city was shut down though. In the past few years we hardly got any snow, but I have seen over a foot fall in a single night before. Not too uncommon if not counting the past few years. The only thing you can hope for is that the plow passes after you got out of the driveway, or you're stuck and have to shovel out and most likely get to work late.

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Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:57 pm

Wild...I don't think we have any plows in our city...which means we are doomed if the snow doesn't melt when it hits the roadway.

Last year we were allowed to leave early if we wanted cause there were reports of slushy roads. I left and it was pretty slippery, but I got home. But my family had more trouble, although after a few hours they all eventually got back. The problem is that most people just drive like it is normal road conditions...so when they brake and realize they are really just skating, there are collisions. I suppose it is understandable though, since it only snows here once or twice a year, and rarely does it actually stick to the ground. It is the unknown.

However, we got 5 inches on Christmas Day, and there is 6 inches coming...so that is wildly over the norm...who knows what else the winter holds. Perhaps, if it is nasty enough, the city will invest in some snow-plows!

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:10 pm

The other day I almost spun out coming back from work when it rained a little and just froze over to create a nice sheet of ice on the roads around 5pm. It was not cool. 2 minutes later I see cars crashed off the road left and right. Georgia is not prepared for this stuff because they have no plows and they don't have the capacity to put down salt to melt the ice. Up north, there's equipment, process and infrastructure to deal with snow/ice on the roads.

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Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:21 pm

We'll usually get salt or gravel after a while, but it is useless because the salt trucks can't drive until the road melts enough for them to get out there. At which point, everybody else can drive too.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:47 pm

Yeah the drivers don't help either, some people don't realize you need to drive according to the conditions. Also need to give more time to stop as sometimes it does not look slippery but it is.

They are pretty decent here when it comes to plowing and putting sand/salt down though. Normally by the end of the work day they'll have most of the city plowed.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:07 pm

yea, ice makes a complete mess here too. The people here have zero concept of driving under conditions, much less the local governments having the funding to deploy anti ice measures. Most of our power is hung over head, thus when it ices over, it sags and breaks. Takes weeks to get everything back to normal. And please dont let it snow here. People turn into children when it snows because we get so little of it. Last year we got 3 inches one night, next day everything was closed due to ice and by mid afternoon no one had snow anywhere in their yard and a huge snowman standing in the yard some where, which took 5 days to melt.

It tried to snow last night, it did actually but because the temp never got below 34, the snow just turned into a flurry of tiny water droplets. Its been over cast here and constantly trying to snow but the temperature is holding at 34, which im hoping it stays right where it is. 1.5 degrees less and all hell will break loose down here, literally.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:37 pm

In a place where it hardly ever snows, 4 inches on the ground and 1/2 inch of ice on top; brilliant. I watched someone in a car out my window try for 45 minutes to go up a 2 degree incline. First they tried to go forwards and it didn't work, so then they turned around and tried to go the same way backwards

After all those years, they finally learn the physics lesson the hardest way.

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Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:38 pm

Yeah, we got 8 inches and about the same amount of ice. They shut down the longer bridges, thankfully. I haven't seen any people having trouble so far, but then again, my street is flat and I haven't seen many vehicles at all. It's been dead quiet all day.

The roads are still covered in snow and ice, except for a few narrow treads. Maybe tomorrow they'll work on getting some of the less important roads open...maybe.

Many years ago though, there was a similar snowfall. And at my parent's house, which is on a steep hill...the road at the bottom was littered with cars at weird angles after they slid backwards, along with a line of parked ones who were smart enough to learn the lesson that the other cars showed. It was quicker to simply bundle up and hike the hill.

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Daelan · Post by **Daelan** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:31 am

I seen everything here in Northern Michigan go on like nothing is wrong with over 18 inches.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:33 pm

Speaking of snow, I figure we'll get some in the next month or so. Crazy how fast summer went by. I had to turn the furnace on the other day. nothing like the smell of 2 months worth of dead skin flakes burning on the heat exchanger.

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Daelan · Post by **Daelan** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:09 am

OH man I know that smell GACK.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:23 am

Apparantly it snowed yesterday, for a few minutes lol.

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