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The bus is sliding down the hill, yes.
Like skateboarding coyotes that will steal your girl, I have seen it happen.
And to be fair, South Florida is still Florida; also it's only snowed once ever down here in recorded history.
They flip about about Tacoma and Seattle being dangerous and meanwhile I'm hanging out in west Baltimore
It's only when its hot out, not the cold.
And yeah this area doesn't get snow like at all, getting over a foot is guaranteed to mess shit up. This storm has been ridiculous most snow I've ever seen in my 36 years of living here.
I mean I'm pretty sure this is the worst snow storm we've had in over two decades. Its not just the usual "hey we got an inch of snow and people freaked out" we got a legitimate snow storm this time.
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The media played it up though, I don't fault people for worrying when experts are saying "its going to be a real bad storm" and everyone is remembering that monday night storm we had when the hawks were playing where people didn't get home for like 8 hours.
I don't fault people for worrying when experts tell you to worry.
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Because literally every year, that first snow brings the city to its knees, and then after that we're fine.
I visited KC once during a good snow, and it made me appreciate living in a very flat city.
The Weather Service has upgraded Springfield's blizzard from "Winter Wonderland" to a "Class 3 Kill-Storm".
So, you know, go ahead and freak out a little and just stay home. It's okay.
(Oh, and we don't even really have much in the way of hills.)
Seriously, there's like 3-4 inches out there.
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I've found that most of these massive pileups during the winter years up here in Neb are from semi truck drivers.
$10 says they don't live around here.
I don't like the sound of that 'Class 3'.
I don't think so. Plenty here are from the midwest or back east or the mountains, too. It's a lack of infrastructure to deal with it, because snow happens once or twice a year (and storms like this maybe once a decade). I came from Montana, I've driven in snow a time or two. I also put on winter tires every year there, and didn't drive a Mini, and they have more plows in Bozeman than they have in Seattle, despite Bozeman being about 5% the size. Seattle's normal response is to just wait a day for the rain to come back and melt the snow, and 99% of the time it works.
This is the 1%.
I read a thing today in the Times about Seattle's actual snow management strategy (in the city proper that is) being built around clearing streets just enough to be passable by 4WD and chained vehicles; it's meant to allow emergency traffic primarily. From the amount of sand used (and no salt), the height of plow blades, etc, it's all about not damaging the road surface and letting police get where they need to be, then waiting for the temp to go back above freezing to take care of it.
But "Kill" is fine?
People do weird stuff in seattle when it snows. I also saw people stop in the middle of the road to put their chains on at the first sign of flakes, people try to drive in the wrong lane up a hill (because of???), people not bother to clear a foot of snow off their roof, then when they stop they suddenly have a pile of snow on the windshield and can't see, etc etc.
I live in Florida. Every storm is a killstorm.
PS Cheney just south of Spokane is pretty much Hoth or Tatooine depending on the season, sits right on the start of the endless farm fields that dominate the middle of Washington.
I moved to Seattle for a few years, a few years back (Specifically, Lynnwood...I was disappointed I never bumped into Mike or Jerry). I had lived in WI prior to that where we'd routinely get 7 feets of snow overnight and still be expected to show up to work on time the next morning.
My first winter in Seattle there was a forecast of a half inch of snow, and as the comic regales, the citizenry began screaming in the streets and and weeping and repenting. I just gave them all a puzzled look and went about my business.
The accursed half inch fell and I began driving to work. I took a little side street that wasn't more than a few hundred feet but it wound back and forth and sharply down, like a sidewinder descending a sand dune. It had no railings or shoulder. Upon easing into the first turn, I realized I basically had no traction and I was now in control of a 3000 lbs toboggan. Through some combination of reflexive animal instinct and pure luck, I made it to the bottom of that street with all 4 of my tires still on the road, hyperventilating and wide-eyed.
By the next snowfall I was right along with the rest of the populace, burning candles in vigil, asking God to spare us shortsighted sinners.
An inch of snow in WI makes your yard look pretty. An inch of snow in Seattle will PUT YOU IN THE FUCKING GROUND.
And yes, one time I did get stuck in the white out. That one hour (to get less than one mile to the next exit) took about 5 years off my life.