Snowflakes, one and all.
We here in the Midwest survived our bigly snow storm in awhile, this too shall pass.
The Federal government is shut down due to the ignorance and stupidity of the administration.
That it snowed in DC over the weekend is a mere inconvenience.
The snow will be removed and gone by tomorrow. The Federal government will still be shut down due to the ignorance and stupidity of the administration.
Big difference. It should be highlighted relentlessly all day.
At least federal employees working without pay will get a day off, without pay, but at least it’s a day off.
Having lived in the Midwest as well as the East Coast, I note that the Midwest is flat and the roads are straight lines. A Chicago native friend moved to DC a few years ago and during the first snowfall, skidded down a hill and around a curve and totaled his car. Cities above DC have the equipment and budget to clean up. DC and south, not so much.
I don’t know where in the Midwest you lived but we have hills in St, Louis, I in fact live in a valley in West County.
There were people stuck on highway 44 for hours because the semi trucks stalled and got stuck.
I finally ventured out yesterday to check on my Mom at her nursing home, and make a quick stop at the grocery store.
So last Monday it was 68° and by Friday when the snow started it was 32°. We ended up with about a foot of heavy wet snow.
So noted. I lived in Chicago and Toledo, and spent time at Ft. Sill, Ft. McCoy (WI), and Ft. Riley (KS). They were all pretty damn flat places. I am glad you got out and home safely.
I can’t figure out if people don’t know how to drive in snow because of all the electronic assists there are in cars today, but nothing beats learning how to drive in snow in a VW Super Beetle circa 1972.
That’ll teach ya for sure! I grew up in Philly and we had studs or chains until they were banned because they tore up the roads. Plus, they used to spread cinder on the main roads.
God I hated the cinders. I went to college at MIZZOU and they used to spread cinders on the road without plowing. I wear contacts, and in the Spring all those cinders would create a hazard to one’s eyes.
And you just know it probably still starts.
the federal government was shutdown Monday due to winter weather in Washington, D.C.
How can you tell?
You’ve never lived in DC, have you?
The city has some of the worst traffic in the country- and things go from bad to worse very easily. And with 7+ inches of heavy wet snow in some locations, giving the city more time to clear the roads make sense.
Heck, when I lived there in the mid-90s the Metro was roundly criticized once because they didn’t have a deicing system on their tracks - so they had to close all of their above-ground routes after an ice storm.
…also, I believe OPM makes the call for the entire Washington DC metro area - and after going unpaid for three weeks with no end in sight, they probably decided “F - it, we’re closed”.
God I loved that car. My father bought my sister and I our first car, '68 VW Bug, which he found while living in OK. Apparently '68 Bugs from OK can’t handle snow, it died after a year. Now a St. Louis '72 Bug was a champ.
Studs were banned? I am glad they are legal here, I would get no where without them!
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I went to college in Toledo. But that was quite a while ago.
When visiting Fort Sill, did you ever eat at Meers? The ghost town/steak house located northwest of Lawton?
but nothing beats learning how to drive in snow in a VW Super Beetle circa 1972.And you just know it probably still starts.
I remember when studs were banned in Ohio and my Dad hung up his last set of studded snow tires on the back wall in our garage.
Today’s all-weather tires get the job done, but when studs were banned the alternatives weren’t nearly as good.
I don’t remember Meers. I was actually born in Lawton. My dad was stationed at Fort Sill at the time. So, I have an OK birth certificate! I was stationed there as well, in the very early 1970s.