|
Forum: General Talk
12-23-2009, 06:56 PM
|
| |
I think this is the point that those of us in the DC area are trying to make. For HERE, this amount of snow all at once is an unprecidented and rare event.
I'm originally from Seattle and have lots of friends there still. Last summer they dealt with temperatures that are routine for places like Texas and other southern states. But because they are unprecidented and rare, they were ill-prepared to deal with them.
Personally though, I've enjoyed every minute of this snow, even digging myself out of the snowbank this morning. I kind of hope it happens again :)
|
|
Forum: General Talk
12-23-2009, 11:56 AM
|
| |
Oh there's still tons of snow on the ground. I had dig out today trying to get out of the driveway to go to work (eldest didn't pull forward enough to give me room to get out between the snowwalls and trying to manoever I got stuck in one of the banks). It's not going away soon.
Honestly I hope they're wrong and it's colder than what they say it will be and we get dumped on again. :)
|
|
Forum: General Talk
12-22-2009, 06:19 PM
|
| |
Lol. Main roads are cleared out. My neighborhood still has some really bad spots but was noticably slushier today. I went to the mall for a little shopping and there were piles of snow as high as houses which made navigating through the parking lot something like trying to find one's way through a maze. Without the scent of cheese to guide us :)
It's melting but we're supposed to be in the high teens tonight so it'll be dicey for the morning commute I imagine.
|
|
Forum: General Talk
12-21-2009, 06:54 PM
|
| |
This is residential. It's only 25mph anyway. Most people drive that. Except the resident police officer. He drives 45 :)
And yeah, no complaining here! I got some priceless shots of my kids sledding down the "luge track" they packed into the snow (my lot is practically a ski-hill).
|
|
Forum: General Talk
12-21-2009, 06:38 PM
|
| |
I also think as far as schools and their transportation go, they're a lot more cautious as people will jump to sue for any reason. So they err on the side of caution and shut down.
Most of the plows around here belong to private business, like construction and paving companies, and even private citizens. They're contracted by the county to clear roads when the need exists. I'm sure it's cheaper that way.
We're lucky in that we have a neighbor with a bobcat thingy (larger though). He made short work of our cul-de-sac.
That being said, this is what my street looked like still, two days later:
We have hills too.
|
|
Forum: General Talk
12-21-2009, 05:49 PM
|
| |
The news here in the Washington D.C. area wasn't that it was snowing, it was the quantity of snow all at once. Where I am in Northern Virginia, it snowed for over 24 hours straight and we got probably over 20 inches at my place. For here, that is a HUGE amount all at once. The schools were closed because they couldn't get everything cleared quickly enough. In my area especially there are a lot of places where kids just cannot walk to school (like where I live: Too far, no sidewalks, rural winding two-lane roads through woods). In D.C. the issue was the sidewalks were piled with snow from the snowplows overnight and the kids would have had to walk in the streets.
We're so close to the winter holiday break, they just called the break a bit early. I'm not complaining. This means I get to sleep in too :)
edit: Also, several years ago, they didn't close the schools after a snow, the plows went through, the roads were slick, a bus crashed and a couple kids died. The area is still a bit paranoid even though that was about 15 years or so ago
|
