JakeStarkey
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I remember changing the oil or inflating a flat tire outside at Fort Wainwright or Fairbanks at -38 degrees. Only wimps cry about snow.
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your mailman would have been there.....Where I live --- UPS. Four days in a row they claimed to have a package for me; four days in a row they failed to show up. This is all after the roads (and my driveway) had been cleared.
I'm going to drive 50 miles to their distro center tomorrow and pick it up myself since they're incompetent. That is --- if it actually exists. I have an inkling they lost it and can't admit it.
your mailman would have been there.....Where I live --- UPS. Four days in a row they claimed to have a package for me; four days in a row they failed to show up. This is all after the roads (and my driveway) had been cleared.
I'm going to drive 50 miles to their distro center tomorrow and pick it up myself since they're incompetent. That is --- if it actually exists. I have an inkling they lost it and can't admit it.
I remember changing the oil or inflating a flat tire outside at Fort Wainwright or Fairbanks at -38 degrees. Only wimps cry about snow.
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You can add Maine and upstate New York to the Midwest column. Did you notice, Jake, that in DC it took 4 days for the plows to clear all the streets, though, after the big storm? They've either got too many streets or not enough plows, maybe both. That DOES have an effect on preparations. When I lived in Connecticut, a snow flurry heralded every damned soul with bald tires to get on the highway and have a fender bender. Within instants. The commute would get absolutely stupid. Once I spent so long in gridlock trying to leave work during a snow storm that my battery almost died. I can drive in snow, but sometimes traffic is a whole 'nother matter.I remember changing the oil or inflating a flat tire outside at Fort Wainwright or Fairbanks at -38 degrees. Only wimps cry about snow.
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I remember changing the oil or inflating a flat tire outside at Fort Wainwright or Fairbanks at -38 degrees. Only wimps cry about snow.
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Alaska ain't in the East. Or the South for that matter.I remember changing the oil or inflating a flat tire outside at Fort Wainwright or Fairbanks at -38 degrees. Only wimps cry about snow.
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Yeah -- this USED to be true. But there were reasons why the South is shuttered up for a couple inches of frozen precipt.. Atlanta didn't have winterized response. And the DRIVERS had ZERO snow skills. And more people got hurt or inconvenienced.
But LATELY -- I hear more whining from the NEast for snowfalls that USED to be routine up there..
I've lived in BOTH places. And folks in the East got spoiled for a number of years by relative lack of snowfall.
I remember walking to grade school in upstate NY and not seeing a SINGLE HOUSE between home and school.
But here's the deal.. I'll take 4 standing feet of snow over a 1" ICE STORM. And winter in the South is more about 1" ice storms with a dusting of snow -- rather than the other way around. You ain't seen fear of winter until you need an ICE PICK and spiked toe boots to make it to the mailbox down a mild slope..
That 'winter transition area" is more brutal than you Easters appreciate. You aint lived until you here massive tree limbs all cracking around you in the same 10 minutes.