Need Snow Advice - Yes, Really

[Crow]

I haven't used snow tires for years.

Not having salt at all sounds crazy. It's not like it never snows in Georgia. It did a couple of times when I lived there.

It sounds like folks down there react like the ones up here do when you get a 100 degree day or two. Like the sky is falling.

[Teallaura]

Why? By the time you get in out there there the snow will have melted - except for once a decade when it melts two days later instead.

And I've always been very sympathetic with the North when it gets hot up there - people die from heat up there where we just have fender benders and have to open a few more shelters.

[Nicholas]

Has the snow cleared yet, Teal?

[Teallaura]

Finally - maybe a few spots still hiding under a few trees but it's out of the yard anyhow.

It's supposed to get back down into the twenties later this week - at least I have a better heater now.


:gaah: I hate cold!!!!!





But I love you guys!

[Amazing Rando]

Where do you live that 4 inches of snow was a catastrophe?

I'm a quasi-northerner (from PA) who lived in Virginia for the last two years. It's amazing how just two states away the attitudes to snow are so radically different.

[Jimmy Higgins]

Where do you live that 4 inches of snow was a catastrophe?

I'm a quasi-northerner (from PA) who lived in Virginia for the last two years. It's amazing how just two states away the attitudes to snow are so radically different.

Dude 30 miles from me can easily get a foot of snow while I get a dusting. In fact, it's so easy it happens rather frequently. In fact, last sunday, it was sunny, Painesville got 8 inches.

[Trout]

Dude 30 miles from me can easily get a foot of snow while I get a dusting. In fact, it's so easy it happens rather frequently. In fact, last sunday, it was sunny, Painesville got 8 inches.

I live seven miles and 1000 feet in elevation from town, I can get a foot of snow while the town gets nada. It's weird.

[Teallaura]

Where do you live that 4 inches of snow was a catastrophe?

Did you even read the OP? It was the 'power lines going down, being without heat' part that worried me. I don't deal with the stuff enough to judge the likelihood of the lines icing over under those conditions.

I'm a quasi-northerner (from PA) who lived in Virginia for the last two years. It's amazing how just two states away the attitudes to snow are so radically different.

Come down here during tornado season and let's see how well you deal with your first warning.

Seriously, where you live determines what you're used to dealing with. I rarely get frightened of tornadoes (unless they are really close) because I know what to do. When I lived in New Mexico they had a warning in Albuquerque - something they almost never do. In the thirty minutes the warning lasted I got three different phone calls from people who didn't know what to do and wanted my advice. I thought it funny since I had to get out of the tub (the safest place in my apartment) each time and had the tornado touched down I'd have been the one killed but I never thought their fear was funny - it's not. Flash floods they could handle; tornadoes, not so much.

[Crow]

I love tornado season! I get in the car and go looking for them! Other people run inside when the warning sirens go off. I'm like "yippie" and running outside to look for them.

Seriously, it seems that most people are prepared for the average weather of their particular climate, but when something from the extreme range comes along they panic. And folks who live there can expect it to snow in Georgia occasionally, just as people here in Ohio can expect to have the occasional 100 degree day or two.

I gear what I prepare to deal with to the extreme range of weather. It means that I'm rarely called on to use the full capacity of my AC or furnace, and that it takes a while to use up that woodpile out back for our woodstove--I'm burning wood from 3 years ago right now because we're having one of those occasional single digit days. And I've stocked more salt than I'll use this year. And I'm likely not going to have to trek out to the garage for the kerosene and the heater either. But it's there if I need it, like the 4 eight gallons cans of water tucked in the back of a closet.

Being ready to handle stuff that is unusual but not unheard of doesn't suck.

[Jimmy Higgins]

I live seven miles and 1000 feet in elevation from town, I can get a foot of snow while the town gets nada. It's weird.

Well, in Ohio, it's a snow belt (lake effect) thing, not an elevation thing.

[Jimmy Higgins]

I love tornado season! I get in the car and go looking for them! Other people run inside when the warning sirens go off. I'm like "yippie" and running outside to look for them.

I'd like to do that, but don't have any of the equipment necessary to do it responsibly, and I'd need to head west or south. My area is typically free of tornadoes. Last one struck about 5 years ago.

[Crow]

We had one about 2 miles from here last year. It didn't touch down nearby, but it was quite visible.

I don't take equipment unless you count a car and a camera. I just go for the show.

[Teallaura]

I had one jump over our house when I was a girl and one pass within 5 miles of me last fall. And you two are both idiots.

Stormchasers are bigger idiots.

[Pilgrim]

I've been close to 2 twisters. Got safely out of the way each time. The first time was at a summer camp where I was working. Spent some pretty dramatic moments rounding up all of the kids and getting them safely into the right spots.

I now understand more what you mean. We had the first significant snow fall since I've lived here on the Jersey Shore. The whole place shut down at the first flurries before the snow had even begun to accumulate. And by the time there was an inch or two on the ground people were running off the road, there were flipped vehicles on the parkway, more accidents than I have ever seen in such a short period. It's true, when you're not used to that weather even a little bit of it can really throw you.

[Jimmy Higgins]

We had one about 2 miles from here last year. It didn't touch down nearby, but it was quite visible.

I don't take equipment unless you count a car and a camera. I just go for the show.

Isn't that kinda dumb and dangerous, unless you've been doing it so long you are an expert?

I now understand more what you mean. We had the first significant snow fall since I've lived here on the Jersey Shore. The whole place shut down at the first flurries before the snow had even begun to accumulate. And by the time there was an inch or two on the ground people were running off the road, there were flipped vehicles on the parkway, more accidents than I have ever seen in such a short period. It's true, when you're not used to that weather even a little bit of it can really throw you.

New Jersey can't deal with snow, I don't get that. I always thought that NJ would get as much snow as around, but that isn't true. Jersey panics with snow. Much like NY traffic dies when it becomes cloudy outside.