(10-09-2016, 05:11 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:(10-08-2016, 09:38 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:To be fair, in the south (including Washington DC), heavy snow is rare enough that local governments don't invest in the type of snow removal equipment that New Englanders have. Plus, when we do have snow, since our winter temperature so often hovers around the freezing mark, you get a cycle of melt than freeze that can make even a trivial snowfall amount highly treacherous. I experienced that last January, driving back from Southern Maryland to Arlington, VA. It was not the big 2 foot blizzard we had later that month; this was no more than an inch or two, but very very slippery and treacherous, especially on untreated roads.(10-08-2016, 09:12 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(10-08-2016, 06:39 PM)Odin Wrote: Given how Southerners seem to think it's the end of the world when they get an inch of snow they probably wouldn't survive a winter over there!
http://www.newson6.com/story/16631438/re...zzard-2011
Huh? We have it all, man. Heat waves, blizzards, earthquakes, and tornadoes.
You may have it all, but I'm dubious about southerners handling it all. I was in the Washington DC area when it was hit with a whopping 1/2 inch of snow. The locals could so obviously not handle it that I prudently decided to drive straight to my apartment rather than to stop at a restaurant on the way home. Walking seemed safer than driving. My apartment was immediately adjacent to a shopping mall which contained my destination eating place. Walking back after my meal I passed four accidents in about a quarter mile...
OK. So I'm a New Englander. I don't have experience with earthquakes. So sue me...
The ignorance about ice cycling above/below the freezing mark comes from the same place as those wondering how a mere 95 degrees can be anything but nothing when Arizona is generally in the 100s and people play tennis (i.e., they've never truly experienced 100% humidity). For those with experience, a true ice storm or snow cycling is not measured by number of car accidents but by the number of broken wrists among those too inexperience to know you don't ever try to walk, or even stand, on that shXt.
It's also kind of funny people comparing lily White relatively underpopulated areas to one of the most diverse urban areas in America that includes a lot of people that have never seen a snowflake but can sure sign up as Uber drivers and the like. One may consider themselves as the best icy road driver ever but that's small comfort when a big SUV is sliding into you from oncoming traffic.
You DCer's just need to get a decent subway system.
