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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
Doesn't "getting shut in for a day or two" mean the same thing as "shuts the state down for days" ? Sounds the same to me  |
Nope, up here, those who know they can't drive in the snow just signal defeat and stay home. Schools close because they know some kids will get frostbite, and it's not worth the risk of a bus accident. But everybody else just keeps plodding along. We (northerners) usually keep enough snow plows on hand to handle all but the worst of storms. Usually roads are passable during the storms, and fully cleared within 12-18 hours.
Short of massive power failures do to storms, I can't remember a blizzard stopping me from going anywhere, or shutting down the city.
It's just not economical for southern states to keep a fleet of plows available. Here, we have plows that tow other unmanned plows, in the other lane.
Where I went to school in up up up state New York, they had old halftracks converted to plows for some of the back roads.