What's happening?? It's so cold outside!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Some kind of "bomb cyclone" headed your way, Yanks, any precautions you can take? Does this kind of thing shut you in the house?

The further north one travels the more they find folks address these storms without issue. Just another day for most. Some welcome it and enjoy getting shut in for a day or two. I have a friend in NH who every year posts pictures of firewood stacking and putting away his convertible mustang for winter. Just a way of life for them. However, go to GA and snowflake shuts the state down for days on end. I recall BO during his first term(2011) made a joke about closing of federal buildings and schools as a result of 1 inch of snow on the ground in DC. Keeping in mind BO lived in Chicago. He got beat up a bit over it.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

The further north one travels the more they find folks address these storms without issue. Just another day for most. Some welcome it and enjoy getting shut in for a day or two. I have a friend in NH who every year posts pictures of firewood stacking and putting away his convertible mustang for winter. Just a way of life for them. However, go to GA and snowflake shuts the state down for days on end. I recall BO during his first term(2011) made a joke about closing of federal buildings and schools as a result of 1 inch of snow on the ground in DC. Keeping in mind BO lived in Chicago. He got beat up a bit over it.

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

[Gargamel]

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.