The problem with the first snow . . .

[jhetley]

Wife dreads the first drive on snowy roads.  Not the roads, not the snow, but the idiots that have forgotten what combining roads and snow actually means . . .

SLOW DOWN, YOU IDIOTS!!!!

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[98.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Pasadena, CA the annual rainfall never added up to anything impressive but we would get nearly all of it in one week in February. Each year a lot of drivers had to relearn that braking does not work so well in even shallow water. Then the survivors had the rest of the year without practice to forget again.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, Maine and Michigan offer the advantage that you get to apply your newly-relearned skills for several months at a time.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

And here in Michigan it has been snowing and snowing and snowing. Not horrendous amounts but the Lake Effect Snow Machine is cranked up and going for consistent. We will get lots of practice it seems this year.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We've been noticing that continuous snow on the weather radar. Since my family came from Traverse City, it catches our eyes.

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what we've got here in Cleveland.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

That's what you get for living somewhere that only gets snow once every few years... oh, wait a minute...

I will note that, although I witnessed that sort of behavior in and around Boston, when I moved down here to the tropics of northeast PA, I noticed it was worse.

That doesn't help you, but it just damns everyone in an inverse proportion to the amount of average annual snowfall... =)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Oh, I lived for a while in Atlanta. This amount of snow (2" total, approx.) would have caused widespread panic there. You'd think they had a glacier dropped in their laps . . .

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I'd expect their tolerance has lowered since then. Around here, where we've had an average maximum snow depth of over 10" for the last four years (and an annual average ~ flattened out by the other seasons ~ of just under an inch) you still have the newsfolks jumping up and down when there's a WHOLE INCH OMG THE SKY IS FALLING PANIC PANIC forecasted.

Of course, those are the days the plow doesn't even go on the truck, because it tends to be sunny with clear skies.

Today I woke up to the first snow on the ground (in my yard ~ other side of the mountain got slammed a week or so ago). Just a dusting, though... I expect there's panic out in the streets. =)