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Originally Posted by Associate Chaplain
I will try to be realistic. When I went to school if we were to get over 1 foot there was a strong chance school would be canceled the next day. Now if there is a dusting the possibilities of an early out and/or there will be no school the following day is great. What is so different about this? Well I lived in western PA then and now I live in southeastern Virginia where snow is not an every Winter day possibility and snow removal equipment is not as plentyful.  |
You are right about location being a key player in these things.
I live down in Texas, and around here if it gets cold enough and enough precipitation to generate ice (yes, ice, we rarely ever have snow, but we do get ice), then everything shuts down. The roads freeze up something terrible and there are more car accidents than people can imagine. The roads/ bridges are just not built for cold weather and so they will become sheets of ice. I am sure that the drivers down here don't help matters. I will see them speeding down the road, while I am crawling along at a snails pace, being careful on bridges..... and several minutes later I will pass them as they have spun out and hit another vehicle or the concrete medium.
I just stay as far away from then as possible and pray that they don't spin out while they are speeding past me.