Light Bloggery 2
Must go play in the snow.
Afterthought:
The region is shut down. A foot of snow all at once would shut down any place for a day of digging out, even places that are used to it.
One thing I’ve noticed here is that the television news coverage of the weather is nowhere near as panicky as it was in the Greater Philadelphia-Wilmington Co-Prosperity Sphere. I’ll put it this way:
Here, TV News was saying,
A lot of snow. Stay inside. Stay off the roads. And now some pretty pictures of the snow and some weather maps.
And this is a place where four inches is a Big Deal.
In Philly, it would have been and no doubt is
OMG! OMG! OMG! The End of the World as We Know It, the White Horseman of the Apocalypse, We’re All Going To Drown, Look at the Weather Map of Horrors! Look! A Car in a Ditch! A Tree Fell Down! OMG! OMG! OMG!
Worst damned television news on the East Coast.
December 30, 2010 at 7:45 am
We’re “supposed” to get 6-10″ by tomorrow, finally! CDOT has the plows at the ready & trucks are loaded. But our news people don’t panic. Doesn’t Philly get a pretty good bit of snow?
Most of the “panic” seen in this area is from the citizens who think they’re in the frozen tundra area or somewhere & have to buy out the stores so they can hold out for the duration. Silly people.
December 30, 2010 at 9:42 am
Philly/Wilmington gets the same panic. Somehow it’s comforting to know that it exists elsewhere.
Where I lived, no one was outside of walking distance, maybe a long walk but still walking distance, of a store. The way people would buy up bread and milk when snow was predicted you’d think all the cows had disappeared and wheat had gone extinct.
The first few years I lived up there, we got a lot of snow storms. The accumulation was usually 4-8 inches per storm with the occasional foot or more, but the last few years there were very few snows of significance.
Last winter there was a lot, but I was already pretty much moved south. (I was going back to tie up loose ends, but I could schedule that around the bad weather.) We had one snow of about 4″ in Virginia Beach.