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In reply to the discussion: Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]bobclark86
(1,415 posts)for 1/4 of an inch of snow (she thought it was just as stupid as I do). My city doesn't even bother to send out the plows for less than 2 inches (they're assholes).
Today, I'm riding my bicycle to work. It's -5 with a 20mph headwind. I might bring goggles. Might not.
Seven years ago, my college campus was shut down the night after the Super Bowl (Peyton Manning's last, so I blame him) because we got not seven inches, but seven feet of snow. Over the next two days, we got an extra four feet. I, and all of my friends, survived off of Bud Light, Easy Mac and petit larceny because the dining halls were closed.
Yes, I laugh at the people who can't drive in something I do on a bicycle or in a 4,000-pound rear-wheel-drive sedan with bald tires. I shame public officials who can't look at a weather report and bother to close a school when 3 inches of snow is expected and no way to remove it. I don't laugh at the deaths, even though they come from traffic accidents -- never knew "ice is slippery" was unknown to people who live in areas where, contrary to popular belief, it does freeze -- and people who don't read instruction manuals on space heaters.
My advice? Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. And RTFM.