SCs in the Winter!

[Parrothead]

I want a snow day. or a hurricane day. Georgia has nothing. (record snowfall was 9 inches.)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I like snow, as long as I don't have to drive in it. Doing doughnuts into oncoming traffic is not fun.

I always hope for some snow in time for Christmas. Not a big blizzard mind you, but enough to cover the ground. Christmas without snow is just Easter.

I also find it kind of neat when the snow is falling at night, and it reflects off the streetlights and turns the sky brown or orange.

[XCashier]

The best we get as far as school being affected by weather are the days where we don't play outside for phys ed because it's too hot/smoggy.

My son had those days back in Phoenix, too.

I always hope for some snow in time for Christmas. Not a big blizzard mind you, but enough to cover the ground. Christmas without snow is just Easter.

I'm hoping for that here, as well. It'd be the first white Christmas I've EVER had!

[ArenaBoy]

Starting to get colder and it snowed/rained today and yet people drove like idiots.

[Kogarashi]

Home sweet home, New England. I live in Suburbia north of a major city and the plows always block my driveway with the snow, every time they plow, I have to re-shovel my driveway because they literally lock the cars in with walls of snow. Who feels my pain, here? Anybody?

I sympathize, even if I've never quite experienced that myself. My parents live out in farm country, and when it snows, they just have Grandpa come over periodically with the bulldozer and push the snow to the far end of the driveway (long driveway).

Made for great fort material. The pile would end up being taller than me, and already tightly packed, so all we had to do as kids was carve out a few tunnels and we were set.

[MadMike]

As just a customer in general, people seem to plan for Armageddon when there's announcement of a big snow storm coming. Bread and milk too, it's always bread and milk.

We get that here in central PA as well, even though severe winters are rare. With the exception of a few heavy snowfalls that I can count on one hand, the roads will be clear by the next day. And yet, people see a single snowflake, and fuckin' flip out, and run to the store and buy up all the milk and bread.

When I was 16, I had a snow day and decided to go for a run. At the time I lived near an old bus garage parking lot that was vacant. While out running I saw that the snow in the lot had no footprints on it, an idea came to my head. Using just my footprints I made a huge certain part of the male anatomy in the snow. This thing was big enough that a plane could see it. It was there for 5 days and then it snowed again.

Nice! The closest thing I ever did to that was spell out the word "FUCK."

[protege]

I sympathize, even if I've never quite experienced that myself. My parents live out in farm country, and when it snows, they just have Grandpa come over periodically with the bulldozer and push the snow to the far end of the driveway (long driveway).

Grandma still lives out in farm country, but sadly, had to sell the farm last year But, when she was still there, for years, her neighbor came down with a backhoe, and did the driveway, parking area, and all the sidewalks....not to mention getting my car pulled out when I got stuck in the damn driveway...

[Hemily]

we usually get some snow, then rain making a nice slush, then it all freezes, some cars get stuck in hills, but we usually avoid having big crashes, except for kids in parkinglots thinking they're a rally driver.

i'm NOT looking forward to this winter, i have an old american car... last year, i only had 140hp... this year, it's rebuilt with a bigger V8 and 300hp, i doubt even the Pirelli studded tires will help me any...

so i'll borrow dad's Bronco

Rain however... people drive like they've never seen water, wich is strange in a town where it ALWAYS rains, yesterday, i was stuck behind a car doing between 20 and 30mph, then braking down to maybe 10mph in the tighter corners... not even on snow and ice do they go that slow usually...

[auntiem]

It snows here every year for about three days - our town does not own a single snowplow. So the mayor closes everything but emergency services down for a few days. "Snow days" for adults! The bigger problem here is the ice layer under the snow - you see the new to town drivers every year slam on the brakes to stop which would be funny if they weren't carreening down the hill towards you.
Our biggest problem is "windy season" average of about 60knots and up. It can almost knock me over and I'm no small thang. So nope, we don't stock up on bread or milk - power will be out for sure (ours went out 7 times last year ranging from 12 hrs to 32+) - we stock up on candles and condoms.

[Shengirl]

we stock up on candles and condoms.

Not a bad way to spend a snow day!

[Bella_Vixen]

I want a snow day. or a hurricane day. Georgia has nothing. (record snowfall was 9 inches.)

No. You don't.

[protege]

It snows here every year for about three days - our town does not own a single snowplow. So the mayor closes everything but emergency services down for a few days. "Snow days" for adults! The bigger problem here is the ice layer under the snow - you see the new to town drivers every year slam on the brakes to stop which would be funny if they weren't carreening down the hill towards you.

If only that was done here. So many idiots wouldn't be on the roads. Contrary to popular belief, you do *not* need a truck, or even 4WD to get around Pittsburgh...even *with* the hills. My FWD cars get around here just fine....mainly because I know how to drive in it. Stay in low gears on hills, don't use the brakes if you can help it, don't make any sudden steering corrections, give plenty of room to idiots, etc. Even with that, it's still possible to slide.

What I'm trying to say is, that people put too much into their car's "safety" features. You can still slide with ABS, 4WD, or even the "traction control" on many luxury cars. How do I know this? Well, as I was bringing my grandmother home last winter, I got to see it first hand--I'm coming down the last big hill near Library, PA (right at the county line). The road isn't too bad, but I'm not taking any chances--I'm in 1st gear, doing only about 15mph or so. As I'm coming down, some idiot in a Lexus is trying to come *up* the hill.

Trying? Yep, trying. He's not moving forward at all! All he's doing is spinning his wheels, which is causing the rear end to "step out" in front of me! I literally had to put the car on the shoulder to avoid him.

The worst "close call" I've had, was shortly after I started driving. I'd gone down to my grandmother's for the day, and was on my way home. Since there was a bad accident on the highway, I had to take some of the back roads home. Most of those roads were clear. About a mile or two from the county line, things got interesting. I'm going less than 25mph, when the van's rear end suddenly went out...planting the nose in a hillside. All I heard was "crunch!" I backed the van out, and nothing was damaged--the crunching sound was the front license plate denting Good thing...otherwise I'm sure my parents would have kicked my ass for wrecking their new car!

[Becks]

I have a friend in Wisconsin and he's amazed at 2-hour delays or dismissals we have in our schools when it's snowy or too cold.

Where in WI does he live? Born and raised in the Milwaukee/Waukesha County area, and we had them.

the plows always block my driveway with the snow, every time they plow, I have to re-shovel my driveway because they literally lock the cars in with walls of snow. Who feels my pain, here? Anybody?

I feel your pain. I envy the people across the street during the winter only. Why? They have the only house on the block that doesn't have a driveway.

[auntiem]

If only that was done here. So many idiots wouldn't be on the roads. Contrary to popular belief, you do *not* need a truck, or even 4WD to get around Pittsburgh...even *with* the hills. My FWD cars get around here just fine....mainly because I know how to drive in it. Stay in low gears on hills, don't use the brakes if you can help it, don't make any sudden steering corrections, give plenty of room to idiots, etc. Even with that, it's still possible to slide.

Most of my family lives in Vermont - not one SUV between them. In fact my sis drove a Yugo for the longest time and she worked on the mountain. The bonus with that car was that if it did end up in a ditch two grown men could pull it out and she would be on her way.
I've complained about this here before - but the SUVs on the pass are the worlds scariest - somehow these asshats think that their SUV is impervious - needless to say I have a little chuckle when not 10 min later I see them in the ditch.

[pacman]

Heh... We got PLENTY of snow here. Like 1-2m (3-6 ft?) every winter. And we don't have schools closed. Even if it's -30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit). We have winter tyres on our cars (with tiny spikes in them to increase traction on ice) and STILL idiots don't get it in autumn that they need to be more careful in winter. Last autumn we had an accident where there were about 100 cars involved - and that was because they couldn't grasp the reality. They were driving 100 kmph (60 mph) on wet ice... And there were buses too.

I don't understand what it is in people that they don't believe it really is dangerous driving so fast in winter IF you don't know what to do in case something happens.

This happening in Finland. Of all countries...