Let it Snow, let it snow

Norfolk closed for 4 days. I was driving around in my little Mazda rear wheel drive truck in parking lots doing donuts and such having a ball. Not much they could with no equipment.

 

Didn't say 2in here. About 10 yrs ago I was in Baltimore when they shut down because of less than 3 inches. At 2inches we don't bother to plow most the time.
I live 8 in. is about the most we can handle in 24 hrs.

 

So about all the hype, my sense is that folks are generally unprepared. Iirc, statistically, most folks have less than a weeks food at home, and even less people have food on hand they can eat without cooking past a day or two.

I guess the lesson from the blizzard of '78 sits. Whenever there's word of a storm, we check things out around the 'stead, a good excuse to tidy up, get up to date on laundry, go out provisioning etc. I kinda hope the hype propels folks here to check the storm shelf: most don't.

Sca

 

honestly it didnt look like ODOT handled it well at all yesterday..
never saw pretreatment, roads were well covered by time I saw first truck going down the state route

 

Would rather they didn't brine.

 

agree I'd prefer to see them plowing more and gritting vs salting/brine, I was referring to salting more, I can't say I've seen them brine the state route by me but I suppose they do since they all have those side tanks now.
I just see them dropping salt.
As for the locals around here, some of them can't get to the side streets till a few days later or weeks depending on scale of snow.
Let alone keep the main roads cleared.

 

How much by you?

 

We got about 4", about 4 days ago, I recon it was. The sun came out today and took most of it away, except the shady spots. I have lots of 4 wheel drives, so I can get out and back even in a deep snow, but anymore I really hate to see it snow and hang on, because it causes me too much work and cost me $100 per day in extra hay for the cattle.

So, good by snow, and don't come back.

 

Yup, even southern Ohio, who don't get near as much snow as Northern (especially snow belt areas) can easily handle 2".
Heck, we got 3-4" here and I don't think they even plowed the city streets...just a lil salt...

 

It's snowing in Japan too:

Japan: Snow traps 1,000 drivers in frozen traffic jam

 

3 to 4. It still went south of me, But a foot or 3 really doesn’t change thing here