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shmokes:

--- Quote from: JONTHEBOMB on March 01, 2007, 06:06:12 pm ---
. . . Roads, schools, everything seems to be closing.  By the end of this storm we may have as much as two feet. 


--- End quote ---

Unlike the rest of the civilized world, Utah does not have snow days.  Between Christmas and February I don't think there was ever a single day that there wasn't at least two feet of snow on the ground, and it all started with a single storm that dumped just shy of two feet in a four-hour period.  We just don't close ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- down for snow.  Period.  Frizzle can probably relate, but it seems like Utah's worse.  My wife's from Idaho and she says she had snow days periodically growing up.

ChadTower:

MA is like that too.  They only cancel school if we've had a foot or more in the last 12 or so hours and the plows aren't keeping up.  It happens once or twice a year and hasn't happened at all this year.

You should try QC... man, nuclear winter wouldn't have cancelled school up there.

In TX they shut down half the state for an inch of snow that doesn't even stick around.

Buddabing:
It's better than that, Chad, we had a snow day this year for -no- snow. They were worried that ice -might- build up.

It worked out well for me because the kids had to make up the day on President's Day when I had the day off.

FrizzleFried:
Welp...actually...I can't relate.  I am a California boy...born and raised...until last March.  This is my first winter here in the snow.  It's not so bad.  Actually,  here in the "Treasure Valley",  the snow is more than manageable...hell,  I only had to shovel the driveway once this year (which I hear is NOT normal).

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 02, 2007, 09:24:14 am ---
MA is like that too.  They only cancel school if we've had a foot or more in the last 12 or so hours and the plows aren't keeping up.  It happens once or twice a year and hasn't happened at all this year.

You should try QC... man, nuclear winter wouldn't have cancelled school up there.

In TX they shut down half the state for an inch of snow that doesn't even stick around.

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What's funny is you understand, but you don't understand, man.  Utah would never cancel for "only" a foot of snow.  Like I say, we got almost two feet from a single storm in December that lasted less than six hours total.  Nothing was canceled.  It was so much that when I pulled into my parking lot (I was driving home from Christmas in Idaho) I just went in as fast as I could and drove as far as I could until the car wouldn't drive any more.  I then had to push the door open past the snow because it was higher than the bottom of the car.  Utah just doesn't have snow days, and we get a lot of snow.  The motto on our license plates is "Greatest Snow On Earth".

It's hilarious.  I see news stories about places like where Buddabing lives (Texas?) in a state-wide panic over an inch of snow and I just have to laugh.  I mean, I know that we have plows and stuff in place to take care of it, but it just seems hilarious that a state could be crippled by that much snow (or just the threat of snow  :) )

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