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Having grown up in Virginia, traveled(?) to the South Pole, and lived a winter in SLC, I think I deserve a little warm weather in my old age. I agree with "Homebrewed" in dealing with snowflakes and people that don't know how to drive. I recall from my childhood when a neighbor had built a snow blower on a "deuce and a half" that wasn't able to clear the highway over the Blue Ridge from Charlottesville. (US 250) I also remember a few years back when the state of Pennsylvania had a sign at the state line saying "Closed for the Winter". And of course, the "Blizzard of '93" when Birmingham got 18" (M/L) and shut down the city for almost a week.Here in the Portland (Oregon) area, we rarely get snow. Therefore all it takes is one snow flake to be seen in the metro area and traffic seizes up because everyone freaks out.
I've done a lot of snow skiing so I know how to drive in the stuff, but when 99.9% of the drivers around you have been reduced to idiocy by sighting that one flake, it's best to hide out until the mayhem has died down some. And that may happen soon....a lobe of that super-cold air is coming our way.
It's called "weather", folks. Some years are warm and some are cold. Some years it rains and some years it snows. The best solution in the deep south to snow is, when I can, just hunker down at home and let the 1D-10Ts kill themselves off. 4 wheel drive doesn't mean squat on ice. 65 MPH on snow is just asking for trouble. That's why I drive a 1 ton dualie dump truck. Run into me and you won't walk away.
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