It’s always a bit stupid when people compare weather like this.
They basically go “I live in the high Arctic and frequently enjoy temperatures of -40°C”, so all those people complaining about snow in Hawaii are overreacting.
It’s like they don’t listen to the thing they’re saying.
> GTA levels of destruction
> No one in the photo is carrying a rocket launcher or chainsaw
We just got 2.5 feet here in Boston, and I was able to buy beer by 3pm
No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.
I love that you provided an actual and substantive answer, thank you!
The one thing they left out was school buses. Schools did let out early, but too late, so the traffic from the buses and parents melted the first layer of snow, with no plowing or salting. So it refroze into sheets of ice before people left work.
Source: Me in traffic for 12 hours.
Note: I now live in a place so cold that this week I hiked in -6F and had ice cream outside at 13F. 😃
Well if they tried to buy snow tires they would be expired before the next measurable snowfall
