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frazzled

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2. I lived in Buffalo and in Minneapolis

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 06:58 PM

Dec 2013

(the former in the late 70s and early 80s, the latter from 1985-99), so I know from snow. And from snow plows. Both cities do a very good job, or at least did.

My nephew lives in Saint Paul (moved from SoCal 6 or 7 years ago), and was complaining about the icy streets there recently--and how people were saying the streets were clear in Minneapolis. I laughed, because that was always the hue and cry back when we lived there: you'd think Saint Paul would have learned after all this time, and with all the snow and cold they get.

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Snowmegedon does exist: [View all] hedgehog Dec 2013 OP

We did indeed build the infrastructure to handle it, but democrank Dec 2013 #1

Well, if we didn't have fortitude, we wouldn't still be living here hedgehog Dec 2013 #3

I resemble that remark! Demeter Dec 2013 #12

I lived in Buffalo and in Minneapolis frazzled Dec 2013 #2

I live in the midst of the Manistee National Forest (MI) longship Dec 2013 #4

This quote makes me think of Hurricane Sandy lightcameron Dec 2013 #5

Exactly! It's possible to survive storms with minimal hedgehog Dec 2013 #7

All of that, plus self-education and making sure you're prepared. lightcameron Dec 2013 #9

Not so much a CAT1, in Maine we get blizzards and nor'easters that rival CAT1 every year. 4bucksagallon Dec 2013 #15

More here: hedgehog Dec 2013 #6

Everyone in Seattle is convinced that no one knows how to drive in snow but themselves cemaphonic Dec 2013 #8

I think I've spotted the problem: hedgehog Dec 2013 #10

I spent a few months in Seattle in the fall of 2010. former9thward Dec 2013 #11

Coastal New England isn't flat. NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #14

Wait an entire fleet of snow plows? NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #13

In Chicago they sometimes make use of garbage trucks Cadfael Dec 2013 #17

When you average well over 100" of snow during the winter, it is mandatory to have madinmaryland Dec 2013 #16

Looking at what happens in areas with no snow removal hedgehog Dec 2013 #20

I'll bet you get charged high taxes for all that heavy equipment. AuntFester Dec 2013 #18

FWIW - my property taxes to the town and county for services including snow removal hedgehog Dec 2013 #19

I was funnin' ya, hedgehog. AuntFester Dec 2013 #24

! hedgehog Dec 2013 #34

That's part of it. LWolf Dec 2013 #21

But in an area that only gets a hurricane "every few years", hedgehog Dec 2013 #22

A hurricane is not in the same category LWolf Dec 2013 #25

Yesterday morning I would have said that we in the north are better than most in the snow matt819 Dec 2013 #23

It existed here in the desert southwest a few years ago Warpy Dec 2013 #26

I lived in Rochester during college wilt the stilt Dec 2013 #27

"the truth about snow is you can't step on the brakes and you can't step on the gas" hedgehog Dec 2013 #28

coasting is the way to go and you can never really come to a complete stop. wilt the stilt Dec 2013 #30

Thats the way it is in my town... Historic NY Dec 2013 #29

A "snow plow'? When did they invent those? SheilaT Dec 2013 #31

I think Albany is an outlier - close enough to NYC hedgehog Dec 2013 #32

Interesting. SheilaT Dec 2013 #33