1st snow of the season hits DC region

WTOP ^ | November 15, 2018 | William Vitka

[JimRed]

We’re on the Jersey coast; shouldn’t get much below 35 here.

[SamAdams76]

It still does. Supermarkets get slammed around here everytime snow gets in the forecast. I will never understand it. Even with the worst of the snowstorms, the roads eventually get plowed and life gets back to normal. I remember the big blizzard of 1978 that hit eastern Massachusetts. Three feet of snow. Dukakis called out the National Guard and everything. In that storm, some side roads weren't plowed for a week. But nobody starved and that was a once in a lifetime kind of storm.

This "bread and milk" routine is ridiculous.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Well in central MD not 30 mi from DCwe’ve had snow prior to TG more recently than that. 2x near Halloween...one was right after Sandy in 2012, then the next year I think. It’s not shocking.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It’s not “national news”. It’s a local radio station report.

[hal ogen]

In wdc snow means give government “workers” time off...always with pay. Essentially, it is a free vacation on taxpayers’ backs. What a joke. Corruption reigns on other-peoples’-money.

[wny]

here in WNY, 12 inches of snow is no big deal....

[metmom]

They having some kind of climate change summit?

[Jamestown1630]

Which side of the Fall Line are you on?

Sometimes it makes a difference :-)

[kearnyirish2]

I don’t know if it made the news outside of the NYC metro area, but here in northeastern NJ this storm has been a disaster. Wasn’t much in terms of snow, but roads froze quickly and many people who would normally get home in 30 minutes took four hours to get home. In a state with so many cops pulling in six figures, NONE of them will get out and direct traffic at the bottlenecks; because our government worker caste is so expensive, there isn’t much money for salting/plowing. Many people couldn’t get out of NYC on buses because the buses they’d ride couldn’t get into the city to pick them up; this was an absolute mess. Going forward, many people will just stay home at the slightest hint of snow because of this response - and the trend will continue whereas employers locate where weather isn’t so disruptive.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Well, I guess I’m only just west of it.

[Jamestown1630]

Interesting blog post about weather ‘following’ I95:

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2018/02/15/following-the-fall-line/