Posted on 01/07/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
mockery by nearly every Ohioan over the age of forty began on Facebook:
Well I see all the public schools in my area have already WIMPED OUT and cancelled school for the next two days because of . . . snow and ice and cold temperatures. Heavens. I guess the poor little dumplings can’t take it. Is everyone going to cancel work too because it’s so cold?
I can’t believe they cancelled already when the temps are still ok and not one flake has fallen. Hello Wussy USA!!!
My wife rode the bus from the time she and her sisters were in elementary school. If there were one or two foot snow drifts. . .if they could get the buses out of the barns. . .they went to school. Parents can walk or drive their kids. We are turning our kids into wimps nowadays.
I delivered newspapers when in snowstorms many times. I think the real problem is that parents want their kids to be protected every minute from the time they leave home. They probably have a greater chance of getting shot in school than getting frostbite but that is another issue.
I’m only 20. But even I know things have happened a lot worse than what we have now. It’s sad to see that we’ve come so far just to be so annoyingly weak.
NOAA reported:
blizzard caused the most complete disruption of transportation ever known to Ohio. Maj. Gen. James C. Clem of the Ohio National Guard reported the immobilization of Ohio was comparable to the results of a statewide nuclear attack. Prolonged blizzard conditions created enormous snowdrifts that stopped highway and rail transportation and isolated thousands of person. Air travel was stopped for two to three days by low visibility and deep snowdrifts on runways.
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Hell, he probably was a Weatherman, a member of the Weather Underground.
Communist bastards.
Thanks, I had forgotten about Doctorow. I read “Ragtime” back in the day, but not the one you mention.
He was one of the “craft” writers - I will look for “Loon Lake” and give it a try.
Well if you stand outside with no clothes on, you bet it’s going to “real-feel” 20 below :)
“Defensive Driving” - looking out for the other knuckleheads. Reminds me of George Carlin - anyone driving slow ahead of you is a moron, but anyone who passes you is a maniac. :)
I was in college in 63. It was -10 at Wittenberg and we still had classes. Went home after finals on a train to Akron where the temp was 26 below and 2 feet of snow. The newspaper said to keep the front page and show it to your kids the next time they complain.
Oddly I mostly see maniac’s, well in Minnesota any way. Saner in South Dakota.
-20 tonight in Mpls./St. Paul, and that’s an improvement!
I remember it being about that when I was in college in South Dakota in the 80’s. Classes were never cancelled.
My son’s H.S. classes were cancelled for the last 2 days in MN. We did get to -30 below though. The school bus’s probably wouldn’t have been much use with diesel fuel.
Yeah, I’d say people are wimps. I can remember when I was a kid (and I wonder if it wasn’t the blizzard of ‘78) where dad opened the door and the snow was piled right up to the top. He just laughed and climbed up into it and shoveled it all out.... he had to milk the cows after all.
This is NOTHING right now. Cold, yes, I hate it, but it’s nothing, really.
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As, a native South Dakotan, I thank you.
probably a mix of both.
Yeah.
They go together.
Lake Shore DR in Chicago looked like that just 2-3 years ago.
Wasn't that like a hurricane with snow?
It should be noted that there were two different storms in 1978 that are being discussed. The Great Lakes blizzard took place on Jan 26, 1978, while the east coast blizzard happened two weeks later around Feb 6-7, 1978. They were both very severe storms in the regions affected but there was no overlap of blizzard conditions. By the time the second storm was done, about half of the U.S. population east of the Mississippi had experienced one or the other. They were both considerably worse than the two recent storms which happened to occur in the reverse order and within four days of each other. The only place that is probably doing worse this year is Buffalo NY but they had a much worse blizzard in 1977.
The wind didn’t stop blowing here until today. There is literally no place for the kids to even walk right now but in the street and that is literally a sheet of ice.
The ambient air is never really the problem. That 40-50 mph wind gets under your clothes and just numbs and burns you up. We had 3 cardiac deaths plowing and 1 exposure death so far. There have also been several fires.
Here are some winter storms:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2045627_2045629_2045672,00.html#
My most vivid memory of it had little to do with the snow. I had to pick up from the airport a visiting technical expert from Queens University in NY. He described himself as: "I'll be the only one on the airplane that's five feet tall, with a full black beard wearing a coon skin coat and a black yarmulke." So I borrowed a four wheel drive truck, and went to the airport to pick him up. I waited at the gate (no TSA then), and ran up to him when I saw him. The person I ran up to was startled, and had no clue who I was.
It turns out there were TWO people on the airplane that were "five feet tall, with a full black beard wearing a coon skin coat and a black yarmulke."
That's only for normal snow. For really deep snow, they bring in the military truck mounted snow blowers. I have a picture of a street sign just poking out above the snow. They had to bring in the blowers for that one. The rest of the time, they just load the snow into trucks, and dump it on the lake. Notice, I said ON the lake, not IN the lake. The lake sometimes doesn't melt until well into May.
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