Lived there - winter of 85-86 , snowed heavy enough that I-5 was one lane each direction for days.. The AFB had to close the runway for a week - reason: no snow removal equipment.. Why invest in snow removal equipment when most of the time the weather would warm up quickly after snow falls and melt it...
OH SNOW !!!!!!
I'm in Florida. Friday it was in the 80's. Today it's mid 60's. Yesterday T-shirts and shorts. Today I guess some people will put on long pants. My bare feet are cold. I'll have to put on shoes when I go outside. Life is tough, isn't it?
adult beverage
I grew up in Seattle. Non Seattleites do not appreciate that Seattle is built on hills and cold weather is extremely hard to predict here. In the Midwest or Great Lakes, snow means snow. In the Puget Sound, snow means snow or ice and slush on hills and all the right places to make walking or driving risky. When I was a kid we would try to be like mailmen and get to school while our parents would go to work no matter what. Eventually we collectively got tired of fighting the weather and decided it wasn’t worth it.
Sounds like Florida 10 hours before a hurricane’s gonna hit...
[18 bottles of wine
Only stock up on the essentials.]
LOL
Read an old newspaper story about a blizzard where a private pilot air-dropped survival supplies to stranded hunters. No bottled water and energy bars in the 1940s, instead he just dropped the essentials: sandwiches, whiskey, cigarettes, and matches.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nd/williston/KISN/date/2019-2-8
Take a picture of that web page, once they figure out what it says, they might delete it.
[ ‘Combat shopping’: Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm ]
Job 38:22-23 King James Version (KJV)
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Ping lol
Portland stores stripped of kale
“’Combat shopping’: Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm”
Charlotte, NC is famous for that ... because, you know, there are always “shortages” before snow “storms” (anything more than 1/4”)
I haven't heard such desperate times since the siege of Stalingrad.
If you are not already a prepper in some sense of the word, stories like this one should motivate you to become one.
JoMa
They must take the Donner story very seriously!
My Florida relatives tell me the 3 essentials for the hurricane kit are chocolate, toilet paper, and wine. Anything else is optional
I’m retired in Seattle, and I walk to my two neighborhood grocery stores about the same time every day.
On Thursday, unknown to me, the National Weather Service had posted a winter storm warning one hour before I arrived at the first store.
This store is upscale (with frequent GREAT sales) just a short drive from Bill Gates neighborhood.
I could not believe what I was seeing!
It was like the Brad Pitt grocery store scene from “World War Z.”
The shelves were empty.
People were stealing the fireplace wood, which is stacked in the entry way.
People were pushing shopping carts around like a scene from “Fast and Furious.”
The “winter storm” turned out to be exaggerated, but, in fairness, when we get snow before March, it often turns to solid ice, which does paralyze the city because of the hills.
Don't they always have enough food and booze to last a couple days or so? I live in a very snowy place and never ran out of food, even back in the 1977-78 winters.