“I’ve lived through winters in three states and people in western Washington are the biggest babies by far.”
I’m guessing you have never lived anywhere that the snow impact to the roads and transportation is as bad at western Washington.
There is no flat ground, only a few plows and the wet snow quickly gets crushed down to a sheet of ice.
I’m stuck working a grocery store (QFC) here in Redmond Washington. Store shelves cleared of dairy, vegatables, meat and bakery. Busy as hell with the rudest, foulest customers being Indian families stealing jobs from true-blue Americans as myself. They truly look down on Americans. Only jobs Americans can get in Redmond are low-paid service jobs while Indians dominate the IT and other sectors here. 25 years of experience in IT and programmkng and I’m stocking shelves.
Let me add my 2 cents.
I am now a Seattlite.
But I come from the Midwest.
When I lived in Indiana, I couldn't care less if it snowed.
I had my trusty brush/scraper combo.
I'd go to work for 12 hours, come out and there'd be 8 inches of snow on my car.
Brush it off while waiting for the car to warm up and drive home in 10 minutes.
You can do that when the ground is flat as a pancake, and people are used to snow.
However, Seattle is very hilly in several places, and people just don't KNOW what to do.
I've found myself enraged when people are trying to go anywhere in their little 2 wheel drive sedans when they don't *have* to.
They block traffic and spin out because they don't know about "stopping distance".
One of the worst examples was where some cretin stopped in the middle of the road to chain up his Prius.
Blocked roughly a mile of traffic.
He COULD have pulled into a parking lot to do that, but NOOOO.
He couldn't even figure out out how to apply the chains.
I have to say: GRRRRR!
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