Posted on 02/09/2013 1:51:46 PM PST by PA Engineer
FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Lorna Jones decided to brave the blizzard on Friday, venturing onto the Long Island Expressway as the snow began piling up. So did many others here in Suffolk County.
They all came to regret it.
“It’s terrible. It’s cold. I don’t know how long I’m going to be here,” said Ms. Jones, 62, a nurse who stalled near the town of Brookhaven, less than a mile from her destination. “Are there any plans to help us?”
She said she had slept fitfully in her car, with no food or water, and only a bottle of Listerine next to her on the passenger seat.
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Exactly, that’s what we do. And I don’t mean that we just nag the nurses. I usually change the bed, even sweep and mop the room, myself, instead of waiting for them.
What the heck do they think snow is made of?
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Had to get technical didn’t you?
Also, to get the snow she would have had to roll down the window or open the door, find something to put it in(something tells me she would NEVER think to dump the listerine).
Hell, get thirsty enough and fill your shoe.
I agree with that one poster...it is despicable that the Guv ORDERED everyone off the road but just one or two examples of an idiot like this proves his point.
If she is ‘only’ a mile from her destination, walking to it sure beats the hell out of sitting in the car freezing to death.
Oh yes, DON’T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW. Not that there is anything wrong with that if ‘push comes to shove’.
31 inches here in northern New London county (Conn), drifts up to 4 ft on the driveway. My snowblower performed like a champ. 300 feet of driveway mostly clear.
Still have to dig my car out and do some more snowblowing, but that and shoveling the front stoop was enough for me.
How long do they burn after you light them?
I grew up on Long Island and we had similar blizzards like this in the 60’s and 70’s. Were people back then overall less stupid when dealing with them? Apparantly so.
I’m lazy...I just drove thru the twenty inches sitting in my driveway and onto the main drag...good to go.
I was watching a history show about the great Dust Bowl on PBS. Well done, survivors stories, the kids dieing from “dust pnemonia, etc.”.
Anyway, this one guys tells the story of him and a cousin with his dad at their house. A huge dust storm comes in, and his cousin (a girl of 10 years or so) runs to her house 5 blocks away.
By the time the dad notices she is gone the storm is upon them. So he “army crawls” on his belly (to try to stay in the little bit cleaner air to the ground) to the cousin’s house to make sure that she made it. She did.
Then, so his son - alone at home - wouldn’t be worried, he turned around and army crawled the five blocks home!
However - a snowstorm with hard winds and white-out conditions is no place to be. There is a reason why folks in the Midwest had ropes between the house and the outhouse.
I’m sympathetic. Three years ago we got hit with nor’easter that dumped a quick 39”. I have a very large (10,000sq.ft.+) steep sloped driveway. Took me two days, 6 sheer bolts and 4 gallons of gasoline to clear. On top of that I chewed up the honda impellers.
In other words, this lady’s operating system is: It’s my job to be stupid; it’s your job to bail me out.
How many Freepers would have slept overnight in their cars, temps in the 20’s, rather than walk less than a mile home?
The town plow managed to dump half the dirt road in front of my driveway (the road is paved in front of my drive, dirt just south of it). Lots of nasty words coming out of my mouth as the snowblower started throwing egg-sized rocks.
Left that section alone after that, will have to do the shovel bit on it.
Cars are gas-powered heaters. You can survive for quite a while that way, if you use your gas sparingly. That, of course, assumes you are smart enough not to go out in a well publicized blizzard with an almost empty tank.
That sounds just about right.
Ugh, how do these people’s votes count the same as mine?
We lived in Rapid City for a year and that is exactly that got us going on our preps and Bobs 25 years ago. I miss South Dakota.
If I were stupid enough to venture out (which is my kind way of saying "driving 20 miles in a blizzard so I won't get docked a day's pay") as I have done for the past 2 weeks, I take my Kindle. car charger, BOB bag, my still-legal-capacity S&W and, my favorite winter accessories, my Sorel boots!
I have a rule of 3 when it comes to driving to work (20 miles, one way) If all 3 of the school districts I drive thru cancel school before 6 am, I'm staying home. That tells me the snowplow man has said to the police man "Dude, we can't keep up. Tier 1 roads only...maybe". Oh, and I don't keep a sleeping bag in the car, I keep a blanket, sheet and pillow...I take naps on my lunch hour.
Bottom line-if you're freaked out by an oncoming storm, STAY OFF THE ROADS! If you think snow covered roads mean you must drive 30 (and there's good visability) get outta my way! I have 4-wheel drive for a reason. And, lastly, if the roads are ice covered...STAY HOME. Even I draw the line at ice. Ice scoffs at 4-wheel drive (funny, a lot of the big ol pick-em-up trucks in the ditch haven't gotten the memo on that!)
Sorry, got no sympathy for these folks. A mile? she couldn't walk a mile????? (OK< if it was a true Dakota blizzard, then yes, she did the right thing. but somehow, I think she coulda made it home.) Guess living in Michigan gives ya a different perspective (and better driving skills :)
The snow/blizzard was NOT supposed to hit us until late afternoon, 4-5 pm.
As we at work watched it coming down late morning/early afternoon, and checking every weather channel, they kept stating rain....even though we saw blizzard.
I had to FORCE my boss to cancel work today. I told him there was no way in heck I was going out in that crap (he kept trying to downplay the storm).
After a while he came to his senses and said to close up shop, our lives weren't worth it, as soon as the last patient left. By that time, we had about 4-5 inches on the ground (again, wasn't supposed to happen until 4-5 pm).
I had another medical office personnel next to me. She wiped off her car, warmed it up and as I was walking between both our cars (mine an all wheel drive Explorer), she tried to take off and I heard the “wheeling” of her car.
I got the heck out of there in less than 1 second! She got out of her car to kick the snow away from her front tires. I said “let me get out of your way”, in which I did.
This blizzard hit us 4-5 hours prior to what the “experts” claimed it would. We all had a terrible time getting home.
People heading home, who got stuck, blame the bosses. Just like my boss tried to downplay the blizzard (he was in NYC at the time it hit, they had rain, we had blizzard).
Please, don't confuse low info voters with regular people, like me, who was watching ALL weather channels telling me it was raining while I watched my own lying eyes seeing a blizzard.
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