“How deep is the snow? 1/4 inch?”
I’ve long noted that the East Coast comes to a standstill when the snow exceeds six inches or more. At twelve inches they call out the National Guard.
One thing I will say for California is we can get six feet of snow along I-80 and most of the time the roads stay open. You put chains on your car and off you go.
The further south you go, the less able to handle snow they get. I remember Atlanta and Savannah getting shut down over what a former Buffalonian such as myself would call a light frost.
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Once, in the Siskiyou I-5 pass, we had to stop for a jackknifed truck. Had chains on the VW, and no trouble getting going again.
Not so for a guy in another VW, who could not get it through his head why I couldn't let him use ONE of my chains, and we both go!
Trying to explain to him how a non-locking differential works was like trying to teach differential equations to a monkey. LOL
Amen. There’s little I can say for my home state, but I will note that I-80 over the Sierra got in the range of 18 FEET of snow in 10 days or so ending last week, and the freeway was only shut down for less than 48 hours. And the terrain over Donner Summit is a bit more challenging than the rolling countryside of suburban DC
One thing I will say for California is we can get six feet of snow along I-80 and most of the time the roads stay open. You put chains on your car and off you go.
Yet they get half an inch of rain in LA and nobody knows how to drive!