[TriLUG] OFF-TOPIC - Snow "Storm"?

[Byarlay, Wayne A.]

Oh. Well, I stand corrected. It certainly would suck to be stuck at work
overnight because of the weather. The hills! Forget about it. Granted,
we have no hills.

The Yahoo article mentioned some finger-pointing at the Meteorologists,
saying they should have predicted it better. I say, give 'em a break...
They're trying to 1. Predict the future, and 2. organize a most chaotic
data system.

I drop into 4WDL just for the fun of it whenever possible :)

WAB

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Merrill
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:02 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OFF-TOPIC - Snow "Storm"?

Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> We midwesterners can't help but shake our heads whenever we hear about

> an inch of snow gridlocking an entire city. :) Glad nobody was hurt.

I'm a midwesterner...and this would have gridlocked your city, too.
I grew up driving in Chicago and Indianapolis winters (7 yrs).
Then spent the next 7 years in Cleveland winters.  I've never seen such
slippery streets happen so quickly.  Within an hour of the first flake,
it was pretty bad.  It's the first time I've ever dropped into 4wd-low
for snow/ice.

It was just the right combination of low street temps, ever-so-slightly
wet snow and timing.  The people hit the streets to get home early at
the same time the salt trucks did...so the trucks were stuck along with
everybody else.  And the fact that the streets are very hilly here
doesn't help - unlike many midwest cities (at least, most of the ones I
lived in).

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