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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
Posts: 10,634
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Same in the Seattle area. 1/2" shuts everything down.
To be (a little) fair, there are differences between Northwest snow and Mid-west snow (I'm originally from Minnesota)
- Northwest snow has a high moisture content, so it's mostly slimy slush. Much harder do drive than the cold, dry Midwest snow
-Nobody here knows how to drive in snow. They either carry on as normal, right into the ditch, or white-knuckle it at two miles an hour so everybody behind backs up into huge traffic jams.
-No level ground. You are either going uphill, or downhill. On slimy slush.
-No snow removal equipment. Sure, there are a couple plows, and a couple sanding trucks, that run 24 hours a day, but not near enough equipment to keep up.
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