No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.
Is history about to repeat itself?
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jqubed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love that you provided an actual and substantive answer, thank you!
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one thing they left out was school buses. Schools did let out early, but too late, so the traffic from the buses and parents melted the first layer of snow, with no plowing or salting. So it refroze into sheets of ice before people left work.
Source: Me in traffic for 12 hours.
Note: I now live in a place so cold that this week I hiked in -6F and had ice cream outside at 13F. 😃
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.
The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s super cool how the Republicans have stopped sharing weather satellite data with weather forecasters and cut the budget for sending up weather balloons. They really govern for the people, ya know?
Burninator05@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Late last week I advised my younger coworkers that if we got freezing rain as predicted they needed to just stay home and that they would likely be stuck there for a couple of days. No one here knows how to drive on ice but think their lifted 4x4 truck with bald all weather tires will give them the edge they need. The cities, parishes, and state don’t have the resources to deal with it either.
One of them (from Alaska) decided to take a 2.5 hour trip to buy a jetski after work on Friday. They’re almost home after leaving Saturday morning to get home.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
It’s half cause people aren’t used to it, and half cause there’s no infrastructure to keep the roads clear.
Soulg@ani.social 9 hours ago
The infrastructure is huge. I drive for Uber during the big ice storm in Texas several years ago around the airports, and every northerner I had in my car commented on how the roads seemed substantially more dangerous than they ever felt in their home states, because of the inadequate plows or salt trucks.
echodot@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
It’s always a bit stupid when people compare weather like this.
They basically go “I live in the high Arctic and frequently enjoy temperatures of -40°C”, so all those people complaining about snow in Hawaii are overreacting.
It’s like they don’t listen to the thing they’re saying.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
/> GTA levels of destruction
/> No one in the photo is carrying a rocket launcher or chainsaw
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
And no dead prostitutes from what I see
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well if they tried to buy snow tires they would be expired before the next measurable snowfall
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
That and municipalities that don’t deal with the shit regularly don’t have annual budgetary expenses carved out to prepare to keep the roads manageable for the once or twice a decade event. I’ve always lived in places where heavy fall and freezing temperatures are expected and yeah, everything is structured around that reality and everyone has more experience with it. I don’t judge a fish for its inability to fly, I’ve always kind of rolled my eyes at people that try to act and mighty because them and their local municipalities are better prepared to deal with recurrent weather patterns than folks that only have to deal with it in rare circumstances.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
I will judge people who go drive in the snow and don’t even take a few minutes to do donuts in a parking lot to figure how the car behaves.
echodot@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
That’s the problem in the UK, it only really heavily snows one year in five so it isn’t profitable or economical to really invest in things like snow tires and snow ploughs, so whenever there is significant snow it does kind of cause everything to grind or halt. The alternative is to buy a bunch of snow equipment that needs constant maintenance throughout a winter where it doesn’t get below 3°C, and nothing more exciting than a lot of rain happens.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 day ago
BigMilk13@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
We just got 2.5 feet here in Boston, and I was able to buy beer by 3pm
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Isn’t cold weather infrastructure wonderful!
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 day ago
We had about that much snow today, and there are two things I realized. First, I really need to take better care of my shoes. And second, walking up the hill when it’s slippery is fucking exhausting. Traffic was normal.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Yak Trax are your friend. Don’t tell ICE.
moistclump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Greater Toronto Area levels of destruction. Still fits, actually.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No army.
ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My guy is definitely on the phone with Lester tryna clear shit up
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
ted cruz fled as soon as a frost was coming.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
[deleted]13igTyme@piefed.social 1 day ago
Holy shit, you weren’t kidding.
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey, I’m the real Fediverse Chick. I don’t scam anyone, I just shitpost.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
here’s Florida, had to wear a coat today.
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