Educate me on snow chains

Ya ll must not be Canadian...

 

Whoever wrote this obviously has never lived in the south. It's much worse.

 

Hell, just hearing the words snow or ice is the end of the world around here.

 

I thought that too.

 

Agreed. But to give the author credit, they described the typical southerner's reaction to snow being as bad as they could imagine. But their actual response to snow is beyond the imagination of anyone from snow country.

It


Is


truly



pathetic.


I can't believe the south gave the north a run for their money during the Civil War. Maybe they were just made of sterner, hardier, stuff back then. Maybe they all eventually immigrated to California. Maybe the men just gave up their man cards and the women lost their frontier spirit. I dunno. But something went horribly wrong.

 

I grew up and spent plenty of years in central NYS, where "lake effect snow" is a common phrase and I've had to locate my car by looking for where the antenna stuck out of the snow pile. Add the fun of a bunch of hills.

I've now lived in Atlanta for twenty years.

Yes, the response to a snow forecast is pretty pathetic.

However, the road conditions when it does snow tend to be different. The first snow to hit the ground tends to melt and then refreeze into black ice. Something about the ground starting out a bunch warmer since temps will have been in the 40's the days prior. So yes, all hell breaks loose with an inch of snow... but there's often 1/4" or more of black ice underneath that snow.

Nobody in upstate NY could drive on black ice either. It's happened that the ice stuck around a day or so too. Go drive on 1" thick ice in all season tires up a hill and see how well you do.

Not to mention nobody here owns a set of snow tires to swap them out with, and the municipalities don't keep the big fleets of snow handling equipment for the once a year or so snowfall.

So yeah, it's amusing to see when you have the perspective of having lived in snow country.

Not really appropriate to make the disparaging personal comments about people you don't know though. There are lots of native born southerners on here.

 

I'm as amused a

Not really much to do with what "stuff" people are made of, just people not knowing how to deal with things they are not used to. You could say the same things (or worse) about how New York reacts to a Hurricane as compared to how people on the Gulf Coast or Mid Atlantic would handle it.

 

Oh fer petes sake, harden up. I was in Arkansas for a few years including the winter of 2000 when they had terrible ice storms. I thought I had seen ice storms but those were really something. Things shut down and rightly so. But I heard all the excuses when there was four inches of snow. We get ice underneath, we don't have the right tires, we don't have snow removal equipment. Hell I was driving it every day and standard all season radials were more than adequate. And there is no need for snow removal under six inches. It was panic.

 

Hangin with Atilla that year eh?

 

Lol. Fixed

 

This is what happens in raleigh with a little snow. http://www.wral.com/wral-tv/image_gallery/13392751/ for your amusement

 

Nope

 

Lol 36+
Dude if i got that luck here in local snow area i would shit my pants and it for sure be a snow day

 

Louisiana closing down...

 

I'm not sure it's just snow.

When I was in NC for a few days, it rained almost every day. They had more cars in the ditch than I've ever seen from any snow storm here. I was very confused.

 

They can't drive when it's 80 and sunny. Even the word "rain" "snow" or "ice" causes people to go stupid.