The Big One is Coming!

[Luke122]

I can't believe you actually typed those letters in that order.

Wow.

uh... not sure what I missed there..

[x88x]

uh... not sure what I missed there..

It was a thing here last year...got a few feet of snow and the entire east coast decided it was the end of the world. News reporters kept inventing names like 'Snowpocalypse' or 'Snowmageddon', etc, etc.

[Luke122]

Snowmageddon is lame.

Damn.. so much for my awesome (patent pending) buzz word.

[farlo]

roads were a sheet of ice all the way home, abs is a nice thing though.

[blueonblack]

Yeah, it was just the use of the word that got me. It's a personal aggravation of mine, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[PartyLikeARockstar]

It's mandated for us to have chains atm here. or snow/all weather tires. The cops can actually give you a ticket.

[Luke122]

A good time to be in the tire business!

[mDust]

I've heard that some places (such as Toledo, Ohio) have declared a state of emergency and people who are not emergency personnel can be arrested for being out on the roads. That's just asinine.
We only got about 14" here but it's drifted up to 5-6' in places. I've been watching every single car get stuck in the 2-3' drift in front of the freeway entrance ramp outside my living-room window...it's great fun watching the snow come over the hood of the cars until they slow to a stop...and the look on the drivers' face always says 'oh man, how did I get stuck?' Even some 4x4s without enough ground clearance are falling victim.
It wasn't that bad of a storm here though. It was just super windy and blowing around a lot.

How much snow did everyone else get? It must have dumped hard somewhere...

[x88x]

It's mandated for us to have chains atm here. or snow/all weather tires. The cops can actually give you a ticket.

Dowaaaahhh? That just a Baltimore city thing? Sounds like some tire sales company owner has a friend on the city council.

[TheGreatSatan]

So it's here. Last night it took me an hour and a half to get 23 miles to home. My subdivision has a steep incline of about 30 yards to get onto the main road. I couldn't do it the first 4 times or so, so I got my shovel out and starting clearing a path. The main problem was the huge heap of snow at the bottom of the hill from where the plow went by. After about a half hour of shoveling and laying down kitty litter I got up the hill!

This morning I tried going to work and my car got stuck at the end of my driveway. For the first time, I had to phone work and call off.