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You never know when people are joking on CD, because we have so many nuts who say those things and mean it. If it was intended as a joke, there was no reason to give such a nasty response back to me.
Have you ever seen idiots trying to drive after a couple of inches of snow or an ice storm in the south?
Like I said, I knew someone that was in Alabama and he pulled up to the Interstate and it was closed becsue of a few inches. LOL
I drove through Tennessee once across I-40 during a fairly large storm, I must of saw 30 cars in the ditch from one end of the state to the other.
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It has to do with an entire state dealing with a very unfamiliar situation,
It's not totally unfamiliar,we get snow here in the northeast. Just not a lot at once in most places. It's usually just a 1 to 5 inch deal every week or two.
Like I said, I knew someone that was in Alabama and he pulled up to the Interstate and it was closed becsue of a few inches. LOL
I drove through Tennessee once across I-40 during a fairly large storm, I must of saw 30 cars in the ditch from one end of the state to the other.
It's not totally unfamiliar,we get snow here in the northeast. Just not a lot at once in most places. It's usually just a 1 to 5 inch deal every week or two.
You're right--they don't have a good handle on the "you can't hit the brakes on ice or snow packed roads" thing in that part of the country. You guys are getting hammered out east. If we got three foot of snow they might shut our roads down too. I'm just wondering where they're going to put the snow when they try to plow it off the roads.
It is an empty gesture. Oh, sure they COULD jail the offenders, but they won't. I mean when 90 percent of the drivers ignore speed limits, what hope is there for any other government decree? I only hope that they simply ram the stranded cars out of the way so that the road clearing can be done. Why in the WORLD should taxpayers fork out a cent for putting up idiots in the jails. Let them freeze and perish in their cars in the ditch. That's the law of the jungle, the only one they are worthy of.
With the snow totals they were talking it will be weeks before things get back to "normal" as far as clear shoulders and open drainage. Jurisdictions used to be able to haul the snow away and dump it into rivers, that's frowned upon now, but Baltimore was able to do it 2 years ago when the mid-Atlantic was hit by a similar storm. Along the Bay we weren't allowed to do it so we took the snow to an empty parking lot and it melted away over the course of the next several weeks. One thing that may happen is localized flooding if it rains or really warms up, storm sewer inlets will be blocked by the snow.
To go back to the original "thought" of the thread, this comes under the public safety duties and authority of the Governor. Declaring a State of Emergency allows him to activate the National Guard and have those units deployed for road clearing and rescue operations if they're so equipped. Having them out also helps to cut down on the stupid behavior syndrome that some people develop in weather events. There's nothing like a major snowfall or hurricane to cause the "This Is A Stupid Idea" switch to become inoperative in some people's brains.
As a note, most military helicopters are black now so don't freak out if you see some in the air surveying the scene.
When there is three feet of snow on the road in a broke, liberal state full of people too stupid to stay off the road and who then expect the government to rescue them from their own stupidity and whose families will sue the same government when their loved one end up frozen like a Popsicle on the side of the road...
The problem is when they over react and take drastic measures each and every time.
After a while the people will not take it seriously.
There's a picture in this article of a woman shoveling snow. If you look closely she is shoveling out here car and it looks like the plows had come by and piled the snow right up on her car. I guess they have to find their shock and awe where they can.
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