Why do people in Maine deal with winter better than in Connecticut?

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by hughbay

Well, I'm not here to ruin anyone's fantasies by any means. So it's settled - the state is filled with Paul Bunyons and Davey Crocketts! Chris Kyle was from Maine too.

I just know what I've seen - and that's tons of terrible accidents with 1-2 inches of snow on the ground. But I'm perfectly happy saying those were all in New Hampshire

Cheers

As I said I only use I-295 maybe once or twice a year. I live in the Southern half of Maine, but I am not anywhere near Portland.

I am not familiar with 'WCSH quality programing'. Obviously I could google your 'Joe Cupo' buddy, but why? To see some '25-to-life look on his face'? No, thanks

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by AtkinsonDan

Yes and Connecticut has a lot of wimps from the NYC area living in it, hence the greater amount of whining about a much less severe climate.

Immediately before migrating to Maine, we lived in Connecticut. At that time, I monitored the temps and my observations where that generally there was only a 3 or 4 degree [F] difference between New London and Bangor.

It is not uncommon for them to get huge dumps of snow. Just like how all of the snow-belt gets from: Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, and Toronto, thru Buffalo, Rocester, Syracuse, Albany, Hartford, Worcester, Providence, Manchester, and on to Boston. They are all subject to huge dumps all at once.

Whereas up here 3 to 4 inches is much more common, with one or two storms giving us 8 inches, per year The biggest single dump we have seen here in the past seven years was one storm that gave us 14 inches. So nothing like what is common down in the belt.

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Immediately before migrating to Maine, we lived in Connecticut. At that time, I monitored the temps and my observations where that generally there was only a 3 or 4 degree [F] difference between New London and Bangor.

It is not uncommon for them to get huge dumps of snow. Just like how all of the snow-belt gets from: Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, and Toronto, thru Buffalo, Rocester, Syracuse, Albany, Hartford, Worcester, Providence, Manchester, and on to Boston. They are all subject to huge dumps all at once.

Whereas up here 3 to 4 inches is much more common, with one or two storms giving us 8 inches, per year The biggest single dump we have seen here in the past seven years was one storm that gave us 14 inches. So nothing like what is common down in the belt.

Perhaps so but urban people are still wimpy compared to their rural counterparts.

[FlowerPower00]

Originally Posted by papafox

Is it just me, or do Mainers deal with winter cold and snow a lot better than in CT where I live?

I don't know how to describe it, but it just seems that despite CT having significantly less severe winters than ME, that people are a lot more whiney about it than up there?

Why is it (I think) that people living in a climate with milder winter weather deal with it worse than you guys further north?

Thanks I look forward to the responses!

Because CT has too many trees right at the edge of the road....they don't cut back the branches over the power lines. Too many people in one spot...

[papafox]

This crazy stuff never ends........


In the Hartford area tonight, we are supposed to get a mere INCH of snow, and everyone at work is up in arms all worried.


You'd think I'd live in South Carolina by the way these creampuffs are reacting. I'm like shaking my head.


While not like Maine, we still get enough snow in CT that people should not get up in arms about a 1'' snow forecast.


Get a grip people!

[TheKezarWoodsman]

im up in arms about a 1" forcast, i want more, a good 6-12 inches would be nice to have on the ground (not in one day, but in any given spot just have a foot of that white cold gold.)

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by papafox

This crazy stuff never ends........


In the Hartford area tonight, we are supposed to get a mere INCH of snow, and everyone at work is up in arms all worried.


You'd think I'd live in South Carolina by the way these creampuffs are reacting. I'm like shaking my head.


While not like Maine, we still get enough snow in CT that people should not get up in arms about a 1'' snow forecast.


Get a grip people!

It is not the snow, it is the traffic in snow that freaks some people out. Sometimes a dusting will turn to ice and make the busy highways of southern New England more dangerous that a full out storm.

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by TheKezarWoodsman

im up in arms about a 1" forcast, i want more, a good 6-12 inches would be nice to have on the ground (not in one day, but in any given spot just have a foot of that white cold gold.)

Who ya gonna shoot?

[TheKezarWoodsman]

Originally Posted by slyfox2

Who ya gonna shoot?

not funny... i bought some nice snowshoes, and fixed up my skis, and i wana be able to use them this year. you dont need snowshoes for an inch.

[beltrams]

As a person that has spent his time split between the Boston area and northern Maine, it's like others have said, rural is easier in snow than urban/metro.

Yes people slide off the road in both places. Yes there are winter and snow haters in both places, but just an inch of snow brings morning and afternoon traffic on every highway and even most major secondary roads to a standstill in metro areas (although it doesn't get as bad as that Atlanta storm of a few years back .) Boston's neighborhoods choke on snow, what with not having much of anyplace on narrow streets and sidewalks to put snow. Boston actually seems to be doing better with snow these past few years, almost certainly owing to all the practice the Boston area has been getting with major snow dumps, but for all the previous reasons, snow will always be a bigger headache in eastern MA compared to most of Maine.