Snow In SC (Boston, Natick, Marion: home, school, live)

[johngolf]

To my former Bostonian friends. Columbia SC is totally shut down today do to 3in of snow but it will be 65* on Saturday and we will be playing golf.......LOL

[Parsec]

I saw Atlanta was shut down too due to 2" of snow. It took one of my friends 7 hours to drive home last night. Kids were stuck on school buses into the late evening and some had to sleep overnight at school. It's funny how a city that's larger than Boston (with 4x as many highways) has a winter plowing/salting fleet of trucks that's smaller than the fleet of a small town in MA such as Natick.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by johngolf

To my former Bostonian friends. Columbia SC is totally shut down today do to 3in of snow but it will be 65* on Saturday and we will be playing golf.......LOL

Sucks to be you. You won't even be able to ski on it as it will be mush by then.

[Cliff Clavin]

Originally Posted by Parsec

I saw Atlanta was shut down too due to 2" of snow. It took one of my friends 7 hours to drive home last night. Kids were stuck on school buses into the late evening and some had to sleep overnight at school.

I was reading about this on CNN and trying to wrap my around how 2" of snow shuts down a city. With or without snow removal equipment, 2" should not stop a 1 1/2 ton car.

I have a friend who lives in Florence/Marion SC and she got 2 days off work. I don't think they even got an inch.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

I was reading about this on CNN and trying to wrap my around how 2" of snow shuts down a city. With or without snow removal equipment, 2" should not stop a 1 1/2 ton car.

I have a friend who lives in Florence/Marion SC and she got 2 days off work. I don't think they even got an inch.

From the Atlanta forum, is seems there was pure ice under the snow. I don't know, but many people claiming to have been from the upper midwest and the Northeast said it was undriveable.

[Parsec]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

I was reading about this on CNN and trying to wrap my around how 2" of snow shuts down a city. With or without snow removal equipment, 2" should not stop a 1 1/2 ton car.

I have a friend who lives in Florence/Marion SC and she got 2 days off work. I don't think they even got an inch.

Snow wasn't the problem - it was the ice. The roads kept refreezing too quickly because it takes their salt trucks too long to go re-fill salt/gravel mix. They don't have salt sheds in every town like we do here in MA. They also have substantially more highways to clear/salt which are also wider and have 10-14 lanes, not 4-6 lanes like we do here.

[BostonMike7]

Gotta figure a lot of the vehicles there aren't really equipped for snow as well. I'd venture to say far more many vehicles of a particular model were purchased as the FWD/RWD version rather than AWD/4WD which is opposite of what you'll see in the north.

Add to the mix far more cars are probably riding on summer tires that dont function well in the snow.

Toss in inexperience, and glare ice....and you have what you see in Atlanta.

[timberline742]

And everyone hitting the highways at the same time, unlike the normal rush hour.

[Cliff Clavin]

I still prefer to think of ourselves as the superior drivers.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

I still prefer to think of ourselves as the superior drivers.

Well, duh, have you ever been to Atlanta? Not much of a city.