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Old 11-28-2017, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Central Mass
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It's all about timing.
6" overnight, ending at 4 am? School open.
3" between 6 am and 8 am? School probably gonna close.
20" over the weekend, ending Sunday evening? School open.
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Old 11-28-2017, 10:11 AM
 
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It all started back in the winter of ‘78...

I think for many around me, it changed when we had that storm 8 or so years ago that started at 1PM during the work day. Everyone much have had the idea of working until noon and then leaving when the flakes fell....


I remember spending 8 hours on I-95 during that storm in a truck with no working radio and no cell phone charger trying to go maybe 18 miles?


Ever since that experience, I tend to leave work earlier, or work from home if snow is in the forecast.
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Old 01-01-2018, 08:57 AM
 
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There's places in the South, where they talk about it going to snow A WEEK before it snows...then it snows a little bit..and everything closes down for like 3 days.
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Old 01-01-2018, 09:07 AM
 
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The reason everything shuts down in the South is because they just don't have enough of the proper equipment to deal with a little bit of snow/ice. If the roads glaze over, there's nothing they can really do until it warms up a tad.


Get a little sleet/ice that coats the road here and they send out the salt trucks to take care of it and life goes on. Plus pretty much every contractor/landscaper in the area has a plow on their truck.


Takes a bit more to shut down school completely, but usually within 12-24 hours of a major (12"+) storm, the area is pretty well cleaned up and people are out and about. A lot of people here also have 4WD/AWD and winter tires and driving around in 1-3" of snow is no big deal.
That and the idiots don't know how to drive in snow .
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