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Come on man. You are getting into semantics now. Ok...it snows ALMOST every year. It has the past nine years. Enough for people around here not to go into a turtle shell over an inch of snow and a little ice on their street. My last post on this...I understand it is pointless and will never change. Like I said I love living here but it's very frustrating with the panic every year.
Come on man. You are getting into semantics now. Ok...it snows ALMOST every year. It has the past nine years. Enough for people around here not to go into a turtle shell over an inch of snow and a little ice on their street. My last post on this...I understand it is pointless and will never change. Like I said I love living here but it's very frustrating with the panic every year.
Who's panicky? It's fun.
The news people play it up, but people pretty much just like the snow days.
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I hate winter, but if I hafta deal with snow, please don't take away my snow days!! It would take all the fun away for it to be just a regular day with white stuff on the ground. BOOOOORING!
It really doesn't snow almost every year, either. It's cyclical. The 90s had only 3 out of 10 years with snow, a 2inch year, a 1 inch year, and a 3 inch year and the rest had nada. Then in 2000 we got the 20inch year (which is VERY rare). Apparently snowfall in NC is inversely tied to the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation — sorta like El Niño, but different): North Carolina Snowfall | State Climate Office of North Carolina .
Having grown up in NC and having lived here pretty much all my life, I have a little more experience with how often it snows in the winter here than folks who have moved to the area in the past several years. It does not snow every year. And about half the time that it does snow it's 2 inches or less and melts the next day or two. What you've experienced this year and last year is not the most common scenario for a North Carolina winter, but winter in NC is pretty durn fickle — might snow, might not; might be a dusting, could be 20 inches, most commonly it's 2 inches and gone the next day. I was really thinking we might have a snow free year this year.
Having grown up in NC and having lived here pretty much all my life, I have a little more experience with how often it snows in the winter here than folks who have moved to the area in the past several years. It does not snow every year.
Oy.
Well, as a lot of us believe regardless of where we grew up, the times/climate are a changing.
I did not grow up here and certainly can't give you the history of North Carolina winters, however I can say that it has snowed here at least a little bit almost every year since I moved here (and I don't know about the year I was in Wilmington...it's different there).
Soooo maybe we all have something to offer here in terms of opinion.
Really? And why not start again Monday? Temps are supposed to rise and roads s/b clear.
Hard to understand why when the post office has sent their much smaller trucks out to at least attempt mail delivery - yay for them!
I understand - to a certain degree- the school closures (and lucky me has been able to avoid bored teens by escaping to work but this seems unnecessary.
To me it is not about the schools closing, I understand why they are closed, they are not dug/cleaned out. I drove past a school in North Hills and the entrance was covered with packed snow and ice. Out of curiosity, who should clean up a school?
Schools aside there are a couple of things I don't understand. People say it is not worth the investment in equipment, it does not snow much here. Ice however, seems to be a regular issue based on many posts that I have read and plows are not helpful for ice or a dusting of snow. What about spreaders for salt and sand? That would have helped and could still help on the side roads tremendously. As far as the cost, you will pay for this storm one way or another. If you do not want to pay for clean up, just realize you as a taxpayer are paying for lost revenue to the State due to storm closures, you pay for them annually, there might be a cheaper way.
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