Snowpocalypse!

[johnsonkk]

Originally Posted by otterhere

I love snow, too. But there's no reason for EVERYTHING to grind to a stop every time it snows or even gets cold. Whole parts of the world keep functioning per normal when it snows or gets cold.

That was my point.

Bigger than “winter storm planning” is the lazy decision makers (leaders?) cancelling everything because it’s easier than selective cancelling. Schools should be cancelled by school, not district. County services should be cancelled by districts, not universally. Selective cancellations are done for flooding and storm damage but it’s easier with snow and ice for bureaucrats to cancel everything and blame the weather.

[cremebrulee]

Originally Posted by Crazee Cat Lady

Of course, states in the South aren't going to have the snow removal that states in the North and Midwest do.
Those states get far more snow every year than the ones in the South, even the upper South do. They have a real need to invest in snow plows, salts and other snow removal equipment, because it is a far more common occurrence than here and in other Southern states.

At some point someone there had to pay higher taxes for that snow removal equipment...and to pay the people who use it.

And if they did that here, they would have to levy taxes in order to pay for that snow removal equipment. How else would they get that equipment? Do you really want to pay higher taxes? I don't. Do you really think it happens frequently enough here to pay higher taxes for the equipment?


I'm just saying...be careful for what you wish for.

Well, my kids said, on the way home from Pigon Forge/Gatlinburg, the roads were terrible, and I said, exactly what you said, that they don't have the equipment, b/c my DIL said there wasn't a plow or salt truck on the road...and she replied, yes they do....so? But totally get what your saying.