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Why do Delawareans freak out when it snows?
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Why do turkeys drown themselves by staring up at the rain?
Dude, it’s tons of pretty, shiny, sparkly things flowing through the air at one time. It’s like total mass-mesmerization (sp???) in a flash. Think of “Patrick Star” from Spongebob.
note to self: be sure to point out that I have a six-year-old son that watches Spongebob.
Yeah, my son watches that.
LOL@Geezer!
Because they’re wimpy. I lived in Buffalo. I know snow. This isn’t snow.
Maybe because no one knows how to F!@#$ drive around here 🙂
FYI for driver’s on their way home this evening: If you slide when making a turn and miss that turn and then stop and back up in front of me in order to make it — I’m going to hit you! Obviously if your car is sliding at this intersection mine is going to as well.
Oh yeah, one more thing, just because you’re in your large SUV with 4-wheel drive does not mean your vehicle won’t slip and slide on ICE. Slow down!
Whew . . . I feel better . . .Thank you for that vent .
Because, unlike the states north of here, snow on the roads happens infrequently. Therefore, the experience factor is minimal.
There. A simple answer to a simple question.
😉
I was told this story a few weeks ago:
Guy moved here from Chicago. At work a few months later, the snow was flying and covering the roads. A co-worker asked if, being from Chicago, he knew how to drive in the snow. “Of course.” So they asked him to drive that day to lunch.
On the way to lunch, he drove at about 15 mph on some of the major roads, since the road was so bad. The passenger turns on him and says, “I thought you knew how to drive in the snow!”
“I do, this is how you are supposed to drive when it’s snowing.”
Idiots.
sorry i missed your original comment…i was at the grocery store buying all the bread, eggs and milk I could find, then i filled the car with gas, and stopped by and got some firewood,
Im sorry, what was the question?
“Why do turkeys drown themselves by staring up at the rain?”
That’s a myth about the turkeys. Like down here in Sussex, I heard it was the fiercely partisan Democrats who stare intently into the *light* emanating from Washington who are in danger of getting hit by a chicken truck.
Mis: Yeah, I know it’s a myth, but I wasn’t going to let that get in the way of a punchline.
Why is it snowing on the web site? Have the laws of physics gone haywire?
LOL, lg. So this passenger thought there was some magical way to drive fast on snow-covered roads? There is – it’s called a snowplow. The rest of us have to drive slow, keep plenty of following distance and brake only when necessary. Oh yeah, make sure your car is full of gas.
Who remembers when we used to have SNOW (and I mean snow like UI is talking about)?
Ahhhh, seems like — gone are the days…
Just one good blizzard would be nice.
Mike Hunt – you forgot to get the toilet paper. Having lived in Colorado, this isn’t snow. After 22 years out here on the East Coast, I’m still amused by everyone who freaks out at the first snow flake. They’ve been closing schools in the DC area all day.
As bad as DE is in the snow, I’m not sure it could be worse than my current location of Louisville. It snowed last night and apparently the entire city is virtually shut down. Schools are closed in a bunch of counties and apparently snow removal focuses on the interstates. The whole news sounds like folks have turned their freakout on up to 11.
I lived in Minnesota for a few years where there is always snow after Thanksgiving and they almost never shut down anything.
I spent 25 years living in Louisville, KY. Between the city and Jefferson County they had, I think, a total of 4 snow plows. Anything over an inch and the whole place shut down. Sounds as though things haven’t changed much Cassandra.
Ahh, but to be in Louisville during Derby Week! That is fine living.
Derby week in Louisville is almost like Mardi Gras week in New Orleans.
Did they get ice in Louisville?
I WANT MORE SNOW!!!!!!!
How about another big blizzard like the one that covered Maryland in 1996 – that was awesome. OK, I am nuts, I LOVE snow. I am from Germany and the snow you get here is NOTHING. It’s a S P R I N K L E at best.
Give me 1 or 2 feet PLEASE!!!
I get real happy when it snows outside.
I was travelling through West Virginia in the 1996 blizzard. Got waved off the highway in Morgantown, WV when they closed the interstates and I spent 4 days at the Ramada Inn drinking and playing cards with the other stranded travellers. I have fond memories of being snowbound. Once everyone accepted that we weren’t going anywhere it turned into a great party.
Ice is coming tonight. Then more snow. I just walked back from some appointments in the Federal Building — no one shovels snow from sidewalks, either. Snow seems to be gone from in front of hotels and in front of the Federal building. I fell and twisted my ankle walking back. No roads look to have been plowed.
The Ramada Inn in Morgantown…I know that place! Got kinda drunk…I mean, um, spirited in that nightclub area a few times! Woo! Whoops, gotta go local…I mean…yee-HAW!
Turned into a great party in Morgantown…lol…did you all burn couches in the street, then?
AAAAG SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW FLAKES ICE FLAKES COLD COLD COLD WET SNOW SNOW ICE ICE ICE FLAKES SLIPPERY COLD ICE FLAKES SNOW AAAAAGGGGGGG!!!!!!
i hope you are ok.
I like to say I know a good lawyer…but I don’t. Just ones that spend all day on the internet
Gosh Cassandra, I’m sorry Lou-ah-vuhl is turning into a nightmare for you. Hope your ankle feels better in the morning.
Smitty, we didn’t burn any couches, but we were sure glad on the third day when the SYSCO truck got through. We’d run out of hamburgers.
LOL! Good ol’ Morgantown. It is certainly an interesting treat there.
No worries, Louisville is AOK. Folks at the hotel gave me lots of plastic bags to get ice into and the lovely bellhop ran out to get me an ace bandage. It’s good enough that I walked out with friends for sushi. It is rapidly turning to ice out there. Wish me luck for getting out of dodge tomorrow.
Real Delawareans don’t. It’s these hyper-vigilant weather channel folks, who track a flake like it’s an infestation. It’s only been this obsessive around here for about the last decade–it’s the whole continuous news story feed that has invaded lives since O.J. took that ride down the freeway. Over-reported and heightened response to any abberation–and from every angle. Gives the couch potatoes reasons to be on the couch.
I just spent the whole day driving out in this weather… about 8 hours of it. Absolutely love it.
Drivers are idiots everywhere. Back in Mass. where i grew up the drivers are just as bad as they are here, except they are cocky thinking they know how to handle it, and get stranded in a snowbank or a drift across the road… hoping someone with a truck and chains pulls them out.
I love going out early in the morning after a snowfall in my little Saturn, when only the pickup trucks and 4×4’s are out.
Love it when the city shuts down for a blizzard! Mainly for the excuse to walk to Scratches for a few drinks…
Remember during Blizzard ’96 when MBNA went around picking up workers in their 4x4s during a State of Emergency?
That’s the fucking mindset that got us where we are now…..economy-wise.
Joanne,
I’ve lived here for 20+ years, and it’s been like this as long as I can remember. The merest hint of flurries, and bam! – forget about getting milk and bread for the rest of the week, the shelves are bare.
Physics has something to do with it. Because the temperature when it’s snowing is usually very close to the freezing line, as opposed to being in the low 20s, the snow tends to be wetter and slipperier than snow in, say, Albany, New York.
I’ve spend a lot of time in Albany. The snow is dry. They just push it aside and wait for it to melt come April.
What I have never understood is why persons clean out the grocery store when snow is forecast. In this part of the world (N. Wilmington), there is no one who’s more that a 15 minute walk from a store and, except for those once-a-decade two foot blizzards, the roads will be fine the next day.
But, when it snows, persons act like they live in a sod hut somewhere in the middle of the Nebraska prairie a three-days ride from the nearest General Store.