re: #172 teleskiguy

Where I live, the STAY THE FUCK HOME rule very rarely applies. After all, we have enormous fleets of plows working 24/7 when a big snowstorm hits (like this week, it was big, buh-lieve me). It’s different in the mountains of Colorado. Less roads (way less roads!), more conscientious drivers, and the like. It has to snow over a foot for the school districts to call a snow day (which happened on Thursday). I never once had a snow day in my youth, back when the local government weren’t as strict about snow totals and the like. We had delayed school mornings ‘cause the busses took longer to get to the schools, but I never had a real snow day. Even with snow piled damned near up to the eaves of our house.

Well, yeah, that make sense, because y’all out in the Rockies and those above the Mason-Dixon Line have to deal with snow every winter, whereas most people down here in Dixie make runs on the grocery stores for milk, eggs, and toilet paper if so much as a dusting is forecast, yet, once snow and ice actually does come, they still all get on the roads and drive like morons. Plus, we here in the South just don’t have (and really can’t justify the expense of having) a large, dedicated fleet of plows and salt trucks like they do in the mountain states and up North.

Frankly, TDOT and Nashville Public Works have plow attachments and salting/brining equipment for many of their dump trucks and, for the most part when the forecasts are right, have done fairly well in getting salt and brine down before snow/ice hits, then plowing the main roads and interstates over the past couple of years.