TX DOT can't even get the ice off the roads here! We usually get ice instead of snow and maybe once a winter. Not prepared at all. People think they are going out in their 2WD pickups and can handle the ice, NOPE! Message to TX DOT, you cannot PLOW ice!
Same here!
I've never had a job where I could stay home in bad weather. I'd just leave earlier, and I'd expected my employees to do the same. Now that I'm retired it really hasn't changed much. We still go when and where we need to regardless of the weather. Around here we're driving on snow and ice for 6 months out of the year. During some particularly bad storms we might be snowed in for a week or more before I can get our road open.
I don't know how it has worked in other places. Growing up in South Dakota, we only had snow days once, when we had one of those epic blizzards where snow was so deep that some people could walk onto the roof of their homes, and others had to have someone dig out their doorways so they could get out.
Roads are treated with magnesium chloride here for ice.
I stay home when we have storm conditions and icy roads. Too many people do not know how to drive when there is snow and ice here. We get dumps of snow, and usually, within a day or two, our roads are clear again and then I go out. I had a guy tailgating me last week when I was driving on a snow packed road. I pulled over and let him speed by, instead of rear ending me.
I guess the big difference is I live in a sparsely populated area where everyone has 4 wheel drive and studded tires and/or chains. We get snow all winter long, from October to April. The main highways, which there's only one going through my county, is kept clear within a couple days after a storm. Even on the highway its not unusual at times to drive 10 miles or more and not see another vehicle on the road. On our county road most times I can drive the 20 miles to town and not see another car. Yes there are idiots on the road around here too that don't know how to drive on snow and ice. Mostly they are flat-landers from out of the area or truckers. I'll pull over and let them pass too, even if I'm driving 60 mph on packed snow. A couple times I've had the pleasure of seeing some idiot run off the road after passing me.
Just me, I guess. I did retail.
Years ago we lived in the northern part of the state and 18 miles from town. It was common to get 12-30 feet of snow fall every winter. One storm dumped 7 feet of snow and then 3 inches of freezing rain. I was doing horse logging at the time and my wife worked in town at a grocery store and later at a bank. In all the years we lived there she was never even late to work. During the bigger storms I'd be out plowing all night in order to keep the road open so she could get to work on time. For a couple years I plowed the road with a team of horses before I bought a tractor. Every spring an ice dam would break and flood the road. She still managed to make it to work.
Yet they can do virtual learning for covid
Those things just love mobile homes.
Degrees hoarder, send some north
Do NOT take a dip in the pool!!
How would you like it shipped? I’m on it! Can you by chance send some rain???Degrees hoarder, send some north
