Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn’t be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.
Comment on He's on a mission
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
You just know that this was posted by an USAmerican because thats just how i get to work when it snows in Germany.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn’t plow, and nobody has snow tires because it’s only going to be a day or two.
Yeah, southern drivers don’t know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it’s not really fair to compare them. It’d be like mocking Alaskins because they’re miserable in 90°F; they don’t have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads
SupraMario@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The issue with “snow” in the south isn’t the snow part. It’s the ice. Southern snows usually happen when it’s warm enough to melt the first bit of snow then it drops to freezing temps and the roads turn to sheets of ice. That and the majority in the south don’t have winter tires, they run all seasons because when it does snow, it lasts just a few days at most. Why risk lives when it’s just a few days.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Or it just stays in the conditions where it's more likely to sleet, which builds up and freezes into a sheet. Doesn't matter what tires you have, what 4-wheel drive, where you're from, or how much experience you have driving in snow... if there's a lot of ice on the road, you will hit some slick spots, and how sure of your being immune to physics will demonstrate itself.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yep, southern ice is like trying to ice skate with one leg while blindfolded and deaf. You got 0 control.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 hours ago
You're right about it being different. That's why the argument of driving in snow doesn't hold up. Driving in snow that stays crunchy snow *IS easy. Northerners who have that as well as plowing equipment think it's easy because it is for them.
The temperatures are another thing. They can keep them. Not a fan of negative numbers, regardless of which scale is used. Definitely not F, nope.
hateisreality@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They have no ice combat infrastructure they can deploy. There was a storm about ten years ago and the roads froze the night before in an area with great winter prep. I slid home barely on a straight road 2 miles took 45 min, in an area where they can handle that. In the south they’ve got no chance.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 14 hours ago
I live in Alabama, and it used to snow a lot less. Climate change is definitely having some effects. Still freaks people out though.
Osan@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.
Anivia@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I am also from Germany and could have posted this. I have never seen anyone ride his bicycle under these conditions here
FishFace@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Everywhere with an Atlantic climate doesn’t have the equipment to deal with this. I tried riding my bike in the snow, and besides being slippy in places my gears got clogged and wouldn’t shift properly, and my glasses got covered in snow so I couldn’t see well.
Not worth it.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
Yeah, this isn't that abnormal in Canada either lol. I guess the one thing is that normally winter bikers have fat tires
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
I still use fairly thin ones, but they are very spiky.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Most aren’t riding BMX bikes.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Not the best commuter bike if you have a choice.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I saw a guy cross country skiing downtown after a huge snow and thought that was pretty funny
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I was gonna say this would be an ideal commute for about 1/3 of the year
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I bemoan that the bus bike racks we use in Toronto aren’t wide enough for fat tire bikes, so I have to use a regular-tire bike