Is history about to repeat itself?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

  It’s always a bit stupid when people compare weather like this.

  They basically go “I live in the high Arctic and frequently enjoy temperatures of -40°C”, so all those people complaining about snow in Hawaii are overreacting.

  It’s like they don’t listen to the thing they’re saying.

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• BigMilk13@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  We just got 2.5 feet here in Boston, and I was able to buy beer by 3pm

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love that you provided an actual and substantive answer, thank you!

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    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The one thing they left out was school buses. Schools did let out early, but too late, so the traffic from the buses and parents melted the first layer of snow, with no plowing or salting. So it refroze into sheets of ice before people left work.

      Source: Me in traffic for 12 hours.

      Note: I now live in a place so cold that this week I hiked in -6F and had ice cream outside at 13F. 😃

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.

    The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s super cool how the Republicans have stopped sharing weather satellite data with weather forecasters and cut the budget for sending up weather balloons. They really govern for the people, ya know?

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• ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well if they tried to buy snow tires they would be expired before the next measurable snowfall

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We had about that much snow today, and there are two things I realized. First, I really need to take better care of my shoes. And second, walking up the hill when it’s slippery is fucking exhausting. Traffic was normal.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yak Trax are your friend. Don’t tell ICE.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  /> GTA levels of destruction

  /> No one in the photo is carrying a rocket launcher or chainsaw

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• Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  This is the highway sitting right between Raleigh and Durham, seems pretty clear this go around. Not many folks out on the road, but it was like 10pm

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Greater Toronto Area levels of destruction. Still fits, actually.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No army.

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• ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My guy is definitely on the phone with Lester tryna clear shit up

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Holy shit, you weren’t kidding.

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey, I’m the real Fediverse Chick. I don’t scam anyone, I just shitpost.

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