Oh. Well, I stand corrected. It certainly would suck to be stuck at work overnight because of the weather. The hills! Forget about it. Granted, we have no hills.
The Yahoo article mentioned some finger-pointing at the Meteorologists, saying they should have predicted it better. I say, give 'em a break... They're trying to 1. Predict the future, and 2. organize a most chaotic data system. I drop into 4WDL just for the fun of it whenever possible :) WAB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Merrill Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:02 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OFF-TOPIC - Snow "Storm"? Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: > We midwesterners can't help but shake our heads whenever we hear about > an inch of snow gridlocking an entire city. :) Glad nobody was hurt. I'm a midwesterner...and this would have gridlocked your city, too. I grew up driving in Chicago and Indianapolis winters (7 yrs). Then spent the next 7 years in Cleveland winters. I've never seen such slippery streets happen so quickly. Within an hour of the first flake, it was pretty bad. It's the first time I've ever dropped into 4wd-low for snow/ice. It was just the right combination of low street temps, ever-so-slightly wet snow and timing. The people hit the streets to get home early at the same time the salt trucks did...so the trucks were stuck along with everybody else. And the fact that the streets are very hilly here doesn't help - unlike many midwest cities (at least, most of the ones I lived in). -- ********************************* Chris Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************* -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
