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Snow Day
The worst part is that drivers around here are getting reckless again. They are used to a certain amount of slipping and fishtailing and are driving faster anyway, so there were a lot of unnecessary accidents yesterday.
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I think that we got five or six inches of snow in the last 24 hours. They declared a snow emergency again, which is basically a standard plan regarding when you can park on which sides of the street without getting towed before the plows come through. Only they skipped my whole neighborhood and possibly other areas, so they might do another snow emergency tonight to finish the work.
The worst part is that drivers around here are getting reckless again. They are used to a certain amount of slipping and fishtailing and are driving faster anyway, so there were a lot of unnecessary accidents yesterday.
We have snow emergency and parking bans everywhere also. Problem is they don't even have the man power to actually enforce it. For the past week we have had roads that been essentially unusable, because they were only able to clear a single lane due to parked cars in the way. Got into a stand off the other day with a car coming down a road in the opposite direction, with no where for either of us to pull over. Since I had two cars behind me, the other driver finally gave in and backed down the street until she got to a semi cleared drive way.
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Fuck the Northeast. Fuck it sideways. I'm moving to the desert where I can complain about crippling heat.
We've got plenty of room, head on out here. We're short of gamers, though.
We got some snow on Sunday morning. About half an inch, then it warmed up and was gone.
(note: this is not a weather guarantee, as I've also seen three feet come down here over a weekend. but not this year.)
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We have snow emergency and parking bans everywhere also. Problem is they don't even have the man power to actually enforce it. For the past week we have had roads that been essentially unusable, because they were only able to clear a single lane due to parked cars in the way. Got into a stand off the other day with a car coming down a road in the opposite direction, with no where for either of us to pull over. Since I had two cars behind me, the other driver finally gave in and backed down the street until she got to a semi cleared drive way.
We have the manpower, but all the weekend and holiday storms this winter have torn a hole in local plowing budgets. Usually, when a snow emergency is called here, they are pretty ruthless about tagging and then towing everybody in the way of the plows. I don't know the current going rate, but when I coughed up money in '03 to rescue my girlfriend's car from the impound lot, it was $120. Would have been even more if it was left there for a day or two.
That said, the most densely populated sections of Minneapolis now have a parking restriction that will probably last until spring, where one entire side of each street is off-limits for parking. Otherwise, they would have a lot of standoffs like the one you were in.
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Why's that a big deal?
Well the last time CPS got a snow day was 1999. Before that it was in the 70s. We could be looking at the biggest storm in the city's history.
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But before we went back to work, the rest of the work crew showed up to help.
It's going to get rainy, windy, and cold tonight. 30s, which is like summer weather for you folks up north. Last time we had the right conditions for snow was Christmas 2004.
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Who'd ya'll piss off up there?
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