Just a Scandinavian person wondering here...have been reading up about the news about the blizzard that is hitting the Washington area, and I'm a bit confused, because the numbers of snow aren't really anything special by our standards, but over there it seems to disrupt the way of life completely? Why is that? Is snow so uncommon in there?
This should help put in in perspective below. But as a resident of the DC metro area since '81 15" plus puts it over the limit of what the area can handle.
Dude.
Didn't you get stuck in a snow-storm from Richmond to the DC Metro a few years back?
You have the brave.
Well I had P&P RPG game session plans in Richmond. And that Dec. 19/18 snow storm that hit saturday I was like I HAVE SUBIE WRX POWA AND HAVE NO DEPENDENTS SO ROAR/darwin awards candidate so I went down. Actually only took 2.75 hours or so but man the crap I saw was off the hook 95s (dodging a kitten in the middle of the road..a porsche boxer on the northbound side going 5 mph and bottle necking a mile backup of cars..endless big rigs and cars giving up and plowing themselves voluntarily or involuntarily into snow banks on the side of the road).
I paid for it coming back. Left at 8pm (and there was snow down in Richmond but the roads were just wet) and it took me 8 hours to get back to DC area. I showed up at my condo parking lot confronted by no parking spots naturally with about 3.5 feet (due to plowage) to deal with before even clearing the normal snow accumulation. I had one glove and no shovel. So used a disc golf putter disc and spent 45 minutes to get a spot low enough I could reasonably escape the next time, heh.
I was only in it this time to squeeze in a cardio session and lift workout at my work in Tysons because when your are getting oldz its what you gotta do, lulz.