I had a visitor from Chicago totally freaked out about driving in snow around here. We were supposed to get about 5 inches. He said, "But everything in PA is on a 70 degree angle." Sometimes I forget how this complicates things for people not from around here (or other slanty places).
I also think the biggest problem I see in the city itself is WHERE THE HECK DO YOU PUT ALL OF THIS SNOW???
At my place in Westmoreland County, you just throw it in the yard 'til Spring.
When I lived up on Mt. Washington, I had some friends visit from Columbus one winter. I freaked them out by taking the steepest hills. And it wasn't even snowy or icy at the time.
The folks shoveling the snow from their cars back into the street are implicitly sociopathic; y'all ain't helping!
That said, I have a six foot vertical toss/lift to get the snow from my sidewalk up over a retaining wall into my yard, which made the weekend full of calisthenics.
I agree that we haven't gotten this much snow in years. But Pittsburghers should know that we live in the northeast where it SNOWS! :) But then again, if it rains, everyone panics, if the sun is out? everyone panics. If it snows? everyone panics (see Giant Eagle before a storm!)
We owned a snow shovel. But as luck would have it, it BROKE! so now, we can't get a snow shovel to save our lives. and when the storm hits tonite, we'll be using a gardening shovel and if Petey can get to the shed, a coal shovel to do our really long driveway. Should be LOTS of fun!
I don't know, this weekend was a good example of why Giant Eagle gets like it does. I was out of a lot of things with no way to get them, because I habitually blow off weather concerns.
Gwen, I'm inclined to agree with a lot of what you say... I, at least, would buy a vehicle and tires better equipped for snow if we got it more often. I can't drive in this, but I'm okay with that, because it is saving me hundreds of dollars to give up driving for a few random winter days!
All very true. I'm glad we're not getting your level of snow myself, though at least in my area I probably still would not lose power as this neighborhood runs the lines underground. But we'd definitely be seriously snowed in.
Yeah, we up in Peterborough often make sport of the problems folks in non-snowy places have when there's snow, but we have a whole infrastructure and set of habits built up for it -- we're not more virtuous or sensible or anything. And we've been screwed when the fall was heavier than we expected anyway.
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I had a visitor from Chicago totally freaked out about driving in snow around here. We were supposed to get about 5 inches. He said, "But everything in PA is on a 70 degree angle." Sometimes I forget how this complicates things for people not from around here (or other slanty places).
I also think the biggest problem I see in the city itself is WHERE THE HECK DO YOU PUT ALL OF THIS SNOW???
At my place in Westmoreland County, you just throw it in the yard 'til Spring.
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"OMG! I can't see over the edge of that!"
So much fun.
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That said, I have a six foot vertical toss/lift to get the snow from my sidewalk up over a retaining wall into my yard, which made the weekend full of calisthenics.
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We owned a snow shovel. But as luck would have it, it BROKE! so now, we can't get a snow shovel to save our lives. and when the storm hits tonite, we'll be using a gardening shovel and if Petey can get to the shed, a coal shovel to do our really long driveway. Should be LOTS of fun!
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Gwen, I'm inclined to agree with a lot of what you say... I, at least, would buy a vehicle and tires better equipped for snow if we got it more often. I can't drive in this, but I'm okay with that, because it is saving me hundreds of dollars to give up driving for a few random winter days!
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