Spent the night working, as others were unable to make it in due to the blowing schnew.

Wasn’t the worst storm I’ve ever seen but it was a LOT of heavy snow at first (which packed on the roads), and then a fair amount of light fluffy blowing snow (total of about 17″ in all) leaving visibility to near zero early Sunday evening. Plus an intermixure at times of sleet.freezing rain, and ice pellets for fun.

And yet, oddly enough, the end of the world didn’t happen. Civilization didn’t come to a stop. AFAIK, no blanket order to not drive. No highways were closed, although the State Police did discourage people from driving if possible.

There were the requisite number of accidents due to people driving too fast or following too closely (mostly travelers trying to pass through, and failing because they didn’t know how to drive in the conditions), and the tow trucks were busy.

But the cities didn’t shut down. People went and came and traveled as they chose And life went on.

WTF? Why can’t the Blue staters East Coasters figure out how to live with winter?  The entire Flyover country midwest, from Ohio to Nebraska, from Minnesota and Michigan to southern Illinois and Indiana, clean to Oklahoma can figure it out….Denver/Colorado, Idaho and Montana can figure it out. Yet 4 flakes and the East Coast panics.

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We are expecting a foot or more of snow with very windy conditions and whiteouts expected.

While it will likely suck for a while, neither Chicago nor any of the smaller cities in Illinois nor NW Indiana are expecting to shut down the roads or public transportation. Every service will work as normal. No Martial Law, no roads shut down (at least not until the conditions warrant it) no panic in the Supermarkets…..No one is planning for a SnowMageddon, (and even if we got one it’d just be a 24 hour inconvenience at worst)

Strange….. Shouldn’t we be panicking and closing roads and shutting down our way of life and all that? I mean, SNOW!

I guess the Midwest population is different than the East Coasters.