Well, after being more or less dormant this winter, Old Man Winter is hammering Nova Scotia. Already a foot down, with high winds, my car is pretty much buried.

It’s supposed to be like this until Monday, with an expected accumulation of two or three feet. Not quite the blizzard of ‘78 😃 but still a pain the butt.

And, the liquor stores are closed dammit!

Stay safe bud.

Gotta be prepared!

Wish I was there, I love shoveling snow and now there's been a winter.5 of virtually nothing around here.

If you didn't see this coming and hit the liquor store earlier that's your own damned fault!

But on a serious note I hope you weather the storm okay.

Lol, yeah wife is in ‘I told ya so mode’ today. I’ll be fine, I don’t have to go anywhere. I can work from home if necessary.

Good. My daughter worked from home a couple of weeks ago when 4" of snow basically shut down Nashville for about a week. Damned bunch of hosers. It was in the low teens one evening a few years back when my wife and I decided to go out to dinner at our BBQ place. The place was empty. I asked the server why it was so empty? She said, "Oh honey it's too cold for people to get out. We were about to close until you came and if nobody else comes in before you leave we're going to close as son as you're gone."

After living most all of my life in Ohio I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Also a significant storm coming to southern California. Los Angeles is looking at somewhere in the range of 3-6 inches of rain on average and 6-12 inches of rain in the sw facing foothills.

51 and sunny here in Ohio today. Time for a bike ride.

And by now you understand that it has to do with frequency of the event and the limited supply of snow removal equipment. It also seems to get just warm enough in most cases to start just a bit of a thaw, then the refreeze leaves roads coated in ice.

I don't care where you are from, you can't drive on ice.

Is it convertible weather yet?

If I ride by your house I will toot.

I'll aleart the EPA.

That was our experience in the St Louis area when we lived there for a year. Flew back from a Browns game knowing they were expected to get about an inch. Roads were frozen, 45 minute trip took over two hours. Cars littered all over the road, traffic backed up like people evacuating a zombie apocalypse. No way for them to address the roads when they're spending all resources moving cars off the road.

It was nightmare that couldn't merely be blamed on infrastructure. Pics just resembled a 'light dusting', 10 of 10 Ohioans would just laugh and make fun... one of the scariest drives of my life.

Hell, these people can't even drive in the rain much less snow or ice. I can get around just fine in the snow most of the time but I'm not willing to get out there just to play bumper cars.

That's definitely the worst factor -- insecure or bad drivers on questionable surfaces. There is nothing safe about going 15mph, it just makes things unsafe for everyone else. And bumper cars is the worst.

I drove through the snowbelt for 15 years. It would be a sunny day with a little snow everywhere else and look like a disaster zone in Middlefield Ohio. I'm driving a stick shift with no real traction until 3rd gear, you going up a hill at 12mph just screws my entire day.

Yikes! You should move to the 'banana belt' of south-west Ontario, lamp.
I haven't used my snowblower in two winters now.

Sure I can (albeit slowly). It's the other pinballs on/off the road that keep getting in my way....

beautiful day for early February

Do public works departments keep salt on hand in Tennessee, in case of a cold/snow event?
Im used to driving on this stuff, I could drive on the streets right now if my car wasn’t buried.

It's supposed to hit 50F (Or 10C) here by Friday. The tulips and daffodils will be poking their heads up....and lamp' will still be shovelling.

Yes they keep salt on hand. They show the salt storage sheds at full capacity on the news before the storms hit and say they're prepared for it. But I believe the point Peen was making hits the nail on the head. It's not common to get any real snow accumulations around here. As such I don't think they have the number of plows and equipment needed to deal with it quickly and instead invest their resources on more pressing needs. I live in close proximity to Nashville. As such we have a lot of subdivisions and building is thriving here despite the interest rates. The population growth adds more and more roads to the equation and I certainly do not think the towns have been able to keep up with equipment to account for that growth.

Haha, I might be

Good grief! I just looked up the forecast for Halifax on The Weather Network (that's the equivalent of The Weather Channel up here) and it is supposed to be getting 40" of the white stuff. Don't overdo it shovelling, lamp'...

Are you saying you wouldn't want to be driving up and down the great Smokey Mountains to a cabin at the top?

In the fall when the colors are at their brightest, sure. I've done that a few times.

I wouldn't want to do it with 4 inches of snow, on roads barely wide enough to squeeze through, and steep drop offs with no guardrails.