On 2019-02-11 3:15 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 3:01:05 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 2/11/2019 1:34 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>> People panicked here in the Seattle area last Thursday, as evidenced
>>> by my local Fred Meyer being completely out of shopping carts when I
>>> arrived around 6pm to pick up a few things. I had done my major shopping
>>> the day before and as always I managed to forget something. I soon found
>>> where all the shopping carts had gone - they were manned by restive
>>> customers standing in lines 20 deep, going halfway up the aisles. I
>>> must say things were pretty calm despite the gridlock and lack of
>>> essentials like bread and bananas. Fortunately I had "about 12 items"
>>> and the express lane lines were more reasonable.
>>
>> When I lived in Philadelphia, that was common. In New England, no big
>> deal. People were batter at driving in snow and the highway crews are
>> better equipped to deal with it. In all my years in CT, if I could get
>> out my driveway I could get to the store.
>
> Same here in Michigan. What do you call 8" of snow? Tuesday.
>

The people of Buffalo don't even consider 8" to be a snow storm. They
average over 90" of snow per year.