On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 9:30:20 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-02-12 6:05 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 4:33:35 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:32:12 -0500, Dave Smith
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2019-02-11 3:00 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> When I lived in Philadelphia, that was common.Â* In New England, no big
> >>>> deal.Â* People were batter at driving in snow and the highway crews are
> >>>> better equipped to deal with it.Â* In all my years in CT, if I could get
> >>>> out my driveway I could get to the store.
> >>>
> >>> We always get a chuckle over the traffic chaos that results from very
> >>> small amounts of snow in the lower half of the US. It seems that is
> >>> takes only about a half inch of snow to bring the transportation
> >>> infrastructure to its knees.
> >>
> >> Wait until you get a tiny hurricane.
> >
> > We call 'em tornadoes
> >
> > This far inland, hurricanes arrive pretty well spent. A few days of
> > rain or gloomy weather is about as far as it goes.
>
> The last hurricane we had was Hazel in 1954. The last real blizzard was
> 1977. I only remember one small tornado. It tore down the screes at
> the drive in where Twister was scheduled to run that evening. We
> occasionally see high water, but not flooding. It is pretty boring.

And that's why we like it here. No, it's not glamorous. But
mainly the weather doesn't kill you. Nor does the geology.
Oh, sure, some people freeze to death every winter, and
drown in floods and stuff. But no wholesale slaughter by
Mother Nature. Nice and boring.

Cindy Hamilton