On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 11:03:54 AM UTC-6, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> Julie Bove > wrote:
> >
> > "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> 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.
> >
> > Our snow here is different. East Coast snow is dryer. West Coast snow is
> > heavy and wet. Forms a thick layer of ice almost instantly. And they use
> > salt/sand or chemicals on the East Coast.
> >
> >
>
> That explains why we were in the Midwest, half way in between east and
> west, get both. Or not.

ROFL! Yeah, we get the worst of BOTH COASTS! ;-)

John Kuthe, STL MO...