What can happen when you think "it's not that deep"

[sgtsandman]

I get called in to work whenever it starts snowing (if I’m not already there), and I’m there until the roads are clear. I never really have to drive on the roads in snow. Last year I drove around the parking lot in a Mack tri-axle roll-off plowing and salting… does that count?
The truck looked kinda like this:
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Way fancier than what they have here. Even PENN DOT doesn't have rigs like that.

This is what we typically see here.

Township and boroughs will generally have smaller single axle trucks and no fancy plows of any kind.

 

[sgtsandman]

I generally don't work if it's snowing hard enough to accumulate, so I get lucky in that regard lol.

It might even be against OSHA to climb ladders if it's snowing? I'm not sure. Even if it isnt... eh... that's just something I don't get paid enough to do

If it's coming down that hard.. I'm staying home & in bed, watching burnouts on TV with a big toasty hot chocolate in my face.

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The last time we had an authorized day off was when we had four foot of snow drop on the area in two big two foot dumps. I'm sure it's nothing to other locations but it overwhelmed the system here. Especially since it happened over a weekend. Being that it's a military base, calling off due to bad weather is generally frowned upon no matter what you do.

 

[JoshT]

Last time we had a snow day most of y'all would be wondering where the snow was at. That's been more than a few years ago.

We don't get enough snow to make it a known thing around here, so if we get any accumulation at all (aka the ground is dusted white) people panick and everything starts shutting down.

Probably more of an excuse to take off and go play than any real safety concerns.

 

[sgtsandman]

Last time we had a snow day most of y'all would be wondering where the snow was at. That's been more than a few years ago.

We don't get enough snow to make it a known thing around here, so if we get any accumulation at all (aka the ground is dusted white) people panick and everything starts shutting down.

Probably more of an excuse to take off and go play than any real safety concerns.

My understanding about the South is a tire is considered serviceable as long as the cords or belts aren’t showing. So, basically racing slicks. Those don’t work well with snow.

 

[Blmpkn]

The last time we had an authorized day off was when we had four foot of snow drop on the area in two big two foot dumps. I'm sure it's nothing to other locations but it overwhelmed the system here. Especially since it happened over a weekend. Being that it's a military base, calling off due to bad weather is generally frowned upon no matter what you do.

Yeah being in the military and all lol understandable.

What I do for work it's kinda unreasonable to expect us to go out. When I worked inside, I was there regardless of weather unless we were closed for the day. As time goes on it seems like more and more people expect their employers to let them stay home just because it's snowing and they don't want to drive in it.. it's like.. hello.. we live in a state that pretty much averages 11 feet of snowfall in a season. You should either be equipped to travel in the stuff, work somewhere that's shut for the winter, or move south enough where snow just doesn't happen.


When I was in school in RI.. it was hilarious... the whole state shuts down for an inch of snow.

 

[bilbo]

The place I worked at before was expected to run 24/7 for about 275-300 days per year, rain or shine. I always at least attempted to get to work regardless of weather. I only turned around once. It was clear when I left home, some of my coworkers said it was clear on their trip in so I took off. About 10 miles in began the worst blizzardy weather I'd ever experienced. It was too dangerous to turn around as oncoming traffic wouldn't see me until it was too late, so I turned onto what I thought was a county road but I turned a mile early onto an unmaintained "Bob's Road." I drove the entire 10 miles back home with the driver door open and a flashlight shining down so I could see where the road stopped/grass started, and then the same with the fogline on the main road when I reached it.

As I get older I have less and less patience for that. Last year I got pretty tired of commuting in it twice a week. I usually had enough work I could do remotely for a day or two and realized there were no hero biscuits waiting for me if I made it in to work during a bad storm, so I decided no more of that masochistic bs. Then we (mostly for other reasons) moved somewhere that I shouldn't have to worry about blizzards any more but now have hurricane days, which is kind of weird.

 

[Ranger850]

Last time we had a snow day most of y'all would be wondering where the snow was at. That's been more than a few years ago.

We don't get enough snow to make it a known thing around here, so if we get any accumulation at all (aka the ground is dusted white) people panick and everything starts shutting down.

Probably more of an excuse to take off and go play than any real safety concerns.

My best buddy lives in Kennesaw and says basically the same thing.

they even got off when the Braves won the World Series last year.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

They like salt on everything here. Gotta see that bare pavement! ASAP or the road department isn't doing it's job and the world is going to end! Not to mention how else are they going to make those "all season" tires work?

I wish michigan would salt more

 

[sgtsandman]

I wish michigan would salt more

I wish PA would salt less and the general public be more responsible for making sure their vehicles are capable of driving in snowy conditions. It’s not like winter doesn’t come around every year. So it’s not like it’s a big surprise or anything. Or at least it shouldn’t be.

 

[bilbo]

I wish michigan would salt more

My old work had a rash of slip and fall accidents one winter. My boss reacted by going overboard with salting. We had puddles in the parking lot when it was -10. In the puddles were little salt chunks because it was so saturated they wouldn’t dissolve.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I wish PA would salt less and the general public be more responsible for making sure their vehicles are capable of driving in snowy conditions. It’s not like winter doesn’t come around every year. So it’s not like it’s a big surprise or anything. Or at least it shouldn’t be.

Michigan has gotten stupid stingy with salt.

The run down the middle of the road and spinkle just enough to where after 2 hours you have the drivers side tires of both cars hopefully hitting a clear patch every 50 feet.

Go 10 mi south into ohio and i bet they dump more salt in a mile the MI does in 10 or 15. Plus while in MI you might drive 50 mi and see one MDOT truck...in ohio youll see 5 or 6. Shit they sit and wait in the medians during a storm. Michigan could really take lessons

 

[sgtsandman]

Michigan has gotten stupid stingy with salt.

The run down the middle of the road and spinkle just enough to where after 2 hours you have the drivers side tires of both cars hopefully hitting a clear patch every 50 feet.

Go 10 mi south into ohio and i bet they dump more salt in a mile the MI does in 10 or 15. Plus while in MI you might drive 50 mi and see one MDOT truck...in ohio youll see 5 or 6. Shit they sit and wait in the medians during a storm. Michigan could really take lessons

PA is the same. There is also a lower temperature limit where the salt stops working. At that point, cinders would probably be more beneficial. That is part of the reason we drove out to visit family before the temperatures took a dump for Christmas and left when the temperatures climbed back up to where salt would start to work. Even then, some of the roads in Ohio still had a good bit of ice on them.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yeah being in the military and all lol understandable.

What I do for work it's kinda unreasonable to expect us to go out. When I worked inside, I was there regardless of weather unless we were closed for the day. As time goes on it seems like more and more people expect their employers to let them stay home just because it's snowing and they don't want to drive in it.. it's like.. hello.. we live in a state that pretty much averages 11 feet of snowfall in a season. You should either be equipped to travel in the stuff, work somewhere that's shut for the winter, or move south enough where snow just doesn't happen.


When I was in school in RI.. it was hilarious... the whole state shuts down for an inch of snow.

My brother lives in Virginia near DC. He lives in a condo across a parking lot connecting street from a Whole Foods, said the first winter, the first time it snowed they got like an inch or so and he decided he was going across the street for some food (there’s a sports bar and like 4 mini restaurants in the supermarket) so he leaves his shorts on, grabs a light jacket, puts on his flip-flops, and walks over to… why is the door locked? And the lights off… oh. They closed for snow…

 

[Bill]

I'm glad we don't have "weather" out here.

 

[James Morse]

Update on original post - was on the news last night they have not yet found the other two people. It's been over a week now. I think the four kids were all from Amherst middle/high schools. Plus the one adult (5 in all).