New Suxs Thread

[Kirahfaye]

I'm laughing because we got about 6 inches of snow and I still had to go to work.

That sux, but it isn't the snow that we really have problems with here - it's the ice (despite what the news said about the mess a couple of weeks ago). I can hear the freezing rain hitting the window right now and we have hours more of rain and freezing temps. The NWC says we will have 1/4 to 1 inch of ice accumulated - which is freaking dangerous with trees, power lines and roads. I figure if my Massachusetts bred husband thinks it's too dangerous to drive, it probably is.

[Vetinari]

¬.¬ Boiler is broken again... 2nd time in 2 weeks... It's Cold...

[OkamiKodomo]

There is also the whole thing that most Southern states don't have salt/sand trucks so there's nothing offering any traction on those roads. I'm born and raised in the Northeast, mostly in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and the foothills of the Hudson Valley, with a few years scattered into New Jersey. I lived in Florida for eight years. I live in Rhode Island now, and in Massachusetts last winter. Each area is specifically designed to deal with the types of weather they typically get. Up here, we're not set up to deal with major storms like Sandy. Houses aren't built to withstand torrential downpours and flooding. Basements help keep a house warm in the winter and cool in the summer by giving the building a sort of "air cushion" between it, and the ground, and it gives access to pipes to keep them from freezing. Water typically doesn't need giant ditches on the sides of the roads in order to drain properly. But in Florida, a basement would only cause problems as it would flood every day for six months or more out of the year. There are retention ponds along every major roadway to gather the excess water, and the drainage ditches are built to do just that, drain the water, and prevent mosquito breeding grounds from forming. A lot of the roads are even built on a slight angle to direct the water into these ditches, and drainage grates.

Personally, I think it's a bit of unfortunate comeuppance for a lot of the South. There were many a Southerner that secretly shook their heads and snorted at the North's inability to cope with a hurricane. Now Northerners get to point and laugh at folks that can't handle a little bit of snow.

[SymphonicEnkelli]

There is also the whole thing that most Southern states don't have salt/sand trucks so there's nothing offering any traction on those roads. I'm born and raised in the Northeast, mostly in the Catskill Mountains in New York, and the foothills of the Hudson Valley, with a few years scattered into New Jersey. I lived in Florida for eight years. I live in Rhode Island now, and in Massachusetts last winter. Each area is specifically designed to deal with the types of weather they typically get. Up here, we're not set up to deal with major storms like Sandy. Houses aren't built to withstand torrential downpours and flooding. Basements help keep a house warm in the winter and cool in the summer by giving the building a sort of "air cushion" between it, and the ground, and it gives access to pipes to keep them from freezing. Water typically doesn't need giant ditches on the sides of the roads in order to drain properly. But in Florida, a basement would only cause problems as it would flood every day for six months or more out of the year. There are retention ponds along every major roadway to gather the excess water, and the drainage ditches are built to do just that, drain the water, and prevent mosquito breeding grounds from forming. A lot of the roads are even built on a slight angle to direct the water into these ditches, and drainage grates.

Personally, I think it's a bit of unfortunate comeuppance for a lot of the South. There were many a Southerner that secretly shook their heads and snorted at the North's inability to cope with a hurricane. Now Northerners get to point and laugh at folks that can't handle a little bit of snow.

I wish we would all just stop pointing and laughing. I live in the South, and every year I have to deal with the myriad of Facebook posts and memes mocking us for freaking out about snow. Like you just kindly pointed out, each region is built to deal with different types of weather. Every time someone from Minnesota goes "Haha, you guys can't handle a single snowflake" I have such an urge turn around and say "Yea? You closed school because it was 80s degrees out" Of course, I don't, because that doesn't help anything. I think every state overacts a bit to weather, and a little chuckling is okay (cause really, it is kinda of funny), but after awhile it gets old.

Oh, and people from Minnesota are actually wonderful. Just went up there a few weeks ago and felt like such a tourist because I was taking pictures of all of the snow. Beautiful state.

[MeltedCaramel]

SymphonicEnkelli Not all Northerners pointed and laughed, I swear!! I had a little giggle at everyone's child-like wonder to it (many of the Southern Dollieh members promptly dumped their dolls outside for photoshoots and I thought it was cute and silly) and yeah, the inability to cope took me back a little bit (more on a "...really?" state level than any personal level), but we're all freezing our ever-loving asses off in the tri-state area up here, and everyone reacts like it's Armageddon EVERYWHERE whenever a state announces any sort of weather problem, be it torrential floods in the South or 8 inches of snow and and ice storm in one big wallop (that's my suck by the way, I am so losing power, if I don't I will come back here and eat my own words) up here in the North. People are people and we overreact to everything. Right now it's "batteries, bread, and milk, oh my!" where I live.

[SymphonicEnkelli]

SymphonicEnkelli Not all Northerners pointed and laughed, I swear!! I had a little giggle at everyone's child-like wonder to it (many of the Southern Dollieh members promptly dumped their dolls outside for photoshoots and I thought it was cute and silly) and yeah, the inability to cope took me back a little bit (more on a "...really?" state level than any personal level), but we're all freezing our ever-loving asses off in the tri-state area up here, and everyone reacts like it's Armageddon EVERYWHERE whenever a state announces any sort of weather problem, be it torrential floods in the South or 8 inches of snow and and ice storm in one big wallop (that's my suck by the way, I am so losing power, if I don't I will come back here and eat my own words) up here in the North. People are people and we overreact to everything. Right now it's "batteries, bread, and milk, oh my!" where I live.

Yea, I know. Northerners are great! But I'm stuck in the suck funnel of Facebook -_-. Though, sometimes I have to agree with how silly everything is. I pretty sure all the grocery stores in my state are out of milk, bread and toilet paper. Somewhere, I know there are cars abandoned on the side of the road. And me? I shouldn't be on this thread because all my classes for tonight and tomorrow are canceled so WOOOOO!!!!!

[knittnkitten]

speaking of snow, its rapidly piling up outside and no plow in sight. ug, the township has been awful about plowing the roads at all this year.

[MeltedCaramel]

SymphonicEnkelli

Yea, I know. Northerners are great! But I'm stuck in the suck funnel of Facebook -_-. Though, sometimes I have to agree with how silly everything is. I pretty sure all the grocery stores in my state are out of milk, bread and toilet paper. Somewhere, I know there are cars abandoned on the side of the road. And me? I shouldn't be on this thread because all my classes for tonight and tomorrow are canceled so WOOOOO!!!!!

<----Haha, no wonder people are being assholes then!! Facebook hands you a legal Asshole License when you sign up. Yours must have gotten lost in the mail, because you seem sane and normal. The things people decide THEY MUST HAVE when stuck in the house. "I'mma drink my milk, eat this loaf of bread, and then wait out the storm on the crapper with my crate of toilet paper." I love those "You know you're from...(Insert State Here)" lists because so much of it is true!! The very first one on my state's list? "You feel an uncomfortable urge to buy bread and milk when you hear the word 'snow'." We all have our little idiosyncrasies and I love celebrating those differences and diversities rather than making fun of them. I love that traveling to another state can be like going off-planet. (Maryland was a constant stream of "How do these people get anything done EVER!?" because no one seemed to work so much as...mill around the area wherever they happened to be at, everyone was polite as all-get-out but moved like they were stuck in molasses, and "just around the corner" really meant "you'll see your destination in around two hours".) So...what's a state-specific idiosyncrasy of yours SymphonicEnkelli? By far my favourite for my state (PA) is our tendency to shorten the phrase/invitation (because it's ALWAYS an invitation) "Did you eat yet?" to "Didjeyet?" (Pronounced...well, the closest phonetic approximation I can give is a very quickly spoken "Dijuh-ee-yet" but it all comes out as one garbled syllable. )

knittnkitten I feel your pain. The borough has been awful about plowing, not to mention they like to play "Let's just dump this ohh say...anywhere" with the resulting snow-piles so there is haphazard snow piles everywhere. Everything in the area is covered in a good crust of melting salt too. I swear it's going to take until next October to get the crust off of everything!

[knittnkitten]

my job is close by... but its also up this big steep hill. my supervisor and many others this morning couldn't make it up the hill.

[SymphonicEnkelli]

So...what's a state-specific idiosyncrasy of yours SymphonicEnkelli? By far my favourite for my state (PA) is our tendency to shorten the phrase/invitation (because it's ALWAYS an invitation) "Did you eat yet?" to "Didjeyet?" (Pronounced...well, the closest phonetic approximation I can give is a very quickly spoken "Dijuh-ee-yet" but it all comes out as one garbled syllable. )

I don't know too many idiosyncrasies for my state, since I only moved here five years ago, but we do have some fun stuff. I live in Richmond, Virginia and we have our own bumpers stickers. Seriously, we act like our own special entity and call ourselves RVA. If you live here, you must own a dog and/or going running (bonus points if you run with the dog). Seriously, is can 100 or 0 outside, raining and snowing, and there will be joggers. And people own so many dogs that many shop owners have bowls of water outside of their shops. And we tend to overact with snow, but that is basically a given for all of Virginia.

Speaking of snow, classes are cancelled again, so yea! Bad news, the snowblowers are going to be out again. I appreciate what they are doing, because it is a sucky job, but must they blow snow at 2 in the morning?