Greetings from USA in Virginia. When I saw that smidgen of snow there causing havoc in the UK I burst out laughing. I understand your laughter (loved your laughter) about yall's snow storm. They do work hard here to get the roads clear so folks can get to work. I don't really mind the snow - it is the ICE I don't like. Thanks for sharing it was enjoyable video.
An old friend of mine lives in Michigan in a city bordering one of the great lakes, and his old workplace was within walking distance to the water. There were multiple times where he showed up early to turn on all of the equipment only to call his boss and tell him not to bother to show up because the door was frozen shut and he couldn't get it open.
I am in Southern Indiana and we got 10 inches of snow, followed by freezing rain so we have a layer of ice on top of the snow, then more snow on top of that. My long driveway is impassable to my vehicle (Ford Focus) and the street is a skating rink. We were under a travel warning for 2 days where only emergency vehicles and road crews were allowed so all businesses were closed down. We are supposed to get temperatures below zero tonight and another round of snow Friday. I have lived in Indiana my whole life so I have lived thru a lot of these major winter storms. My parents used to winter in New Mexico because of my dad's heart condition, and they used to say how even a small amount of snow there had people sliding all over because they weren't used to it. They very rarely called off school for snow when I was growing up and we lived way out in the country. I remember one time we were on the bus heading home after a major snowstorm and the bus driver spotted a VW Beetle that had slid off into the ditch. He stopped, gathered several of the older boys and they went out and lifted the VW back onto the road, then they all boarded the bus and we continued on the route
Part of the United States, mainly in the South, are not prepared for snow. They are exactly like Britain but worse, no budget for snow, no equipment to deal with it, no snow tires for their cars, and no experience driving in snow and ice. On one of my trips to the Florida Keys one March, there was a cold snap, the temperature dropped down the 60s. Floridians acted like the sky had fallen. Beaches were deserted, no one owned a coat or a jacket, and no homes had heat. I can't imagine what they'd do it they got snow fall.
Not many people actually buy snow tires. I live in Minnesota where our roads get pretty icy for a few months a year. Tires are pretty expensive for a full set. Most people just get a set of all season tires. Just don't drive faster than the weather allows.
i saw the same confusion when I was stationed at Camp Lejeune (USMC) NC in 1961. They were crippled when it snowed about 1.5 inches, at best. They were using Sears Roebuck snowblowers to clear the roads. Our southern states had the same problem as the Brits today. Not used to severe weather.
@@dalemoore8582 Yeah you guys are doing it wrong. You got to clear the road first, then melt the ice and clear it again. Problem is it breaks roads quite a lot and you send tons of salt in the surroundings though you can always just get a container truck and send the snow elsewhere. I remember people saying that down south it wasn't really worth the costs. Not sure if i agree considering how much mayhem it seems to cause every year.
I'm a transplant from MA that's now in Tampa Florida, where it's only 61F. I didn't move to Florida for 61F, however, it's better than the 24F in MA now.
We've had that in Oklahoma too, RARELY, but I've seen it a couple times. And one year, 2000/2001 we had 65°F on Christmas Day and the next morning it was WELL below 0° and everything had 2-4 inches of ice on everything and more coming down. It was CRAZY! My step-dad was from CO/WY area and he took me out on and it and taught me to drive on roads like that. Mom was PISSED, but we had a lot of fun.
Where I live in Colorado there was a storm in March of 2003 that in 3.5 days dropped 96 inches of snow where I live and 11.5 feet on top of one of the nearby mountains. For reference I live at only 8,400' and the snow totals went up dramatically the higher up you went with the highest totals between 10,000'-14,000'. What might be even crazier than how big that singles snowstorm was, it that the yearly snowfall was well below normal that snow season.
LOL 9" of "Deep" snow. HA! Deep snow is when you've got 2 feet or more, that's deep snow, 9 inches is nothing. I'm from NY. In my youth, I would find an unplowed empty parking lot and purposely go practice emergency stops and starts, to see how my car lost and/or gained control, so I could get use to the feeling of it losing control and be able to stay calm in that scenario.
I moved from Omaha to England in 1981 when I was a little kid, and that blizzard with 6 ft of snowfall where the Queen got stuck and had to bunk up at a village pub for the night was just a normal winter storm for us. And over here if someone asks what the weather is like outside and they say "England", that means it's overcast, drizzling, and a little chilly.
The south gets there storm this weekend, we will come to a stand still as well and we are only getting 6-10 inches here in Arkansas. Currently 21 degrees F, and we have 1 real plow and a couple pickups with blades for a town of 40,000 with a large rural area that will just be out of luck. Having taken my drivers test in Wisconsin in January it doesn't really bother me, the drivers that have no idea how to drive in snow scare me more than the snow.
When I was a kid in 1967 we had 3 feet of snow between 8 am and noon. My mother was pissed when we came back from the bus stop. The school buses were turned around and at our house we had wind breaks it didn’t look bad. We didn’t go to school for two weeks. We didn’t have a ten day warning we had no food and we had to walk a mile to the country store in snow up to our chests.. In 1978 we had a similar blizzard.
Us here in Louisiana are a lot like the UK with snow, around here all they have to do is say snow and the schools close, as for keeping roads clear we have a saying, 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away'. We may not have gotten any snow, but we did make up for it by getting a tornado touchdown, no damage.
I grew up in Kansas and I asked a friend of mine yesterday if kids are back in school yet. At least as of today no schools are in session again yet but now it's mostly due to the extreme cold. They closed EVERY SINGLE highway on Saturday (I believe maybe Sunday) due to the ice and now on top of anywhere between a quarter inch of ice to 3 inches of ice they have up to 11 inches of snow with some areas having snow drifts up to 20 inches. I currently live in Arizona and we're even being affected by the winter storm down here. Northern Arizona was expecting snow while central Arizona, where I live near Phoenix, we have a slim chance of rain (5%) but the winds have been so strong since I started getting ready for bed last night that I can hear the winds howling outside our bedroom window. The winds are so gusty that the airport has flights that are either really delayed or even cancelled (which actually sucks because I just found out that I have a sister in law trying to get here from Costa Rica where her, my brother and their kids have been vacationing.
Daz, I almost spat out my coffee when I saw the "havoc" being caused in the UK. I'm in Arkansas and we usually get a couple of "measurable" snowfalls each year. 2-3 inches tops. It shuts down EVERYTHING. 😂 And they do pre-treat the major highways and send out the plows. It's hilarious. 🤣 However, there's another storm moving in Thurs night into Fri and they're forecasting 5-8 inches to fall here. 😱
Central Eastern Alabama here & only a 47% chance for a little snow on Friday. We had 3 inches in 2018 Tues overnight. Schools closed Wed through Friday!! We were in disbelief, 3 snow days over 3 inches & a bit of ice!! I'm from Ohio and we know about snow!! Cincinnati is getting a good wallop this week!!
grew up in wv. there, 2-3 inches only shuts down schools (and only bc of lawsuits that happened after i graduated) and most voluntary travel. takes at least half a foot for businesses to reduce staff, and maybe a full foot for places to shut down. in seattle, weather's so mild, nothing shuts down for hardly anything.
Don't be too hard on yourselves. If you don't get as much snow or as often, you probably wouldn't have a legitimate reason to invest in tires, salt, plow trucks, etc. to use only a few times. If we get dumped on like we do, it makes sense to have all that and the ability to get more efficient at it. On the more rare occasions the South gets a bad snowstorm, they aren't equipped either, so the North will send trucks, people salt, etc. to help.
My daughter was born the morning after the blizzard of "78. We drove to the hospital in the wee hours during a driving ban when the blizzard was toning down. We were the only car on the roadway with the plows. We kept our hazard flashing lights on to assure the plows could see us. Visibility was pretty good. The whiteout conditions were finished. Oh gosh! The UK havoc condition was the dusting we had a couple of days ago. No big deal. 😅
I must point out that it depends on the area of the U.S. in which one resides as to how well prepared one is for certain weather conditions. I was raised in the South (Georgia) and the Southern states generally are not as prepared for any amount of snowfall because it's quite rare. I remember witnessing a handful of winters growing up in which there was a small amount of snowfall (I'm talking about just an inch or two - sometimes not even that much). And the reactions to it were the same as what you showed in the U.K. Schools and businesses shutting down and cars running off the road because people here don't know how to drive in it. I remember being so excited those few occasions that it snowed because I knew I'd get a snow day. So, yes, the Midwestern and Northern states are well prepared for snow and inclement weather, but the South not so much.
I live near Cincinnati, in southwestern Ohio, the snow started around noon on Sunday and didn't stop for like 26 hours. We've got a foot now where I live, and it would have been more had we not gotten a patch of freezing rain and sleet that tamped the snow down a bit - so now we've got snow/ice/snow. Normally, I would sit back and enjoy being in a cozy house, except my sister is very sick and has been taken to the hospital and I have been snowed in and haven't been able to get to the hospital to see her. Someone plowed our driveway tonight so I am going tomorrow. Now the local news is telling us that we can expect an additional 3-6 inches additional to come in Friday night into Saturday. And temperatures will be below freezing for the next 20 days or more, they predict, with the wind chill advisory making it feel like it's below 0 f, Enjoy your content.
I live in Michigan's Metro Detroit. All I can say is thank god we did not get any freezing rain/ sleet. I would rather have 18 inches of snow I can dig out from, than have to deal with iced-over walks & roads.
Texas here. We're like the UK... 2 inches of snow and schools are closed, travel advisories are broadcasted "Stay home unless it's an emergency". Like you, we don't get the snow storms often and we don't know how to drive on it. We also don't have snow plows, just some salt for ice on the bridges.
Yes, I see that it’s coming for you this week. My niece just moved to Texas just north of Dallas and I called her to warn her that although it won’t be much snow, it will be Armageddon because people down there cannot do snow. We’re from northern Illinois 😂.
South Texas person here. Most of us KNOW we don't know how to handle snow, and for the most part, just stay home, make a pot of chili, and hope the power grid doesn't fail again.
I’m just outside of Boston and we average about 4 feet of snow for a whole winter. In the last 2 years combined we’ve only had about a foot so we’re well over due to get smoked.
I live in southern Indiana but am originally from the Chicago suburbs. Having lived through the blizzards of 1967 and 1979, I have seen snowstorms that truly crippled cities and towns, including Chicago. This past storm here was the worst one I have seen in the 8 years I’ve lived here, but at least in this area it was nothing more than a typical winter storm in northern Illinois. The ice storm here was bad, with a lot of people here in town are still without power three days later. Trees and power lines down and bitter cold, especially at night. But the snowfall here was only a couple of inches. It’s the freezing rain that fell during and after the snowfall that made it bad. I braved the cold and ice and shoveled the walkway, sidewalks and front and back steps three times during Sunday and Monday’s storms, giving me a head-start after it stopped and then dug out my more elderly neighbor who was snowbound and couldn’t even get her trash bin to the curb. We here were lucky as didn’t get it as bad as other places in the country. But the places where people haven’t experienced snow and icy roads and walks, including those of y’all in GB and Europe, are struggling with an unexpected winter storm that probably won’t be the last of the season or more future winters. Humans can adapt and the technology exists, but we as a society need to do a better job in rolling up our sleeves and helping those in trouble on the hazardous roads and sidewalks and checking in with our neighbors, especially the elderly. I’m 65 and have had 3 heart surgeries, but I still get out there to help where I can. Don’t get lazy or apathetic, all warm and cozy in your car or home. Back in the day, people helped people with hard times like this, expecting nothing in return, knowing that they helped other people survive. And in the end, made for friendlier neighbors willing to support and be there for those in need.
I live in a suburb of Kansas City. A road I've lived on my entire life that's NEVER been so bad so FAST. My husband went to the store for the last second stuff I'd forgotten, at 3pm. It had JUST STARTED to drop ice-rain. He spun on that road that's carefully covered beforehand because it's a thruway (a major road in case of emergency for EMS vehicles). We actually got a campfire cooker just in case (we have a BBQ/smoker but it requires electricity) and I made a chicken soup and a hamburger soup. Why... well, you can ALWAYS heat up food you made... even with candles or on a firepit. There's supposed to be another big storm coming this weekend that's going to impact the entire South. Oh, and only 1 of the days was I so hurt by the cold that my sciatica kept me in bed. And that was the 2 days back.
I live in the southern USA, in a rural town in Georgia. We don't have snow plows here. We're completely unequiped to deal with ice and snow. They are now saying we're likely to get some this weekend. Everything will come to a stand still, and I'm okay with that.
I'm in Indianapolis (3:50) this time of year. I live in Chicago the biggest part of the year. Where I am we got about 6 or 7 inches. There were a lot of slide offs initially, but the street department was preparing ahead of the storm and worked tirelessly to maintain the roads during and after. They deserve a big kudos for all of their hard work. All I had to do was shovel the driveway and sidewalk in front of my home here.
Utah here and that is just another Tuesday for us. We put snow tires on our vehicles by Thanksgiving (end of Nov). If we have to go up and down the canyon roads, we are required to have chains to use the roads. The major streets always get plowed, but the rate of snowfall makes it difficult to keep on top of. Neighborhood streets get less attention, but they do the best to get them cleared before we head off for work so we can get to the interstate easily. We would never cancel school for such a small amount. We might delay it for an hour so people can clear their driveway and make sure city roads are clear.
In 1980, when I moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina, I was shocked when a powder of snowfall, not even sticking to roads, would cause school closings. In Massachusetts we went to school in 2 feet of snow. NC is now more prepared for bad snowstorms.
I can only speak for my part of virginia but im sure its in most states but not only do they stay on plowing roads, salting, and throwing traction aid like sand and gravel. They also will in alot of cases pretreat the roads with a mixture itl think its called a brine mixture. They coat the roads and it helps plowing as well as it melting on the streets. You can drive through a day before big storms and see the trucks doing it or the wet lines on the road of the mixture. Also not only are they usually good at pretreating the roads but in majority of cases the plows will be sitting on the tops of hills hours before snow hits so they can be ready in a instant. They will start on interstates and highways. Then will move to secondary roads that are still maintained by the state. They will just keep going over it from the start,thru the storm, and until they get it all cleared hours or days later. **lastly not sure if yall knew but Vdot "virginia department of transportation" does the highways and interstates etc ours is usually the big orange trucks but they contract work out to contractors as well. However businesses hire their own contractors to plow their parking lots, shovel, and salt. So its easy to be like dang the govt cleared every road and sidewalk and finished all the walmarts, pharmacies, fast food etc its kinda cool when you get a big storm and a day later you go to the store and its basically all gone. Im grateful for them for sure. Most of us take them for granted until a storm hits
one difference you accidentally touched on is a huge difference between us and you. the weather after the snow. you mentioned slush, which means melting. here in NY we barely got an inch, lucky the plowed and salted because the snow is going nowhere until Saturday, because that is the first day it will be above freezing temperatures.
I've enjoyed seeing all of the photos and clips from the recent snow in the UK and Ireland. I live up north and we've had snow for almost a week now with temperatures around 0°. This is normal for where I live. I feel bad for places where it isn't normal and they aren't equipped for this weather.
Omg I've never laughed so hard when he switched it over to the UK snow😂 I'm sorry but it reminded me of how Portland Oregon used to act when it would get a light dusting they would shut down the school and our local news would spend 10 hours of storm team coverage. But the last 3 years we've gotten hammered with pretty good storms. Thanks for the laughs guys.
I can relate. I grew up in southern Michigan but now live in western Washington. Michigan had better road conditions with 18 inches of snow on the ground than Washington does with three inches. Of course the Puget Sound area doesn't expect to get a lot of snow so they have a much smaller snow removal budget than the midwest would have.
I was out in KC during the whole bit, and I was shocked how many cars were strewn about, that clearly had no business being out in tall snow. What on earth were those drivers thinking? But as the reporter said, it's been 30 years since people in KC had to drive in snow like this.
I grew up in the PNW one winter some neighborhoods smelled like garlic for weeks because a pizzeria had 'compromised garlic salt' and donated to the city, luckily it happened when it did and turned a financial loss into a tax write off. It was also the first big snow storm in a few years and we weren't as prepared as we should have been - which is why I think the city accepted.
We've got about eight inches (20 cm) in Central Pennsylvania, and it just started snowing again. When I lived in Colorado, we used to AVERAGE about 9 meters of snow over the course of a winter; Pennsylvania is NOTHING compared to that, except up on the Great Lakes.
The U.K. havoc looks like what many folks hope for on Christmas morning here in the U.S.A. BTW, the comparison between snowfalls that the Blokes made was super funny.
Ice storm of 97 in Maine. That was just awful. We didn't have power for over a week and of course no school for a week. I didn't realize we were that bad off because my mom made sure us kids were distracted as best as she could. Barely any heat too. We made blanket fort and everything didn't realize how bad off we were until I was an adult and saw the photos around my state And hearing the older adults talk about how bad it was and then talking to my parents about it. We lost power, hardly had any heat and of course everything was closed so we couldn't get any other groceries we needed. School was out in the spring too because everything flooded after. We were lucky our pipes didn't freeze and burst but our neighbors were not so lucky.
The places that were in your news report are accustomed to getting some amount of snow on a regular basis. They have the equipment and the tools and the understanding on how to handle it. Furthermore, because those streets do get treated on a somewhat regular basis, some of that treatment has embedded in the roads over the years. That said, an unusually high snowfall can still cripple a city that is accustomed to regular heavy snowfalls. I had 11 in here. That's almost half of our average annual snowfall. We were just lucky that there wasn't a layer of ice under that first. In the Southeastern US where snow is far less common, half an inch will shut down a city. Because the ground temperature tends to be warmer though, there's usually a layer of ice under that snow making things much worse. Buying and maintaining the equipment and the tools needed costs money. If you're in an area that rarely sees snow, it's going to be hard to justify budgeting for something that can handle a major snowstorm. Also, I lived in Colorado for 10 years and there were an awful lot of people who had no freaking clue how to drive in snow.
The snow in the UK looks more like an explosion at a sugar factory than a snowstorm. As someone who was born and raised in NY, those UK photos are just an average Tuesday in winter.
I lived e in NH. (I lived in Glasgow for 13 yrs, so I know UK snow 😂). In our major storm (12+"/300+mm), our streets are salted/brine. Then then plows guys just work non-stop (20+hr shifts) until roads are clear. Usually all roads are mostly clear by the time the storm is done. A ballet of machinery, logistics & hard work.
I'm across the river from St. Louis. We had our snowstorm Sunday from early morning until that evening. We we're in the "mix" zone so we saw sleet and ice along with 8 or so inches of snow where I'm at. It's about 25F today. They're saying more snow on Friday. We'll see.....
In NYC we have a pretty great system of preparation for huge snow amounts. The sanitation trucks are all outfitted with salt spreaders, sand dispensers, and plows with GPS that shows exactly what roads were plowed and how many times. The sanitation dept also hires temporary volunteers, young men mostly, to shovel out hard to reach areas for public services. The commissioner did such a good job she's been assigned as NYPD commissioner at the moment and I predict she'll be mayor soon enough.
Driving in snow isn't difficult if you use some common sense. As the news proves, we sometimes lack that 😂 Lol the UK news for that little bit of snow is adorable.
It does take a little practice though. The farther south you go, the less people will have practice driving in snow. So, when they *do* get hit big, it's a mess.
Ice...now that's a problem. People think if they have an SUV, they can drive on ice. My cousin said, (he was going to get one) I've never seen so many SUVs in ditches in my life.
Don't be too embarrassed; I grew up in Northern Michigan but have resided in Tennessee for the last three decades. In general, the southern states are far less prepared for heavy snow than the northern states. The drivers are also less skilled. Neither of these things reflect the competence of the local population nor the governments. It does however reflect the probability of occurrence in these areas. I grew up with snow covered roads about five months out of each year, so the local drivers got about five months experience driving in these conditions annually. Our southern neighbors might get five snowy days in a year. Not much of a comparison. As to snow removal, think about budgeting manpower and equipment for an event that may or may not happen once in a while. A funny thing about driving from Tennessee to northern Michigan, is the quality of the road surface degrades dramatically as you roll north. That too is a reflection of where the money is going. In the Tennessee town I live in, roads are resurfaced and painted very frequently, and potholes are rare. In some northern US cities, patches of smooth pavement are rare and potholes can cause serious damage to a car. There is a big trade off. During my first year in Tennessee, I remember scoffing at the idea that schools were closing over a light dusting of snow... then someone explained to me, that the decision was driven by whether or not students could safely wait for their school bus. That shut me up. It's the city's way of keeping the kids safe because they can't keep the roads safe under those conditions. Having said all of that. Your video was great and it is funny. I love how the same language can be used to describe things at a totally different scale.
The Dallas Fort Worth area of North Texas is expecting 5 plus inches of snow on Thursday... This will be our first snow/sleet winter weather so far this winter...
In Missouri. We just got about 8-10 inches on Saturday night through Sunday and a couple of more inches are coming on Friday. I just shovel in 20 minute increments until my driveway is clear.
haha this is an annual thing at least once a year for anyone who lives in the North of America. It's funny when it snows in the South because they don't have the infrastructure to deal with it, so it literally just shuts down the entire economy.
@willvr4, and why should we? I am 58 years old, born & raised in North Georgia. On average, we get measurable snow or ice every 10 years. Better to take the small economic hit than to constantly maintain snowplows, salt & sand.
@@scorpiouk5914 You shouldn't. It wouldn't make sense, financially. I have family in the South and have been there my entire life every year. I just think it's funny when you guys get like 2 inches and people act like the world is ending haha But you don't need to constantly maintain snowplows. A good portion of our plowers are independent contractors who just buy a plow and an insurance contract who are on-call when a storm hits.
@@willvr4, negative, my good man! The Georgia DOT has snowplows and sand and salt trucks. True, many drivers down here panic when driving in snow. My late father taught me how to drive in snow. But, even he admitted that icy roads are a no go.
The difference in snow management is having a massive budget for it, because you do severe storms several times a year, versus living in places where it might not even snow at all one year, and you don't even have plow trucks. I'm sure people in Minnesota are getting a good laugh at KC's efforts, despite being sort in the middle of those two groups.
4x4 sideswiped the hearse my brother was being transported in.....but today's cars with AWD and traction control you can't turn off are pure GARBAGE in any weather like this. So shove auto drive right up your muskhole. 👽👽👽
The latest wrinkle in this series of storms is a fire event on the west coast involving the northern and western fringes of Los Angeles including some of the priciest neighborhoods in America such as Pacific Palisades (Ronald Reagan lived there) and Malibu (countless stars live there). Most disturbing is that one report had the Getty Museum's ground, but so far not the main buildings housing the $1.3 billion Greek and Roman art collection, on fire.
@@pamprier4710 From the LA Times: "The fast-moving Palisades fire raced through brush and trees at the iconic Getty Villa by the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, but the building and its contents did not burn, fire and Getty officials said. The blaze never got to the collections of rare artifacts and antiquities, Katherine E. Fleming, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust said in a statement. “Fortunately, Getty had made extensive efforts to clear brush from the surrounding area as part of its fire mitigation efforts throughout the year,” Fleming said. “Some trees and vegetation on site have burned, but staff and the collection remain safe.” “Additional fire prevention measures in place at the Villa include water storage on-site,” she said. “Irrigation was immediately deployed throughout the grounds Tuesday morning. Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art air handling systems. The double-walled construction of the galleries also provides significant protection for the collections."
I live in Louisburg KS, and when I saw that guy on a bike in the UK, I laughed so hard. I couldn't get enough snow cleared to leave the house until yesterday.
Denver has been clear during this storm.. She couldn't get to Denver from the east.. Denver doesn't get as much snow as the mountains do ..it sits at the base of the Rocky Mountains..
I grew up outside of Chicago. All through the 70's we would have massive snow storms each winter. Heck, I learned how to drive a car when there was three feet of snow built up in everyone's yards. Then I moved to Seattle. They almost never have snow and don't have the equipment to handle it. My hubby and I were chuckling when everything shut down over an inch of snow. But then we drove in it and realized it was a much more powdery snow than we were used to (far more slippery) and it was extremely hard to keep our cars under control. It's all about what you are used to, what you are prepared for, and how much your infrastructure is set up to deal with it.
I got about 6 or 7 inches. Comes up a little past my ankle. It's not too bad if you know how to drive in it. The wind is what makes snow dangerous because it lowers visibility and if you have a truck with a bed, your back end is more prone to fish-tailing. I put bags of kitty litter in the back of my truck to weigh it down and if I get REALLY stuck, I can put the litter in the snow to give me grip.
I grew up in snow country. My car used to get buried with a plow throwing snow, but the reason people shovel their street in front of their house is that in many places, because the street is a public throughfare, it requires the owner or renter to shovel the sidewalk for public safety and access and you need to shovel the area to your house or driveway so you can get your mail or other deliveries.
As someone from upstate NY I have seen my fair share of snow so it definitely made giggle watching the “havoc” that dusting of snow caused over there. I will say that it would cause similar issues (not so much havoc) in some of our more Southern (south eastern) states here in the US and that would be primarily because of the lack of resources such as snow plows/salt trucks etc. A friend of mine had moved down south a few years ago and her first winter living there she was dumbfounded and couldn’t understand why they closed schools and shut things down over the most minuscule amount of snow. She also said that no one knows how to drive in it which makes it that much worse. I get it though to some degree, when you are not used to or are unprepared for it then I could see it causing major disruptions. I will also end with saying that although I live in an area of our country that gets its fair share of snow and harsh winter weather that ice is by far the worst one to deal with even with the right resources available to help combat it. It is in my opinion the most damaging and disruptive.
It's kinda like that down south, the smallest amount of snow everything closes and they can't drive, but the Midwest and the north are better prepared because we are used to it
MN was on the north side of the storm. We got nothing. We have a saying that it was "too cold to snow". What happens is that the moisture from the south isn't able to penetrate the high pressure dome above us, and it just doesn't get here. The early and late parts of winter, are different, but quite often we don't see much in January and February.
I'm in Indianapolis. We received about 8 inches at my house. We have not seen any county plows down our street. Private snowplows went down through here Sunday night. No salt down and the road has been pretty slick. Our neighbors across the street had their mailboxes wiped out by someone sliding off the road. I've lived in Indiana my entire life but I try to avoid driving until conditions are better.
Kentucky here. We got 6 inches of snow, then 1/2 of freezing rain, and then today 3 inches of snow on top of that. We are expecting about 6 inches more snow Friday. We live out in the country, so we were well prepared for the weather. We have a secondary heat source (LP gas heater with plenty of fuel), gas generator, power inverter with charged marine batteries, oil/kersone lamps, plenty of food and water and of course, lots of candles and lanterns. If worse comes to worse, we have our RV we can get into to stay warm, with plenty of jugs of diesel fuel. Sometimes when you live this far out, you have to live winter life like a "prepper" and just be prepared for anything.
As a New Yorker who lived in N.C. for many years.The difference was funny. In NY we'd be expected in to work after a foot of snow. Plows and Salt trucks out in force. After an inch or 2 in N.C. I'd be off for 2to3 days. And it's because in the South , the Govt budget accounts for a few trucks. Not an Army.
Yankees say southerners can’t drive in snow. Then we all see on the news is 30 car pileup on the highway jackknifed trucks and my personal favorite…steep hills in northern suburbs with cars crashing into cars as they try to make in down hill. It really doesn’tlook like they can drive in it either. Haha! Southerner take the day off and enjoy the snow.
Eastern Kentucky here. We first got snow thank goodness with a huge amount of sleet/ice on top of the snow. Before the weather started, the state Dept of Transportation had snow trucks out laying down a layer of salt solution. It works up to a point. Now we are going to have a couple of days of temperatures right at 0 F (-17 C). We're supposed to get more snow the end of the week. Models are predicting 3 to 5 inches here where I live. Biggest headaches for people are frozen/burst water pipes and power outages (dangerous for a LOT of people). There are warming centers where people can go to stay if their power goes out or if they are homeless. This is all bringing back wonderful memories of 1977/78 when I was in school. We went back to school for ONE day after the Christmas/New Years holiday, then it snowed and iced and snowed and snowed and iced. We didn't go back to school until mid-March!! I loved each and every second of it!! I love winter and the snow! We also have the idiots who think they can drive on ice. The south has a hard time of it because they don't have the budget for snow. But we've been watching all the devastation happening with the wildfires in California. I'd much rather have our weather than Cali's fire weather!
In 1978 we lived on the second floor of a duplex. We had a blizzard and in the morning I ran down the stairs to go outside and opened the door. Behind it was a wall of snow, we ended up going out a second story window and sliding down the snow bank.
I live in Michigan (we had thunder snow a few weeks ago.) Blizzards aren't great, but what I hate and dread the most are ice storms. They create such havoc because everything gets coated with thick layers of ice resulting in tree branches as well as complete trees crashing down. All the electricity goes out and it can often take days for electricity to be restored if there is widespread damage. At least there are snowplows to remove the snow.
Here in Georgia, and other parts of the deep south, most snow storms come after we have been in the forties or so (in C, 10-ish), so while we will get a gorgeous coating on the lawns and trees, the roads are warm enough to melt whatever hits them and everything stays passable - except where branches break from the weight of the snow and fall on the roads. Occasionally we get a situation like what is shaping up this week, with perhaps a week in which we have been near or below freezing before the expected precipitation on Friday, such that when the precipitation hits, the roads are unlikely to melt any snow or ice and the roads will be impassable from ice and people who fail to anticipate it. The state has already started salting the major routes, but that can wash off, and also leaves the medium and small roads untreated. This too will pass.
Thundersnow is thundering during a snow storm. It was the ice that came first that really screwed up everything. It went from ice to snow the sleet and back to snow. With 40MPH winds that was pretty much constant just made everything so much worse. I’m in the KCMO area and we officially got 9 inches but at my house the snow was high enough the we could not see where the steps on the porch started!
I’m in the heart of the large snowstorm(Kansas City Missouri) we love our snow storms. We swing between -5 Fahrenheit and 105 Fahrenheit throughout the course of a year. Definitely not the place for people who can’t handle both ends of the weather spectrum. Plus the severe thunderstorms. I actually helped three duck hunters get their boat out of the river in the height of this recent winter storm. For most of us life goes on as normal, just more layers of clothing! Cheers
Watching this from Wisconsin, and the phrase Hold My Beer came to mind. lol
As a fellow Wisconsinite I can confirm this statement 😂😂
Been drinking Wisconsinbly for three hours now 😂🍻
Except Wisconsin has gotten very little snow the last two winters
As a fellow wisconsinite, I'm sure we all joke that everyone forgets how to drive in the snow every year.
Tell about it fellow Wisconsinite. This is normally us right about now. But for whatever reason we have been spared this for the second winter now.
Greetings from USA in Virginia. When I saw that smidgen of snow there causing havoc in the UK I burst out laughing. I understand your laughter (loved your laughter) about yall's snow storm. They do work hard here to get the roads clear so folks can get to work. I don't really mind the snow - it is the ICE I don't like. Thanks for sharing it was enjoyable video.
I’m sorry to hear about flooding in the UK.
from buffalo NY, Land of 6ft snow storms.
Go Bills from northern Ontario...yeah we know snow.
Just south of you in Warren County, PA.
Love the snow. Pittsburgher here.
An old friend of mine lives in Michigan in a city bordering one of the great lakes, and his old workplace was within walking distance to the water. There were multiple times where he showed up early to turn on all of the equipment only to call his boss and tell him not to bother to show up because the door was frozen shut and he couldn't get it open.
That’s real weather! 😂
The UK snow havoc is hilarious I got tears rolling down my face
I'm in Kansas City❤ yup we sure got hit hard. I had snow halfway up my front door😮
omg! I laughed so hard. What on earth?? There is hardly even a dusting of snow. So funny,
a light dusting.
I am in Southern Indiana and we got 10 inches of snow, followed by freezing rain so we have a layer of ice on top of the snow, then more snow on top of that. My long driveway is impassable to my vehicle (Ford Focus) and the street is a skating rink. We were under a travel warning for 2 days where only emergency vehicles and road crews were allowed so all businesses were closed down. We are supposed to get temperatures below zero tonight and another round of snow Friday.
I have lived in Indiana my whole life so I have lived thru a lot of these major winter storms. My parents used to winter in New Mexico because of my dad's heart condition, and they used to say how even a small amount of snow there had people sliding all over because they weren't used to it.
They very rarely called off school for snow when I was growing up and we lived way out in the country. I remember one time we were on the bus heading home after a major snowstorm and the bus driver spotted a VW Beetle that had slid off into the ditch. He stopped, gathered several of the older boys and they went out and lifted the VW back onto the road, then they all boarded the bus and we continued on the route
I'm in Arkansas/Oklahoma ans WE are gettng up to 8-10 inches today! 😂 We dont EVER get snow, we get ice.
Greetings from Ohio, the land of snowblowers and black ice.
Try lake effect. :)
@@SGlitz Ohio has that up north.
Laughs in Michigan.
I don’t even think it was that bad this was just a little bit of snow
Ummm, we have lake effect in Ohio....😂. We have more people and more roads as well. The ice in southern Ohio from this storm is rough stuff. 👽🗿👽
Part of the United States, mainly in the South, are not prepared for snow. They are exactly like Britain but worse, no budget for snow, no equipment to deal with it, no snow tires for their cars, and no experience driving in snow and ice.
On one of my trips to the Florida Keys one March, there was a cold snap, the temperature dropped down the 60s. Floridians acted like the sky had fallen. Beaches were deserted, no one owned a coat or a jacket, and no homes had heat. I can't imagine what they'd do it they got snow fall.
Not many people actually buy snow tires. I live in Minnesota where our roads get pretty icy for a few months a year. Tires are pretty expensive for a full set. Most people just get a set of all season tires. Just don't drive faster than the weather allows.
I just commented the same thing! I was raised in Georgia and a teensy bit of snowfall will bring schools, businesses, everything to a grinding halt.
In the Midwest they will keep plowing unless they actually close all roads.
In Kansas and Missouri they did close EVERY SINGLE highway except for the turnpike in NE Kansas on Saturday (I think it was Saturday).
i saw the same confusion when I was stationed at Camp Lejeune (USMC) NC in 1961. They were crippled when it snowed about 1.5 inches, at best. They were using Sears Roebuck snowblowers to clear the roads. Our southern states had the same problem as the Brits today. Not used to severe weather.
We don’t have the equipment to clear the roads we have salt trucks but the ice melts and refreezes
@@dalemoore8582 Yeah you guys are doing it wrong. You got to clear the road first, then melt the ice and clear it again. Problem is it breaks roads quite a lot and you send tons of salt in the surroundings though you can always just get a container truck and send the snow elsewhere.
I remember people saying that down south it wasn't really worth the costs. Not sure if i agree considering how much mayhem it seems to cause every year.
I went to Camp Lejeune and all I got was mesothelioma and a lousy Tshirt 😂
Manitoba Canada here enjoying a balmy minus 18 degrees Celsius. It was 35 below for the last few days.
I'm a transplant from MA that's now in Tampa Florida, where it's only 61F. I didn't move to Florida for 61F, however, it's better than the 24F in MA now.
Thundersnow can be the worst. Sometimes get 6 to 7 inches per hour, thats enough to sliw traffic down to 45mph. Northern michigan.
We got thundersnow and thundersleet in KC MO. SO wild!
We've had that in Oklahoma too, RARELY, but I've seen it a couple times. And one year, 2000/2001 we had 65°F on Christmas Day and the next morning it was WELL below 0° and everything had 2-4 inches of ice on everything and more coming down. It was CRAZY! My step-dad was from CO/WY area and he took me out on and it and taught me to drive on roads like that. Mom was PISSED, but we had a lot of fun.
Where I live in Colorado there was a storm in March of 2003 that in 3.5 days dropped 96 inches of snow where I live and 11.5 feet on top of one of the nearby mountains. For reference I live at only 8,400' and the snow totals went up dramatically the higher up you went with the highest totals between 10,000'-14,000'. What might be even crazier than how big that singles snowstorm was, it that the yearly snowfall was well below normal that snow season.
Yeah, your snowstorm in the UK looked quite mild! I can see why you are laughing along with me! Nebraska, USA here!
LOL 9" of "Deep" snow. HA! Deep snow is when you've got 2 feet or more, that's deep snow, 9 inches is nothing. I'm from NY. In my youth, I would find an unplowed empty parking lot and purposely go practice emergency stops and starts, to see how my car lost and/or gained control, so I could get use to the feeling of it losing control and be able to stay calm in that scenario.
Oh lord, not the snow oppression Olympics. With a kicker of “back in my day, we walked uphill both ways no shoes in 2’ of snow”
I moved from Omaha to England in 1981 when I was a little kid, and that blizzard with 6 ft of snowfall where the Queen got stuck and had to bunk up at a village pub for the night was just a normal winter storm for us.
And over here if someone asks what the weather is like outside and they say "England", that means it's overcast, drizzling, and a little chilly.
The south gets there storm this weekend, we will come to a stand still as well and we are only getting 6-10 inches here in Arkansas. Currently 21 degrees F, and we have 1 real plow and a couple pickups with blades for a town of 40,000 with a large rural area that will just be out of luck. Having taken my drivers test in Wisconsin in January it doesn't really bother me, the drivers that have no idea how to drive in snow scare me more than the snow.
When I was a kid in 1967 we had 3 feet of snow between 8 am and noon. My mother was pissed when we came back from the bus stop. The school buses were turned around and at our house we had wind breaks it didn’t look bad. We didn’t go to school for two weeks. We didn’t have a ten day warning we had no food and we had to walk a mile to the country store in snow up to our chests.. In 1978 we had a similar blizzard.
Michigan here. I remember that storm. My sister had to climb out the milk chute to clear the doors from snow so we could get out of the house.
Us here in Louisiana are a lot like the UK with snow, around here all they have to do is say snow and the schools close, as for keeping roads clear we have a saying, 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away'. We may not have gotten any snow, but we did make up for it by getting a tornado touchdown, no damage.
Im in upstate NY (born and raised in Brooklyn, NY) The current temp is -12°c (11°f) and very blustery. It's worse , just north of me. ⛄❄brrrr
I grew up in Kansas and I asked a friend of mine yesterday if kids are back in school yet. At least as of today no schools are in session again yet but now it's mostly due to the extreme cold. They closed EVERY SINGLE highway on Saturday (I believe maybe Sunday) due to the ice and now on top of anywhere between a quarter inch of ice to 3 inches of ice they have up to 11 inches of snow with some areas having snow drifts up to 20 inches. I currently live in Arizona and we're even being affected by the winter storm down here. Northern Arizona was expecting snow while central Arizona, where I live near Phoenix, we have a slim chance of rain (5%) but the winds have been so strong since I started getting ready for bed last night that I can hear the winds howling outside our bedroom window. The winds are so gusty that the airport has flights that are either really delayed or even cancelled (which actually sucks because I just found out that I have a sister in law trying to get here from Costa Rica where her, my brother and their kids have been vacationing.
Yikes 😢
Daz, I almost spat out my coffee when I saw the "havoc" being caused in the UK. I'm in Arkansas and we usually get a couple of "measurable" snowfalls each year. 2-3 inches tops. It shuts down EVERYTHING. 😂 And they do pre-treat the major highways and send out the plows. It's hilarious. 🤣 However, there's another storm moving in Thurs night into Fri and they're forecasting 5-8 inches to fall here. 😱
enough fuckin emojis, dawg? jesus christ.
2-3 inches on Alabama in feel your pain. All it has to do is stick here and everything gets shut down
Central Eastern Alabama here & only a 47% chance for a little snow on Friday. We had 3 inches in 2018 Tues overnight. Schools closed Wed through Friday!! We were in disbelief, 3 snow days over 3 inches & a bit of ice!! I'm from Ohio and we know about snow!! Cincinnati is getting a good wallop this week!!
grew up in wv. there, 2-3 inches only shuts down schools (and only bc of lawsuits that happened after i graduated) and most voluntary travel. takes at least half a foot for businesses to reduce staff, and maybe a full foot for places to shut down.
in seattle, weather's so mild, nothing shuts down for hardly anything.
In northern Mississippi they use sand😂
Don't be too hard on yourselves. If you don't get as much snow or as often, you probably wouldn't have a legitimate reason to invest in tires, salt, plow trucks, etc. to use only a few times. If we get dumped on like we do, it makes sense to have all that and the ability to get more efficient at it. On the more rare occasions the South gets a bad snowstorm, they aren't equipped either, so the North will send trucks, people salt, etc. to help.
My daughter was born the morning after the blizzard of "78. We drove to the hospital in the wee hours during a driving ban when the blizzard was toning down. We were the only car on the roadway with the plows. We kept our hazard flashing lights on to assure the plows could see us. Visibility was pretty good. The whiteout conditions were finished.
Oh gosh! The UK havoc condition was the dusting we had a couple of days ago. No big deal. 😅
My mom went into labor with me during the 78' blizzard 😬
I must point out that it depends on the area of the U.S. in which one resides as to how well prepared one is for certain weather conditions. I was raised in the South (Georgia) and the Southern states generally are not as prepared for any amount of snowfall because it's quite rare. I remember witnessing a handful of winters growing up in which there was a small amount of snowfall (I'm talking about just an inch or two - sometimes not even that much). And the reactions to it were the same as what you showed in the U.K. Schools and businesses shutting down and cars running off the road because people here don't know how to drive in it. I remember being so excited those few occasions that it snowed because I knew I'd get a snow day. So, yes, the Midwestern and Northern states are well prepared for snow and inclement weather, but the South not so much.
I live in the Hudson valley in New York and have a friend who lives In Atlanta and he told me the same thing you just said.
I live near Cincinnati, in southwestern Ohio, the snow started around noon on Sunday and didn't stop for like 26 hours. We've got a foot now where I live, and it would have been more had we not gotten a patch of freezing rain and sleet that tamped the snow down a bit - so now we've got snow/ice/snow. Normally, I would sit back and enjoy being in a cozy house, except my sister is very sick and has been taken to the hospital and I have been snowed in and haven't been able to get to the hospital to see her. Someone plowed our driveway tonight so I am going tomorrow. Now the local news is telling us that we can expect an additional 3-6 inches additional to come in Friday night into Saturday. And temperatures will be below freezing for the next 20 days or more, they predict, with the wind chill advisory making it feel like it's below 0 f, Enjoy your content.
I live in Michigan's Metro Detroit. All I can say is thank god we did not get any freezing rain/ sleet. I would rather have 18 inches of snow I can dig out from, than have to deal with iced-over walks & roads.
Texas here. We're like the UK... 2 inches of snow and schools are closed, travel advisories are broadcasted "Stay home unless it's an emergency". Like you, we don't get the snow storms often and we don't know how to drive on it. We also don't have snow plows, just some salt for ice on the bridges.
Yes, I see that it’s coming for you this week. My niece just moved to Texas just north of Dallas and I called her to warn her that although it won’t be much snow, it will be Armageddon because people down there cannot do snow. We’re from northern Illinois 😂.
South Texas person here. Most of us KNOW we don't know how to handle snow, and for the most part, just stay home, make a pot of chili, and hope the power grid doesn't fail again.
I’m just outside of Boston and we average about 4 feet of snow for a whole winter. In the last 2 years combined we’ve only had about a foot so we’re well over due to get smoked.
I totally agree. I live north of Boston and I think this year is going to be colder than the last couple of years and we are due for a nor’easter.
I live in southern Indiana but am originally from the Chicago suburbs. Having lived through the blizzards of 1967 and 1979, I have seen snowstorms that truly crippled cities and towns, including Chicago. This past storm here was the worst one I have seen in the 8 years I’ve lived here, but at least in this area it was nothing more than a typical winter storm in northern Illinois. The ice storm here was bad, with a lot of people here in town are still without power three days later. Trees and power lines down and bitter cold, especially at night. But the snowfall here was only a couple of inches. It’s the freezing rain that fell during and after the snowfall that made it bad. I braved the cold and ice and shoveled the walkway, sidewalks and front and back steps three times during Sunday and Monday’s storms, giving me a head-start after it stopped and then dug out my more elderly neighbor who was snowbound and couldn’t even get her trash bin to the curb. We here were lucky as didn’t get it as bad as other places in the country. But the places where people haven’t experienced snow and icy roads and walks, including those of y’all in GB and Europe, are struggling with an unexpected winter storm that probably won’t be the last of the season or more future winters. Humans can adapt and the technology exists, but we as a society need to do a better job in rolling up our sleeves and helping those in trouble on the hazardous roads and sidewalks and checking in with our neighbors, especially the elderly. I’m 65 and have had 3 heart surgeries, but I still get out there to help where I can. Don’t get lazy or apathetic, all warm and cozy in your car or home. Back in the day, people helped people with hard times like this, expecting nothing in return, knowing that they helped other people survive. And in the end, made for friendlier neighbors willing to support and be there for those in need.
I'm in Texas and thank god we're not dealing with this snow storm. I feel for my fellow Americans having to deal with this.
Depending on where you are, please be safe. This next storm is going to be as bad and closer to parts of the Lone Star state.
You say that but we're also expecting a winter storm in the next couple of days, freezing rain and snow expected.
I live in a suburb of Kansas City. A road I've lived on my entire life that's NEVER been so bad so FAST. My husband went to the store for the last second stuff I'd forgotten, at 3pm. It had JUST STARTED to drop ice-rain. He spun on that road that's carefully covered beforehand because it's a thruway (a major road in case of emergency for EMS vehicles). We actually got a campfire cooker just in case (we have a BBQ/smoker but it requires electricity) and I made a chicken soup and a hamburger soup. Why... well, you can ALWAYS heat up food you made... even with candles or on a firepit. There's supposed to be another big storm coming this weekend that's going to impact the entire South. Oh, and only 1 of the days was I so hurt by the cold that my sciatica kept me in bed. And that was the 2 days back.
I live in the southern USA, in a rural town in Georgia. We don't have snow plows here. We're completely unequiped to deal with ice and snow. They are now saying we're likely to get some this weekend. Everything will come to a stand still, and I'm okay with that.
Yes, and people aren’t used to driving on snow and ice
I'm in Indianapolis (3:50) this time of year. I live in Chicago the biggest part of the year. Where I am we got about 6 or 7 inches. There were a lot of slide offs initially, but the street department was preparing ahead of the storm and worked tirelessly to maintain the roads during and after. They deserve a big kudos for all of their hard work. All I had to do was shovel the driveway and sidewalk in front of my home here.
Utah here and that is just another Tuesday for us. We put snow tires on our vehicles by Thanksgiving (end of Nov). If we have to go up and down the canyon roads, we are required to have chains to use the roads. The major streets always get plowed, but the rate of snowfall makes it difficult to keep on top of. Neighborhood streets get less attention, but they do the best to get them cleared before we head off for work so we can get to the interstate easily. We would never cancel school for such a small amount. We might delay it for an hour so people can clear their driveway and make sure city roads are clear.
We got 11 inches of snow Sunday where I'm at in the St. Louis Metro.
I'm a cpl hours south of you. We got mostly ice. 😑
Its like that in the South , USA. They get a dusting and everything comes to a complete halt.Interesting Video
In 1980, when I moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina, I was shocked when a powder of snowfall, not even sticking to roads, would cause school closings. In Massachusetts we went to school in 2 feet of snow. NC is now more prepared for bad snowstorms.
9:25 that wouldn't stop an airport here at all lol
The worst part is when you have a long rural driveway and no one to plow it. I always think I can turn around in it and it never works out, lol.
In Alaska they make temporary landing strips on frozen lakes.
I can only speak for my part of virginia but im sure its in most states but not only do they stay on plowing roads, salting, and throwing traction aid like sand and gravel. They also will in alot of cases pretreat the roads with a mixture itl think its called a brine mixture. They coat the roads and it helps plowing as well as it melting on the streets. You can drive through a day before big storms and see the trucks doing it or the wet lines on the road of the mixture.
Also not only are they usually good at pretreating the roads but in majority of cases the plows will be sitting on the tops of hills hours before snow hits so they can be ready in a instant. They will start on interstates and highways. Then will move to secondary roads that are still maintained by the state. They will just keep going over it from the start,thru the storm, and until they get it all cleared hours or days later.
**lastly not sure if yall knew but Vdot "virginia department of transportation" does the highways and interstates etc ours is usually the big orange trucks but they contract work out to contractors as well. However businesses hire their own contractors to plow their parking lots, shovel, and salt. So its easy to be like dang the govt cleared every road and sidewalk and finished all the walmarts, pharmacies, fast food etc its kinda cool when you get a big storm and a day later you go to the store and its basically all gone.
Im grateful for them for sure. Most of us take them for granted until a storm hits
one difference you accidentally touched on is a huge difference between us and you.
the weather after the snow. you mentioned slush, which means melting.
here in NY we barely got an inch, lucky the plowed and salted because the snow is going nowhere until Saturday, because that is the first day it will be above freezing temperatures.
I've enjoyed seeing all of the photos and clips from the recent snow in the UK and Ireland. I live up north and we've had snow for almost a week now with temperatures around 0°. This is normal for where I live. I feel bad for places where it isn't normal and they aren't equipped for this weather.
The snow isn't hard to drive in, with a modern car and AWD. Nothing you can do with ice though, unless you have spiked tires or chains.
Yeah, snow isn't that hard to drive in but Ice, nope. You have absolutely no control and just slip and slide, its terrifying.
I'm in Columbus Indiana, got a foot at my house! Most snow we've had in a while.
Omg I've never laughed so hard when he switched it over to the UK snow😂 I'm sorry but it reminded me of how Portland Oregon used to act when it would get a light dusting they would shut down the school and our local news would spend 10 hours of storm team coverage.
But the last 3 years we've gotten hammered with pretty good storms. Thanks for the laughs guys.
I can relate. I grew up in southern Michigan but now live in western Washington. Michigan had better road conditions with 18 inches of snow on the ground than Washington does with three inches. Of course the Puget Sound area doesn't expect to get a lot of snow so they have a much smaller snow removal budget than the midwest would have.
check out Buffalo Rochester and Syracuse snow storms. Buffalo especially! feet over feet of snow! a week worth of digging out! when you lose power 😵
I was out in KC during the whole bit, and I was shocked how many cars were strewn about, that clearly had no business being out in tall snow. What on earth were those drivers thinking? But as the reporter said, it's been 30 years since people in KC had to drive in snow like this.
I grew up in the PNW one winter some neighborhoods smelled like garlic for weeks because a pizzeria had 'compromised garlic salt' and donated to the city, luckily it happened when it did and turned a financial loss into a tax write off. It was also the first big snow storm in a few years and we weren't as prepared as we should have been - which is why I think the city accepted.
We've got about eight inches (20 cm) in Central Pennsylvania, and it just started snowing again.
When I lived in Colorado, we used to AVERAGE about 9 meters of snow over the course of a winter; Pennsylvania is NOTHING compared to that, except up on the Great Lakes.
The U.K. havoc looks like what many folks hope for on Christmas morning here in the U.S.A. BTW, the comparison between snowfalls that the Blokes made was super funny.
love your laugh/reaction at UK winter storm 😆
But it was pretty tho.
Ice storm of 97 in Maine. That was just awful. We didn't have power for over a week and of course no school for a week. I didn't realize we were that bad off because my mom made sure us kids were distracted as best as she could. Barely any heat too. We made blanket fort and everything didn't realize how bad off we were until I was an adult and saw the photos around my state And hearing the older adults talk about how bad it was and then talking to my parents about it. We lost power, hardly had any heat and of course everything was closed so we couldn't get any other groceries we needed. School was out in the spring too because everything flooded after. We were lucky our pipes didn't freeze and burst but our neighbors were not so lucky.
No snow in Michigan yet, well it has snowed a few times but nothing sticking. It has been freezing the last week though.
The places that were in your news report are accustomed to getting some amount of snow on a regular basis. They have the equipment and the tools and the understanding on how to handle it.
Furthermore, because those streets do get treated on a somewhat regular basis, some of that treatment has embedded in the roads over the years.
That said, an unusually high snowfall can still cripple a city that is accustomed to regular heavy snowfalls. I had 11 in here. That's almost half of our average annual snowfall. We were just lucky that there wasn't a layer of ice under that first.
In the Southeastern US where snow is far less common, half an inch will shut down a city. Because the ground temperature tends to be warmer though, there's usually a layer of ice under that snow making things much worse.
Buying and maintaining the equipment and the tools needed costs money. If you're in an area that rarely sees snow, it's going to be hard to justify budgeting for something that can handle a major snowstorm.
Also, I lived in Colorado for 10 years and there were an awful lot of people who had no freaking clue how to drive in snow.
The snow in the UK looks more like an explosion at a sugar factory than a snowstorm. As someone who was born and raised in NY, those UK photos are just an average Tuesday in winter.
thanks folks...as different as we are we're still the same...
I lived e in NH. (I lived in Glasgow for 13 yrs, so I know UK snow 😂).
In our major storm (12+"/300+mm), our streets are salted/brine. Then then plows guys just work non-stop (20+hr shifts) until roads are clear. Usually all roads are mostly clear by the time the storm is done.
A ballet of machinery, logistics & hard work.
I'm across the river from St. Louis. We had our snowstorm Sunday from early morning until that evening. We we're in the "mix" zone so we saw sleet and ice along with 8 or so inches of snow where I'm at. It's about 25F today. They're saying more snow on Friday. We'll see.....
In NYC we have a pretty great system of preparation for huge snow amounts. The sanitation trucks are all outfitted with salt spreaders, sand dispensers, and plows with GPS that shows exactly what roads were plowed and how many times. The sanitation dept also hires temporary volunteers, young men mostly, to shovel out hard to reach areas for public services. The commissioner did such a good job she's been assigned as NYPD commissioner at the moment and I predict she'll be mayor soon enough.
And This My British Family from across the Pond Why I Live in the South. 😉👍❤️❤️❤️.
Driving in snow isn't difficult if you use some common sense. As the news proves, we sometimes lack that 😂
Lol the UK news for that little bit of snow is adorable.
It does take a little practice though. The farther south you go, the less people will have practice driving in snow. So, when they *do* get hit big, it's a mess.
Ice...now that's a problem. People think if they have an SUV, they can drive on ice. My cousin said, (he was going to get one) I've never seen so many SUVs in ditches in my life.
Kansas City received about 18 inches of snow.
Don't be too embarrassed; I grew up in Northern Michigan but have resided in Tennessee for the last three decades. In general, the southern states are far less prepared for heavy snow than the northern states. The drivers are also less skilled. Neither of these things reflect the competence of the local population nor the governments. It does however reflect the probability of occurrence in these areas. I grew up with snow covered roads about five months out of each year, so the local drivers got about five months experience driving in these conditions annually. Our southern neighbors might get five snowy days in a year. Not much of a comparison. As to snow removal, think about budgeting manpower and equipment for an event that may or may not happen once in a while. A funny thing about driving from Tennessee to northern Michigan, is the quality of the road surface degrades dramatically as you roll north. That too is a reflection of where the money is going. In the Tennessee town I live in, roads are resurfaced and painted very frequently, and potholes are rare. In some northern US cities, patches of smooth pavement are rare and potholes can cause serious damage to a car. There is a big trade off. During my first year in Tennessee, I remember scoffing at the idea that schools were closing over a light dusting of snow... then someone explained to me, that the decision was driven by whether or not students could safely wait for their school bus. That shut me up. It's the city's way of keeping the kids safe because they can't keep the roads safe under those conditions. Having said all of that. Your video was great and it is funny. I love how the same language can be used to describe things at a totally different scale.
The Dallas Fort Worth area of North Texas is expecting 5 plus inches of snow on Thursday... This will be our first snow/sleet winter weather so far this winter...
I'm in Louisville, KY and we had snow, ice and sleet in rotation on and off Sunday through Monday evening and now temp dropping below zero at night.
The cold is fun in Missouri too. Our lows in St Louis the next few nights will be 4-8F.🥶
In Missouri. We just got about 8-10 inches on Saturday night through Sunday and a couple of more inches are coming on Friday. I just shovel in 20 minute increments until my driveway is clear.
Southeastern Missouri here. We didn't get much snow yet, but we're dealing with ice on the roads, frozen water lines, and power outages. Not fun.
haha this is an annual thing at least once a year for anyone who lives in the North of America. It's funny when it snows in the South because they don't have the infrastructure to deal with it, so it literally just shuts down the entire economy.
@willvr4, and why should we? I am 58 years old, born & raised in North Georgia. On average, we get measurable snow or ice every 10 years. Better to take the small economic hit than to constantly maintain snowplows, salt & sand.
@@scorpiouk5914 You shouldn't. It wouldn't make sense, financially. I have family in the South and have been there my entire life every year. I just think it's funny when you guys get like 2 inches and people act like the world is ending haha
But you don't need to constantly maintain snowplows. A good portion of our plowers are independent contractors who just buy a plow and an insurance contract who are on-call when a storm hits.
@scorpiouk5914 I live in Kentucky and we seem to get more ice in this part of the South than anything💁♂️
@@willvr4, negative, my good man! The Georgia DOT has snowplows and sand and salt trucks. True, many drivers down here panic when driving in snow. My late father taught me how to drive in snow. But, even he admitted that icy roads are a no go.
Been watching the california wildfires live right now and yesterday and its crazy. Hurricane speed winds blowing fires and burning so much.
Very sad 😢
The difference in snow management is having a massive budget for it, because you do severe storms several times a year, versus living in places where it might not even snow at all one year, and you don't even have plow trucks. I'm sure people in Minnesota are getting a good laugh at KC's efforts, despite being sort in the middle of those two groups.
you are right about 4 wheel drives, 4 wheels can help you get through snow, but all cars have 4 wheels and they all slide the same
Not on ice😢
My dad was an overland trucker for many years and he used to say that the heavier the vehicle, the farther they'll slide.
4 wheel drive helps you go, not stop.
4x4 sideswiped the hearse my brother was being transported in.....but today's cars with AWD and traction control you can't turn off are pure GARBAGE in any weather like this. So shove auto drive right up your muskhole. 👽👽👽
The latest wrinkle in this series of storms is a fire event on the west coast involving the northern and western fringes of Los Angeles including some of the priciest neighborhoods in America such as Pacific Palisades (Ronald Reagan lived there) and Malibu (countless stars live there). Most disturbing is that one report had the Getty Museum's ground, but so far not the main buildings housing the $1.3 billion Greek and Roman art collection, on fire.
😮 I hadn't heard about any museum being on fire.
@@pamprier4710 From the LA Times:
"The fast-moving Palisades fire raced through brush and trees at the iconic Getty Villa by the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, but the building and its contents did not burn, fire and Getty officials said. The blaze never got to the collections of rare artifacts and antiquities, Katherine E. Fleming, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust said in a statement.
“Fortunately, Getty had made extensive efforts to clear brush from the surrounding area as part of its fire mitigation efforts throughout the year,” Fleming said. “Some trees and vegetation on site have burned, but staff and the collection remain safe.” “Additional fire prevention measures in place at the Villa include water storage on-site,” she said. “Irrigation was immediately deployed throughout the grounds Tuesday morning. Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art air handling systems. The double-walled construction of the galleries also provides significant protection for the collections."
I live in Louisburg KS, and when I saw that guy on a bike in the UK, I laughed so hard. I couldn't get enough snow cleared to leave the house until yesterday.
Denver has been clear during this storm.. She couldn't get to Denver from the east.. Denver doesn't get as much snow as the mountains do ..it sits at the base of the Rocky Mountains..
I grew up outside of Chicago. All through the 70's we would have massive snow storms each winter. Heck, I learned how to drive a car when there was three feet of snow built up in everyone's yards. Then I moved to Seattle. They almost never have snow and don't have the equipment to handle it. My hubby and I were chuckling when everything shut down over an inch of snow. But then we drove in it and realized it was a much more powdery snow than we were used to (far more slippery) and it was extremely hard to keep our cars under control. It's all about what you are used to, what you are prepared for, and how much your infrastructure is set up to deal with it.
I got about 6 or 7 inches. Comes up a little past my ankle. It's not too bad if you know how to drive in it. The wind is what makes snow dangerous because it lowers visibility and if you have a truck with a bed, your back end is more prone to fish-tailing. I put bags of kitty litter in the back of my truck to weigh it down and if I get REALLY stuck, I can put the litter in the snow to give me grip.
I grew up in snow country. My car used to get buried with a plow throwing snow, but the reason people shovel their street in front of their house is that in many places, because the street is a public throughfare, it requires the owner or renter to shovel the sidewalk for public safety and access and you need to shovel the area to your house or driveway so you can get your mail or other deliveries.
As someone from upstate NY I have seen my fair share of snow so it definitely made giggle watching the “havoc” that dusting of snow caused over there. I will say that it would cause similar issues (not so much havoc) in some of our more Southern (south eastern) states here in the US and that would be primarily because of the lack of resources such as snow plows/salt trucks etc. A friend of mine had moved down south a few years ago and her first winter living there she was dumbfounded and couldn’t understand why they closed schools and shut things down over the most minuscule amount of snow. She also said that no one knows how to drive in it which makes it that much worse. I get it though to some degree, when you are not used to or are unprepared for it then I could see it causing major disruptions. I will also end with saying that although I live in an area of our country that gets its fair share of snow and harsh winter weather that ice is by far the worst one to deal with even with the right resources available to help combat it. It is in my opinion the most damaging and disruptive.
It's kinda like that down south, the smallest amount of snow everything closes and they can't drive, but the Midwest and the north are better prepared because we are used to it
MN was on the north side of the storm. We got nothing. We have a saying that it was "too cold to snow". What happens is that the moisture from the south isn't able to penetrate the high pressure dome above us, and it just doesn't get here. The early and late parts of winter, are different, but quite often we don't see much in January and February.
I'm in Indianapolis. We received about 8 inches at my house. We have not seen any county plows down our street. Private snowplows went down through here Sunday night. No salt down and the road has been pretty slick. Our neighbors across the street had their mailboxes wiped out by someone sliding off the road. I've lived in Indiana my entire life but I try to avoid driving until conditions are better.
In Louisville we got ten inches and a little ice, make sure to check in on your neighbors, hope everyone in the path is safe tonight.
I'm from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We are a bunch of Ojibwa and Finns. This sort of weather happens every year for us. But we are used to it.
Kentucky here. We got 6 inches of snow, then 1/2 of freezing rain, and then today 3 inches of snow on top of that. We are expecting about 6 inches more snow Friday. We live out in the country, so we were well prepared for the weather. We have a secondary heat source (LP gas heater with plenty of fuel), gas generator, power inverter with charged marine batteries, oil/kersone lamps, plenty of food and water and of course, lots of candles and lanterns. If worse comes to worse, we have our RV we can get into to stay warm, with plenty of jugs of diesel fuel. Sometimes when you live this far out, you have to live winter life like a "prepper" and just be prepared for anything.
Greetings from Pennsylvania. 22fahrenheit, -6 Celsius, here.
Farm Show weather right on schedule.
I got stuck in Missouri because of that massive ice storm🫤
😢 y'all be safe
As a New Yorker who lived in N.C. for many years.The difference was funny. In NY we'd be expected in to work after a foot of snow. Plows and Salt trucks out in force. After an inch or 2 in N.C. I'd be off for 2to3 days. And it's because in the South , the Govt budget accounts for a few trucks. Not an Army.
Yankees say southerners can’t drive in snow. Then we all see on the news is 30 car pileup on the highway jackknifed trucks and my personal favorite…steep hills in northern suburbs with cars crashing into cars as they try to make in down hill. It really doesn’tlook like they can drive in it either. Haha! Southerner take the day off and enjoy the snow.
Eastern Kentucky here. We first got snow thank goodness with a huge amount of sleet/ice on top of the snow. Before the weather started, the state Dept of Transportation had snow trucks out laying down a layer of salt solution. It works up to a point. Now we are going to have a couple of days of temperatures right at 0 F (-17 C). We're supposed to get more snow the end of the week. Models are predicting 3 to 5 inches here where I live. Biggest headaches for people are frozen/burst water pipes and power outages (dangerous for a LOT of people). There are warming centers where people can go to stay if their power goes out or if they are homeless.
This is all bringing back wonderful memories of 1977/78 when I was in school. We went back to school for ONE day after the Christmas/New Years holiday, then it snowed and iced and snowed and snowed and iced. We didn't go back to school until mid-March!! I loved each and every second of it!! I love winter and the snow!
We also have the idiots who think they can drive on ice.
The south has a hard time of it because they don't have the budget for snow.
But we've been watching all the devastation happening with the wildfires in California. I'd much rather have our weather than Cali's fire weather!
I've been waist deep in snow for 3 days now.
You should think about going indoors before you get frostbite...
In 1978 we lived on the second floor of a duplex. We had a blizzard and in the morning I ran down the stairs to go outside and opened the door. Behind it was a wall of snow, we ended up going out a second story window and sliding down the snow bank.
Its isnt too bad here in Illinois
I live in Michigan (we had thunder snow a few weeks ago.) Blizzards aren't great, but what I hate and dread the most are ice storms. They create such havoc because everything gets coated with thick layers of ice resulting in tree branches as well as complete trees crashing down. All the electricity goes out and it can often take days for electricity to be restored if there is widespread damage. At least there are snowplows to remove the snow.
Here in Georgia, and other parts of the deep south, most snow storms come after we have been in the forties or so (in C, 10-ish), so while we will get a gorgeous coating on the lawns and trees, the roads are warm enough to melt whatever hits them and everything stays passable - except where branches break from the weight of the snow and fall on the roads. Occasionally we get a situation like what is shaping up this week, with perhaps a week in which we have been near or below freezing before the expected precipitation on Friday, such that when the precipitation hits, the roads are unlikely to melt any snow or ice and the roads will be impassable from ice and people who fail to anticipate it. The state has already started salting the major routes, but that can wash off, and also leaves the medium and small roads untreated. This too will pass.
An American "hold my beer" story.
Thundersnow is thundering during a snow storm. It was the ice that came first that really screwed up everything. It went from ice to snow the sleet and back to snow. With 40MPH winds that was pretty much constant just made everything so much worse.
I’m in the KCMO area and we officially got 9 inches but at my house the snow was high enough the we could not see where the steps on the porch started!
The uk video was hilarious 😂
I’m in the heart of the large snowstorm(Kansas City Missouri) we love our snow storms. We swing between -5 Fahrenheit and 105 Fahrenheit throughout the course of a year. Definitely not the place for people who can’t handle both ends of the weather spectrum. Plus the severe thunderstorms. I actually helped three duck hunters get their boat out of the river in the height of this recent winter storm. For most of us life goes on as normal, just more layers of clothing! Cheers
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