Re: Are you all snowbound?
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Are you all snowbound?
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:32:52 +0000 (UTC)
With tight budgets, people can't really expect counties and cities to
have trucks, sand, and salt for events that don't occur annually. We
have had our first snow on the roads in years. Some people get upset,
especially those who have recently moved from more northern climates.
But, citizens also would get upset if we spent money for 5-10 years in a
row without needing it. Our biggest issue right now concerns school days
that have to be made up because not enough "snow days" were included in
the calendar.



I hear what you are saying about people running out of food but it seems
to me that we are not doing a good job of dealing with consequences. Our
media was full of storm preparation suggestions if people would listen.
I do feel for the children of these adults.


B 
ETN Zone 7 
Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <dp2413@comcast.net> 
To: "gardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net> 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:03:23 PM 
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Are you all snowbound? 

The mayor claims 10 snowplows, but the city is large and very hilly. It also 
has a lot of flying ramps and roads. DeKalb County, which includes part of 
Atlanta (much of Atlanta is in Fulton County) has 2000 miles of roads and 2 
plows and only 10 sand/salt trucks. 

Our county has 2 plows, a few road graders and no "official" sand/salt 
trucks. When we first moved here, most of the sand/salt spreading was done 
by convicts standing on the back of dump trucks with shovels. Now, they use 
more county workers, but there still aren't enough. 

Normally, snow would fall on warm roads and be gone in a day, maybe 2. Much 
of the time, it will just be an inch or two and it will be gone by 10 AM . 
Our last blizzard was in March of '93, when it had been in the 80's for at 
least a week, maybe 2. If it hadn't been for the deep freeze (8 degrees) 
that followed, the foot of snow would have been gone in a few days. 

The last time we had any really serious cold for a prolonged period was in 
the 80's, when we regularly had pretty heavy snows (for this area - 6" or 
so) , almost always got below zero for several days, and once got to minus 
16 here. That was the decade that made me wish I had moved further south. I 
couldn't believe I had moved 800 miles south and the weather was as bad as 
it was in the NY/NJ area! 

I grew up in the Midwest, and my grandparent's farm was in Wisconsin, so I 
wasn't prepared for a state to shut down as thoroughly as things do here. 
However, I learned to be prepared as a kid (we lived 10 miles from town), so 
that part wasn't a big adjustment. It was for a lot of people who didn't 
heed and 
prepare. There have been reports on the news of 911 calls for people 
requesting food. 

I feel very sorry for those that are living paycheck to paycheck and can't 
get to work, or whose jobs aren't open because of the ice. They've been 
living next to the edge, and this may push them over. They can't even get to 
the food banks, and I can't get to church to pick up the donations to take 
it to the food bank. I just hope that the food bank still had enough in 
stock from the holidays. Donations go way up then. One good thing is that 
the Hispanic workers that normally go home for Christmas haven't yet 
returned for planting and such. 

d 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mhobertmellecker@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net> 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 11:57 AM 
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Are you all snowbound? 


> We went from being unseasonably warm (40's and 50's) the first week of the 
> year (it was AWESOME!!!) to our average temps around zero this past week 
> or 
> so...snow has not been at all unmanageable for us here...but we feel the 
> pain of those in other areas of the country...Daryl most of us up here 
> can't stop commenting on how badly we feel for places like Atlanta that 
> don't have multitudes of snowplows; I believe I heard something like there 
> are only 6 snow plows in the whole area of Atlanta? Unbelievable to those 
> of us who routinely live with lots of snow. Little cloud cover this week 
> means our temps stay on the cold side and all we are expecting this coming 
> week is snow showers off and on with the passing of the jet stream, but 
> they say only maybe one of those might result in enough snow to have to 
> shovel. I can live with this kind of January! 
> 
> Melody 
> Zone 5, Hills Iowa 

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