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"People in the US being hit by the blizzard,"

I don't know why you found it necessary to gloat that your area has good weather in this thread about seriously bad weather that is literally killing people atm? It's probably sunny in Hawaii too.

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Entire cities are locked down, lots of people have died in car accidents, people are losing power, at least 10 states have declared emergency. I don't know if you've ever lived through a serious blizzard but it's a big deal. :(

Or as they say in Scandinavia, a normal winter. It is just further proof of the basic weakness of Americans, fat, lazy, and too stupid to outwit snow.

You sound like the OP of #1 10 years ago. If you feel better about yourself after posting that, I hope you also grow up one day.

Considering that just the wind is at 65 mph/105 km/h at it's highest point, nope, that's not a normal Scandinavian winter.

Okay, a mild Scandinavian winter then.

I'm willing to bet good money you're American.

Probably. I just checked the weather for Trondheim, Norway for the last 30 days; the total precip was 42.4 mm, and the average temperature for the last month was 24 F. Where I live, we consider ourselves lucky to have daytime highs above 19 F for most of January and February, and we've already had 18 inches of snow.

Step up your game, the fat, lazy 'merican meme is as old as the internet.

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Too on the nose. Subtlety, kids. Subtlety.

Okay, here's the thing, oh-holier-than-thou anon. Up in places such as Scandinavia or Canada, they can deal with large amounts of snowfall. I grew up in a small town in Canada, and I would often walk to school between snowbanks well above my head. It wasn't a problem though, since they had the proper equipment and resources to remove massive amounts of snow, so the sidewalks and streets were always plowed.

But a lot of these places where this winter storm hit, they either don't have the resources to take care of snow much or at all, or they don't have the resources to take care of the enormous amount of snow they were getting in a short period of time. I currently live in North Carolina, and considering that in an average winter we don't get snow at all or maybe just a dusting of it, we only have minimal equipment to take care of snow or ice. Because it's not considered a wise use of resources. So even though we only got maybe about 4 inches of snow and some ice, that was enough to practically shut down the city I live in. The main roads were okay, but any side streets were practically impassable.

So while you're sitting there on your high horse, maybe you should do some research first before passing judgement.

It's a big deal because it's happening where most of the national news media live. This kind of thing happens in the midwest, plains, and mountains and it barely makes it into the last-minute-chuckle-before-sign-off moment on the nightly national news.

I live in a Plains state (Kansas) and "this kind of thing" is not even common.

I live in central Iowa and it's not common here either.

I was thinking more in terms of places like Michigan, Colorado, and the Dakotas, which all get a hefty amount of snow - way, way, WAY more than Iowa or Kansas. New York actually averages significantly more snowfall in a year than Iowa, which averages a lot more than Kansas. It makes sense - the prevailing winds should be carrying moist air eastward off of the Great Lakes into New York like they do in Michigan.

That's the point - it would be newsworthy but it wouldn't get reported on outside of local news and maybe the Weather Channel.

That's not the point since the OP said this kind of thing happens in the Plains states all the time when it doesn't. But agreed, it wouldn't get much play on the news if it did. Remember those mudslides in Washington state that killed over 40 people a few years ago? The media barely mentioned it.

I don't see where the comment claims it happens "all the time" - those words are not in the comment at all - but yes, we're in agreement about events being covered disproportionally!

Lol no.

No, it's making news because it's happening in an area that is ill equipped to handle such high amounts of snow. If it were happening in the north or midwest or anywhere else they get winter storms normally, it wouldn't be such a big deal. Still covered, but not such a panic.

How are New York and Pennsylvania not in the north?

They're generally considered mid-Atlantic states. And it all depends where in NY you are. The southeastern part of the state doesn't generally get much snow. You have to get where I am, in Western NY, to get a lot of snow. And, yeah, here if we got a foot or even two of snow, it isn't that big a deal (unlike the six feet of last year), but where I grew up in Southeast Pennsylvania? That area is totally unprepared and it is a big deal when they get anything over a handful of inches at once.

Huh. Well, let me let you in on a little secret: from the perspective of the rest of the country, you guys are northern states. I can see how that doesn't necessarilly translate to more snow, although considering it wasn't so long ago that DC got that big blizzard, it might be time to start preparing for this stuff more.

It's not that they aren't northern at all. I mean, comparing North to South, they fall in the North, but the Mid-Atlantic doesn't tend to get nearly as much snow as the New England states. If you look at the snow totals for last year for the cities of the US, most are Western NY, Massachusettes/New England, and some mid-west/western cities. The only city I'd consider mid-Atlantic on there is Allentown, and that is down at 22. Philadelphia, NYC, Washington, etc, none of those cities are on there. Sure, Washington DC got that blizzard before and is getting one again, but is one blizzard every few years worth keeping the army of snowplows, salt trucks, etc that the snowiest cities have, when they can just wait a few days and have most of it melt? I wouldn't think so.

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