[ SECRET POST #3307 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3307 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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!

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

Lol no.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

How are New York and Pennsylvania not in the north?

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[meredith44]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Winter Storm Jonas

[meredith44]

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.