Are yankees stupid?

[scorpionldr]

Originally Posted by two fingers

Calm down. I know you aren't. In fact, that's my point. While doing some stuff around the house, I have had the news on. All day long it's been about this "WORST SNOW STORM EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD". Potentially, there will be a couple feet of snow and some strong winds. And all day they have been listing all of the precautions that should be taken, and all of the stuff you should/shouldn't do during a snow storm.

Um........... We're talking about the Northeast. Don't you guys have a pretty heavy snow storm about every twenty minutes up there? Haven't you been through this before? Do you need a to hear advice ALL DAY as to how to handle yourselves in a storm?

I think not.

Thoughts?

actually, you were right in your thread. Move yankees to the left, replace the question mark with a period, you'd be 100% right.

[Mysterion]

Originally Posted by Musiclogic

Also, why are they now naming regional snow storms?

The Weather Channel is naming storms; it's a commercial ploy. The National Weather Service isn't that thrilled.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...rm-named-nemo/

[IronLung1986]

im from new hampshire and also lived in boston until moving to seattle last year. what I'll say is that new englanders are pretty tough-minded people. we're not easily impressed, but the seemingly mundane event of a snowstorm never fails to excite us. we know it's silly to make a big deal about it, but that won't stop us from blowing up facebook with blizzard-related posts. it's our signature natural disaster and we want to make the best of it.

I have to say though, naming the storm was a pretty goofy idea. it's just meant to fuel the hype.

[carl h.]

Sad thing is Nemo is now a fish.

[petrus61]

Being inside the storms target area (upstate NY, 1 1/2 hr north of NYC) I can say that this is the biggest winter event we've had in a while. Last winter was freakishly mild and I think an event like this can jar some folks that perhaps are too young to remember anything bigger. Yes, it's the north east, but over a foot in a day is still news. That's not to say that this new practice of treating every storm with the notoriety of Bonny and Clyde isn't a little over the top.

[BayStateBass]

Well, this one is impressive.

Plowed my driveway about 8:30 tonight and went back out just now. Seems to be snowing at a rate of over an inch per hour. Maybe closer to 2" per hour. Had about 6 or 7 inches on the truck when I went out.

Luckily it is the dry, grainy snow we get sometimes. Not the heavy, water-soaked stuff that is really miserable.

Still have power here, but not everyone is so lucky. It's certainly coming down out there.

Maybe I'll go snowshoeing this weekend. That would be fun. I've only been able to use my stuff a couple times so far this year.

[Mound of Sound]

A little over-hyped, yes. But this storm passes the eyeball test. Gotta be 2 feet+ here in NH and still raging after 15 hours.

I don't make a huge fuss over it, but I do prepare. No reason not to have extra gas for the snowblower/generator, a little extra food, and of course, vodka.

[scorpionldr]

5am I check total accumulation. 5 inches. Driveway plowed. My street of course isn't, but I get out of it to find rest of the neighborhood is. Drive to work was good. Plowman got sick of being sidelined it appears.

[HeavyJazz77]

American journalism is a joke. Northeastern storms are typical and Yankees know how to handle them. I guess the mainstream media ran out of propaganda to peddle. Back to bass...

[hover]

Two hours at a moderate pace of shoveling and I dug my entire 12 x 14 back deck, my driveway, and 2 cars out of a 4' tall drift against my house. I live on a dead end street, so it's pretty common. The front of the house...whoo. That was the worst.

That's gonna take a while.

[Rocker949]

Originally Posted by preside

Actually Kwesi is right. The BBC is an exelent source of news and while I hate to say it so is Al Jezera USA. Russian news I have no idea. But the only decent news in the US is on Public Radio or PBS like McNiel Leher. All the rest, ABC,NBC, CBS FOX is complete trash.

In recent years, the BBC's objectivity has been questioned, too. I can't name a single news source in English that I would consider objective now. It may be possible to find a few objective sources on shortwave, but I doubt that, too. It has been a long time since I tried that. However, there are plenty of clown shows masquerading as news shows, both on TV and on the radio.

[Richland123]

Where I live in the mountains of west central Pennsylvania, lots of snow and cold winds are normal and we consider 12 inches of snow a dusting and everybody still goes to work and all the stores are open. 2 to 3 feet of snow is not uncommon once in a while either.

Nobody is going to run out of or need extra toilet paper, bread, and milk as if they can't live without it for a day or two and do people really go to the bathroom more when it's snowing? Sometimes, I can go for weeks without eating bread or drinking milk and a snowstorm does not make me have a desire to buy more.

And, when did the weather people start naming snowstorms like they do hurricanes and why?

[Pilgrim]

People individually are smart. When you put them into groups, some stupid behavior will inevitably emerge.

[ggvicviper]

Before Sandy, a Noreaster wasn't a state of emergency.

After Sandy, everyone is waiting on gas lines as if it's the apocalypse. I said "this is crazy, it's just a snowstorm". As it turns out, there were about 1/2 million homes without power in New England. New York (where I live) on the other hand, had a mildly heavy snowstorm. I just got back form shoveling my girlfriend's house - it wasn't so bad.

In December 2010 there was a FAR worse snowstorm in NY, and no one overreacted the way they did the last two days. Not even the disgruntled snow plowers and sanitation workers cared so much, who did such a bad job that it actually caused controversy. At least during this storm they were out and about cleaning up.

[FilterFunk]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

People individually are smart. When you put them into groups, some stupid behavior will inevitably emerge.

It all depends on the person. There are plenty of independently stupid folks out there.

[4dog]

So at this , time how is it, is the hype just that?

[ggvicviper]

Originally Posted by 4dog

So at this , time how is it, is the hype just that?

In New York? Yes, very much.

In New England? Not so much... some people are out of power.

[SR505bassman]

Beautiful day after the storm passed through Michigan.

[Mousekillaz]

They must be ... Who else would've payed Alex Rodriguez that much

[petrus61]

All I know is that my ParaDriver is gonna get to me a day late because of this crap. It's sitting in Syracuse, which to my knowledge escaped the mess. We barely got 9 inches here in my part of the Hudson Valley. A very average storm by upstate NY standards.