I heard that. I was up in Atlanta on business one time when they got an inch of snow. You would have thought it was the great blizzard of 1886. Schools closed and businesses closed. Probably good they did close everything, cause the people out on the road weren't slowing down and were smashing into each other right and left.

 

Yeah, if we get ANY snow, if it 'might' snow, everyhting shuts down, hell even I do not have to go to work in the military, it grounds all our aircraft for HOURS, jsut cause we dp not have the de-ice equipment, well not ENOUGH when you gotta fly 30 planes, 2 deicers are not enough.

I live 10 miles away form base last year i did not have to go to work for 3 days.....in the middle of the week, i worked monday and friday.

And for ya northeners, the locals do not have ANYTHING to deal with the wether, normally after the base deices all the roads on base, tehy send out their trucks to town and start to deice a little, the interstate last year was a 1inch sheet of ICE solid ice because there whre no snowplows...only snowplows being used was Joe Farmer and his John Deere, literally....they where running around the road in town tryin to clearsnow on their own tractors that they use for the farms...kinda funn,y I have thought about getting a snowplow for my truck, according to one of the farmers, teh town will pay you if you help out, you make your maoney back in one year, plus people charge about $50 a pull out the snow, decent money if i get my truck in good shape by this winter

 

When we moved to IL and moved in with my mother on her farm to take care of her one of the local farmers plowed our lane out for $40 - $60 every time we got snowed in. You could make good money doing that all right and you'd be all comfy in your heated truck. This poor smuck had a tractor with no cab on it and it was about 5 below zero. I thought he earned his money.