Why do snowstorms on the East Coast shut the whole place down?!


Question: It always makes national news as if a nuclear bomb went off there, and they report school closings, gridlocked traffic, and general chaos in every way. They said that not even half a foot has fallen in most places yet. What's their deal? Don't they ever get snow there?

Answers: It always makes national news as if a nuclear bomb went off there, and they report school closings, gridlocked traffic, and general chaos in every way. They said that not even half a foot has fallen in most places yet. What's their deal? Don't they ever get snow there?
Good question!!!

Your right its like they all freak out over a lil snow!
In MN were out and about untill the snow piles up higher than the cars....heck most minnesotans would still be out even if the snow got that high.

A lil snow aint nothin.....east coasters need to learn how to drive!
So true! If they cant handle their car in a snow storm then they should be driving at all!
Lol I've been too lazy to shovel the drive-way and have been driving thru about a foot of snow everytime I leave the house lol.....that reminds me I really ought to get to shoveling before it snows again! Report It

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    • they should be used to it by now
    lol YES! I live on Long Island and its just slush. Its not even enough to cover the ground, meanwhile everybodys closed, etc. I had to laugh when they called it a blizzard.
    they's wussies compared to us Cornhuskers, that's for sure!

    I don't get it, really, I guess it's wetter, hell, it's crazy!
    well I think because its the first big one this year and they are out of real news
    a lot of big cities are on the east coast so it affects more people.
    Wha?
    We have snow almost every day of the winter here (NY state), and it doesn't "shut everything down", except in cases, like today, where 6 inches fell in three hours, and visibilty was about ten feet. If you west-coast folks are so tough, be my guest - come over here and drive around in it.

    EDIT - Oho, so you drive "when the snow is higher than the cars" do you? Well, so do we. But I'll bet you're doing it after the roads have been plowed, same as we are! Otherwise, that's something I would like to see...
    Because in the midwest you can drive for a half-hour on the highway and not see another car.

    In the east, your talking major traffic problems and no snow tires.
    I grew up in New England and we never "shut the state down" for 6" or a foot or 2. I think it is the Mid-Atlantic region (which I have since moved to) that has a crisis when it snows. And, that is where our nations capital is.
    The roads are real slippery and the tractor trailer trucks are jack knifing on the highways and blocking traffic. This is the first significant snowstorm this year. We used to get a lot of snow here. Not as often anymore. So, we're national, eh? Cool.

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