Storm over, not quite a foot here. Local schools closed. Just further north 12+ inches recorded. The Governor has declared a state of emergency in several counties including mine. Landlord made a quick pass earlier with the plow. At 9 AM he's coming back and we all have to move our cars so he can clear the entire lot. I'll head out at that time and go grocery shopping.
The variance in responses to snow around the world always amuses me. One place's "normal overnight snowfall, not really worth mentioning" is another's "state of emergency declared".
Here in South East England they carry on as if the world is about to end if we get a couple of inches of snow. Heck, 1/2 an inch is enough to make the roads impassable. Not impassable from the snow but from the drivers who have no clue whatsoever how to drive in a teeny tiny bit of the fluffy white stuff.
Yeah, we had that everywhere I lived in Tejas with the beginning of the rainy season. All those imbeciles running on bald tires because they can get away with it through the summer...
The first light rains, just enough to bring the oils to the surface of the road, would combine with 1D10T driving skills to render the roads impassable with single-driver MVAs and resultant pileups for the first couple weeks. Once they Darwin-awarded themselves out of the equation and the rest got cluebricked into buying the new tires they should've months ago, the roads would return to their usual modes of insanity.
Up here the transition to snowy season seemed pretty uneventful, aside from the wallet-pain.
Ummm... can you keep a lookout for a beater/cheap scope for me? My searches on fleaBay.ca & CL have been totally sucking ARSE for anything "hobbyist-grade" ever since I got here.
Craigslist doesn't seem to be used much in Canada. In most areas, the most active classifieds site is kijiji.ca I don't like their new ebay-like web style, and the site is a lot slower in this latest incarnation, but it still works and tends to have the widest selection of ads of the various classified sites in most Canadian locations. YMMV
*Looks in* SERIOUSLY...? $300 for a 465...? Still... better than what I've seen on fleaBay.ca
Thanks... I will keep an eye on them.
mnem