My son lives in Charlotte and messaged me that the city is freaking out. Milk, bread and eggs are gone. Best of luck in your travels.Good for the team, not so good for me. I'm supposed to take my first warm-weather vacation (Jamaica) in about a decade but unfortunately, it goes through Charlotte tomorrow. Wait-and-see mode.
While in the Big East, we never had any trouble getting to Providence, Boston, Milwaukee, NYC, UConn, Philly or Chicago in mid-winter. Thank goodness we don't have to go to Georgia or the Carolinas in the next few days.
Nothing is funny on pitt game-day.
My son lives in Charlotte and messaged me that the city is freaking out. Milk, bread and eggs are gone. Best of luck in your travels.
To be fair, while I never lived in the south (although I now reside a little ways further than the U.S. "south", I highly doubt I'll ever see snow here), there is a logical reason cities like Atlanta and Charlotte freak out over a couple inches of snow and black ice - they simply never invested in the resources needed.
If you're city has no snow plows or salt trucks, there is bound to be issues. It would be pretty hard to justify spending what probably amounts to millions of dollars of equipment that gets used 1-2 days a year, at most.
I'm down in the Spartanburg, SC area... the news last night showed a store where all of the toilet paper had been purchased. People must think that consuming too much milk, bread and eggs in a short period will cause some problems...
Where did u live Ryan? North Scottsdale? The central part of the city doesn't have that problem. The main issue is the ground gets so hard the water doesn't absorb and just sits or rolls away. Plus those are pretty good size storms, they scare the heck out of meRF2044 said:My first year out of college, I lived in Phoenix. Moved out there in the summer, when the weather is at its scorching hottest. It doesn't rain much in Phoenix that time of year, but every once in awhile they get a big storm [they call them the 'monsoons,' but they're really just thunderstorms]. The crazy thing about Phoenix is that they don't have any [or very little, anyway] drainage. No sewers, few culverts, etc. which means that when it rains there, huge sections of the city get flooded. Roads wash out as the rain has nowhere to go, people try driving through water that is too deep and the cars get swept away, they have to rescue people clinging to their car roofs with helicopters, etc. I'd watch it on the news--where they pre-empt everything for emergency coverage all day long--and marvel at how the city would go into crisis mode over rain.
Agree. I can understand batteries, milk (especially if you have children), and rock salt. And filling your car's tank with gasoline. But I have enough canned soups, pasta, crackers, cereal, coffee and wine to last a month.I just don't understand the run on groceries. Our home could be snowbound for a few weeks without running out of food.
It's why they make pantries, to store food.
if anything, we at least have found our new avatar champion.I'm down in the Spartanburg, SC area... the news last night showed a store where all of the toilet paper had been purchased. People must think that consuming too much milk, bread and eggs in a short period will cause some problems...
Nothing is funny on pitt game-day.
I'm not sure what this means. What is the distinction between roads and streets? Do roads=highways and streets=local roads?They're put down brine on the roads but not the streets. That only helps so much.
Ugh - not looking good down here in NC.Good for the team, not so good for me. I'm supposed to take my first warm-weather vacation (Jamaica) in about a decade but unfortunately, it goes through Charlotte tomorrow. Wait-and-see mode.