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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (600592)2/13/2011 3:59:30 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1571099
 
> And yet it snows at least once every year.

Untrue, of course. But the comment is hilarious. A "big" snowstorm in Dallas is 1" or 2" and is gone in a day, maybe two at most. I lived there 15 years and never saw a 6" snow, and only one significant ice event.

That's exactly what I've pointed out to Tim. But apparently it can be more than one or two days depending on the weather. In early February it took a week for the city to recover. That's a lot of business lost.

Don't get me wrong; in Dallas, 1" of snow totally confuses drivers who don't understand that driving in snow is a little different from driving on dry pavement. But it is nothing snow equipment will help.

I would also add that I can count on one hand the number of major hills in the D/FW metroplex.

Besides all that, the schools and businesses all shut down when it snows even 1". Total overreaction. EDS was closed here for three days last week, even after the streets were totally dry.

Tim's theory is that whatever shuts down business should be anticipated and oovered by the city. The case that started this discussion was NYC. NYC gets a major snowstorm [20 in] roughly every 6 years. Tim feels that the city should have the equipment and deicing materials on hand that would handle such a storm even though it happens only every 6 years. Well applying Tim's thesis to Dallas...shouldn't the city of Dallas have some equipment and deicing materials on hand to handle the one snow storm they get each year?
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