Tired of snow in the winter

This past winter, TN shut down schools in ne tn for two weeks in January, until the sun melted the snow off the roads for the school buses. Nothing worse than snow and no snow plows....or just one plow for the whole county.

 

I think that's what people don't realize--that up here it just doesn't melt. I spent the first 45 years of my life near Buffalo NY, and a dozen up here. We all know about Buffalo and lake effect snow, but the road conditions in this area are so much more severe. Mainly because it's colder, and there just isn't any melting. Secondary roads may never clear off, and primary and even the interstate may be snow covered for quite some time. And we do ice with a real flair. Just imagine a rainstorm after some negative 20 temps. You can't even stand up. So there's no getting over winter in northern NE. It arrives and stays.A snowstorm or an icing event is just part of it all, and the beginning and the end get all mixed together.

 

Evidently, they are all stuck up north in the snow.

 

For all those advocating to be an O/O so you can choose where you go, just make sure you stay a single truck O/O because once you buy a second truck or wind up with a small fleet guess who covers all the other drivers holidays, sick days, bad weather and big city runs?

There are a couple of guys on here that know what I mean.

 

coastal new england isn't anything like vermont and northern ny
in Allentown Pa in 1965 it took a week to clean the roads
never seen 95 not clean and dry 36 hours after a major storm
at the ski lodge at Mt Snow some winters it snowed a lil everyday and you never saw the roads but I'll drive on snow anyday compared to ice