[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

Jason Nass wrote:
> A number of years ago I was visiting my daughter in Portland, Oregon for
> Xmas, and it was one of the rare years they see snow... well, about 6-8
> inches of the stuff fell and the city shut down... completely. All busses
> stopped running, none of the stores save the ones where the employees lived
> within walking distance were open, city government was closed. They declared
> it a disaster... I was laughing hysterically over that. Meanwhile I was the
> only person on the unplowed roads driving around in a normal little rental
> car and everyone thought I was insane. My response to them was "if you can't
> drive in up to 3 feet of snow, don't move to NE Ohio... you will be stuck in
> your home from November till March... and sometimes even April or May. Being
> as they don't get snow often there, I could see most people staying home as
> they have no plows for the roads, but to declare it a natural disaster day
> was just a touch over the top I thought. LOL.

Would that have been '03?  We had a wailing ice storm that year.