[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Jason Nass]

May very well have been '03.... 

Jason Nass - MacTalis Ironworks
me at wargoth.com

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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.
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