Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:03:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> hysteria over a few flakes

I'm from NH and learned to drive on packed snow before they began salting the roads. But that was packed snow, not black ice, and most people learned to deal with it and remembered how from year to year.  In the MD area and northern VA, we are in a sort of "climate edge" where instead of snow, we are more likely to have ice and freezing rain, and people have less experience so they forget how to deal with it.  Keeping a good supply of non-perishables (including dry milk) in the house before the winter weather hits means I don't have to go out in bad weather.

Or were you talking politics?  There are more than a few flakes involved there, too.

=Tamar