Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:34 -0500 From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> On 01/25/13 21:00, Elspeth Kovar wrote: > Tamar Lindsay wrote: >>> hysteria over a few flakes <snip> > Amusement value: > > For those who keep snarking about snow and DC area drivers my > then-husband, from Pittsburgh, was one of you. "Was" because > somewhere along the way I eventually got fed up and snarled, "Fine. > Then go back to Pittsburgh already!" > > Never heard another comment and in many ways he was a man of sense: I > doubt that from that day to this anyone else has. *sigh* When I lived in Austin, TX, every 3-4 years we'd get a *huge* snowfall of 0.25" - 0.5". Since people's memories last a month or so, they couldn't remember the last one. I'd laugh hysterically as half of them were still trying to do 80mpg+, and the other half were doing about 5mph. Oh, and my late wife *had* lived in north Texas, and so could drive on mud and ice, but didn't care to, and so declared me, a Philly expat, the Designated Yankee. mark -- Facebook performs like it was written by a liberal arts major. - M. DuPree