Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 01, 2013

Huh? In my district, it’s the superintendent that makes the call, not the principal.

This happens in Los Angeles every year, except that it’s not snow. The first rainfall in autumn releases a whole summer’s worth of oil and other residues from the road surface, producing ideal conditions for waterplaning. Drivers beware!

Even in Southern Michigan, people seem to lose their minds during the first snow…..(Don’t worry about the ones north of Cadillac, they’re just pissed at the poor sledding in the summer…)….Copper Harbor gets as much as 200 inches a year, and they bus the kids 40 miles to Calumet, on Highway 41….Only one “Ice” day the year I was there….Of course there’s only that one road to keep clean….

When I moved to Chicago in 1999, folks at work asked why I moved to a place where it snows, to which I replied have you ever been to Marquette MI in the winter?

I’ve always found it astonishing that people who’ve lived all their lives in Snowy places, (The Northern Great Plains, the mountainous parts of Maine and New Hampshire, the Rockies, not to mention Alaska) get elected, got to D. C. and IMMEDIATELY lose their minds if two snowflakes are seen within a City Block of each other!

My friend lives there and it’s been the same thing for over Twenty years!

You got that right. Plus here in the D.C. area there is a significant population whose first language doesn’t have a word for “snow” much less have any idea how to drive in it.

Ah, snowdaze…

No kidding. First real snow of the year I don’t go out at all if i can possibly help it.

Hey, you think any of those folks were following too close?

I was raised in Indy, so we went to school if it snowed. Live in southern KY now—they call it off for an inch. And at the mere mention of snow, dusting or accumulation, your presence is required at the grocery store for milk, bread, etc. Then you must fill up your vehicle before heading back home. I’ve been here a lot of years, and have only seen 2 decent snows (10+), and those were like 20 years apart.

Here in Portland OR, it’s the S Californians in their suv’s.

Generally the 1st inch is not the slipperiest.

Recently moved to Columbia, did live in Russell County near the lake.

As others have said, he has a good point.

In Missouri, they DO cancel school when there is only an inch!! People really DON"T know how do drive in it. Since that equals days to sleep in, I don’t really mind :D

AHA! So Easterners also have trouble with certain climate conditions. People make fun of Californians for driving slowly in the rain, but the fact is that after 6-9 months with no rain, the oil builds up on the roads and a light rain makes them so slick they are very dangerous to drive. A good gullywasher takes care of that, and it probably safer to drive in.

As a safety precaution, in the event of snow Vancouverites have learned to abandon their cars in the middle of a busy intersection and walk home.

Hi neighbor. I’m just a few miles (about 22) east of you.

I grew up in the snow belt (northern IN) and a few years in Ann Arbor. Never heard of a snow day in the ’50s and ’60s.

He’s wrong: that first inch is more slippery. It has more melt water for you to slip on.