that must be nice... my district only closed if it was still snowing hard with school starting in less than 2 hours (because anything less they WILL plow it in time) or for -20.
As a person from Texas, I can as well.
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The person who made this, probably sees us as "weak", but the thing is, we just don't know how to drive properly in any amount of snow, and we don't know how to drive, because it RARELY snows, so there's basically never a chance to learn.
its scary how dependent you need to be on your car.. i bike to school and work every day (should probably get snow tires tho.. its getting really interesting) .. we don't have snow days in Sweden, but of course if those existed it would occur way to often, we do however need to take an ice test before getting our drivers license. Its a lot of fun! Basically an entire day spent driving on different ice textures, learning how to "read the road", and ultimately how to make a quick stop on ice (my instructor yelled "Moose!" and we had to pretend a moose ran up on the road in front of us) and make a full stop on less than 20 meters driving 70 km/h.. (22 yards , 44 miles/hour)
We are dependent because everything is so far away or at least in texas i have to drive 15 minutes to get to my former high school. My dad drives almost a half hour to get to work
Yeah we also have great busses, trains, trams etc. but it might be a stereotype, but the perception one have of americans (yes very broad term generalizing everyone now) is that there aren't that many that walk or bike places.. not even to the supermarket.. It might be Sweden just tho, cause we have specific bike paths everywhere (which I noticed doesn't exist to the same extent in neither Australia nor England when I lived there for example).. but I get you when my work was 15 minutes away by car (and I had one) I used to hate the days that I couldn't use it and had to bike (took me about 50 minutes.. all uphill)
most of americas cities are too sprawling for things like walking and biking, its the same reason busing tends to terrible and other mass transit. the places that properly use mass transit (metropolis cities) also tend to have walking and biking areas. in my city i feel i live really close to my work but its still about a 30 minute drive and probably a super long bike ride, other places i have lived in the same city i have been almost an hour ride from work. theres some random bike trail down a large swatch of the city, but its kinda random and i dont think serves much purpose for going anywhere.
I have grown up in a couple small towns all my life, and I noticed that in the outskirts of Boston and other small towns, more people walk that they do in towns that are more spread out, like colorado
As a person from Texas I can verify that this is true and also applies to large quantities of rain. It once rained about three inches and there were 157 wrecks. A lot of that is because where I live there's not a lot of rain so the draining system can't handle it.
Snow in the north is more powdery, and they fortunately have the necessary tools to keep roads safe. The south has more wet, ice-like snow because it is not cold enough there, and snow removal devices wont work on that type of snow. in like 2013, 2 inches fell in the south and the highways were blocked for days, and chaos ensued. So, long story short, snow is an asshole in the south, and is less of an asshole in the north
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Yeah, only when it's 2+ feet, the sheer weight is overwhelming, and the city already used its budget since it's the end of the year right now and they can barely run plows. But in truth, I haven't seen school closed due to snow in years. School got closed once or twice last year because it was about -75, but that was it.
North Dakotans had a while there where it was pretty much 100 degrees every day. We're just not used to humid heat. We get a lot of the dry, Arizona-style heat though. 80s-90s in the summer is a totally normal thing.
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The person who made this, probably sees us as "weak", but the thing is, we just don't know how to drive properly in any amount of snow, and we don't know how to drive, because it RARELY snows, so there's basically never a chance to learn.
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