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Optimized_Orangutan t1_j0dsepl wrote

What's everybody getting all worked up over? A foot at most? Shits basically a dusting. Let's be Vermonters about this shit.

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landodk t1_j0ez51n wrote

I think people are more excited than worried. A good base means any subsequent snow counts. It would be nice if this really kicked off winter

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dougiewuggie t1_j0f5pfb wrote

Excited for skiing or for like winter wonderland to stick around for the season ya mean? (Fresh noob here unaccustomed to this snowspeak)

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Libriomancer t1_j0f0elb wrote

My concern is the first time idiots. No, I’m not talking about out of staters or fresh transplants… I’m talking about the 90% of people (even with green plates) who lose all experience with winter driving for the first snow storm. The same people who in February will be cruising along at highway speeds but first storm are sliding all over the place as they forget how snow affects steering and breaking.

They don’t take the time to get reacquainted with their steering and nearly bite it at every turn. They don’t think back on decades of braking in snow and try to stop like it is midsummer. And they don’t look at the sheet of white and think “well maybe other cars need room too”.

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BeckyKleitz t1_j0gs5mt wrote

Right? There would already be six feet of snow on the ground by the middle of December back in the 70's, ffs.

I remember snowbanks tall as buildings all the way from Malletts Bay to North Avenue back in the day!! LOL.

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