Submitted by Big-Weed t3_10kiurq in springfieldMO
Whenever the temp drops to 35° Springfield, MO drops to DEFCON 2. It’s like no one has seen snow before. I have people calling into to work tomorrow already, The Rick restaurant on Lone Pine is “closed for the weather”, people at Sams buying like there’s a new Covid lockdown. What is the matter with you people?
This, two weeks without electricity was something else.
My MIL worked for City Utilities and didn't have any power but two little boys at home. She had to work 24/7 with her kids freezing at home alone. Shit like that absolutely breaks you.
My parents worked at a nursing home, so we spent about a week sleeping in my mom's office because we had no power, and they could not leave. At least they had generators though so there was minimal heat.
It was several days before you could get anything. Some stores had generators but could only take cash. Lines were hours long at the stores that were open. It was brutal.
I was 12 when that happened. Old enough to remember it well but not old to feel the weight of it that my parents did. People joke about how we bring it up a lot when talking about winter but damn was that shit crazy. Two weeks without power. We put our refrigerated items outside in the snow and ice to keep it cold. You couldn’t go anywhere without everything being encased in two inches of ice. Shit was wack
Oddly enough I was a Missouri native transplanted to southern OK at the time and I felt like Superman.
We got hammered and it was a month before we had power at our place, and we were stuck out of work and with little to no town infrastructure up and running for at least two weeks.
I pushed people out of flat sections of road (because in OK you apparently can get stuck just trying to move forward at a stoplight) with my Ford Taurus on mud tires and we kept the house warm with fish fryers in the living room and blankets stapled to the living room doorways.
We drank ice cold beer we kept on the porch and I literally cooked a few squirrels, because “well we’re supposed to be in survival mode, right?” My wife was less than enthused… and ate spaghetti and meatballs she cooked on the fish fryer…
Now I know why everyone looks at me weird when I love days like today…
Your complaint is that people want to be prepared for a possible weather emergency?
Some folks got kids or sick parents to take care. People have disabilities that already limit their daily activities. Others who don't have transportation that may walk or take the city bus then have to urgently figure out what to do before bad weather arrives. So yeah the traffic is worse. Toughen up buttercup and worry about yourself.
Tell me you didn’t experience the ice storm of ‘07 without telling me you didn’t experience the ice storm of ‘07.
What do you mean, you people?
I think he means the residents of Springfield he perceives to be overreacting to the weather forecast.
Joke
Treasurer
Oh ok, fair enough.
Shut it.
Because everyone loves a snow day, and mixing a lot of crazy in with a proportional response makes it more likely that everyone will treat it as a snow day.
We are notoriously a tricky spot to predict, being on a plateau. Sometimes we get nothing and sometimes it sits over us for 24 hours. Sometimes they say snow then people are like “oh it’s nothing” to wake up the next day with an 1/2in ice. KY3 also serves an enormous area, so they report everywhere which makes it feel “bigger”. I think it’s fine, to each their own.
It's something exciting to break the mundanity of every other day. The possibility it could be just as bad or worse than predicted (like the ice storm), the preparation to stay home and/or have kids be home. People are people just living life. Whatever.
Ice. Hills are dangerous. I don't care.
A storm came out of nowhere in December 2002 and it was brutal. Four hours to exit the mall parking lot onto Battlefield. Not to mention the ice storms over the years. They are a different breed in Springfield.
Better safe than sorry cold wet and hungry.
Most of us already lost our minds. From boredom. Snow in the forecast is free entertainment.
If it makes you feel better, it's the same way in the Northeast. Shelves get cleared of bread and milk. I guess it's the same for anywhere it gets snow, even Alaska.
He said snow! SNOW!!!!!!! Gotta get the bread and milk….
Mmmmm. French toast. I stocked up on eggs, it was only a small fortune. Should I bring the cinnamon?
Be sure to add a smidgen of nutmeg and vanilla.
I like to add a splash of Grand Marnier or cognac, as well.
OP can get fucked.
I’m originally from Maryland, and people there do the same thing. Forget finding bread, milk, toilet paper or eggs if there’s snow in the forecast. They salt the roads 2 days before the forecasted snow and school gets called when the first flake falls.
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hitting the warm street and evaporating immediately apparently. hwat in the globalwarminghell.
Ah, sticking now.
Rick’s? Here’s looking at you kid.
Around the time you were posting this the schools were putting out closure notices, so maybe they were calling off because they knew they were going to have their kids? It does seem like we jump the gun a bit, like it isn't particularly cold and even my road that doesn't ever get plowed/salted is clear, but that being true doesn't open the schools again.
Blaming it on that last ice storm is for the newbs. I’ve lived in Spfd most of my life (30+ years) and this has always been the behavior.
This guy loves the Rick restaurant, I guess I should check it out...
and every time it snows we have posts like this lmao. i dont blame anyone for staying in. wish i could too
If you are originally from up north it is very different to see. It is wildly strange how it is all hands on deck to shut down everything in the area.
MappingClouds t1_j5qynfk wrote
I didn’t live here at the time but from what some have told me the 2007 ice storm really broke a lot of people and so they make sure they have everything.