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@ai6yr If you can, keep some money near the door in case some kids come around asking to shovel your snow. It’s cheaper than a heart attack.
@ai6yr Yikes. Having been there for snowmageddon, there's a high chance of this event bring significantly worse.
@steamworkgroup Any lessons from that event you wish you knew the first time around?
@ai6yr Hm. 1st that comes to mind is go to the grocery 3-4 days before the storm. People lose their ever loving minds.
2nd, lots of townhome communities do not pay for snow plows or can even get them into those tight places - assuming the equipment is available. Everything just takes so much longer than we with Midwest experience think.
3rd (maybe obvious, but I'm serious), stay off the road. No one knows how to deal with snow since they rarely get to practice and tend to have harder tires.
@steamworkgroup @ai6yr The grocery store was absolutely packed near Richmond, VA at 1PM. The manager said it had been like that since Monday.
Seconded on staying off the road. 4WD does not mean anything if you can't get the traction to stop. Within 10 miles, you run out of fingers counting the number of people who have run off the road or spun out even after the roads have been treated
@trebach @steamworkgroup @ai6yr
I've told a fair number of people that four-wheel drive does not mean four-wheel stop.
@steamworkgroup @ai6yr Every time it snows in the DC region, it does so for the very first time in recorded history, and all information on how snow is dealt with in other places becomes instantly unavailable.
@ai6yr @steamworkgroup I learned that Swann House is a nice place to be stuck extra nights when you are snowed in (though it seems to have rebranded itself as a boutique hotel instead of a cozy bed and breakfast at some point since then).
@ai6yr @steamworkgroup Oh, and don't even think of driving.
