Noreater's

[Hoon]

We have so much snow here in upstate New York, we can only get around on Tauntaun's.

GOOCH IS GOING TO LOVE THAT JOKE!

[Goatweed]

'I thought they only smelled bad...on the outside!'

[The Jays]

The intense blast of snow hasn't been blamed for any deaths in Oswego County. Elsewhere, however, more than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 25 deaths across the northeastern quarter of the nation - five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, seven in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, and Maryland and elsewhere in New York, authorities said.

Upstate NY may have its share of uneducated conservative hillbillies with a hint of inbreeding mixed in, but they sure do know how to handle their weather.

seriously, they do. everything runs in perfect sequence; thruway and major highways are salting roads or laying out sand before the storms, plowing ice away, and warming the highways well before the storm hits, very rarely do those roads close. everyone has a friend with a snowblower, and everyone has arms like arnold from snow shoveling capablities. People with plows on their trucks help plow snow from people that aren't paying them. The only thing that can truely halt those southtowns is that rapid snow squall shit, when the lake just deposits a foot in the span of an hour, that snow just comes down too fast for anything to keep from getting stuck. I remember a storm a day or two before thanksgiving, struck at the begining of rush hour, it blasted a foot between 3 and 4 pm. all traffic was stuck, and my friend and I were stuck at studio waiting for a review and then playing mike tysons punch out on the computer for a bit. his car couldnt budge from the parking lot, so we hopped on the bus to my apartment on the north campus, and what normally takes 10 minutes took over an hour, taking back roads and shit, while people were just ditching their cars in the middle of the streets and roads, because the snow had come down too fast, and nothing was stopping them from getting stuck. we got off the bus and had to trek quarter of a mile to my apartment in two feet deep of snow.

[Hoon]

It's true. I'm upstate. True upstate, not fucking Albany or Utica. I mean the real north country. We are very prepared and if you live up here you own at least one four wheel drive vehicle. Not because it's trendy but because it's actually necessary.

I have a full sized regular cab Dodge Ram with a V8 Magnum just because of the winters. I drive my bride's car to work because the truck is too hard on gas but in weather like we're having now, the truck is priceless. There's always a shovel and 5, 75lb bags of sand in the back for weight and to be broke open if someone is struck and needs traction. I've also got a snowblower and a method to get it on the back of the truck for transport. On top of this, my father-in-law has a plow on his truck and my father has a four wheeler with a plow on it. And if things get real nasty, I know a farmer with a heavy machinery front end loader if we have to truck the snow out of the yard and into my father-in-laws field.

It's not over doing it. It's necessary.