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I still have milk and eggs left over from last year's hyped up storms!This one does seem interesting though!
Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 20, 2016, 11:51:31 AMI still have milk and eggs left over from last year's hyped up storms!This one does seem interesting though!I better not see a state of emergency until they are damn sure we're going to get socked. Last year was such a joke.
DC is a special kind of mess right now:And Metro is only running to a select few underground stations:
Quote from: Zeffy on January 20, 2016, 01:06:07 PMQuote from: jeffandnicole on January 20, 2016, 11:51:31 AMI still have milk and eggs left over from last year's hyped up storms!This one does seem interesting though!I better not see a state of emergency until they are damn sure we're going to get socked. Last year was such a joke.This line of thinking with regards to weather forecasts (and probabilistic forecasts in general) greatly irritates me. People (specifically the media) fail to realize that there's quite a bit of uncertainty built into weather forecasting, and with these big storms the 'bust' case will often have as much as a 30% chance of occurring, which is why forecasting agencies generally issue forecasts with confidence intervals. Of course nobody actually looks at these intervals, and when the 'bust' case occurs, people blame the forecasters, despite the fact that they themselves admitted uncertainty.Currently, Blacksburg's forecast to get anywhere from 8" to 2', and I'll trudge across the Drillfield on Friday and Saturday regardless.
Wow...a transit system that can't run trains when an inch of snow falls.
DC is a special kind of mess right now:
Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 21, 2016, 10:28:39 AMWow...a transit system that can't run trains when an inch of snow falls. As opposed to the MBTA (Boston), which has trouble running trains even when there's no snow or rain. Their solution, a glossy PR campaign to remind riders that "Winter Happens" - and goes on to encourage them to check the web site and service alerts for cancellations during storms.
BOS-PVD-HFD-NYC will still get up to 18"
Why don't more cities use underground tracks, rather than elevated tracks, to remove the need of having to close down stations? At the very least, build canopies...NYC's subway still operates after a couple inches of snow.