# End of Days -- Civilization Collapse due to Snow **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532 "2016-01-29T00:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/41 "2016-01-31T10:18:02Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 28 inches? Back to normal in 24-36 hours tops, here in the Twin Cities metro area (MN). But then we have a massive investment in snow removal equipment that other regions possibly don’t. Quite right. I remember back in the early 1980’s having a storm with about 18 inches of snow, then another one 2 days later with 20 inches more. And I made it in to work both days, as did most of my co-workers (though some were late). ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/42 "2016-02-01T04:38:49Z")
I’m just glad that after the punishment we received last Winter, we avoided this one completely. Not a single snowflake made it up here, to the Adirondacks. In fact, the ground is pretty much bare, with just a bit of snow here and there. I knew buying my first snow blower would pretty much guarantee I wouldn’t see any snow this year. 48 days until Spring. But who’s counting? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/43 "2016-02-01T16:19:13Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > OK, so I live in Northern Virginia…specifically, Fairfax County – a densely populated … > > It’s THURSDAY. Snow is still VISIBLE, but as an impediment to transportation, it’s OVER. > > What the frosty fuck? Is this some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland? has everyone simply given up, and we’re now fighting over dead rats? > > Are we waiting for [Kevin Costner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_%28film%29)? I live in Northern Virginia and I got mail on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/44 "2016-02-01T17:48:50Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Besides what’s already been mentioned, we also have a commuting situation that is difficult even in the best of times. DC has some of the highest housing costs in the nation, and even middle-class people often commute from far-flung suburbs. It’s not unusual at all in my office for people to have a commute of an hour or more. The roads are clogged and parking is outlandishly expensive, so many people commute by rail, a network of city and commuter busses, bicycle or even hitchhiking. The aging metro system is plagued by delays and breakdowns even in good weather, and it runs particularly poorly in the cold. So when a weather event like this happens, the already strained transit system becomes completely non-functional. Then it sounds like the OP shouldn’t be complaining! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/45 "2016-02-01T18:19:23Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Please, it’s bad enough for us Northern Virginians that we have to try to balance out the rest of the state. Don’t disenfranchise us too or the rest of the Virginians will take over and we’ll turn into Far North Carolina or worst, East Virginia. 😃 You owe me a new keyboard. Sooo true!!! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/46 "2016-02-01T18:22:17Z")
- “Hungry times in camp. Mrs. Murphy said she thought she would commence on Milt and eat him. I don’t think she has done so yet. It is distressing.”\* -P. Breen ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/47 "2016-02-02T07:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds…my ass! > > No mail Saturday the 23rd. OK, historic blizzard. > No mail Sunday the 24th. Ok, Sunday, no delivery. We cleared our lot, access roads, and sidewalks. > No mail Monday the 25th. But the main roads are cleared, and there’s treated and salted pavement from them to my mailbox. There’s no snow nor rain nor bullshit to stop mail delivery to me, but maybe someone else hasn’t dug out. > No mail Tuesday the 26th. > No mail Wednesday the 27th. > No mail Thursday the 28th. I agree this is a complete disgrace. The USPS constantly comes to Congress whining looking for handouts, with its one marketing slogan being the above: you can alway count on the mail, no matter what. I agree, Saturday, OK we get it, its 2016, but for the mail to not be delivered by Monday is a sign that our country is indeed a doomed nation of Pussies. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/48 "2016-02-02T08:43:36Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I agree this is a complete disgrace. The USPS constantly comes to Congress whining looking for handouts, … Cite? Because I believe the Postal Service has operated in the black for quite some time now, without needing any support from the government. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532/49 "2016-02-02T20:04:11Z")
I live in Northern Virginia and my beef has been with drivers in my neighborhood over the past week and a half since the snow. Our area didn’t get cleared well, just a narrow single car lane twining around between parked cars. The snow they managed to clear out of the street got piled up on the sidewalks. So the sidewalks have been impassable to pedestrians and the parked cars caused wide swaths of deep snow out to the middle of the road. They never bothered to come back and finish clearing, I guess assuming that the warm temps we had this week would melt it off. Well it hasn’t melted fast enough. The sidewalks are still unusable so I have to walk my dogs in the street. I don’t want to risk them, so of course I walk them as close to the side as possible, and when cars come I try to duck into a driveway if possible to let them pass. A lot of drivers have been speeding through, passing me by about a foot or two without even slowing down to be cautious. I’ve given more people the hand forward “stop” motion to try to get them to slow down this week than ever before in my life. Only one complied. One asshat blew through a stop sign and passed me and the hounds going about 30. There was a lady driving an SUV going the opposite direction and fortunately she was paying attention because she stopped to let his assness go by so he wouldn’t either hit me or her. Then she pulled up to me with her window down and we commisserated a little on what a jackass he was. I have the impression that people are more likely to slow down around other vehicles than they are pedestrians, which is really messed up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-days-civilization-collapse-due-to-snow/744532.md?page=2)