# 'Snow joke out there. Dopers in areas that get a lot of snow, how do you deal with it?

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**Created:** [November 18, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139 "2022-11-18T12:18:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139/101 "2022-12-06T11:58:26Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> And this is why my brother, his wife, and I daydream about wintering in the Carolinas when we’re 15ish years older.

My wife and I are kinda thinking about NC, but not sure because of the politics there.

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**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139/102 "2022-12-06T14:07:57Z")

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Got 8-10" yesterday and was feeling lazy so didn’t plow, just went skiing…or so I thought. Slipped off the driveway and PLANTED my 4x4 full-size pickup with studded snows in our field. Totally high-centered. Had to plow it out and then pull it out with the tractor. THEN I went skiing.

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**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139/103 "2022-12-06T14:52:41Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> My wife and I are kinda thinking about NC, but not sure because of the politics there.

It was by far the most progressive / smart part of the South. Then ALEC got ahold of them about 15-20 years ago, and they’ve turned hard right. They just have farther to go than other states in that part of the country before they get there.

> **[American Legislative Exchange Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council)**
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> The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
> ALEC provides a forum for state legislators and private sector members to collaborate on model bills—draft legislation that members may customize and introduce for debate in their own state legislatures. ALEC has produced model bills on a broad range ...

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