# Snowmageddon in St. Louis **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174 "2008-03-05T13:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/21 "2008-03-07T05:51:23Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] What’s the puzzle? Spoede goes through Ladue or Frontenac or one of those places. [/QUOTE] Don’t forget that there are two major hospitals on that stretch of road along with Doctors’ offices along the east side of the road. With 40/64 shutdown, I would say that Spoede gets very high priority. ---
**Author:** ![GythaOgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@GythaOgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GythaOgg)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/22 "2008-03-07T16:25:52Z")
[QUOTE=gravitycrash] Don’t forget that there are two major hospitals on that stretch of road along with Doctors’ offices along the east side of the road. With 40/64 shutdown, I would say that Spoede gets very high priority. [/QUOTE] I think you may be thinking of Ballas…Spoede is almost completely residential. (Ballas is, indeed, home to both St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and Missouri Baptist Hospital). Olive, as a high-traffic replacement route for 40/64, should still have been plowed before Spoede, which is never high-traffic; that it wasn’t (both go through Creve Couer) is what kind of irks me. I’ll stop my venting now. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/23 "2008-03-07T17:17:54Z")
[QUOTE=GythaOgg] I think you may be thinking of Ballas…Spoede is almost completely residential. (Ballas is, indeed, home to both St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and Missouri Baptist Hospital). Olive, as a high-traffic replacement route for 40/64, should still have been plowed before Spoede, which is never high-traffic; that it wasn’t (both go through Creve Couer) is what kind of irks me. I’ll stop my venting now. [/QUOTE] You are correct of course. :smack: In my defense I haven’t had much sleep or I’m just getting senile. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/24 "2008-03-08T03:00:24Z")
I didn’t see any of this, but here’s my guess. Spoede is a simple city street – it would be maintained (plowed) by Ladue and Creve Coeur, and it was probably pretty high on their list. Olive, OTOH, is a state highway and falls under the province of MODOT. They were pretty busy that day. I took I-270 on the way home. It was in horrible shape, and the Interstates are MODOT’s #1 priority. In defense, MODOT can’t get the damn traffic off the roads long enough to get a plow through. I must have seen at least four snow plows sitting in rush hour traffic - no one was able to move out of the way for them, and you can’t plow very well in bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/25 "2008-03-08T04:15:01Z")
Lightray, I’m in central Michigan. We just caught the corner of the cold blast that overpowered St Louis. I feel your pain (pardon the cliche). The local weather bureau has informed us that for this area, we’re 39 inches above average for winter. My answer to this is that if I had a dart board, Al Gore’s picture would be on it. Drive careful. We at the Straight Dope boards care. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/26 "2008-03-08T04:32:11Z")
Another former St. Louisan here. I moved from Brentwood to suburban KC about 18 months ago, and I miss it terribly… but I have to say the fact that St. Louis got buried and we got nothing in KC made me grateful to be here for the first time. Then we got another inch and a half of snow out of nowhere this morning. Why can’t winter just end? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174/27 "2008-03-08T06:43:42Z")
Y’all are making me homesick. ☹ Stay safe and dry, everyone! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowmageddon-in-st-louis/440174.md?page=1)