Wait for it... wait for it... wait for it..... CLOSE EVERYTHING!!!

[Jewrean]

Australia.

No snow here. It's currently Christmas and Summer, beer-drinking weather. The only snow in my country is on the highest mountains. There has never been snow here in my town.

 

[telkesh]

I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.

Hey! I'm moving to Vermont in like a month. If there isn't 4 feet of snow I will be disappointed.

To answer the original question: If there was even one single snowflake falling here out authorities would go insane. I live in North Queensland, in Australia and the only time I have ever seen snow was the one time I visited Washington.

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

It doesn't snow here (Sydney, Australia). We've just spent the past Winter bitching about how cold the 18*C average was. Yeah, don't judge us.

Lucky you.
Down here in Melbourne, we get to about 13 degrees in Winter.
2 blankets and a doona/duvet with an electric blanket does wonders.

If it snowed down here, I think EVERYTHING (shops, movies, schools) would shut for the day, and we'd have snowball fights.

 

[jad4400]

I live in Oregon, basically we only get snow once every couple years (we've got plenty of precipitation, but not enough of a cold front to get snow) so basically when it snows, the entire city of Portland shuts down and people abandon their cars on the side of the road. It?s pretty hilarious, especially if you live by a hill and people fail to get their cars up. Although once every five years or so we get a massive ice storm which basically shuts the city down for a week.

 

[thingymuwatsit]

I live in one of the strangest spots of weather in Australia, if we ever get snow it clears into a sunny day two hours later.

 

[Irridium]

I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.

Hey! I'm moving to Vermont in like a month. If there isn't 4 feet of snow I will be disappointed.

To answer the original question: If there was even one single snowflake falling here out authorities would go insane. I live in North Queensland, in Australia and the only time I have ever seen snow was the one time I visited Washington.

Its actually been pretty light so far. Which is odd.

Although it'll probably pick up in the coming months. Nature's like that. Completely calm one day, then batshit insane the next.

 

[weatherfn]

Hooray for the Great Lakes. We used to have school even with a foot dumping the previous night. Now that I'm farther south at college, I like to laugh when 4 inches closes the university.

 

[serenityzero]

I live in Canada. It takes about two hundred car accidents before they close anything.

 

[sailor_960]

I am currently going to school in Rochester, New York and we use tunnels. U of R kinda rocks like that.

 

[Merkavar]

i think they would think they were going insane or it was the end of the world. closest thing to snow i get here is a millimeter of frost on car windows.

 

[Saulkar]

I live in fragging Canada! The snow has already piled up to a meter and a half across my entire school track and field. Hell, even if the power went out we would still be called into school.

 

[Lavi]

Hello dear Escapist, a little background information 1st. Live in the southern united states, just north enough to get snow/sleet, but just south enough for the shcool board to *Pun not intended* freeze up when it does finally hit. Today, December 17, we had less than an inch of solid snowfall. The school system shut down all schools in about 10 counties.

So here is the question, my friends, how do those in positions of authority near you react to snow? Do you live in an area where you never recieve it and dont have to worry about it? Do you live where snow is a constant, something that simply becomes part of the norm? Do you live where any amount of snow causes almost complete sociotal breakdown? Share with us your tales of intrest!

Canada: HAHAHAHAHHAHA YOU PUSSIES!

No really. We laugh at all of you. We laugh at each other if someone dares complain.

 

[FortheLegion]

I normally live in New Hampshire. There has to be a blizzard going on to shut the schools down and even then we sometimes end up going anyways.

 

[Lilani]

Hello dear Escapist, a little background information 1st. Live in the southern united states, just north enough to get snow/sleet, but just south enough for the shcool board to *Pun not intended* freeze up when it does finally hit. Today, December 17, we had less than an inch of solid snowfall. The school system shut down all schools in about 10 counties.

So here is the question, my friends, how do those in positions of authority near you react to snow? Do you live in an area where you never recieve it and dont have to worry about it? Do you live where snow is a constant, something that simply becomes part of the norm? Do you live where any amount of snow causes almost complete sociotal breakdown? Share with us your tales of intrest!

In the case of school closure, it's not snow that gets them. Snow is nothing--they laugh in the face of mere snow. It's ice they're worried about. My local school system closed down today, and they barely got a sprinkling of snow. It was the thin, but very thorough, layer of freezing rain that did them in. It made all the roads so slick it was unsafe. THAT, my friend, is what closes schools.

It doesn't matter if it snows an inch or a foot--the determining factor is how bad the roads get, not the quantity of snow that falls. I remember once during jr. high it snowed close to 2 feet, but none of it stuck to the roads so we still had school. And then there are days like today, where there is virtually no snow but everything is slicker than snot on a doorknob.

 

[silentrob77]

I live in Ontario, we don't care.
Unless your car is surrounded by at least 4 feet of snow you're going to school / work.
I remember when I was a kid we went through 3 broken down buses in the middle of an ice storm and got to school.

All you people out here who close shit down cause you have an inch of snow....grow a pair!

 

[Polaris19]

I live in Vermont. In the hilly/mountainous parts, and we get lots of snow. If its below 4 feet, there's school.

I've heard Finland takes a hardcore approach to it though. Like if there's 10 feet of snow, bring skies.

You do!?!?!

I live here too!
Maybe I have met you ( not a lot of people here so can't be too hard :/)

 

[Rutskarn]

"President Madagascar! Snow has fallen!"

"SHUT

DOWN

EVERYTHING."

 

[conflictofinterests]

IF we received ANY snow where I live, I doubt the authority figures would react by doing anything less than evacuating their families and loved ones to their custom-build Vault-Tec Vaults.

 

[teknoarcanist]

Pennsylvania -- we close once we get ICE, because our roads are total shit.

 

[pln9fos]

Being a Texan (no haters please; I'm not some inbred hick, and surprise surprise, I'm a Democrat), I consider us lucky if we get snow once every five years or so, but at the same time, I have a reason to hate it. I work at a small-time grocery store, and if there's snow or sleet in the forecast, people start panicking and flock to the store to buy "necessities." I already check out enough rednecks and crotchety old women; I'd prefer not to have to check out ten times as many in one day ._.