I live in Washington wrote:
What's really pissing me off is the lack of snow removal. It wouldn't be so bad if the Seattle Powers That Be hadn't been in the news congratulating themselves for getting the snow off the main streets - which they kind of did, but the side streets/surrounding areas are slicker than snot. The public "transit" system is running maybe 50% of its buses; Sea-Tac airport "ran out of de-icer" in two days (they're supposed to keep a week's worth) leaving thousands stranded (can't get in OR out), and Greyhound turned all its stranded passengers out the other night when they closed the station. They said the passengers could go to a homeless shelter; problem was no one told the homeless shelter, and the shelter wouldn't let them in. Took 3 hours of these people standing out in the cold before the cops arrived and transported them elsewhere. Not to mention the charter bus sliding down a hill, crashing a barrier and hanging over the interstate (complete with passengers inside) because "they didn't know the road was closed." Complete cluster phuque around here. Yet all the nanny staters keep telling us to give up our cars and use mass transit. I think not.
But were you born in Washington or are you a whining transplant? The snow will get washed away by the rain soon enough. So a once in a decade or two snow stuck to the ground for a week; five days longer than it would normally stick. Boohoo. It's all the government's fault whine whine.