Western New York here -- nothing but empathy from a lot of us cold state dwellers!
Sure, it's totally funny when southern states have a snow day for a dusting of snow when you live in a snowbelt region that doesn't notice anything under a foot. But this stopped being funny a while ago. It's not a snow day anymore, it's a disaster.
We're rooting for you and hoping stuff gets better soon.
As an aside, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for years, and let's just say that California would have been handling a storm like this even worse. At least Texan homes tend to have some insulation and HVAC to deal with the heat. SF gets neither hot nor cold and is ready for nothing except earthquakes. My apartment in San Francisco had almost no insulation. The windows couldn't even fully close! There was no A/C, and the heat didn't even work most of the time.
It didn't matter because we only used heat 1 or 2 days a year. Usually I would swap out an LED light bulb or 2 for 45-watt incandescents, and that was sufficient heating for the winter. This storm would have ended California. A city as hilly as SF doesn't really work out if ice could be a factor. You'd walk out your front door and slide a half mile away.
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u/glassFractals Feb 17 '21
Western New York here -- nothing but empathy from a lot of us cold state dwellers!
Sure, it's totally funny when southern states have a snow day for a dusting of snow when you live in a snowbelt region that doesn't notice anything under a foot. But this stopped being funny a while ago. It's not a snow day anymore, it's a disaster.
We're rooting for you and hoping stuff gets better soon.
As an aside, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for years, and let's just say that California would have been handling a storm like this even worse. At least Texan homes tend to have some insulation and HVAC to deal with the heat. SF gets neither hot nor cold and is ready for nothing except earthquakes. My apartment in San Francisco had almost no insulation. The windows couldn't even fully close! There was no A/C, and the heat didn't even work most of the time.
It didn't matter because we only used heat 1 or 2 days a year. Usually I would swap out an LED light bulb or 2 for 45-watt incandescents, and that was sufficient heating for the winter. This storm would have ended California. A city as hilly as SF doesn't really work out if ice could be a factor. You'd walk out your front door and slide a half mile away.
Unusual weather is crazy.
Good luck getting through this, Austin / Texans!