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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by throwaway894345 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:06PM (#31622004)
I stopped overnight in Holbrook on my way through to Phoenix in January, they were supposed to get an inch or so of snow overnight, and the locals kept advising me to wait until the snow clears before resuming my trip. I was tickled because I'm from the rural midwest where 2 inches of fresh snow was a best case scenario growing up. Holbrook gets about 5 inches of snow a year whereas my native county would get 42 inches (the US average is a little under 30).
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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by UncleEntity on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:49PM (#31622572)
If Holbrook is getting snow then Flagstaff is probably getting hammered which is most likely what they were concerned about. I’ve been through Flagstaff a few times when they really should have shut down the roads but didn’t for who knows why, it’s not like Arizonans are known for their bad weather driving skills. They actually have a “Stupid Motorist Law” for people who drive through flooded roads and have to be rescued because it happens so often.
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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by skinnymuch on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:41PM (#31623138)
Two times I have almost and even started to drive through a flooded road in the east coast. During Hurricane Sandy aftermath and another time. Luckily both times my immense worry of social embarrassment saved me from possibly getting stuck. A “Stupid Motorist Law” sounds good. I don’t know the first thing about cars, I shouldn’t be driving through flooded roads to save 30 min.
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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by SenHeng on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:49PM (#31622567)
I live in snow country too, and I think this advice isn't really about your ability to handle the snow. It's that they don't get snow often enough to know how to drive on snow. Then there's all the out-of-towners that drive faster than 60km/h when it's puking snow.
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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by peteradio on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:50PM (#31623861)
They also don't have rescue equipment like the midwest. We have scalable plow trucks which work for medium rescue and even special large tracked vehicles for deep snow efforts.
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