Mark December 17th on you Calendar: The Superstorm Cometh

[naznatips]

Just_Ben said:

naznatips said:
How bad is it going to hit Indianapolis?

Just_Ben no 6 inches is not impressive. We had something like 3 feet 1 year. Anything over 4 inches though usually gets class canceled at my university because it's a commuter college and streets get really bad.

So your communities are not used to that kind of snow? (e.g. people making the street free). Its quite intresting in Europe: In austria thats not so much, but if the there is 3 cm snow in Hamburg, the traffic is down (because they just so uncommon there)

 

It really depends on what part of the country you are in.  Indianapolis is a very sprawled city.  You have to drive to get everywhere, and it takes a really long time to clean up the roads.  New York is cramped together and most people walk or take the subway so there is no reason to close stuff down.  

On the other hand, we do get snow every single year and it's not uncomon.  The problem is really just the way the city is designed.  We can get feet of snow and sub zero Farenheit temperatures in my state in the winter but in the summer we can get over 100 degrees Farenhite.  We also get massive tornadoes, huge pooring rains, up to 45 MPH winds, flooding, and small earthquakes in the southern part of Indiana.  Honestly my state is a disaster zone.  2 years ago we had baseball sized hail fall for over an hour, destroying thousands of cars and damaging almost every building in the city.