"Azrek" (azrek)
01/28/2016 at 13:44 • Filed to: None
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"Azrek" (azrek)
01/28/2016 at 13:44 • Filed to: None | 2
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So I am in Annapolis, not a huge city by any means, but we got nailed by Storm Juno this past weekend startng on Friday. It snowed and snowed...I am from Wisconsin, so this is fantastic for me! I was eager to get in the snow and play, but I came down with a terrible cough which limited me to being home. I made the best of it with hot cocco and rum.
So it snows all Friday and most of Saturday. Saturday morning the whole city was covered in a beautiful white powder. The roads were completely covered and the city declared Level 3 for the roads, so only emergency vehicles were allowed on them till it was properly cleared.
About 730pm on Saturday night the first plow appears on my street. I can tell because there is a smashing sound, tires eagerly looking for traction followed by the distinct sound of someone backing up. I look out my window....
In typical Maryland fashion (I am not a fan of Maryland), the snow plow is at the bottom of the hill in his F150. He is attempting to push snow UP the gradual hill that is my street and having unforeseen difficulties. He will push for a bit, lose traction, back up, slam on the gas and ram into the pile. He did this for about an hour and a half and cleared a minor portion of the road.
After an hour and half, he hopped outta the truck with a shovel, cleared up some of the pile he made and left the way he came. My road wasn’t properly cleared till around Sunday afternoon!
I couldn’t stop laughing. Maryland is a southern state...they want to be a northern state, but they aren’t smart enough for it.
I also found out later my co-worker had the same issue with the snow plow in his neighborhood. He didn’t get clear till Monday afternoon.
Party-vi
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 13:53 |
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1) Annapolis, so yeah
2) Western Maryland has this snow thing figured out. The eastern weirdos have some things to learn
Ash78, voting early and often
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 14:02 |
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I couldn’t stop laughing. Maryland is a southern state...they want to be a northern state, but they aren’t smart enough for it.
Damn....ouch.
I believe 99% of the real South takes issue with that, even though probably half of Marylanders love to think they’re a part of the South. But with all the warmth of New Yorkers, they have a long way to go. DC to Boston is all just one giant, nearly homogenized city these days.
Annapolis is something else entirely. It’s like if Disney wanted to rebuild England on a small scale.
BigBlock440
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 14:03 |
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The plows here push snow uphill all the time, there’s really no loop you can do that you won’t. Though they’re actual plow trucks, and the plows are angled.
jariten1781
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 14:30 |
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Wants to be a Northern state? Not according to the official state song. Hell, the North wanted them so bad they arrested 1/3 the general assembly (and a sitting Congressman, and the Baltimore Board of Police), without charges in many cases, while declaring martial law so they couldn’t vote for secession.
Of course, I'd say 90% of MDers aren't aware of this in my sampling haha. State Song is still official AFAIK though, which is kind of strange with the big push to remove Confederate monuments and the like.
Couple verses:
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Dear Mother! burst the tyrant’s chain,
Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the plain-
“Sic Semper!” ‘tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland! My Maryland!
...
I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland!
The Old Line’s bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
Ike
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 15:30 |
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Our street never saw a plow, (I'm just north of you in Pasadena) I also hate Maryland, also from the Midwest, we should start a club,
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Azrek
01/28/2016 at 23:54 |
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I have northern transplant relatives in the area who were shocked by people going “i’m going to wait a couple days to start digging out” not knowing the full extent of what a few freeze thaw cycles will turn into.