What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[AppleQueso]

Huh, I always figured it snowed a lot in Seattle.

I very briefly considered moving there, decided I wasn't ready to move somewhere so far away... and it seemed too cold.

I move out of Texas though Seattle is kinda #1 on my list.

[laurenhiya21]

I love snow, but we didn't get any this year... not even a little dusting of it. There's been a ton of fog at least, but that's not as awesome as snow.

[MrPopo]

Seattle sits around 70-75 most of the summer with about a week of 90 degree weather. Half the people out here don't have AC as a result (but fuck that noise, first thing I did when I bought my house was get a heat pump installed), and then in the winter the coldest it tends to get is right around freezing, and even that is not for long. The record low for Seattle is 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Ack]

Seattle sits around 70-75 most of the summer with about a week of 90 degree weather. Half the people out here don't have AC as a result (but fuck that noise, first thing I did when I bought my house was get a heat pump installed), and then in the winter the coldest it tends to get is right around freezing, and even that is not for long. The record low for Seattle is 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

Remind me to one day consider moving out there.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I never had an issue with the preemptive school cancellations in these parts. The school districts are located in huge rural areas. No reason to get a bunch of buses stuck on back roads.

What I always hated were the early release days. Kids would always be tipped off so any chance of focusing and learning was flushed away immediately. It was also a nightmare trying to get parents to pick up their kids at 11:30 or whatever.

[AppleQueso]

Seattle sits around 70-75 most of the summer with about a week of 90 degree weather. Half the people out here don't have AC as a result (but fuck that noise, first thing I did when I bought my house was get a heat pump installed), and then in the winter the coldest it tends to get is right around freezing, and even that is not for long. The record low for Seattle is 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

oh what the fuck you make Seattle sound like magic paradise

[Ziggy]

stop driving like a wuss.

LOL. On LI, people do that too. It'll rain, and half the people wanna reduce their speed to a ridiculous crawl and the other half wants to go as fast as they normally do. Then there's the .00001 percent that wants to reduce their speed accordingly, but they get stuck between the two extremes.

The Long Island Expressway is three lanes (not counting the HOV lane). The speed limit is 55, but most people go over and it's pretty much allowed. I was pulled over last summer for doing 85, and the cop told me to just do 70. So now I cruise at 70 for the most part (I'll go a little faster if I'm "keeping up with traffic"). When it starts raining, snowing, or freezing I'll start reducing my speed accordingly. The problem there is that I get stuck between the two extremes. The right lane is fucked, people will go obnoxiously slow. The middle lane will usually be going slower than what a safe speed is. And the left lane will be unaware that it's raining or snowing, they'll still be doing 75+. So let's say it's raining good. I'll cruise in the left lane going 65, and I'll be FLYING past everyone in the lanes next to me. But then people will be up my ass wanting to go faster. So I'll be nice and get over, I'd rather do that then watch them swerve around people at high speeds, fucking up traffic and potentially causing an accident. But then I'm in the middle lane and it's going too slow, so I have to get back over. Rinse, repeat.

The one thing I'll give people is slowing down on ramps when it was raining then the temperature dropped. Some of the on and off ramps around here, if you hydroplane or slide on ice, you're gonna end up in a ditch that you wont be able to drive out of. I'd rather not have that happen to me, so much so that I can understand going slower then what is actual necessary. But yeah, there will be mere drops of rain with above freezing temps and people will take the ramps SO fucking slow. It's excruciating.

[MrPopo]

It's nice; the problem is everyone drives like shit out here. Since I work as a software developer most of the people I work with are transplants from outside Seattle and we've all noticed how bad the native drivers are. There's no fast lane; you're better off passing on the right. They'll come to a dead stop on a moving road to let people who don't have right of way to turn onto the road (I've nearly rear-ended several people because of it). And they haven't figured out that the curves on an expressway are engineered so that you can keep going at highway speeds on it; you don't need to drop to 40 to make the curve.

[AppleQueso]

People here seem to be awful drivers too, for kinda the opposite reasons.

[Exhuminator]

oh what the fuck you make Seattle sound like magic paradise

Notice he didn't mention the incessant rain.