5 Annoying Things People Do When It Snows
Winter weather is moving in, and we're expecting 1-3 inches from today's storm.
Naturally, the snowy weather will turn a lot of us from normal, rational people into annoying bags of crazy!
- 1
Panic
For some reason, the word 'snow' sends people into a frantic tizzy. People start prepping as if it were the end of days! Can snow be dangerous? Sure. But panicking never helps anything. It's just snow. It will melt soon enough and we'll all be okay.
- 2
Clean Out the Grocery Store
Bread!! MILK!! EGGS!!! Listen, how much French toast do you need?? Especially on days like today when we're only expecting a couple inches of powder, do you really need 3 weeks worth of food in the fridge? (And why not buy shelf-stable stuff in case the power actually does go out for several hours? I'll never understand that...)
- 3
Forget How to Drive
Driving up and down the Parkway to work everyday is an exercise in patience (and I'm driving AGAINST the major flow of traffic!) When you combine typically crazy Jersey roads with even the tiniest amount of snow, well, nothing good can come of it. No one remembers how to stay in their lane, use their headlights or turn signals, maintain speed, or my biggest road peeve...
- 4
Not Clean Off Their Cars
WHYYYYY??? Yes, it's a pain to have to wake up 5, 10, maybe even 15 minutes earlier to clean off your car...but it's a combination courtesy/safety issue. It may be soft snow on your car now, but when you don't clear it off, it soon hardens into ice...and a chunk of ice flying off your car into someone's windshield is dangerous (and costly to fix.) Please, clean off your car -- and not just your windows.
- 5
Become Professional Meteorologists
My entire Facebook newsfeed is full of people who seemingly got their meteorology degrees overnight. Just because that crazy conspiracy website you love tells you we are gonna get 3 feet of snow in 2 weeks does not make it true...sure, true, certified meteorologists sometimes get things 'wrong' by trusting one model over another, but...doctors sometimes get things wrong too -- doesn't mean I'm going to believe medical info from a random person on Facebook the next time I'm sick.