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In reply to the discussion: Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)104. It is not funny
It was -9 here yesterday and we have over a foot of snow on the ground ... but, it's Michigan .... this is what we expect, this is what we are used (as used to as one can be). We don't have to move state equipment around the state ... each municipality ... each county has their own equipment.
We have snow boots, shovels, gloves and mittens .... heavy coats ... we know to throw a blanket in the car and maybe some cat litter (in case we need to throw it under the tires).
We do all that and we still have problems.
I am not in the habit of laughing at the misfortune of others
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Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]
CreekDog
Jan 2014
OP
I think "Global Climate Destabalization with an overall trend to warming" is a better descriptor
Electric Monk
Jan 2014
#2
catastrophic climate change-C3, is how it was referred to at the copenhagen climate summit a
niyad
Jan 2014
#137
I am here in Houston, and I am laughing my butt off over the fact that my
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#4
There was not a speck of ice on the roads in Spring by 6:30 a.m. when I ran out to grab
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#44
I am sorry, but I am going to maintain my right to giggle like a fiend over my son's
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#52
Food scarcity is nothing to laugh at when you go a week or more being stuck indoors.
Neoma
Jan 2014
#120
I'm in Spring/Houston and I giggled too. BUT, realize ice/snow is rare here and what looks like
txwhitedove
Jan 2014
#106
You have some but you have nothing compared to what northern cities have. And you shouldn't.
pnwmom
Jan 2014
#56
I probably wouldn't drive anywhere if 2 inches of snow fell here in the Bay Area
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#12
You mean our idiot elected officials don't want to give funding to Sandy victims.
Fawke Em
Jan 2014
#14
I'm rather certain you can in fact, help yourself; you simply choose not to
LanternWaste
Jan 2014
#20
I live by the Maine coast. We have snow years and we have wet, glare ice years
magical thyme
Jan 2014
#46
actually when Sandy hit NJ and NY, many DUers did laugh, scoff and chide storm victims
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#24
Many of us also gave advice on what to expect and how to prepare for Hurricane Sandy,
kentauros
Jan 2014
#93
The north had good plows 50 years ago. They've always been more prepared than the South
pnwmom
Jan 2014
#61
Exactly. Everyone's region has an aging infrastructure, anti-govt Repubs in office, and
FSogol
Jan 2014
#21
Exactly. No different than Southerners not understanding how people in NYC die from heat.
Dawgs
Jan 2014
#27
Personally, I don't even break out a shovel for 3 inches of snow. Maybe a broom. OTH - I would have
geckosfeet
Jan 2014
#37
DU is full of assholes with absolutely no compassion for their fellow human beings.
kentauros
Jan 2014
#97
My husband is from California. He said the MD/Va quake was the scariest he has ever been through.
pamela
Jan 2014
#111
Agreed. I can't imagine that Birmingham AL has a very big ice/snow removal line item
catbyte
Jan 2014
#74
Extreme weather events cannot be separated from climate change and that's not a laughing matter
onenote
Jan 2014
#85
It is only funny when their hardship is trivial and much less than others regularly live with
Taitertots
Jan 2014
#118
That's seriously unfunny considering CA is in great peril from lack of rain
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2014
#136
I used to have a cartoon on the bulletin board with two drawings of "California Drivers"--
deurbano
Jan 2014
#144
Likewise nobody from a Southern state should gloat about their "superior" weather
BlueStreak
Jan 2014
#152