In honour of the first snowfall

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am staying indoors where I will relatively safe from Ontario drivers who will no doubt be just as surprised that it snowed as they have been each year since the automobile was first invented.

[Update: As far as I can tell, the plows and salt trucks stayed in their garages]

Comments

[zeborah]

Presumably people don't voluntarily get up a half hour earlier just to find out if it snowed or not so they can leave earlier if it did? I get up ridiculously early so I can sate my internet addiction before work every morning, but most people I know get up exactly when they have to in order to leave when they ordinarily leave and not a minute before.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Presumably they also don't pay any attention to the forecasts the day before either, and feel no guilt in rushing so as to make their lack of proper planning somebody else's potential emergency. Most people I know do the same, but that doesn't make it right.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Generally speaking, checking the weather forecast the night before (whether newspaper, Internet, TV, or radio) will provide adequate warning that snow is on the way. It's not that hard to do…

[zeborah]

I don't casually watch tv, almost never listen to the radio, only sometimes skim part of the paper at work (usually a day after it's news), and am generally not interested enough in the weather to check a forecast on the internet. Of course I live in an excessively temperate country; were we regularly subject to snow I might have different habits.