Carolina snow closings: Brilliant!!!

[JeeberD]

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"We had a snowstorm here in Raleigh, and all the news channels posted the businesses and schools that would be closed the next day. One of these fine news organizations, Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina, chose the most convenient but least secure method to allow businesses to report closings: the Internet. Well, it wasn't long before members of The Wolf Web, an NCSU message board, exposed this flaw. They went crazy, as you're about to see. The best part of the whole thing was once a closing was accepted, it could be edited on the Internet and would go straight to TV without having to be reviewed again, so a fake closing that seemed plausible the first time it was shown could be outrageous the next time.

Click here to read the thread on The Wolf Web."

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[gstelmack]

This is old (it was from a couple of years ago), and pissed me off to no end. Great to see a bunch of teenage freaks screwing up an emergency helper service just because it was set up to be easy to use, forcing the TV station to make it more difficult for people to post important information. Bunch of idiot kids.

[cubboyroy1826]

That is just classic. As a high school kid i would have loved to just close my school but they took this to a whole new level.

[st.cronin]

This is old (it was from a couple of years ago), and pissed me off to no end. Great to see a bunch of teenage freaks screwing up an emergency helper service just because it was set up to be easy to use, forcing the TV station to make it more difficult for people to post important information. Bunch of idiot kids.

Old fart.

[ice4277]

This is old (it was from a couple of years ago), and pissed me off to no end. Great to see a bunch of teenage freaks screwing up an emergency helper service just because it was set up to be easy to use, forcing the TV station to make it more difficult for people to post important information. Bunch of idiot kids.
Dude, its a snow storm in the Carolinas. What is that, like a quarter inch of slush?

[gstelmack]

Dude, its a snow storm in the Carolinas. What is that, like a quarter inch of slush?
That's all it took last year to bring about a complete gridlock in Raleigh. It doesn't take much slush or ice to make driving treacherous. And because we only get a bit here and there, it just isn't worth maintaining all the plowing equipment people farther north have (Cary actually hires crews from Michigan when something comes through). It's just cheaper to shut the whole place down.

The key is in this area we're right on a freezing line. That means when people in Virginia get a couple of inches of snow, we tend to get an inch of freezing rain. We get more ice than a lot of other places in the country, which makes winter storms a real mess.

[JeeberD]

Old fart.

I prefer "stick-in-the-mud"...

[Huckleberry]

I know, right. Because of these hoodlums lots of people may have had to do something really crazy, like use the phone or something.

THE HORROR!!!

[Tekneek]

I love how people get down on the south about the inability to handle ice. I really like it when each winter I get to watch video from Chicago of people running into each other when the first snowfall hits. Same thing for NY. I get the Fox affiliate from NYC via DirecTV, and those 'handle any kind of weather New Yorkers' are out wrecking their cars, too.

[Taco]

Coming from New Jersey/New York, I will forever be amused at how North Carolina (where I live now) handles bad weather...

[sterlingice]

I love how people get down on the south about the inability to handle ice. I really like it when each winter I get to watch video from Chicago of people running into each other when the first snowfall hits. Same thing for NY. I get the Fox affiliate from NYC via DirecTV, and those 'handle any kind of weather New Yorkers' are out wrecking their cars, too.
Same. In Houston, when it snows, we're (mostly) smart enough to not go out and get in 100 car pileups on the freeway.

SI

[Wolfpack]

Coming from New Jersey/New York, I will forever be amused at how North Carolina (where I live now) handles bad weather...

"Badly" is what I assume you're thinking here. And you'd be right. :)

A threat of snow is enough to shut schools and send everyone into a bread-and-milk buying panic. News reports lead off with the weather guy talking about how much and where. Next story is invariably roving reporter out on Capital Blvd in Raleigh talking about salt trucks and the "long night ahead" for the drivers. Report after that is another roving reporter in front of a Food Lion or other grocery store in Garner or north Raleigh describing people stocking up on the necessities.

Funny part about all this was that pretty much for the entire decade of the 1990s, Raleigh barely got any snow at all. Then the monster 20" storm hit in 2000 and they've been getting decent hits at least once a year since then.

In the interest of balance, now living in Michigan, I humor myself at the suffering of people up here in the summer who complain when it gets a little humid and it gets even close to 90.

[gstelmack]

Wolfpack, you forgot the inevitable "it's going to stop any time now" from the weather people. That 20" storm didn't change from "an inch or two" until 6+ inches were on the ground. And the nasty ice storm last year that brought on the gridlock was only supposed to be trace amounts until a half inch of snow was already down.

[jeff061]

Hadn't see this before. Awesome.

[Wolfpack]

Wolfpack, you forgot the inevitable "it's going to stop any time now" from the weather people. That 20" storm didn't change from "an inch or two" until 6+ inches were on the ground. And the nasty ice storm last year that brought on the gridlock was only supposed to be trace amounts until a half inch of snow was already down.

True enough, but I moved to Michigan in 1999, so I didn't really see the badly-blown forecasts myself, just heard about them after the fact. Still, forecasting is a pisser in that part of the state because of the snow-ice line, which invariably bisects the Triangle somewhere. Only time it's ever all-snow usually is if you get a nice nor'easter blowing up just off Wilmington or Morehead City and it's nice and cold over the middle of the state.