Add to that daytime temperatures in the teens to low 20s with nights down to the single digits, try chiseling past the ice the snow plows piled up along the streets, sometimes spilling into the sidewalks as it did here and the house across the street. You're going to have to make sure you have something of a freed up schedule to take care of that. As you can see from my postings that second day, I had to take few hours out of my CEO business/memeing schedule.
Snow plows, you ask? Most are regular garbage trucks retrofitted for the occasion (plus the orange salt spreader trucks). So if you put your garbage out there, it was not going to be touched for days because and they were plowing for days, and they can't do two things at once because math. And now instead of simply going to the curb and picking it up, they have to climb over walls and hills of ice to do it.
With the latest location reveal on TwitterX showing that there are even more South Asians and Nigerians than there are Russians LARPing as MAGA, it's understandable why many can't grasp the concept of winter, thinking snow is cute fluffy shredded plastic confetti they've seen people waltz through in musical scenes in movies.
Heck, even our Southies got hit with way more snow they've seen cumulatively in their entire lifetimes (literally) plus extended freezing that they've never seen go past half a day before, and never ever as cold. Ever. So now they got it taste of what we deal with every year in the delightful phenomenon known as... winter.
My advice to all the foreigners in the reading audience, stay home. Don't come here. Don't wait for a Trump to come along to kick yous out after you come here, just stay home where it's nice and warm and the worst thing you have to worry about are marauding macaques trying to steal your McD's naan from your hands as you step outside.
Stay home everybody. And stay safe. This is America now.
