Buffalo slammed with six feet of snow

[Berkut]

I love it when Americans get normal winter weather and the civilization suddenly breaks down.

Huh?

[garbon]

I'm guessing Polish people generally spend all winter snowed-in.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'm guessing Polish people generally spend all winter snowed-in.

They welcome the snow since there are fewer invasions.

[The Brain]

Poland is weird.

[citizen k]

[derspiess]

Solid choices.

[Martinus]

I'm guessing Polish people generally spend all winter snowed-in.

We have infrastructure that keeps the snow in check. That is why, whenever heavy winter strikes in Europe, the Warsaw airport is out of service for a couple of hours, while Heathrow is out of service for days - it just does not make sense for Brits to invest in snow ploughs.

[Admiral Yi]

How often does Warsaw get six feet of snow?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Hell with shoveling that. Let it stay to Summer and melt.

[crazy canuck]

Solid choices.

Agreed.  I had my first IPA style brew last weekend and I am hooked.

[garbon]

I'm guessing Polish people generally spend all winter snowed-in.

We have infrastructure that keeps the snow in check. That is why, whenever heavy winter strikes in Europe, the Warsaw airport is out of service for a couple of hours, while Heathrow is out of service for days - it just does not make sense for Brits to invest in snow ploughs.

We have infrastructure too in the Northeast. None of that infrastructure I would think is set up to quickly handle 6+ feet of snow as that's rather at typical.*

*well accept for perhaps places like Buffalo.

[jimmy olsen]

I love it when Americans get normal winter weather and the civilization suddenly breaks down.

Does Poland often get 190 cm of snow in one day?

[Jacob]

Marty is kind of ridiculous in his smugness about 60-70 inches of snow, given Poland had 100,000 people without power and "an intolerable strain on budgets" over a snowfall of 10 inches in 2013 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9965663/Heavy-snow-knocks-power-out-for-100000-in-Poland.html

EDIT: and contrary to the "we just carry on" claim, hundreds of flights were cancelled in Poland when they received less than a fifth of the snow Buffalo just got.

[Ed Anger]

Magic Polacks.

[Eddie Teach]

Marty is kind of ridiculous in his smugness about 60-70 inches of snow, given Poland had 100,000 people without power and "an intolerable strain on budgets" over a snowfall of 10 inches in 2013 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9965663/Heavy-snow-knocks-power-out-for-100000-in-Poland.html

EDIT: and contrary to the "we just carry on" claim, hundreds of flights were cancelled in Poland when they received less than a fifth of the snow Buffalo just got.

But America is a much bigger place than Poland. We do have some cities with subtropical climates that tend to shut down on the rare occasions there's snow that sticks. (Obviously this doesn't apply to Buffalo).