Ternus, Take the Wheel

**Casey Liss** (0:00)
So, this week, we had something happen in Richmond, which does not typically happen in December. And what we had happen was...

**Marco Arment** (0:08)
Good bagels?

**Casey Liss** (0:09)
Oh, really? This is the energy you're gonna bring to the show tonight.

**John Siracusa** (0:14)
Please take note of who's antagonizing, in case it's not me.

**Casey Liss** (0:16)
Yes, I am. You're still on my poo poo list, but now it's both of you. Both of you are on my poo poo list, aren't you?

**Marco Arment** (0:20)
I mean, how do I not try that?

**Casey Liss** (0:23)
Well played, well played.

**Marco Arment** (0:24)
I'm the chief derailer in chief.

**Casey Liss** (0:28)
In any case, we had something very unusual happen. We got snow. And what is so funny to me, so I haven't lived in Connecticut. I'm sure I've made this speech before on the show and sometime in the last 10, 11 years, whatever, but I haven't lived in Connecticut since I graduated high school in 2000 Went to Virginia Tech for four years, briefly went back to Connecticut in the summertime for a couple of months while I was looking for work. And then I was down in Central Virginia, a different part of Central Virginia after that. So it's been 21 years that I've been in Virginia, far and away the longest I've ever lived anywhere. And I really do not miss the snow. I'm good not having snow anymore. And if Virginia or at least Richmond gets snow, typically that happens for whatever reason. Like the January, February, maybe March timeframe, but it is very unusual to get it in December. But the thing that makes me laugh so much is that Richmond, for better and for worse, has approximately, let me do the math, zero ability to deal with snow. And so it was, I believe, Sunday night, and they were calling for, prepare yourselves, Northeasterners. They were calling for, I believe, three inches of snow. And by 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, they had already canceled school from one day.
And intellectually, I get why that is, because as I said, we just don't have the plows and the salt and the whatever in order to deal with it. I mean, we have some, but not nearly to the level that, Massachusetts or New York has, or Connecticut. But as someone who spent his formative years in Connecticut, where my recollection, probably incorrect, but my recollection was, we were under a foot of snow between October and April, it's so funny to me that there had not been a single snowflake coming out of the sky by 4 p.m. on Sunday, and they had already canceled school for Monday. And then they canceled school for Tuesday. And then today...

**John Siracusa** (2:25)
What? Wait a second. They canceled school for Tuesday on Sunday or on Monday?

**Casey Liss** (2:30)
Oh, no, I'm sorry, on Monday afternoon. I'm sorry, that was ambiguous of me. My apologies.

**John Siracusa** (2:33)
And what was happening on the ground Monday afternoon that they canceled school for Tuesday?

**Casey Liss** (2:36)
So they just hadn't been able to clear anything.

**John Siracusa** (2:40)
So it was the same three inches of snow?

**Casey Liss** (2:41)
Yeah, pretty much.

**John Siracusa** (2:43)
Two days off from school? I think that's excessive. I understand you can't get rid of it. We're not going to have time to follow the rules.

**Casey Liss** (2:47)
No, I'm sorry. My timeline is wrong. Wait, my timeline is wrong. It was Friday and Monday. I'm sorry, my timeline is all wrong. I should have taken notes. So it was Friday. They got canceled. I think I have this right now. So they canceled Thursday into Friday. That was the first batch. And then we got more snow on Monday. That's what it was. We were going to get more snow on Monday. So they canceled Monday. What is time? When the kids don't go to school, what is time? I don't know how you keep track of what day to record because you have no kids there to keep you on track. But anyways, so yeah, it's just so funny to me. Our inability to deal with snow or if you believe these two jerks make bagels. But anyway, our inability to deal with snow, it will never stop being funny to me. And honestly, it is reasonable that they canceled school both of these days. But to do so before there was a flake of snow on the ground, it will never stop making me laugh. I just find it to be the funniest thing in the world.

**John Siracusa** (3:35)
Canceling when there's no snow on the ground is reasonable if there's going to be like three feet or something, it's going to be like.