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> I remember a friend who interviewed with Google and got stuck in SF for three weeks due to snow storms on the east coast This is literally unbelievable. I ca

> I remember a friend who interviewed with Google and got stuck in SF for three weeks due to snow storms on the east coast This is literally unbelievable. I cannot remember a time when the east coast was inaccessible for three weeks…

lazyasciiart 3y ago
It probably wouldn’t have saved his job to reach any random spot on the east coast, so you don’t have to think of a time when it was all inaccessible.
- LeafItAlone 3y ago
  Do you think that the parent I was responding to didn’t understand my intent? Did you really think I meant any random location on the east coast?
  - lazyasciiart 3y ago
    Yes, because otherwise it doesn’t seem like an outlandish enough scenario to justify literally saying you don’t believe him. Hurricane Sandy was the first thing that sprang to my mind, but there have been plenty of major travel disruptions over the years, and I wouldn’t expect to hear every time some smaller city was unreachable from California.
    - LeafItAlone 3y ago
      Given their response above, they figured out my intention even without being super pedantic.
moron4hire 3y ago
There was a year (maybe 2012? I was in Philadelphia at the time) where we had back to back snow storms of more than 12" accumulation, about a week and a half apart. It came at a bad time of poor investment in snow clearing equipment and services, so many places had done no cleanup of the first storm before the second one hit. I don't know how the airports faired, but the roads were a deathtrap for weeks.
- coliveira 3y ago
  I was in NJ during that time, and it was really bad. One meter of snow accumulation everywhere was normal, roads were unsafe for days.
  - moron4hire 3y ago
    I remember dragging my desktop to a friend's house to prep for getting snowed in by the storm because I had just moved to the area and was living alone and didn't have much food at the time.
throwawaymaths 3y ago
Snowpocalypse/snowmageddon. 2010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_N... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010... Two back to back storms, there was about 12 hour window where you could get in or out. This poor guy was supposed to fly back during the first, got pushed to a flight during the second, and then the pile-on of rebookings pushed him further. I don't remember if he got trapped due to the third storm too. It wasn't completely cut off. During the first storm, I got head notice of the next one and rebooked my flight out of the east coast to be one day earlier, and threaded the needle by politely asking customer service. I was in and out of the east coast for a week. Anyways, Some cities on the east coast are less prepared than others for this sort of thing.
- LeafItAlone 3y ago
  I’m familiar with travel in that storm. It sounds like they didn’t really make an effort. They _didn’t_ get back, which is different from they _couldn’t_ get back. Which is probably why they got fired. Overall, though, it doesn’t change your original point about interviews, and I didn’t really need to take us on this tangent.
  - devoutsalsa 3y ago
    When flights get cancelled, if you really need to get back, you can book your own flight and hope for reimbursement. Getting rebooked through an airline is usually a horrible process in my experience.

lazyasciiart 3y ago

It probably wouldn’t have saved his job to reach any random spot on the east coast, so you don’t have to think of a time when it was all inaccessible.

LeafItAlone 3y ago
Do you think that the parent I was responding to didn’t understand my intent? Did you really think I meant any random location on the east coast?
- lazyasciiart 3y ago
  Yes, because otherwise it doesn’t seem like an outlandish enough scenario to justify literally saying you don’t believe him. Hurricane Sandy was the first thing that sprang to my mind, but there have been plenty of major travel disruptions over the years, and I wouldn’t expect to hear every time some smaller city was unreachable from California.
  - LeafItAlone 3y ago
    Given their response above, they figured out my intention even without being super pedantic.

moron4hire 3y ago

There was a year (maybe 2012? I was in Philadelphia at the time) where we had back to back snow storms of more than 12" accumulation, about a week and a half apart. It came at a bad time of poor investment in snow clearing equipment and services, so many places had done no cleanup of the first storm before the second one hit. I don't know how the airports faired, but the roads were a deathtrap for weeks.

coliveira 3y ago
I was in NJ during that time, and it was really bad. One meter of snow accumulation everywhere was normal, roads were unsafe for days.
- moron4hire 3y ago
  I remember dragging my desktop to a friend's house to prep for getting snowed in by the storm because I had just moved to the area and was living alone and didn't have much food at the time.

throwawaymaths 3y ago

Snowpocalypse/snowmageddon. 2010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_N... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010... Two back to back storms, there was about 12 hour window where you could get in or out. This poor guy was supposed to fly back during the first, got pushed to a flight during the second, and then the pile-on of rebookings pushed him further. I don't remember if he got trapped due to the third storm too. It wasn't completely cut off. During the first storm, I got head notice of the next one and rebooked my flight out of the east coast to be one day earlier, and threaded the needle by politely asking customer service. I was in and out of the east coast for a week. Anyways, Some cities on the east coast are less prepared than others for this sort of thing.

LeafItAlone 3y ago
I’m familiar with travel in that storm. It sounds like they didn’t really make an effort. They _didn’t_ get back, which is different from they _couldn’t_ get back. Which is probably why they got fired. Overall, though, it doesn’t change your original point about interviews, and I didn’t really need to take us on this tangent.
- devoutsalsa 3y ago
  When flights get cancelled, if you really need to get back, you can book your own flight and hope for reimbursement. Getting rebooked through an airline is usually a horrible process in my experience.