Will it be too difficult for me to participate in recruitment so far from home?

[AXOmom]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Here's the thing: in a city that regularly has inclement weather, the roads get salted/plowed quickly and people don't freak out when it snows. It's an adjustment, certainly, but it's not nearly as bad as being in a city where people DON'T know how to deal with it (see: Atlanta).

Well, Seattle and Portland, as WCSweet's video pointed out quite effectively, are a little more on the "freak out, don't know how to deal with it" end of things. The other drivers are a bigger danger than the weather.

Not to drag this even further off track, but in Portland at least (I assume the same would be true for Seattle for the same reasons), they don't use salt or chemical de-icers. Reason: fear that the chemicals will seep down through the soil into the river and hurt the salmon and the salt hurts the roads. Instead they use gravel/sand mixes that are rather useless.