LECOM snow?

[lonewolf1513]

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So i'll be going to LECOM next year and i'm from VA. As most of you have noticed VA got a ton of snow and it was... well hellish to get to work. I was wondering is this how it is in Erie. If so how the hell do people get to their class. Especially considering they require dress shoes. Any advice or info to dispel my concern will be appreciated.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

So i'll be going to LECOM next year and i'm from VA. As most of you have noticed VA got a ton of snow and it was... well hellish to get to work. I was wondering is this how it is in Erie. If so how the hell do people get to their class. Especially considering they require dress shoes. Any advice or info to dispel my concern will be appreciated.

I live in MD now but used to Live in Buffalo NY, i.e pretty close to Erie. There is snow from oct - april, i'd say with all the lake effect it tends to be horrible. But its usually like 3 inchs a night, never more then 1 ft in 1 night.

 

[Isoprop]

2 words:

lake effect

 

[beckhunter116]

So i'll be going to LECOM next year and i'm from VA. As most of you have noticed VA got a ton of snow and it was... well hellish to get to work. I was wondering is this how it is in Erie. If so how the hell do people get to their class. Especially considering they require dress shoes. Any advice or info to dispel my concern will be appreciated.

I want to say that this was touched on in another thread and current students said that you could wear like snow boots into the building and change your shoes once you are inside. Hopefully, a current student will respond whether this is still true.

 

[daveyjwin]

http://www.city-data.com/city/Erie-Pennsylvania.html
There is weather info about 1/3 of the way down the page.

 

[Styria]

Erie handles snow much better than Virginia. The roads will be plowed quickly enough. People know how to drive in it in the meantime. Supermarkets won't have their shelves cleared in a panic. LECOM won't cancel classes. Your car will rust from the salt.

Snowfall has to exceed one inch per hour, be very slippery, or be freezing rain to be bad in the northeast. In Upstate New York, an April snow is always treacherous and surprises people just as badly as the first real snow in the fall, so I'd watch out for both of those in Erie too.

 

[cabinbuilder]

So i'll be going to LECOM next year and i'm from VA. As most of you have noticed VA got a ton of snow and it was... well hellish to get to work. I was wondering is this how it is in Erie. If so how the hell do people get to their class. Especially considering they require dress shoes. Any advice or info to dispel my concern will be appreciated.

You are expected to take the weather into consideration when trying to get to class. Being tardy because of the weather is not a valid excuse. Keep your dress shoes in your locker and wear your boots in the car. I have seen more than a foot overnight. The school only closed twice in the 5 years I was there. We were let out early due to weather but never were excused from the start of the day.

 

[bleeker10]

Erie handles snow much better than Virginia. The roads will be plowed quickly enough. People know how to drive in it in the meantime. Supermarkets won't have their shelves cleared in a panic. LECOM won't cancel classes. Your car will rust from the salt.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you. Erie does a really crappy job of plowing anything but the main roads. It basically snowed everyday for two weeks after Christmas here and it took almost the two weeks for Erie to plow my street and I live 2 blocks off Peach and 38th which are two big streets in Erie. The side roads will suck. They will plow the snow so high on the side of the roads you can't see around a corner. LECOM does a great job though. Even if we are only supposed to get an inch, they have plows out in the parking lot and are throwing salt on the sidewalks overnite so it's clear in the morning. You will not have class cancelled here.

 

[digitlnoize]

We don't get ANY snow in Florida. LECOM-B > LECOM-E

I'm also from Virginia. I laugh at my friends back home constantly. They all hate me now.

 

[csmittyB]

We don't get ANY snow in Florida. LECOM-B weather> LECOM-E weather...

Fixed that for you😀

As nice as Florida weather sounds, I couldn't do PBL.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Fixed that for you😀

As nice as Florida weather sounds, I couldn't do PBL.

Same, I'm a social loafer being in a big group would screw me over lol. Anyway Florida is too humid.

 

[digitlnoize]

Same, I'm a social loafer being in a big group would screw me over lol. Anyway Florida is too humid.

I can't imagine that PBL, done "our way," would be much of a problem for anyone.

We meet in groups of 7-8, for 2 hours, 3 days a week. We work our way through a case, kinda "House" style, trying to figure out what's wrong.

During the process, we identify some chapters to read...say, the patient is having an MI, so we need to read: Heart Path, 3 Heart Phys chapters, Heart Anatomy, and Heart Histo.

Go home, read for the rest of that day, and the next day. Come back and figure out what to read next.

It's really not that hard, or that social.

Not sure about MD, but we actually have LOWER average humidity here in Sarasota than my hometown of Charlottesville, Va. The gulf coast is a far cry from most peoples' idea of hot, humid florida. The gulf breeze works wonders for that. Oh well, to each his own, I guess.

 

[Bacchus]

PCOM seems to have this problem this year 😉. 70.3" of snow so far, sigh.

 

[DmanGTR]

If you're gonna live in Erie, or Upstate NY for that matter, you'd better be prepared to deal with cold and snow. And yes, lake effect snow will seem like a blizzard to those not familiar with the winter weather here.

If life gives you lemons, eat them with some sugar.
If Erie gives you snow, go snowboarding 🙂