MSNBC: Maine Residents Making Fun of Us for Reporting on Snow in Maine

‘When the official at the Department of Public Safety was asked why that was, why there was no ban, he simply said, “we’re Maine”‘

BALL: "And now to Portland, Maine, where they picked up nearly two feet. And John Yang is there. I understand the snow is still falling but the temperatures have not." 
YANG: "It is still cold. It is a big difference from yesterday it. Was in the teens yesterday and the wind brought the windchill down to minus two. But if you look behind me, life has returned pretty much to normal here in Portland. Cars and traffic busy here in downtown Portland. Things are normal since this morning. You look down the street and the canyon of plowed snow up on the sides. This street, just 24 hours ago, you couldn't see half a block. The snow coming down at the rate of 2-4 inches an hour. But you can see the roads are clear. The crews were working on the streets all during the snowfall, staying ahead of the falling snow. They were helped by the fact that people stayed off the roads. Even though there was no mandatory traffic ban in Maine, as there was in the other states hit by this storm. When the official at the Department of Public Safety was asked why that was, why there was no ban, he simply said, 'we're Maine.' Just a few minutes ago -- just a few minutes ago, a Portland Department of Public Works truck pulled up here at the stoplight and the driver leaned out and looked at our camera and the satellite truck and said, 'You know, we've seen snow before.'"
BALL: "So the residents there in Portland, Maine, not that impressed. John Yang, thank you for that report."

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