the snow always sticks if it falls hard enough. a lot of you will be surprised, we go through this all the time. if streets are wet, it isn't snowing that hard.
there aren't many good "options" in the ne part of this storm until it gets north towards NOLA and i suspect that's why. simply too risky in such sparsely populated and mostly wooden structured areas and wetlands.
wasn't an insult to forky, simply pointing out how this was never an obvious forecast for those thinking the outcome has been locked in for days.
i wouldn't say awful. they vary quite a bit for sensible weather in our tiny geographic area of the world, but the reality is the overall synoptics are only shifting slightly. the chance you take being on the razor's edge.
this was not obvious to anyone in the way you are making it seem. red taggers have been waffling for days on this storm as well, with forky warning it could come further NW and threaten coastal sections with rain.
i agree people like to see what they want to see, but to imply this has been a "scraper" for days isn't totally fair. we are simply reaching that consensus now.
does it have to do with it being october? since gradient is what creates wind, i imagine overall atmospheric pressure is higher in october compared to august, but not sure if this is a contributing factor.