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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: tancehughes on January 23, 2014, 08:23:05 PM
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What?? And it's sticking too! Tomorrow our schools will be closed, roads will be closed. We can't handle this kind of stuff because we aren't used to it. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/ebynyhaz.jpg)
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Up here in the tundra of Illinois, we call that a dusting.
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Up here in the tundra of Illinois, we call that a du :Dsting.
pfft...here in Buffalo, we have frost deeper than that.... ;D
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oh Tance hard to feel sorry for ya on this one bud :P
hope all is well for you.
Alan
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you guys have to understand, down here, that may as well be 30 feet. It's just so uncommon, that people freak out about it
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i just drove home in some lite snow. Nothing is stickin so we should be ok. My 3 yr old wantd to build a snow man.
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Ha! I couldn't see it at first....
When I moved to Seattle from MN I was told by my new boss they were closing up shop for the day. I thought issues with production or something. He then told me they were forecasting up to 3" of snow. It hadn't even started and everyone was already going home. They can't handle it here either. People freak out...
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I'm about three hours south of Tance and they shut down our schools as well... PANDEMONIUM!
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I'm working my day job, setting up for a trade show in New Orleans... holy crap it's cold here... in the convention center, it was less than 45 degrees today... not good working conditions for indoor work
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Im in Kenner...about 7 miles outside of new orleans...its 5:35am as of this writing....no snow yet.
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Ha! When I moved from Fort Myers where it pretty much pours every day around 5:00 to Los Angeles I was suprised that they shut down when the first rains hit
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We don't even have snow here in Austin, but lots of ice and sleet/hail, and most schools and government offices are closed :D
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Up here in the tundra of Illinois, we call that a du :Dsting.
pfft...here in Buffalo, we have frost deeper than that.... ;D
Ha Ha good one Homer.
Here in CT i scrape that much off my car every morning just from frost. This A.M. it was a lovely -5 degrees out.
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The road in front of the shop this morning. 1" of ice with a small bit of snow but mostly ice pellets down first with frozen rain on top of that.. I didn't have any issues but I've got mud terrains, 4x4 with locking diffs and half a brain so I didn't break a tire loose until I wanted to. I did some brodies on this road as best I could. I turned the traction control off and locked the rear diff with the front wheels unlocked and I was able to cut it loose and have a bit of fun.
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Having grown up in the Northwest, the thing that scares me most about this kind of weather in Austin is the morons who have enough trouble staying on the road when it drizzles. Seriously, yesterday in the relatively light freezing rain there were 3 enormous pile ups and they closed 35 within a few hours. Pretty pathetic, and really scary thinking about sharing the roads with these idiots.
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Having grown up in the Northwest, the thing that scares me most about this kind of weather in Austin is the morons who have enough trouble staying on the road when it drizzles. Seriously, yesterday in the relatively light freezing rain there were 3 enormous pile ups and they closed 35 within a few hours. Pretty pathetic, and really scary thinking about sharing the roads with these idiots.
Freezing rain is no joke no matter where you are in the country. You guys further south seem to get freezing rain more often than we do, due to the warmer climate. When we get freezing rain it covers every inch of everything, takes down trees and power lines. Driving on is nearly impossible even with 4X4 unless you have studded tires or chains.
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Should we start the talk about "Global Cooling"?
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Freezing rain is no joke no matter where you are in the country. You guys further south seem to get freezing rain more often than we do, due to the warmer climate. When we get freezing rain it covers every inch of everything, takes down trees and power lines. Driving on is nearly impossible even with 4X4 unless you have studded tires or chains.
I'm not saying it is easy, but it isn't hard to drive safely in the conditions we had last night. Austin drivers are used to driving 10-15 over the speed limit and/or tailgating. When it rains even a little, we experience tons of accidents because people don't change how they drive for whatever reason. They expect to be able to drive 10 feet behind the car in front of them and slam on their breaks every few seconds and still stop on a dime. Honestly, driving in Texas is the scariest and most frustrating thing about living here.
edit: last night I drove 3 blocks to the grocery store and at the only light I have to go through, a pickup guns it at the light and spins immediately into the middle of the intersection. I see that kind of stuff all the time...
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Here in Phoenix, we haven't had rain all month. The precipitation must be getting pushed east.
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I lived in phx for 7 years. Sometimes I miss having less than 10 days of rain a year and glorious sunshine every day :D
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Wow that snow must have jumped over our part of Alabama, all we got was some dam wet cold weather and a freeze warning last night.
Darryl