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Snow!!! ***Official 17-18 Winter Storm Thread*** (1 Viewer)
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Jedi Knight
Footballguy
Something somewhat similar. About four or five years ago, we were living in Charlotte. In early October, it got below 40 degrees and it never got above it until sometime in April. I had had enough. Told my wife that I was moving back to Florida. She gave in and agreed on the condition that we wait until the youngest child graduated (last year). I agreed and we moved the next year. I could care less if I ever see another snowflake again in my life.
Corporation
Angry Bovine
They predicted a quarter inch for Birmingham. We got 6 inches, but no ice. This was probably the best snow ever. Great snow ball fights and snowmen, no travel issues.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
Just heard this insane WOMMMMMMP sound outside about 10 times, followed by the sky lighting up with a weird green glow, then we lost power. Scared the living #### out of me until I realized it was the transformer going out. And now there are a bunch of them in the distance doing the same. Eerie as hell. This is no longer fun.
Osaurus
Footballguy
McGarnicle
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
This was my concern last night - it’s a really wet, heavy snow and it’s weighing trees and power lines down. We lost signal with our satellite but still have power so far. Still snowing here - we appear to have about 5-6 inches of snow which is pretty much the most snow my kids have ever seen and definitely this early in the year. They were saying we might get flurries but little to no accumulations all week - nice job morans!
McGarnicle
Footballguy
Really glad we have a fireplace and gas stove. Just had an enormous breakfast with hot coffee, listening to podcasts by the fire. Even in a power outage you don't have to talk to your wife. 
AAABatteries
Footballguy
"You wanna play with 4 inches?"Really glad we have a fireplace and gas stove. Just had an enormous breakfast with hot coffee, listening to podcasts by the fire. Even in a power outage you don't have to talk to your wife.
Big League Chew
Footballguy
Getting a decent flow of snow in DC now. Doesn't look like it's sticking. Stuck in a hospital hoping to get discharged before I get stranded
AAABatteries
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
eta: having grown up in ncal where it snowed 1x in my life there (which melted by the time I'd gotten properly dressed to play in it), I get the excitement. even though I'm someplace where it's more regular- I still get excited at the first snow.
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
Just messing with you - us hicks don’t see this much.
eta: having grown up in ncal where it snowed 1x in my life there (which melted by the time I'd gotten properly dressed to play in it), I get the excitement. even though I'm someplace where it's more regular- I still get excited at the first snow.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Klimtology
Footballguy
I live in NY and the roads are VERY ICY!
Be careful out there!
Be careful out there!
El Floppo
Footballguy
Had to go to the upper East side and back in this.El Floppo said:
eta: having grown up in ncal where it snowed 1x in my life there (which melted by the time I'd gotten properly dressed to play in it), I get the excitement. even though I'm someplace where it's more regular- I still get excited at the first snow.
The thrill is gone.
I love that he basically says that if this had been rain instead of snow, you wouldn’t even have known they screwed up. Basically, they’re wrong more often than they admit, normally you just can’t tell.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Dude, the average high temperature here on the coldest day of the year (January 17) is 51 degrees. The average low temperature in October is well north of 50 degrees. Unless there's a Charlotte, Alaska or you lived in Charlotte, Maine, this doesn't add up. I'm not even sure it occurred during the ice age.Jedi Knight said:
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Weren't you the guy who bought a 20,000 HP generator because there were some swells in the ocean once?
Otis
Footballguy
I’m bragging about being able to handle basic weather conditions without falling apart at the seams.
rustycolts
Footballguy
McGarnicle
Footballguy
mr roboto
Footballguy
Snow forecasting is really tough. If you’re off by .5” of liquid that’s 3-6” of snowfall.
If you guys need power trucks, Florida can help. You helped us after Irma, time to return the favor.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
Jedi Knight
Footballguy
Ok. I am probably exaggerating a little, but I do remember that it was particularly cold that year and it seemed to stretch on for months without a typical warm-up. I remember that it snowed about 4 or 5 different times that winter and even family that lived in Florida were complaining that it was a colder-than-normal winter.
Regardless, I can't stand the cold. Period. There were other reasons to leave NC (state income tax, allergies), but winters are reason number 1. I'm back in FL and couldn't be happier.
mr. furley
Footballguy
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Probably need a local thread for Minnesotan to appreciate, but i have a few stories from the snow dump from yesterday:A foot of snow dropped in the Twin Cities yesterday.
From Nov 1- April 1, we cant park on the street from midnight-5am to allow for plowing. The bastards didn't show up and I got stuck leaving my driveway.
- We live 11 houses from the school my wife works at. Yet, when she drives our kids to school (they go to high school, not her k-8 school), she drives back to work, instead of dropping the car off at home and just walking. So, instead of having to just deal with my one car I had to drive to work, I also had to dig her car out and get it home. Couldn't, because it was on the other side of a hill, so it is parked in a neighbor's driveway until the city decides to ever plow our street.
- After digging her out and driving home, I saw a Ford Escape stuck at a stop sign and couldn't get moving. I had my two teenage boys with me, so we jumped out and tried to help push him out. He had sat and spun his tires for who knows how long so he had created a nice ice bed under his tires and we couldn't budge him. Thankfully, a guy comes driving by in a mid size Chevy SUV (Trailblazer?). He was huge and we got the Escape pushed out right away and he goes about his business. The Chevy driver gets back in his SUV, and I can see he's not going anywhere. So we jump out of our Sequoia and give him a push to get him going again. Why do people (particularly in Minnesota) spend the money on an SUV but not get 4WD? My Sequoia was cutting through the snow like a hot knife through butter. I just got it last week, and it was awesome fun to drive.
- This morning, the city hadn't plowed yet, but some private plow truck did one pass down the middle of the street. It was just enough to create a very wide and hard packed pile of snow at the bottom of our driveway. My neighbor and I share the bottom of our driveway (they split as they get closer to our houses), and they had a car stuck at the bottom of their side (our driveway is a 45 degree slope, coming off a street of about a 35 degree slope, so it is tricky when it snows). She tried to move it so her husband could get out and go to work (i was also warming up my Sequoia ready to go). She just drives straight into the snow pack and gets stuck. So, her husband and I fully dressed for office jobs are shoveling and pushing her out. She gets partially out, then driving forward, didn't turn sharp enough and drove back into the pack, getting her car stuck again. I think if I wasn't there, her husband might have buried her in the snow. He was livid.
