Southerners on Ice and TN Snowfall

[jpx2rk]

 

[GotRDid]

 

[Riesel]

We had an ice storm roll thru. Not bad but a good reason to stay off the roads. I’ve had 2 wonderful days of loading. It should be in the 60s by the end of the week and I’ll be ready! 50 test loads in each box.
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My, you have been busy. You having Chicken and Dumplings or Chili with this weather?

 

[DShortt]

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Someone needs to market this!

 

[Riesel]

Many yrs ago I was in San Antonio when they got ice, possibly the most on road silliness I’ve ever seen. Texicans must have been lined up at the body shops for a yr after.

Been there and seen it, chose not to participate.

 

[joshb]

My, you have been busy. You having Chicken and Dumplings or Chili with this weather?

Chicken soup last week because I had the flu. Beef stew for the past three days. My wife thinks I’m weird because I’ll eat the same thing for three or four days in a row. I say” …because it’s good!”

 

[archerforkids]

Chicken soup last week because I had the flu. Beef stew for the past three days.

You in Texas right now or that northern residence?

 

[joshb]

You in Texas right now or that northern residence?

We’re in Texas….for the mild winter.

 

[archerforkids]

We’re in Texas….for the mild winter.

All due respect, you can take this "mild winter" back north.
I'm over it

 

[joshb]

I got blamed for the 2020 freeze, too. For me, it was no big thing. . Having grown up in the northeast and all the snow, I realized that Texans have gotten a little soft. Where I grew up, this would last three or four months. I think the folks up in Wyoming might be the toughest folks around.

 

[USMCDOC]

Chicken soup last week because I had the flu. Beef stew for the past three days. My wife thinks I’m weird because I’ll eat the same thing for three or four days in a row. I say” …because it’s good!”

 

[DShortt]

I got blamed for the 2020 freeze, too. For me, it was no big thing. . Having grown up in the northeast and all the snow, I realized that Texans have gotten a little soft. Where I grew up, this would last three or four months. I think the folks up in Wyoming might be the toughest folks around.

Visited Havre Montana in early 1998. They had a really bad winter in '97/'98 and there were still multiple cattle carcass remnants. Didn't amount to much but hair and bones at that point. Snow got deep and hard enough they wandered off all over everywhere. Some resorted to trying to fly hay in by helicopter. Ultimately a failed effort.

Looking around at the landscape I decided Montana was no place for me.

 

[AlNyhus]

On the roof of the soddie today to clear ice from the sewer vent stack. Winds were steady at 25...sudden pick ups will surprise you when you're on packed snow on a roof. Then shoveled out the gas meter to get the snow weight off. Both of these things can kill 'ya deader than a smelt if you don't pay attention to them. It's not a place for the soft and smooth. -Al

 

[JimPag]

I've lived in Maine all my life. Take heart...our first one or two storms late fall or early winter, seems like a lot of folks forget how to drive on slippery roads. Of course, some could be flatlander transplants from Texas.
Joysey more probable.

Worst drivers on the road are from NJ Greg. CT is not much better.

 

[6fatrat]

Get your gas augers and snow machines ready it's time to go ice fishing!

 

[snert]

Well...living in a college town doesn't help.
When we had that crazy snow a couple of years back my wife and I went to the shop(heater duty). We were taking our sweet time easing along in 4 high in my F350 4 wheel drive. Some youngster blew by in his jacked up short wheel based 4 wheel drive like he was going to a fire.
My wife got on my butt when we came by him a mile or 2 down the road and he was in a ditch.
All I did was roll the window down and smiled and waved. She says I am a hard ass.

But he got right on the cell phone and 6 of his drunk frat buddies wearing sandals, shorts, sweats and t shirts all came with one shovel driving a Honda pilot to "get him out". They likely parked behind him, then slid into the ditch. Classic stuff.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

You used to always know when the roads were slick to drive on in the little country towns, everyone had loaded down their pickup beds with square bales of hay to get some traction. One go-getter of a kid in high school would shovel his bed full of snow and he could get just about anywhere.

 

[snert]

It's pretty cold here, for this neck of the woods right now. Went out a bit ago and had no problem at all. It's a pretty dry snow, that you can get some traction on. The heavy wet stuff that we more typically get down here is no joke slippery stuff though. That's the biggest difference...aside from non-driving idiots everywhere.

Very true. 40 inches of snow in CNY is akin to 3/4 inch of snow in Pittsburgh. I'd rather deal with 40 inches than this sloppy crap. And BTW, any native PA people here? Can you tell me why in God's name Penndot has salt trucks with plows, but first drive over the snow salting it (400 pounds per 100 yards it seems) but never drop the damn plow? Then they return, maybe, to plow off the slushy brown salt? The stupidity of the human race is profound.

 

[Lee Whitsel]

Nice… well maybe. It’s supposed to get down to the mid teens here in middle Georgia, but no snow… thank goodness!

you got something about kids having fun making snow man and sled riding? WE got a new weatherman here in Bozeman, Montana about a 1 1/2 years ago from Georgia heck of a nice guy. He said took the kids to school and the girls in the back seat never saw snow. They said dad there is styrofoam falling out of the sky. He told them how sleet is made and they thought that was funny... Miller Watson love seeing him every morning....

 

[GotRDid]