Across the South, it’s snow, ice and record-breaking cold

apnews.com ^ | 1/17/2018 | JANELLE COGAN and JAY REEVES

[rktman]

A thin layer of snow and ice across the South closed highways, schools and government offices and sent cars sliding off the road Wednesday, while a blast of cold air broke records as far south as the Gulf Coast.

Icicles hung from a statue of jazz musicians in normally balmy New Orleans, and drivers unaccustomed to ice spun their wheels across Atlanta, which was brought to a near-standstill. The beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, got a thin coating of snow.

[rktman]

Normally balmy New Orleans? Well, a lot of time it is but it can get damn cold there. Guess they've finally put in place population controls by reduced birth rates huh? Didn't I post something about that earlier today?

[Stevenc131]

It was 18F at 12:45AM in the NW Atlanta suburbs.

[Stevenc131]

Make that 12:45 PM!!! in NW Burbs of ATL.

[Jim Robinson]

Global warming.

[HangnJudge]

4.5 F in backyard, Oak Ridge, TN

[MrEdd]

[rktman]

Keep Austin weird as they say.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You Southern boys are vaginas when it comes to snow, cold, and ice. 20 degrees is a heat wave to us. We in Packerland drive 90 mph in black ice.

[ebshumidors]

7F driving to work in Memphis this morning. 18f right now.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In Dixie Land where I was born in, early on one blizzard mornin’

[rktman]

LOL! Mrs rktman is from WI. Now we’re in NV. Might get some snow tomorrow.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What a smart alecky Yankee. Wait till this summer when your heat index is 120 and Mississippi boys be like, never better for diggin’ ditches!

[servo1969]

Sorry. My bad. Too much grillin’ with charcoal over Christmas weekend.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Donald Trump unifies America by using Karl Rove’s weather machine to equalize temperature from north to south.

[Fightin Whitey]

We in Packerland drive 90 mph in black ice.

Dude, your Packers couldn't drive five yards this year.

lol

[catnipman]

"Across the South, it’s snow, ice and record-breaking cold"

Absolute proof of "global warming", because nine out of ten "climate scientists" say "Global Warming makes things colder", and 20,679 physicians say "Luckies are less irritating".

[Dr. Sivana]

You Southern boys are vaginas when it comes to snow, cold, and ice. 20 degrees is a heat wave to us. We in Packerland drive 90 mph in black ice.

We moved to Columbus, Georgia from Wisconsin, and my wife is from northern Alberta. We know both cold and snow.

Last night we received a bit more than an inch of soft, powdery snow. The pavement was warm enough from previous days that a lot of it didn't stick to the roads.

BUT, trash pickup cancelled, my employers office was closed due to "hazardous driving conditions", courts not in session, buses cancelled.

I don't make fun of the locals, who don't have all season tires and have no practice driving in it ... I get in on it and get my time off, too!

Day off from work, kids outside making their first snow man since Wisconsin, four winters ago. A recent snow here provided their first snow ball fight, as in snow ball (there was only enough snow for one ball apiece).

It's all good.

[Victor]

Nine degrees here in Memphis this morning...damn global warming..!!!

[al_c]

We in Packerland drive 90 mph in black ice.

I call BS on that. Driving on snow is one thing ... but ice presents many more problems. Without proper equipment (chains, studded tires, etc.) anyone anywhere has problems driving on it.

[rktman]

Well, I say Libs and Eco wankers are MORE irritating. 👹🍿🍻