Posted on 01/21/2025 12:11:36 PM PST by Red Badger
We've got snow, snow, and more snow throughout the Gulf Coast and let me tell you, it is a sight to see.
Wild images—The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for a historic winter storm today
• Louisiana: first blizzard warning in history
• Florida: first winter storm watch in 11 years
• New Orleans: could get up to 8" of snow
• Houston: expecting biggest snowfall in 65 years Show more
MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK!........................
Is it as bad as 1977 January when the Continental US had 100% cloud cover and EVERY STATE got snow? I remember Miami Fla claiming it never snowed there but they did have some “soft sleet” back then.
Gotta go find some Catholics then! ;)
No, there are no snow plows that far south (I’ve lived in various parts of the South my whole life).
The expense isn’t worth it for the very rare snows.
Only when I lived in Virginia did I see plows.
Yes, I remember the snow that year. Other than on vacations, it was the first time I saw snow.
Now I take videos of it when it’s falling to send to my family.
The people behind us are Catholic, but they’re all Mexican so no speaky English.........
Horrible. Just horrible.
I lived in Houston for 30 years. My main objective was to try to get home and stay there. They have no idea what to do with ice and snow but play bumper cars. We had 8 to 10 inches here about a week ago and all I can say is thank goodness for a straight axle Dodge, 4WD and a manual transmission. These people just have slightly more idea what to do on snow. When we drove up on the Slope traction just got better and better the colder it got. My most harrowing drive ever I think was down the hill to Helper, Utah in slush and ice. People were simply flying down the mountain. One of the other worsts was headed down 24 from Leadville.
“Wild images—The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for a historic winter storm today
• Louisiana: first blizzard warning in history
• Florida: first winter storm watch in 11 years
• New Orleans: could get up to 8” of snow
• Houston: expecting biggest snowfall in 65 years”
Well, this was very accurately predicted days in advance, so maybe Trump signed his Executive Order on dumping Global Warming yesterday to be ahead of the curve?
Here, people who come from up north know about snow. Natives don’t.................
Yankees like to smirk at southerners who can’t drive on ice.
First of all, we have ICE on the road. Not snow but frozen precipitation. Much more dangerous than snow.
If those morons laughing at us had the same conditions, we’d be laughing back.
2010. All 50 states including Hawaii and Florida got snowfall on February 12.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-year-was-it-that-all-50-s-b49X9WrJTZ6E25KKvdS6GQ
Sorry but yes we have plows. I have ridden behind them many a dark morning.
My city hits the main streets pretty well...side streets and neighborhoods not so much.
One plus we enjoy is that usually the next day it starts to melt tho this last time it hung around for almost a week.
If other states also had a public records law we’d also see “Yankee Man” articles written by similarly lazy Southern reporters who browse other states’ arrest reports for “Yankee Man” material. But Leftists states are already behind the iron curtain
Arkansas is lending us some.
When I lived in the mountains NW of Golden, CO there was one storm that dumped 5 feet of snow. It took me days to dig out. My SUV was just a bump in the snow.
It’s not just inexperience, very few of the drivers in these southern states are likely to have winter tires, which are vastly better on snow and ice compared to the typical all season tires.
I believe Northern Florida may have snow plows as they sometimes will get snow every few years type situation.
I live in the Atlanta area. We have plows. They just don’t get the rural back roads until last. They do a decent job on main roads. We also have brining truck, they brined 60k miles of highway last snow a couple of weeks ago. Too many people don’t know how to drive in the snow or ice though.
I’ve live in New England for decades in the past and northern Ohio, Indiana, etc. It is dangerous to go out and about down here because of inexperienced drivers in the snow/ice, plowed or not plowed, brined or not.
Us yankees get that too. We sometimes get a thin layer of freezing rain with a half inch of snow on top. It is extremely treacherous and fills the collision repair lots especially if it the first snowfall event of the year.
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