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!........................
That means very little.
I worked at a Water Utility in Arkansas and one of the guys I worked with was on the Local VFD.
One day they had a call to the Baptist Preacher's home. When they got the fire out and started investigating the source, it was traced back to a 'Shine Still in his basement.
This is the same preacher that every Sunday would tell the Congregation that if they drank a beer they would burn in
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The Sanibel Island visitor center used to have a snow shovel on display outside. I think the locals would take their kids there to see a real one.
Rookie mistake!
That Atlanta finally got plows is great. When I lived there, the place just shut down when this happened, until it melted. Granted that about 40 years ago. Good to hear that they salt the roads, too.
Yeah, it wasn’t until about 10 years ago they finally did something about it. People were stuck on the highways for many hours. They even had people walking out there to bring them food and water. It was absolutely horrible.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/snowmageddon-10-years-later-what-georgia-has-learned.amp
We got 10” here yesterday we called it “Monday”.
My parents were making their annual snowbird visit to Florida and had to pass through the Atlanta area at the time. They timed it just right. There were hardly any moving cars on the interstates, but the shoulders were littered with cars that drivers had abandoned the night before. The Houston snow storm happened over night so people were told to just stay at home, while the Atlanta snow event happened during midafternoon and the drive home...
had 5 inches on my hood today. my road (zero traffic today) already melting (below freezing but the ground isn’t frozen) and that is going to very possibly be a lovely sheet of ice overnight.
i can drive ~ok in this, but black ice is a non-starter and even if not, the person behind me may have zero idea what they are doing. bad risk/reward.
Even up north, people forget how to drive during the first snow/freezing rain event of the year.
Same goes for youth in the north who didn't get a chance during driver training to drive on snow/ice. Always kind of amazed me that we went through driver training in the summer, they gave us our licenses, and then we were left to our own judgment when winter rolled around. Fortunately the intersection I slid through promptly after the first snowfall at age 16 was empty.
I tell you its GLOBAL WARMING! We’re dooooooomed!
this is good advice.
my town is basically shut down, and will be partially so tomorrow I expect. it is just as well aside from lack of functioning economy for 2-3 days - i can only imagine traffic incidents.
i have spent time often enough up north just enough to have some clock time on this type stuff (basic reactions are there, would need a mild refresher assuming proper tires etc), but there isn’t the right infrastructure here to do decent clearing on roads, no one else may know what they are doing, and my vehicle is most definitely not set up for it.
I think I am home all day tomorrow.
In 1 Day, Trump solved global warming!
*snicker*
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