Posted on 02/09/2014 8:38:30 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Reading what went on in Atlanta this week is just amazing! I moved to Florida after living near Chicago and the lake snow region of NW Indiana most of my life. We had to deal with bad ice storms in Southern Illinois when I was young and while at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Three inches of snow in Chicago is NOTHING. They got rid of a mayor that didn’t get and keep the roads open.
I had to teach in Chicago Heights, IL when the temperature was -48 and the wind chill was -82. As I recall, I was the only female that showed up, though most of the men were there. When we were dismissed at the 8 p.m. class break, my big Buick was the only car in the frozen lot. I had even locked...
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-48 air temp in Chicago?
Seems a bit of a stretch
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=chi_temperature_records
-20ish is a bit more realistic but at that point it may as well be -100.
Yikes!!
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And i walked twenty miles to school in the snow uphill each way.
Telling me that someone did fine in a Chicago storm from years ago is meaningless. I too have survived ugly storms years ago. In those days I lived in an area that was used to getting extreme weather. People had snow tires and chains. The cities (such as they were) had snow plows and sand trucks.
For the entire STATE of Georgia there are 40 snow plows and 30 sanding trucks.
The state actually did a pretty good job keeping the roads from turning into ice skating rinks. With nearly a million and a half people on the road at once between the traffic jam and the dropping temps chaos ensued.
For all those who say ‘well in the good old days’... just remember I used to work at a place that locked the gates at 7:00:30 am, blew a horn for the ten am bath room break, blew a whistle at lunch, again locked the gates at 12:30:30pm, and sounded a double horn for the afternoon end. I was an ENGINEER at this place... the idea that somehow the old days were better is oft times delusional.
and her comments about -84 wind chill.... sometimes as we get older the stories have an embellishment due to ‘fond’ memories.
Not only are the temps ‘a bit of the stretch’ the fact that she didn’t comment on the severe frost bite that she got says it didn’t happen. My fingers were frost bitten in a particularly nasty storm during my teen years. To this day I do not like handling ice cubes or other cold things. I wear gloves often (even on warm days).
and let me guess that Chicago would not handle a hurricane very well at all.
It’s all in what you’re used to.
That was the wind chill back in 89 I believe. It was cold enough to kill you in minutes.
yes indeed.... spent a good deal of my working life in earthquake country. Trust me when I tell you no one handles that well
I believe you Nifster. Closest I’ve been to an earthquake was at a San Jose museum, they had this simulator. I’d lived in CA at my late husband’s last duty station, but never felt an earthquake. I wanted to feel one, I thought. So I got on this simulator and felt it’s effect and decided I never wanted to, NEVER.
People keep forgetting - in the South there are no snow plows or salt trucks. When I lived in northeast Alabama we had 1 road grader for the whole county. I grew up in suburban Pittsburgh, where the roads would be cleared as soon after a storm as possible, but in Alabama they simply did not have the equipment to do it. They would be out in trucks manually shoveling sand onto the main roads, the side roads were on their own.
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