Posted on 02/11/2010 2:35:15 PM PST by highimpact
4:00 p.m. UPDATE -- The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, effective from midnight tonight to 6 p.m. Friday.
A winter storm warning means "significant amounts of snow, ice and sleet" are expected, making travel "very hazardous or impossible."
Santa Rosa schools are closed Friday, along with all University of West Florida locations. Okaloosa and Walton schools are still planning to be open as usual on Friday.
Walton County and counties to the east are not under the winter storm warning.
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I live in Madison, a little southeast of Atlanta. Don’t know if I’m looking forward to this or not. Guess I’m excited for the kids. But God, I’m ready for a little Global Warming!
I'm a northern boy, but my first introduction to driving on slick surfaces was Arkansas gumbo. I agree snow and ice have much the same effect on driveability. The benefits of learning on Gumbo are that you cannot slide downhill into trouble.
Its only 2 wheel drive, and if you see my other post, you'll see I learned that if you need the brake, you are going to fast !! :-)
My hubby (from Ohio) taught me (Tenn) that the number one rule for driving in snow or ice is to keep your foot off the brake. Slow down at intersections but don’t stop unless you absolutely have to. Usually not that much traffic when it snows, so you don’t have to come to a complete stop that often. I’ve driven in blizzards and snow storms now for 45 years and so far (knock on wood) I haven’t had any problems.
I once drove from Dodge City, KS to Claremore OK during a snow storm. There was around 8 inches covering the ground. My Ford F-250 had not been raised but had a lot of clearance as it came from the factory.
I can recall it was not particularly slippery but I was leaving deep tracks on the road. I stayed on back country two lanes and did not see another vehicle on the road. I did see a few in the ditch so it must have been slick at one time.
Another thing was the only way I could stay on the road was to stay right in the middle of the trees in Oklahoma where the snow was the deepest. Otherwise there was no way of knowing exactly where the highway was.
“Have you ever been through a 1” snow storm in the South?”
It’s the same as driving in an extremely modest rainfall in Los Angeles. They freak out over a little rain. Can’t handle it.
I’m flying into Orlando tomorrow at 8:00pm and driving in a rental car to Daytona.
Is that storm supposed to get that far south?
How long is that bad weather supposed to last, The Nationwide is on Saturday and the Daytona 500 on Sunday!!!!
No way the storm will reach that far south. You’re safe to fly into Orlando. Enjoy the races!
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