Posted on 12/23/2004 4:08:09 AM PST by Cheetah1
My two sons have been shoveling about 20 feet of driveway for the last 1/2 hour. (Snow blower isn't going to hack this.) Just about finished. Stuff is so heavy, you can't drive through it. Lots of folks aren't getting out of their drives today. Temp is now dropping. Now they are shoveling out a neighbor who is stuck.
BTW, love your tagline
I remember winters like those growing up. It was not uncommon for houses to be buried under by wind driven snow.
I'm glad you remember too. There are some people I've told about that one storm and they don't believe it. Wish I still had that Time magazine ... the pictures were astounding.
The problem in the south is that you never know if it's going to be rain, sleet, snow or a combination of all of the above. It can change in a second.
When we have blizzards here, the radio stations open up their lines and farmers offer to have stranded motorists spend the night in their homes. Hotels along the interstates throw open their doors for folks for free. Seems like the folks in KY got caught unprepared.
Tagline is from Michelle Malkin. She was addressing the open borders issue.
Best bet is to be equipped, and stay put (near food, warmth, and a bathroom).
We lived in upstate New York, where people had chains on their tires and drove sensibly then moved to CT where they closed the state down with a few inches of snow.
One car that did extraordinarily well in the snow that I had was a Volkswagon Beetle.
I'm envious. I love snow, and here in Pa all we get out of the deal is rain.
Being from a snow state, I have to ask...just how much did they get?
The biggest problem here isn't so much the rain, sleet, or snow or all three together, it's the wind. 2 inches can fall from the sky, but the wind can make it seem like a foot had come down.
Snow Turns Interstate Into Parking Lot
7 minutes ago Top Stories - AP
By The Associated Press
Road graders and salt trucks crisscrossed the country's midsection early Thursday, clearing streets and interstates so icy and snow-packed that some holiday travelers became prisoners in their own automobiles.
AP Photo
All the effort wasn't doing much good in southern Indiana, where at least 30 miles of eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 had become a frozen parking lot — and the white stuff was still falling. In neighboring Kentucky, state police also closed down a 13-mile stretch of the interstate in both directions... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
Right -- and even in Boston, where we can expect lots of snow, the authorities aren't always prepared with snowplows, salt, sand, etc. How much of these things would an area that never gets much snow have stockpiled anyway?
"I'm in Tampa. I have no desire to see snow. People that live in those places are plain crazy, IMO."
De gustibus non disputandum est.
When I lived in Boulder, at least once a year there would be a heavy snowfall that pretty much turned the town into a cross-country skiing park. People would take to the streets on skis or on foot, and congregate at their favorite watering holes. It was a carnival atmosphere.
Snow isn't too bad if you live where people know how to handle it.
3 inches would shut down San Antonio one of the Nations largest cities. and cause the Grocery Store Shelves to be emptied.
I guess its just a relative thing.
More prayers on the way for those stranded. Where I live in NE Ohio, we have about 16 inches of wet, heavy snow. Very tough to snowblow out the drive this AM, could only do a swath a few inches wide at a time without the snowblower clogging up and stalling.
I made the right decision keeping my fat butt home for the holidays..
My friend in Dayton has 10 inches of snow and is expecting maybe 4-5 more by tomorrow night.
It's funny that I live one state over, in west virginia, and it's just 55 and wet.
"Global warming strikes again. Kyoto NOW!"
... says bvw while channeling Al Gore.
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