Snowmaggeddon Looms upon Us, Yet Again.
 

French Toast ingredients in hand, but once again, unlike the rest of you slackers I will be heading off to work so the junkies have a warm place to sleep and three squares.

The original 1 to 5 was upgraded to 4 to 6 and on the way home I heard 10 to 12.

12 inches? We are on the edge of 1-2FEET!! :3_eyes:

Fucking hotmageddon here again. I see a strange correllation!

for Pete's sake don't tell footfootfoot otherwise you'll still be digging yourselves out in April.

here in UK it's Abitcoolmageddon with odd misty periods.
(Famous last words,) "but we've had no snow yet this winter".

(that's buggered it, works a treat every time, get ready for a whiteout Britain!

Looks like it's passing South. :sniff:

With a high of 35, followed by highs of 15, 18, 15, 29, 26, and 24 for the next 6 days.:elkgrin:

I was taking the day off for a 10:30 eye appointment, and now my office is closed, so I don't have to use leave. Sweet!

Of course, I don't know if the Docs office will be open, and I'm out of lenses!

They cancelled the first of 4 grief counseling sessions I was to attend today. It's too cold to grieve (my mom would've chuckled at that.)

Snow and high winds. Someone told me this fall that farmer's almanac said it was going to be a rough winter. I've never paid attention to FA accuracy, but they got this winter right.

spring spring spring spring spring spring

Snow piling up here and M'town is shutting down. They don't send out the plows until after it stops snowing ... :smack:

Ah well, time to do some work at home. I'm not complaining!

You can see where it's getting bad by the traffic maps.

http://cellar.org/2014/snowtraffic.jpg

So fucking glad I only live 2.4 miles from work now.

Where's your spirit of adventure, Jim?

oh, i LOVE driving in the snow. I really do. in my JEEP. ...but the dickholes in Hondas (like tw) in front of me really piss me off. I remember last time I left here in a big snow storm, it took me 3.5 hours to get home. I am at work right now. we closed 2 hours ago, and everyone else left. I stayed to bill deals. I'm going to leave here in a few minutes. the 8 minute ride will probably take me 20. and traffic has lessened significantly since the afternoon hours.

HA HA, just an hour ago the TV drones were interviewing people who'd been traveling awhile. Half were bitching about the crazy people going more than 25, risking life and limb of the entire western world.

The other half were bitching about the assholes who were clogging traffic and wouldn't allow anyone to maintain momentum. :lol2:

Ugh, storm-triggered migraine coming on. So much for a cozy, productive evening. :(

I made it to the eye doc and out again before there was more than an inch or so on the ground. Traffic was heavy then but no cars are driving past our house now.

Feeling a little cooped up now, but I went for a 3 mile walk this morning before it all hit, so it could be worse.

15 minute commute took a hour and a half. Norton in a pickup truck ahead of me kept trying to drive sideways.

Oh those winter wonderland stunt drivers, always showing off.

According to the National Weather Service, I won.

DELAWARE COUNTY...
BROOKHAVEN ~ 14.8" ~ 10:00 PM ~ 1/21/14 ~ by TRAINED SPOTTER

Moron, not Norton. The updated predictive text doesn't predict me well yet.

Thank you, apartment complex, for not plowing anything, especially the empty upper parking lot where I am now parked on ten inches of Virgin snow. Probably more, as my undercarriage did not clear it.

I liked Norton better. Norton sounds like every typical idiot you've ever known.

I like Norton as well. -10F and no new snow here. Quit hoarding!

Norton thirded. One more and we have a quorum.

Armageddon tired of the degree deficit. We are -4 right now. No snow to speak of.


Hey farto.

"norton my watch"

(fnarr-fnarr)

Looks like Gov. Christie has found a way to close ALL the roads in NJ.

:D

Well I've got, according to the National Weather Service, 14.8 inches of snow, so get your snow off my lawn, ya whippersnapper. :crone:

Why are they asking the train spotters?

trainED spotters... proven underwear soilers.

When I was little, my mom called every bad driver "Manuel." It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized she was being racist.

Are people from Barcelona bad drivers?

I don't know, we don't get a lot of illegal day-laborers from Spain around here.

While living in San Antonio, I found it hilarious that the city was paralyzed with even major highways being closed after just a couple inches of snowfall. Having learned to drive in the upper Midwest, I had traveled in worse conditions on motorcycle.

are you sure she wasn't just assuming their driving was bad because they had to change gear with the stick?

I saw that in Charlotte, NC, too. Less than 1.5 inches and all the resources in the county were busy trying to keep I-95 moving, so the rest of the roads weren't plowed and sanded which caused everyone to stay home. I was scratching my head as to why they would plow 1.5 inches. :crazy:

We were working at a plant that employed maybe 250 people, and when we got there(in our rentals with regular tires), it was us and a handful of managers. Now granted, there were probably some helping the old lady next door, taking care of business, or just sledding with the kids. But talking to them later, quite a few admitted snow scared them.

When it's a stick shift, you don't pronounce it "mon-well." :)

Oh, goody. More snow this weekend.

I shall be in a mountain cabin this weekend. Fireplace, warm and toasty, good food, no TV, with books and games. Might do some gun shootin' (not AT any live things) and some hiking.

Not a romantic getaway, going to my brother and sissy law's nice cabin in southern Ohio. So, they're really more hills than mountains. When does a hill become a mountain? 'Cause they're some big ass hills.

That's awesome. Have fun.

I know of a mountain that's about 112 feet tall. It's all in the name. You name it a mountain, and then it's a mountain.

And I'm driving in it.

Outside Allentown right now, heading into Bayonne for a 0530 appt, then off to Moosic to pick up a load from a driver who is too scared to move, let alone drive to Louisville, KY.

Sigh.

I thought you were done truck driving?

I was actually thinking about you last weekend when we did a quick trip up to Scranton and back the next day. More driving than I normally do, and the weather was bad too, but just another day for a trucker.

It's all about the infrastructure. Places that get tons of snow regularly are prepared for it. When I lived in mid-northern Ontario, we had 12" snowfalls overnight constantly. It didn't matter, because the region had snowplows and salt ready 24/7, working 24/7. Everyone put snow tires on in the fall and everyone had chains they could ADD to the snow tires. Nothing ever closed.

But consider a location that has mild winters and gets snow maybe once in twenty years. There's no economic justification to keep snowplows and salt and sand on call 24/7/365. An inch or two of snow will bring these places to a standstill, but it's not their fault. People in these places don't buy snow tires at $900/season; why would they? So everything closes with minimal snowfall.

Live and let live. I'm happy when, if I'm living in a place that doesn't get much snow and it snows, people are cautious and places close easily. That's safe. I get scared when people who have no idea how to drive in snow attempt to race to work at 80 mph with summer tires.

It seems it doesn't take long to lose snow driving skills, one or two winters without much snow and poof, they're gone.

Yeah. My skills are pretty weak these days. I used to stay home when it snowed only because I fear the other drivers here. Now I'm self aware enough to know I'm nothing special myself. Still better than most here, but a shell of my former Maine self.

Well you people have allowed some snow to leak down on us, dammit. As much as a whole half-inch in some places, patchy grass showing through everywhere.

Still enough to close the schools.

I thought so too. I was about to become an EMT when the wife fucked up my life. Now, I am back where I was. Sigh.

Definitely regional differences.

Are those trucks huddling to stay warm?

Note that in Austin a mere dusting of powder is enough to make everyone stay home and the city to shut down. Look at it! Not a soul to be seen! Meanwhile in Michigan, it's business as usual.

Sorry, I had to do it.......:cool: Somebody has to live in paradise.......

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JR

Naaaaaw. The truck drivers heard that schools were open and thought they were a substitute for convoys!

Maybe she that was just her verbal shorthand for 'read the fucking manual'.

Tell me about your paradise next summer, when you need an umbrella and a jug of water just to cross the parking lot. :p:

Your Spanish pronunciation would be a source of great entertainment down here. Protip: Jesus doesn't start with a hard J, either. :)

Meanwhile, in bipolar Austin weather:

Friday night - snow, city shuts down, schools close
Sunday afternoon - high 70s, t-shirt weather
Monday night - mid 20s, no moisture otherwise it might have snowed again

The Frost Giants came for another visit yesterday.

Pretty hard to survive a semi truck crushing :( That was in my area :thepain:

on to some comic relief before the -15 shit coming next week


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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

White here now

UNCLE!

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Ann Arbor officially has the snowiest January on record. And that was 3pm yesterday, we've had a few more inches this morning and more to come....

We've had numerous inches this weekend. No plows. Tomorrow morning rush hour will be nasty.

Love my Blizzaks. ;)

As I go out to my car tonight, my immediate thought is, "Hey, it seems warmer ..." it is. 30°. Spring must be on the way.

Tell that to the wiener mobile!

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