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OK. So there are twenty two inches of snow on the ground right now. There are power lines lying in my backyard, and there is a snow drift covering half of my front door. I'm not going anywhere today.
This guy is really freaking out about it. It's a facebook link... I can't find a direct link anywhere.
What the fuck is that dude's problem? Seriously, how do you replace crab cakes with jumbalia? AND ALL THE YELLING! STOP YELLING AT ME!!!!!!!!
There's barely half an inch of snow here. I think I'm going out and getting some hot chocolate.
You would you smelly Mexican.
Sorry it isn't beer.
That makes two of us.
We have snow flurries today. They are adorable.
Ha, that weather dude is nutso! We had 2 days of rain then some snow last night so it's a slushy mess outside. Nice day to stay in and watch movies.
There is roughly a foot on the ground here. I love watching people not know how to deal with it. All of the adults are always whining about how they hate snow. It's like they forgot what it was like being a kid. I still love it.
This is the first time in ever that a restaurant has closed and given me a day off. I'm laying in bed with my gf and 2 of her friends. Buuuur they're farting.
Two feet here down by the shore(Southern NJ) where my Mother lives.
Last Night
This morning
I have a snow drift near my deck that goes over it.
OK! So I shoveled myself out of the house with a dustpan and went to 7-11 for a bottle of Yoohoo. This sign was there:
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I should have gotten some coffee.
There's almost no snow in Toronto this year. It's been amazing except for the snowboard drought it causes. Maybe we traded?
There's no snow here at all in Northern Jersey. For once we lucked out.
Pussies.
BTW - best sign ever.
For real.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
We got like maybe 4 inches here, no biggie. I think we were right on the horizon of it.
I'm remarkably annoyed at the lack of snow in new york. I don't have anything to do this weekend, I wouldn't mind a couple of feet of snow outside.
Assholes.
20 degrees right now and nothing but snow flurries.
Our big snow storm was last week.
And the snow is still falling.
I went for a bike ride today. I've used the snowblower once this year so far. I was expecting a massive winter this year too.
Oh well.
I'm still waiting for it to come.
Trucks never arrived at work though because of the roads in PA. We didn't do shit. It was exhausting.
i just shoveled snow for 3 hours. fuck me.
need to get a snow blower
snow blowers are for lazy out of shape folks who want to grow soft and fat in their old age. shoveling is great exercise. of course use your arms and your legs, not your back.
Went for our first friday bike ride as the storm dropped 3-4 inches from 7-10pm, derailleur broke and left me stranded, walking, soon enough there 6 inches. ...got picked-up, home by midnight. few cars out spinning and fishtailing on the hills out of the city. fixed bike, out riding the semi-plowed roads till 2. fucking dreamlike.
today, unbelievably a farmer friend had his 4-wheeler up for plowing. took the plow off and agreed to shuttle me across town to a rare wide open 40 degree face of blue mt. snowboard strapped on back we take back alleys to the Greenbelt. questionable what was going to happen. 18" of snow, plus drifts fully over the wheels and front end of the 4-wheeler. blazin it. at a completely unexpected spot city police are guarding a community college parking lot we'd expected to cut across. approach em anyway. chief gets out a the car and yells "we better not be going on any city streets". up ahead was the biggest obstacle of a major intersection (then the mountain access just beyond). had our warning. turned us back. so bummed.
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My job told me not to bother coming in today and they're running the kitchen with 3 people. I brushed nineteen feet of snow off my car and battled my car our of about 2-3 feet of snow behind it (I'm quite good at this, I never shovel my car out) and then I got stuck going out of the driveway of the complex and got stuck again coming back in.
My favorite part about when it snows really hard is when people seem to think that the rules of the road don't apply anymore. Running red lights, stopping in the middle of a 40mph road, parking wherever they please, driving in the wrong lane...lovely.
I went out every hour on the hour from 6am to when it stopped at 5pm, add to the fact I went out at 11pm when it started and shoveled. If you go out twice (once in the morning and then after it stops) you're doing it wrong.
They don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
Snowblowers are for people who live in areas that get snow on a regular basis and need to get to fucking work in the morning and don't have all day to fuck around and have "fun" shoveling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
Big Bear Lake recieved about 5 feet of snow two weeks ago. Five. Fucking. Feet. Those poor bastards couldn't get down the mountain into the valley if their collective lives depended on it.
AWESOME snowboarding trip though. I've never seen that much snow.
That's what she said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
In a way, but people shouldn't just be like "oh lawl at snow" and endanger lives because they all of a sudden assume that they can drive any way they see fit. There's still a lot of cars out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
you're overweight aren't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by K3V
We got about that and the city shut the fuck down. That's two weekends in a row where the city shut down because of snow. The kids had 1 day of school this week because of 6 inches on a the Friday night the week before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
I'm always amazed at how inept people here are with the snow. One neighbor of mine parked tires in on an incline and wound up fucking up the car next to him as he tried to back out. I once made the mistake of going to Kroger to get some ice cream and a box of Frosted Flakes, but then abandoned it after 3 minutes in a line that was at the very back of the store. I heard a guy comment to another on how he was lucky to find bread. For fucks sake, that's snow, little flakes of frozen water, not murder and sin falling from the sky.
Edit: and a real man woulda had Cannibal Corpse serving coffee.
How many inches of snow are on the ground now?
Do you live in New York City?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shine
500 pounds baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
Should I be sad or glad that I miss this shit every year in Orlando?
Some people talk of this wintry stuff fondly and others act like it's the worst shit on the planet.
I love the snow. Wish we had more.
I can't take snow anymore.
Depends on where you live and how much you get regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bojack
Also: how well your city road department cleans it up.
We're getting an ice storm tuesday night. Woo woo!
Philly Metro Area ... which includes South Jersey is getting another 12-24 inches.
We got some like 8 inches, maximum, but an effective 6 inches most everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Meach
Charlottesville, Virginia, it's safe here, that's the only reason I stay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
From what I understand, snow in the south is worse not only because so few people know how to drive in it, but also because it thaws and refreezes as black ice.
This. 3-6 inches at slightly above freezing temperature can just fucking wreck roads. This doesn't just happen in the south, but they are less equipped to handle it. The real fun comes though when you get 2 inches of ice with 6 inches of snow on top of it. Its like the road doesn't even exist at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
We are supposed to be getting about a foot of snow tomorrow. It is all they talked about on the weather this morning. Not a single channel thought it might be smart to mentions it is ALREADY FUCKING SNOWING OUTSIDE! Granted, not heavily, and it probably will not accumulate. But a 1/2 inch of sludgy snow on the ground sucks to drive in. You have to be careful because ice can form super easy and the city doesn't think it necessary to salt for this little of snow. You also have the idiots in the big trucks who think when it snows it is ok to drive 65 in a 35. Nobody drives that fast on a normal day, but the douches come out as soon as it starts snowing.
We had a big snow in VA at around 2005. It was about 6 inches one night, then it rained, then it froze over and then it snowed another few inches. My street was covered in a six inch block of ice for a week.
Edit: The snow situation in the south is also exacerbated by states/cities not putting too much funding into plows and salt distributors.
Damn you guys to hell. We've had two good falls this year but as of right now there's absolutely no snow anywhere to be seen. :cry:
Shit. I HAVE to have band practice tuesday. HAVE TO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
I always laugh at the American road footage after a brief snow period. Even the pictures Advocate is showing has such baby snowbanks. We've been fortunate this year, but the snowbanks the last two or three years up here have been up to eye level for me. And I'm 6' tall.
Don't your local municipalities put de-icing and salt down on main highways and roads?
Get fucked nancy, unless you hoof it like a six string samurai you're not playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
ALSO: Today at work - Work 5 hours, get paid for 8, free pizza and I can wear jeans and sneakers. Sign me up.
They do, especially in areas that get a lot of snow. But in places like Virginia and North Carolina and further south, a major snowfall happens once every five years or so, so the funding goes elsewhere. We would get school cancellations growing up for an inch of snow because the city probably only had four plows, and this is a sizable city we're talking about here. 225k people and about 340 sq miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
So when a really major snow storm hits it tends to fuck things up royally for quite a while.
Baltimore spent it's hilariously small snow budget last month. Except for the 4 streets that are "snow emergency routes" the city is in total lockdown.
Hampton Roads used its up recently and it just caused everyone to yell about government handouts.
That's all anyone from that region does. Yell about government handouts.
I would like the government to hand me a snow shovel.
Cities don't want to budget for snow removal because it is a volatile expense. And if it is budgeted for and not use it isn't like that department can just roll the savings into the next year. Milwaukee, a good sized city that regularly receives about 48in of snow a year, budgets a total of $5,000,000 for snow removal. Last year we had an average year and actually were slightly under budget. But snow removal costs in 2007 and 2008 exceed $15,000,000. It is not uncommon for the majority of the budget to be used up in a single snowstorm.
My mom lives out in a rural part of Southern NJ. Basically their snow budget is in the 50k's. Philly already spent their snow budget in December(6.5mil).Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20..._tomorrow.html
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Originally Posted by Philly.com; provided by Philadelphia Inquirer
What all of you above said, and it doesn't help much that every asshole in this state has a big bad truck equipped with super awesome rear wheel drive; hicks.
Word is we're due for another 12-18 inches in the next two days around Philly and we're 9 inches from completely destroying the all-time record set after the blizzard in 96 that dumped over three feet of snow in the Philadelphia area. I've also heard talk we may be in for the biggest storm of them all this year in the middle of next week. I think we're all going to die but my restaurant will still be open...
New York is slated to get 10 inches or so. ABOUT TIME WE GOT IN ON THIS.
From a local station:
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Winter storm warning in effect from noon Tuesday to 7 pm est wednesday, The NWS in sterling Virginia has issued a winter storm warning for:which is in effect from noon Tuesday to 7 pm est Wednesday. The winter storm watch is no longer in effect.
Precipitation type, snow.
Accumulations, 10 to 20 inches.
Timing, mid-afternoon Tuesday through Wednesday.
Temperatures, temperatures near freezing at the onset Tuesday afternoon.
Temperatures will drop into the upper 20s Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Winds, light southeasterly winds Tuesday becoming northwesterly 15 to 25 mph Wednesday.
Precautionary/preparedness actions, A winter storm warning means significant amounts of snow are expected or occurring. The combination of snow and strong winds will make travel
very hazardous.
From the NWS.
funny sidenote: I love it that they think its so serious its gotta be in all caps. OMG! LET'S SCREAM!
Quote:
Issued by The National Weather Service
Philadelphia, PA
3:30 am EST, Tue., Feb. 9, 2010
... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO MIDNIGHT EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
LOW PRESSURE MOVING FROM THE DEEP SOUTH EARLY THIS MORNING WILL HEAD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. THAT LOW WILL GIVE UP ITS ENERGY TO A COASTAL STORM... WHICH WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE NORTHERN NORTH CAROLINA COAST LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING. BY WEDNESDAY MORNING... THIS NOR/EASTER IS FORECAST TO BE INTENSIFYING STRONGLY JUST EAST OF OUR AREA... AND IS EXPECTED TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO A GOOD PART OF OUR AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND PERHAPS INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING.
SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 95 THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH SLEET AT TIMES TONIGHT... AND WITH SLEET AND RAIN AT TIMES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER... THIS IS MORE LIKELY CLOSER TO THE COAST. BUT AS COLDER AIR WRAPS AROUND THE STORM EVEN THESE AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO CHANGE BACK TO ALL SNOW.
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 10 TO 18 INCHES WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER THE NORTHERN EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND... NORTHERN DELAWARE... EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA... AND MUCH OF NEW JERSEY. HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN TWO BURSTS ACROSS THE REGION. THE FIRST IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR TONIGHT WITH FOUR TO EIGHT INCHES LIKELY TO ACCUMULATE BY THE MORNING COMMUTE WEDNESDAY. THE SECOND SHOT WILL BE AN EVEN MORE INTENSE BURST OF HEAVY SNOW WITH THE UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE ITSELF THAT SHOULD OCCUR IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA... MARYLAND... AND DELAWARE DURING WEDNESDAY MORNING AND NEW JERSEY AND NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA DURING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL END BY MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
WINDS WILL INCREASE AS WEDNESDAY CONTINUES AND WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW... EVEN MORE THAN WHAT OCCURRED WITH THE WEEKEND SNOW STORM. AT AND NEAR THE ATLANTIC SHORE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS WINDS INCREASE.
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW AND SLEET ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.
FUCK THIS IS MEQuote:
THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER THE NORTHERN EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND
That warning also said NYC would get 8 inches over the weekend. So if we don't get any snow at all I won't be shocked.
Even if we get 13 inches, I'll probably still have to go into work.
Mr. K, I just checked the NYC area. No, its 8-13 and its pretty clear. NYC metro and Long Island will get the same amount as Philly, Baltimore, and NJ.
Here's the NYC warning.
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Issued by The National Weather Service
New York City, NY
3:18 am EST, Tue., Feb. 9, 2010
... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EST THURSDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. THE SNOW MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ON WEDNESDAY... BEFORE SLOWLY TAPERING OFF WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 8 TO 13 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. AT THIS TIME THE HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND LONG ISLAND.
AS THE STORM INTENSIFIES... EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG AND GUSTY DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY... AND THESE WINDS CONTINUE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE... ESPECIALLY ACROSS COASTAL SECTIONS. THIS WILL CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW... WITH NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AT TIMES ALONG WITH POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
&&
More Information
... SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
.STRONG LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ALONG THE CAROLINA COAST LATE TODAY AND RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES WEDNESDAY... BRINGING SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL TO OUR REGION LATER TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
It said 4-6 and up to 8 from the last snow storm is what I was trying to say.
BTW. You don't want to see the National Weather Service report for Baltimore.
Ugh, our Little Rock branch got to close at 2 yesterday because of an inch of snow. And now they don't start until noon because they got another 3 inches over night. What is this shit. We have to get over a foot before we can even think about closing early.
It's in 72 point font and all caps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
It's snow. Pussies.
It snows so much in Rochester, there's twenty foot mountains in the parking lot that don't melt for weeks. I so wanted to drive my car right through one!
When your city doesn't have the budget to deal with it, it becomes a real problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
Cities that can't deal with snow = pusscities.
Pre-emptive warning to your city: sometimes it SNOWS.
Up in Rochester where there's always a shitload of snow its easy to budget for. Go south and sometimes you have lots of snow and sometimes not. That makes it hard to set aside the right amount of money. It's really that simple.
In the Mid-Atlantic on a typical year it snows like... twice. Maybe. And even then it's less than 3 inches. These places getting this much snow plopped on them in the span of 24 hours hasn't happened in nearly 100 years. After this weekend DC will see the most snow its seen since 1844 or something.
Growing up for me snow was an EVENT, no matter how much we got. Snow falling and sticking in any real manner was something to be relished as it only happened... maybe every other year.
So this is sort of like someone from Oklahoma chiding Rochester for being ill prepared for a tornado
I know I came after the Days Of Diff (well, you were here for a minute when I joined), but I'm just being a dick. To be a dick. For no other reason. I agree, we know we're gunna get snow every year and play to that idea. I understand states that don't always get it won't be prepared. It just made me laugh in HS when I would walk to school in 3 feet of snow and hear a city in Georgia shut down cuz they got half an inch over 5 hours. Sillyness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
and comic sans to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
It was not out of the ordinary to consider sledding on 3/4s an inch of snow on a slight incline.
It's flat where I live too.
And growing up in Texas, it just made me laugh when I would walk to school past 3 miles of cotton and hear a city in New York paid a negro to work for 8 hours! Sillyness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
That sucks. Sledding in massive amounts of snow is some of my favorite memories.
Edit: Doc I love you :)
My dad once did that really retarded thing where you drag a sled behind a truck. I was almost killed.
Ah, memories.
The only place to sled in HR was Mount Trashmore, a former landfill turned into a park which had a pretty steep hill. Of course there was a chain link fence at the bottom of it and dozens of kids crashed and nearly killed themselves while sledding there. My brother's friend ruptured his spleen and nearly died, after that no more sledding on Mount Trashmore.
I find that "stopping" never really comes into play when you're planning that shit out.
It really should.
We were almost hit by another car. Because really, who looks for a 6 year old and a 10 year old going down the street at 30 miles an hour?
At night! It was at night I might add.
I think your dad was actually trying to kill you. He knew what you'd be getting up to later in life. Kill Hitler in the crib, that sort of thing.
Hard choices!
My stepdad in Maine had a house on a hill and the backyard ended in a pond. I sled down that hill thousands of times and would slide off way out into the pond.
I have no idea how I never ended up inside it.
Well... up until I was fifteen, my mother did keep a leash on me.
Come to think of it, I got all of my scars when I was fifteen.
We rode home in the bed of the snow filled truck. I distinctly remember watching a small, white dog poop in the snow back there.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
http://goldensnowglobe.com/all-snowiest-us-cities/
DC has gotten more snow this year than Rochester because of this snow. While 63 inches in on par for Rochester, DC is accustomed to 13.
Kinda like our moms, Pineapple! While 63 dicks a night is on par for your mom, mine is more accustomed to one or none. So a gang bang of this magnitude would wreck havock on her junk.
Here in the Philly Metro area. Eliminate the sled. And hold on to the back of the bumper of a car/truck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Also called Skitching or poggying, which it is known in Boston.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I remember that!
This is what I predict for tomorrow. I'm going to go to work and get stuck here because it's been snowing all day. ANd it's going to be horrible.
There was a lot of snow in OH right before the Super Bowl weekend, and here comes 5-8 inches just as soon as we're out from under that trash. Good enough? More of this disgusting white gunk may hit over the weekend. Joy... :rolleyes:
This shit is sure getting stale. Rather than just going away for 9 months when April comes, winter needs to DIAFASAP. In its place, I'd gladly take a summer full of straight 90+ degree days.
I hate snow :(
You have no idea how many dicks my mom can take a night. She's a fucking trooper with her pooper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I want this guy as my Weatherman.
something like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Tones
One year we got like 7 inches. Then just a tad bit of rain. Just enough to get it a little slushy on top. Then it hit freeeing and everything was covered in a 7 inch layer of ice.
This destroyed the power in most of the south. I think Bill Clinton flew over and said "yep, distaster area"
I didn't mind. I live on a hill that is like 50 yard from the top of the bottom. You better believe I got a disk out and went down that shit. Shit was cash.
my little sister did it one time and hit the ditch at the end and went flying. She went into shock and then screamed for 30 minutes.
I wish it would do that here. My college has a 75 yard long hill with a 45 degree slope to it. Shit would be so epic!