SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

[hobiekat]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

No snow here at the time, just missed the big storm here in Kentucky. Heading south tomarrow, going to Hilton Head. Not great there either but has to be better than here. Low's in the teens here next week.

 

[itsaboattime]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

Well, if you had any actual CITY streets, with sidewalks, and buildings over 2 stories, you'd realize it is a big deal!

Peoria did a good job "clearing" main roads, but they are having real problems actually REMOVING the snow. So LOTS of it is left on the street, in kind of man-plowed median dividers. I also didn't see one City plow truck actually operating today, and I was on the roads for 11.5 hours and travelled 101 miles in Peoria.

We had the snopile medians as well.
It's winter in the midwest. Snow if gonna happen.
But you gotta remember, in my mind the more snow the better.
Driving in it is best kind of driving!!!

 

[tx1961whaler]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

7 inches of snow overnight here in Dallas. Right on top of all of the ice from the ice storm. Actually improved the drive in this morning.
By the way, what's a snow plow?

 

[RogersJetboat454]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

We currently have about 3 feet of standing snow (depending where you are) on the ground and roofs here. Notice I say roofs! The news stations up here are almost hourly reporting another roof collapse on some building. Luckily nobody has been hurt. The extra 6" + rain they are predicting on Saturday may become the flakes that break the roofs back for allot of places!

 

[Silverskeeter]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

We have about 8+ inches in the yard.Got stuck this morning again trying to pull out of the driveway.It was -12 yesterday morning and hasn't gone up much in the last couple days.Bought a tow rope and shovel and have used them enough already !Caved in my rear passenger door pulling someone out of a ditch : ( My poor truck has had enough abuse from this crap ! I swear when it warms up I'm settin up camp at the lake and not comin back ! : )

 

[DaNinja]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

Woke to around 3" down here in Central Texas. It was mostly melted when I took the picture.

 

[Kiwi Phil]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

I watch the international news every night and you certainly had had a lot of that white stuff.
I look at daNinga's pictures and it looks pretty cute and exciting, especially with the great blue sky.
Guess it is just an inconvenience as opposed to damaging - is that right?
Cheers
Phillip

 

[DaNinja]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

I watch the international news every night and you certainly had had a lot of that white stuff.
I look at daNinga's pictures and it looks pretty cute and exciting, especially with the great blue sky.
Guess it is just an inconvenience as opposed to damaging - is that right?
Cheers
Phillip

Up north it can definitely be life threatening.
It can be life threatening down here if you have to share the roads with people that can't drive in the snow.

More importantly, though...How are you folks doing?

 

[bassman284]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

I watch the international news every night and you certainly had had a lot of that white stuff.
I look at daNinga's pictures and it looks pretty cute and exciting, especially with the great blue sky.
Guess it is just an inconvenience as opposed to damaging - is that right?
Cheers
Phillip

Hey phll, how's it going? Yeah, varying degrees of inconvenience pretty much descibes it. Record levels of snow and cold can be deadly for some but compared to a big flood or cyclone are not quite as big a deal. Of course, high levels of snow can lead to increased spring flooding which may or may not lead to increased damage. Have to wait and see.

Probably the biggest deal is heavy snow and extreme low temperatures in the southern areas like Oklahoma and Texas that are not used to it and not equipped to deal wth it. E.g., Oklahoma City normally would see no snow at all or a few flurries at most but now have 14 or more inches. They have no equipment to deal wih it. Where I live in Iowa we got 14 to 20 inches of snow this week and our normal would be maybe 4 to 8 inches. Pain in the rear but within 8-12 hours major roads were drivable and even a lot of the lesser roads. We have the equipment, just have to work it a little harder.

 

[TilliamWe]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

We had the snopile medians as well.
It's winter in the midwest. Snow if gonna happen.
But you gotta remember, in my mind the more snow the better.
Driving in it is best kind of driving!!!

You must not drive a high centered, short wheelbase, 20,000lb truck for living. If you did, you would realize how difficult snow and bad drivers make it.

 

[Chris-R]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

I started shoveling our two tier deck today but gave up after I figured it was less expensive to have the deck collapse and get it fixed than to have a heart attack and be out of work for a month or two or worse. The snow on our deck is 3 feet tall with 5 foot drifts. Way too heavy.

 

[itsaboattime]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

You must not drive a high centered, short wheelbase, 20,000lb truck for living. If you did, you would realize how difficult snow and bad drivers make it.

This is true, I don't. But you can't blame the snow for bad driving.
It isn't winter's fault that people are idiots and never really learned to drive. The snow doesn't make them cut off your 10 ton truck. I am sure that sombody driving a truck the size of yours is competent enough to know how to drive in a blizzard. People blame winter for accidents and injuries, Balony. They should blame the dum-dum who never learned how to drive.
I guess my point is that you arent ever gonna stop the snow from coming. People need to learn how to drive in it. If ya can't deal with it, then stay home.
If ya really don't like winter...... move.

 

[TilliamWe]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

How about I put it this way, then you and the rest of the people in Illinois should learn how to drive in snow. In Ohio, where I grew up, they taught us how to do it. But apparently not in Illinois.

 

[RGrew176]

Re: SNOWMEGGEDON How bad where you are??

With the latest snowstorm yesterday we now have 16" on the ground outside my front door. We are only half way through winter. More to come..