No power all night, freezing temps, transformers blowing every few seconds lighting up the dark sky like the 4th of july. Walking around the block checking on the old folks, dodging falling trees and downed power lines. Fun times.
The south can't handle the cold :o
Wow! Where do you live?
Southeast alabama
Yeah, that's one of the last places I would think of when it comes to that kind of weather.
We got about a half-inch of snow last night and some freezing rain and the whole world is shut down. Town's in full state of freak out and it's an official state of emergency.
Power's on. The not having electricity thing is hell.
It is cold in TN too. I think I am getting old. It used to not bother me. Now I feel the cold in my bones. sucks. My cousin is on a ventilator in the hospital. He had the new flu and it nearly killed him. He is 25. Strange winter.
Chattanooga is cold too! Got about an inch and freezing temps,cars piled up every where. There was no real warning, so I imagine folks freaked out and tried to rush to get milk and bread.
Quote from: haveyouseenhim on January 29, 2014, 06:41:11 AM
The south can't handle the cold :o
No sir, not at all. I grew up in coastal NC, and we had accumulation snowfall about every 8-10 years. A few flakes falling = no milk or bread to be had at the grocery store.
Well we just got power back. Last night sucked. I was wrapped up in 4 large blankets and had a thermacare heat wrap in my hands. Huddled next to a little shower radio like a post apocolyptic refugee listening for news of the alien resistance.
Hmm. It's lovely here in Wisconsin. -7 degrees yesterday and a stiff breeze. But we're pretty well adapted to that sort of thing (wool undergarments and whatnot).
I'm in northern Atlanta, traffic was a joke. after 3.5 hours and only going maybe 2 miles I turned around and parked and starting walking and hitch hiking my way home. what a mess.
I've never seen it stick that fast and turn to ice that quickly, I mean in about 1 hour if it starting the roads were already causing car slides and people getting stuck on hills.
Four and a half feet of snow, 12 inches of ice, -30 degrees tonight. Anyone who wants to come visit to warm up is welcome :P
Like das234, I am in Wisconsin now, but I grew up in the deep south (Louisiana). I always get tickled hearing about schools closing over a few snow flurries. But I know the ice that happens down there is no joke!
Quote from: GermanCdn on January 29, 2014, 03:54:17 PM
Four and a half feet of snow, 12 inches of ice, -30 degrees tonight. Anyone who wants to come visit to warm up is welcome :P
No thanks. I like to keep my penis on the outside of my body.
It doesn't seem like much, but since the south doesn't normally have snow or ice we aren't very prepared. No salt trucks large branches that have never felt the weight of ice. It got a little nutty last night.
Here in Austria we're pretty much used to snow and other conditions that come with winter. I never had any power cuts. I hope none of you get it the wrong way, I'm just amazed how big the differences are. Even if there's usually no snow in southern US, it just blows my mind how massive the impacts are.
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Quote from: haveyouseenhim on January 29, 2014, 04:11:26 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on January 29, 2014, 03:54:17 PM
Four and a half feet of snow, 12 inches of ice, -30 degrees tonight. Anyone who wants to come visit to warm up is welcome :P
No thanks. I like to keep my penis on the outside of my body.
It doesn't seem like much, but since the south doesn't normally have snow or ice we aren't very prepared. No salt trucks large branches that have never felt the weight of ice. It got a little nutty last night.
I know, I was just having a little fun. It's been a brutal winter up here (point in case, we had a 10 day chinook in the 50 to 60 degree range at the beginning of the month, and it only got rid of about 1/3 of the snow. I have run out of places on my yard to put it). Good to hear things are getting back to normal. And you get used to the little guy turtling after a while.
yeah when i lived in louisiana we had an ice storm that lasted for a couple of weeks. everything shut down. branches and power lines everywhere fell under the weight of the ice. the deep south is just not built for that kind of thing and it was a bloody disaster. the energy companies don't know where to start because EVERYTHING needs to be repaired and re-strung, and everyone is bitching to high-heaven.
luckily for me i lived on the same street as a major hospital so my area was one of the first to get power back. at that point i turned around to all my friends and said
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Yeah it's bad.
It got so col last night I had to turn off my AC.
What made it so bad is that it was mostly ice. We got a light dusting of snow near the end. The freezing rain is what took out all of the trees and power lines.
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Quote from: Haberdasher on January 29, 2014, 04:43:32 PM
yeah when i lived in louisiana we had an ice storm that lasted for a couple of weeks. everything shut down. branches and power lines everywhere fell under the weight of the ice. the deep south is just not built for that kind of thing and it was a bloody disaster. the energy companies don't know where to start because EVERYTHING needs to be repaired and re-strung, and everyone is bitching to high-heaven.
luckily for me i lived on the same street as a major hospital so my area was one of the first to get power back. at that point i turned around to all my friends and said
(http://arewefullyet.com/images/2012/12/nelson-haha.jpg)
Keefe, was that ice storm in about '88-'89 by any chance? I was in LA at that time and remember my stepdad teaching me how to drive on ice, using a ghetto braking technique that kind of mimics anti-lock brakes.
We lived in the DC metro area for a while. They have trouble keeping the lights on there in normal circumstances, but ice storms seem to knock out the power every time. Wisconsin is definitely more used to dealing with it. But even then, a couple of weeks ago when it dropped down to like -20 degrees, all of the gaskets on the gas meter outside our house gave way and our furnace wasn't getting any gas. As you can imagine, it got chilly pretty fast. The gas company came and fixed it, no charge. Then, a few hours later, I came home from work and could smell gas outside our house! They had to come and do it all over again. Gas scares me.
Had a storm like that a few years ago, my street was full of broken trees, we called it Arborgeddon.
Quote from: Bret608 on January 29, 2014, 05:53:49 PM
Quote from: Haberdasher on January 29, 2014, 04:43:32 PM
yeah when i lived in louisiana we had an ice storm that lasted for a couple of weeks. everything shut down. branches and power lines everywhere fell under the weight of the ice. the deep south is just not built for that kind of thing and it was a bloody disaster. the energy companies don't know where to start because EVERYTHING needs to be repaired and re-strung, and everyone is bitching to high-heaven.
luckily for me i lived on the same street as a major hospital so my area was one of the first to get power back. at that point i turned around to all my friends and said
(http://arewefullyet.com/images/2012/12/nelson-haha.jpg)
Keefe, was that ice storm in about '88-'89 by any chance? I was in LA at that time and remember my stepdad teaching me how to drive on ice, using a ghetto braking technique that kind of mimics anti-lock brakes.
We lived in the DC metro area for a while. They have trouble keeping the lights on there in normal circumstances, but ice storms seem to knock out the power every time. Wisconsin is definitely more used to dealing with it. But even then, a couple of weeks ago when it dropped down to like -20 degrees, all of the gaskets on the gas meter outside our house gave way and our furnace wasn't getting any gas. As you can imagine, it got chilly pretty fast. The gas company came and fixed it, no charge. Then, a few hours later, I came home from work and could smell gas outside our house! They had to come and do it all over again. Gas scares me.
Hey man! Nope, this was in the late 90's.
We ended up with 3" of snow around our house and the street going past us is still iced over. Every once in a while I see an SUV or a truck slipping and sliding past...I just hope they all make it past the bridge that is completely iced over...gotta love the preparedness of GA and most of its counties. Bro-in-law had to walk the last 3 miles home last night after parking his truck in a grocery parking lot 7 hrs in to his 10 mile commute home. Oh Hothlanta, will we ever learn? Meanwhile, our property is veritable winter wonderland for the dogs that aren't old enough to remember when this happened 3 years ago.
You guys make me laugh! Move to Saskatchewan, that'll make a real impact on your understanding of cold!
But to be honest, I feel for you. When things are abnormal, that's no fun. If you're used to 4 foot drifts of snow around your car, and roads that are covered in snow from November to May, it's fine. But if you're used to believing snow is this story your grandma used to tell you to scare you, like the boogeyman or the tooth fairy, then all of the sudden it starts falling out of the sky... yeah, that can freak you out.
Jacob
Spent about 6 year in Maine USA.
They have 4 seasons there. June, July, August, and Winter!
Living in the DC metro area now I do nothing but laugh every time there is 1" of snow and its like an alien invasion around here! Schools closed, government agencies closed, road warnings... etc.
Its all relative to where you live and how prepared people are for the inclimate weather.
It's been close to zero (celsius) here for 2 days now, people are whining, and the stories you are sharing make me hate those pussies! This is the only kind of 'winter' we had this year, so we are kinda blessed. Last year was different, we had 4 inches of snow, which remained on the ground for almost 2 months because of the low temps. That made commuting by bike a bit of a challenge, but I managed to fall only once! You guys are the real winter heroes, I'll get back to you when the sea level rises even more and half of The Netherlands disappears.....
Quote from: jkokura on January 29, 2014, 06:49:16 PM
You guys make me laugh! Move to Saskatchewan, that'll make a real impact on your understanding of cold!
But to be honest, I feel for you. When things are abnormal, that's no fun. If you're used to 4 foot drifts of snow around your car, and roads that are covered in snow from November to May, it's fine. But if you're used to believing snow is this story your grandma used to tell you to scare you, like the boogeyman or the tooth fairy, then all of the sudden it starts falling out of the sky... yeah, that can freak you out.
Jacob
Jacob, I was watching a Bigfoot-sighting movie on my lunchbreak today, filmed near Saskatchewan. Did you ever see a big hairy creature? I've seen you in some instructional videos, so I know it's not you! ;)
Paul
Just turned on CNN and that storm in the South is no joke. Cars abandoned everywhere on the freeway, people taking in those who couldn't get home. Serious stuff.
Quote from: jkokura on January 29, 2014, 06:49:16 PM
But if you're used to believing snow is this story your grandma used to tell you to scare you, like the boogeyman or the tooth fairy, then all of the sudden it starts falling out of the sky... yeah, that can freak you out.
It's not that I am or anyone is freaked out. It's the impact it has on an infrastructure that isn't prepared for it. I've seen snow many times before. It's the ice that made this storm what it is.
I remember back in '93 we got 2 1/2' of snow and it didn't cause many, if any, problems around here.
I have to say it was quite fun going around helping folks out and just watching huge limbs fall from giant pines.