The big winter storm....

RuSsMaN

So I'm sitting here, knocking back some frontier whiskey throughout the evening, refreshing posts, clicking on new posts, deleting the spam threads and banning aholes here and there... Normal stuff.

But as of 12:27 CST, posts seem to be dropping off the radar, I refresh and there is ONE new thread? I can't think of EVER seeing that on CP. Is everyone hogged up? Are polkies wandering through the snow with pelts from wild beasts draped over them? Is it the Mayan thing a year early? Do I need to dump the remaining milk and oj, and fill the containers with petrol for the Madmax scernario?

Wake up people, entertain me. What is more important, using the generator to heat your family just above hypothermia, or to make a solid post on CP? Priorities.....

Cheers,
Russ

treitz3

I'd make a solid one but I don't think you'd want to smell it here.

RuSsMaN

Actually....I had a HUGE burger the other day, full pound of beef. A little whiskey and some o-rings to chase, the next day? Forget it. I smelled like rotten flesh and ether, from all openings. I actually felt ashamed, but I'm over it now.

dkg999

Well I've been up working on my taxes and waiting for the big storm, but other than some a$$hat making **** comments on my FB posts it's been a pretty uneventful night.

(luv ya there Russ!)

silvertuner

we have about 1/8'' of ice on my street so far... its a skating rink, literally... im about to get the 4 wheeler out and go see how far i can slide if i lock up the brakes. the police cant make it here, so wtf do i care lmao

mantis

Snow is now a weekly thing here. I just woke up to see how much more has fallen. Looks right now like a dusting but more is supposed to follow.

I feel this is a retarded problem to have. If it wasn't for my wife wanting to live here I would already have moved. West I say Due West.

xj4094dg

I've lived on both coasts and visited most parts in between. You can't beat California for weather (you may have to put up with whatever bothers you about California, but the weather is consistently some of the best on the planet).

I have alot of friends and family in the DC area. Glad I'm not there.

It'll be mid to high 60's and sunny skies here all week!

Cheers!

F1nut

I spent the last few hours having fun perusing Mouser for goodies. Anyway, they were calling for freezing rain tonight...nothing so far.

mantis

xj4094dg wrote: »

I've lived on both coasts and visited most parts in between. You can't beat California for weather (you may have to put up with whatever bothers you about California, but the weather is consistently some of the best on the planet).

I have alot of friends and family in the DC area. Glad I'm not there.

It'll be mid to high 60's and sunny skies here all week!

Cheers!

I Can't agree with you move my man. LA Beverly Hills weather is the best on the planet. I can deal with everything else , cold , snow , ICE just sucks the life out of yeah. Actually all extreme weather sucks **** but I think the cold is the worse. I can always find a way to cool off but getting warm is much harder. Cold hurts more then heat. My joints don't hurt when it's hot out.

BuckeyeTim

silvertuner wrote: »

we have about 1/8'' of ice on my street so far... its a skating rink, literally... im about to get the 4 wheeler out and go see how far i can slide if i lock up the brakes. the police cant make it here, so wtf do i care lmao

We are somwhere between an eigth and a quarter of an inch of ice at the moment. I am a 2nd shifter and get off work at 1am and it took me an hour to get home. Normally it takes about 30-35 minutes. Not a single other vehicle on the road, but it was sooo slick that I couldn't give it gas or hit the brakes. It slid sideways either way.

Around here, 4-wheelers have license plates, we run them on the roads all the time. No need to worry about what the local deputy thinks....they just wave as you go flying by.

Knucklehead

Typical coastal VA weather for Jan: I think not


Chesapeake, VA (23322)

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
60°F 74° 49° 55° 65°
High High High High High

47° 35° 32° 41° 35°
Low Low Low Low Low

indyhawg

Looks like I have a little over an inch of ice on my driveway. There is more in the forecast for later today.

mudwrx

Well let's see. I live in the Boston area (just north), yesterday on my way to work I passed one of those temperature displays. It was a full 1 degree F. By last night it got up to 4 degrees.

As for the snow, in my front yard it is over my head. We've had over 5 feet in January alone. Today and tomorrow we are getting back-to-back storms with about another 20 inches or more predicted.

We literally are running out places to put all of the snow. They just fined some company because they caught them dumping it in to the river.

The only good thing is I may "work" from home tomorrow. Since I just cracked open Gran Turismo 5 for my PS3 (looks awesome and sounds great on my Polks!) I will be working hard.

mrbiron

mudwrx wrote: »

We literally are running out places to put all of the snow.

I leave all my snow outdoors. Save the cabinet space for pudding and pint glasses. Every day i put a handful in my pocket and throw it away at the company dumpster. My yard is almost clear......:biggrin:

fatchowmein

RuSsMaN wrote: »

But as of 12:27 CST, posts seem to be dropping off the radar, I refresh and there is ONE new thread? I can't think of EVER seeing that on CP. Is everyone hogged up? Are polkies wandering through the snow with pelts from wild beasts draped over them? Is it the Mayan thing a year early? Do I need to dump the remaining milk and oj, and fill the containers with petrol for the Madmax scernario?

Dude. You send out a link to an article decrying the loss of human interaction due to technology and you wonder why no one posted afterwards???

No, thank you.

helipilotdoug

Yesterday in the 70's but this morning, at 8AM after thee front passed, we are down to 28.6 degrees!! :eek: The precipitation is past us now, but have a little ice on the deck surface from the rain last night. Almost busted my a$$ when I went outside!! Glad we should make it through this without too much slick stuff! It could have been a lot worse.

heiney9

Looking like 18-24" here in the Midwest between 3pm today and 3pm tomorrow. 50mph gusts of wind and then bitter single digit cold Thurs and Fri. We aren't strangers to snow in the Midwest (IL) but 18-24" in a 12 hour period will get your attention.

I believe they are calling it Thunder Snow as we will occasionally hear thunder during the blizzard.

H9

fatchowmein

helipilotdoug wrote: »

Yesterday in the 70's but this morning, at 8AM after thee front passed, we are down to 28.6 degrees!! :eek: The precipitation is past us now, but have a little ice on the deck surface from the rain last night. Almost busted my a$$ when I went outside!! Glad we should make it through this without too much slick stuff! It could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, up here in the DFW metroplex, it was nasty around 5AM. Wind chill is between 3 and -1 depending on where you are in the area. Some of the highways are down, multiple accidents, the airport was shutdown, and DART (bus, light rail) was down but I think they're coming back online slowly.

tkfoh

woke up to 12 to 13 inches of snow in northern Oklahoma this morning, gona be tuff feeding the bulls today, looks like a good day to roll tubes and turn it up loud.

Systems

tkfoh wrote: »

woke up to 12 to 13 inches of snow in northern Oklahoma this morning, gona be tuff feeding the bulls today, looks like a good day to roll tubes and turn it up loud.

I would appreciate it, if you could keep all that weather on the Oklahoma side of the OK/AR line.:cool:

miner

DFW airport now closed. The curse of Jerry Jones - how many times has he sold his soul to Louis Cipher?

Jstas

So now that RuSsMaN is snoozing away in blissful, drunken slumber, who wants to wake his candy **** up with the rest of us who had to work in the morning?

I would but I don't have his phone number.

Systems

I would but I don't have his phone number.

It was on the bathroom wall in the Club Polk restrooms last time I was in there.:biggrin:

concealer404

We got a TON of ice, and last night was supposed to be the mild part of the storm hitting. Should be interesting. Less than half of the people are here at work, and it took me almost an hour just to get my car moving. Driving in was like driving in a ghost town.

I know we got just under an inch of ice, and parts north of the city got more like an inch and a half.

nguyendot

Not a horrible amount of snow. It's still coming down though. I can't back out of my driveway to go to work, so I emailed work (called in basically).

Of course my boss is being a **** right now - he only replied with "did you forget my phone number?".

Heh, in our last meeting I asked him if emailing him and the company HR would suffice and he said yes. I should have replied with "did you forget we discussed this?"

silvertuner

ehh, we have like half an inch of ice down here south of greenwod. whatever. i have 3 packs of cigarettes, french toast supplies, and a house to finish remodeling. think im good til this s@#t is over.

oh yeah, and every album from tool to keep me company while i work!

nguyendot

I think im going to go outside and make the biggest bonfire Oklahoma has seen in years... Not like anything's going to catch on fire!

[Deleted User]

I am currently in Oklahoma City and the snowstorm here is similar to what came in December 2009. The snow itself is around 7 or so inches and continuing. Thanks to the wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, the snow drifts are easily over 2 feet in the south side of town. Drinking coffee, keeping the firewood burning and listening to Gary England (local weatherman) do coverage. Rounding up the friends for some all day Texas Hold Em and drink til you cant blink.


If the sport utes cant make it, some PS3 and black ops should suffice.

Halen

silvertuner

main roads are fine around here, just the neighborhoods are done. gonna go out and buy some salt here in a few and hope i can make it back up my driveway. the rusted out 93 s-10 stayed in the garage and is free of any ice, the neighbors with their brand new ford f-series trucks are apparently jealous as they shoot dirty looks over to me as they clean off the ice heh

kevhed72

I was listening to NPR this morning and they were interviewing the head of Streets and Sanitation for Chicago....Joey Bagadonuts or something.....about the upcoming storm. This guy, with the stereotypical Chicago accent, was already making excuses for the streets not be plowed...'Well, basically our trucks are at the mercy of rush hour traffic. We'll be stuck in the snow like everyone else...."
Unbelievable - typical big-city beaurocrat. I feel for you all that live up there still...

silvertuner

looks like round 2 is hitting us now. hooray for more ice. time to turn off the amps