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Tuned
Joined: Jul 2012
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From: Pensacola, FL
I am in Pensacola, FL and everything here is shut down. We got 1/2 to one inch of sleet/snow mix. I-10 is closed, all the bridges closed, schools closed, most business closed. Good thing too, the people here have no idea about how to drive on ice/snow. I was born and raised in Wisconsin so it makes me laugh.
Believe Nothing
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: W. Central FL.
Yeah, you guys giggle and laugh all you want. You realize DR Smith has years and years of living in the land of heavy snow. He and I are laughing along with the rest of you.
Facts are, the road departments don't have equipment to get this stuff off the roads and it was too cold for salt to be effective. Also, it is a lot different living here in the hills. Gravity wins out over friction most every time. There will be ice on the roads in these deep dark hollers for days.
I won't mention that most folks don't know how to drive in snow and many drive around with half slick tires.
Facts are, the road departments don't have equipment to get this stuff off the roads and it was too cold for salt to be effective. Also, it is a lot different living here in the hills. Gravity wins out over friction most every time. There will be ice on the roads in these deep dark hollers for days.
I won't mention that most folks don't know how to drive in snow and many drive around with half slick tires.
Hotshot
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Burbank, WA
I'm with you, Josh. All I see is these easterners hogging all the snow. I took a drive over the Cascades for a trip to the state capitol in Olympia last week and the mountain passes look like summer time. It's going to be a drought year in the west. Watch out for wild fires this summer.
Logistics Pro
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From: Pt.St.Lucie , Fla.
Chains are OK until they come loose . Looks like a midget was inside the fender wth a ball peen hammer . 82 here tues. & up to 73 today . Don't miss the snow & cold one bit . Brothers in N. Wis . aren't doing squat . Oldest's big event of the day is walking out to get the mail and the other two are working to keep the house warm . Temps in the -15 range , wind chills in the -30 range . That is just WRONG !
Fleet Owner
Joined: Jul 2004
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From: NM
I'm with you, Josh. All I see is these easterners hogging all the snow. I took a drive over the Cascades for a trip to the state capitol in Olympia last week and the mountain passes look like summer time. It's going to be a drought year in the west. Watch out for wild fires this summer.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jul 2012
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From: Southern SC.
The only time I was really worried about driving in the snow was leaving Telluride Co and as we went over the first pass a state truck that was following us stopped and closed the gates to the road -- he stayed on the other side of the gates!! That was a very scary long drive.
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Logistics Pro
Joined: Jun 2010
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From: East KY
The models here are saying we'll get another big load of snow next week, possibly close to 12 inches. Of course, that's a heavy frost for you northerners.
Logistics Pro
Joined: May 2010
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From: Austin
Another Southerner moaning about this white stuff....We waited and waited for them to cancel school yesterday - nope. So at 6:30 am I'm out there scrapping 1/2 inch thick ice off my wife's car with a plastic putty knife so she can get to her 5th grade students. She get's there & they cancel school 15 minutes after it starts. All the parents go ballistic as they now have to drive back through the ice rink to get the kids. It was an unhappy day in Austin yesterday. My wife was especially excited because she had lost her warm garage spot to our '50 F1. (I won't make that mistake again - all written from the cold dog house).
Where are those dang ice scrapers when you need one. It will be 80 on Friday.
Ben in Austin
1950 F1
Where are those dang ice scrapers when you need one. It will be 80 on Friday.
Ben in Austin
1950 F1
Logistics Pro
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Moro Bay, AR
No snow or ice in south AR this morning, but we live right on the river and have a 1/2 mile boat ride out to get to work.. Breaking 3/4'' ice with a jon boat to get to the marina is not exactly what I want to be doing in 13* weather. 
Senior User
Joined: Nov 2012
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you guys really kill me. I live in central n.y. and we love it. I slept on the screened in porch till Christmas eve. there was ice in the river when I pulled my bass boat out just before thanksgiving. what that season around here is 4 months of blizzard followed by 6 weeks of bad plowing. I love it....but what makes me crazy is fitting the jag ifs under my 54 f-100!!!!
Logistics Pro
Joined: Jun 2010
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From: East KY
I think I told you before that part of my family is from Arkansas. I remember once when I was a very small boy we were there in the winter. They got a pretty big snow that was about 12 inches deep. That was very RARE for their area. We oohed and aahed , played in the snow, and just had a big old time. Then we went to bed. When we woke up the next morning, it was completely GONE, melted away. I mean not a trace anywhere.
Phantom of the Phorum
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Kentucky
Yeah, I was going to say in the forest fire fighting business we call that "ground fuel load".