It’s coming but the hysteria is here already

dennis40x

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It's coming but the hysteria is here already. Winter storm, snow fall expected – bread, milk, and bottled water disappearing from the store shelves. The local hardware store is putting out its stock of snow shovels purchased in 1958. At least those snow shovels were still being made in the USA then. The weather speakers are beating the drum with constant up dates. The end of the world is coming. It's really going to bad. Them there yellow trucks were spraying technically sophisticated salt brine on the road yesterday. I hope this time the yellow truck drivers remember to lower the plows so we don't have that several inch layer of ice on the roads. My one neighbor "Cash Money" still hasn't gotten over the last major snow event. One of those yellow trucks rolled over on his property spreading salt where it wasn't needed. The tree hugger he is hired "Johnny Saw Cash" to litigate with the state over the property damage. The state sent in their best legal person George Stoneman. Not a smooth move on the part of the state. There are signs all over this part of the state as to what the last George Stoneman did. The state and "Cash Money" settled for an unspecified amount.

All we can do is wait for the snow! :rolleyes:
 
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What is it with people and weather?

Even up here in the Poconos, every time it snows some people act like we're being invaded.
 
What is it with people and weather?

Even up here in the Poconos, every time it snows some people act like we're being invaded.
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It has to do with globull warming, or cooling, or climate change, or something.

It can all be fixed by spending tax dollars!
 
Winter Storm Watch

Hope y'all see how ridiculous this looks to the rest of the nation that really gets snow.
We, over the last few years here in NC, have gotten little or no snow each winter. Consequently, when the 'weather gurus' say we are under a winter storm watch or warning, everybody panics, because most of us have little experience in coping with driving in it and contending with other people who use no common sense when they do.
In addition, there seems to be an unwritten state law, that requires you, upon notice of a winter storm, to go to the grocery store and buy milk, bread, and bottled water 'Just in case'. Doesn't make any difference if you drink milk or not. Just get it.
I am a native North Carolinian, although I have lived for extended periods in 'snow country', and I try to stay off the roads when the white stuff starts falling. I get my milk, bread, and water early, and don't have to contend with the crowds at the last minute.
In addition, I have a 'real' snow shovel from when I lived in the NC mtns(above statements don't apply to the High Country), which I will only loan out to family and really close friends, none of whom live close by.
Hunkering down for the ensuing storm, I am
Shaggist
P.S. I bet we don't get 2" accumulation.
 
Absolutely miserable right now here in Butler, Georgia. Forty-two degrees and hard rain. The ground is so saturated that as soon as it starts to rain, all the ditches and puddles immediately fill up. I am expecting septic tank problems at any time. One of my colleagues told me her father-in-law had measured 42 inches of rain since the middle of September. They used to say that the average yearly rainfall in most of Georgia was a convenient 52 inches, an inch a week on average. We had fallen nearly a year behind in rainfall totals over about the last four years, running a double-digit deficit each year. I think we caught up this Fall. The drought is over, for now at least.
 
Here on the coast we don't usually see snow. They said this AM we will have 15 ft. seas, beating up the beaches again. If we so much as see a flake, everything shuts down for days, so the heck with the milk, off to get more beer.
 
NC can certainly get snow. I remember several years in the 80's when we got 4 to 12 inches several times in the lower piedmont. Also remember 2 times the public schools around Boone were closed for about 4 weeks due to ice and snow.

This is a big storm system, I have felt it forming for the last 30 hours. The worst snow storms in NC are in El Nino years (like now), and they form in the deep south, not the north or west like normal storms.

If things turn cold quick, it could turn into a big ice storm, and that is a big problem no matter where you live.
 
Last week all 3 Milwaukee stations caused a panic, the whole state was shut down they were predicting between 6 to 18 inches of snow. I got up in the morning and it was rain.

Further north they got lots of snow, the Racine Kenosha area was all slush. But the panic was the same.
 
Aloha,

You think that's bad, try living in the middle of the ocean.

Mention Hurricane or severe tropical storm and the shelves are cleaned of Everything. Toilet paper to 4 x 8 plywood.

Funniest is watching people stocking up on Frozen foods. I didn't know that many people have generators. Wonder how many have Enough fuel to last over a week before the cavalry gets to Hawaii?

Side note, Hawaii has ethanol in it's gas and it does bad things to older cars and boat motors. So, there are places to get Non ethanol gas for use in boats. I go and get boat gas to use in my Honda generators. I've personally seen what ethanol gas does to Honda outboards, need fuel system overhaul.
 
Three years ago this Jan. an ice storm rolled through the Springfield MO area. It started at about 9:30 p.m. By 10:00 p.m. the bradford pear tree in my front yard was down. Later, limbs were falling from the black walnuts also.

We were w/o power for 4 days. Others in the area went as long as 12 to 15 days w/o power. Be thankful you are only getting snow.
 
Aloha,

You think that's bad, try living in the middle of the ocean.

Mention Hurricane or severe tropical storm and the shelves are cleaned of Everything. Toilet paper to 4 x 8 plywood.

Funniest is watching people stocking up on Frozen foods. I didn't know that many people have generators. Wonder how many have Enough fuel to last over a week before the cavalry gets to Hawaii?

Side note, Hawaii has ethanol in it's gas and it does bad things to older cars and boat motors. So, there are places to get Non ethanol gas for use in boats. I go and get boat gas to use in my Honda generators. I've personally seen what ethanol gas does to Honda outboards, need fuel system overhaul.
You need generators in my experience. When the national guard gets there with ice you can run your blenders and make frosty drinks :D
 
"...Last week all 3 Milwaukee stations caused a panic, the whole state was shut down they were predicting between 6 to 18 inches of snow. I got up in the morning and it was rain...."

All of it did not go north, we got about 10", but it was so windy it was hard to tell. Our weathermen spent all of there time (every 5 minutes it seemed like :() with blizzard warnings. Then the next day it was below zero, so it was constant windchill warnings, and how long it would take for bare flesh to freeze etc. etc. :( )

Does this change year to year (seems to happen every winter :( ) so we need the constant warnings 24 hours a day, every year?
 
Here the big weather story is what happened a year ago. Not much happening now so we get treated to stories of how bad the snow was last year. :confused: They just like to hear themselves talk.

bob
 
We started winter 10 days ago with 13 inches of snow and the worst blizzard in 30 or more years, followed by 2 days of below zero temps. By Friday everything was back to normal. Around here we just roll with the punches. I didn't even hear of any marked increase in stuck cars or accidents.
 
I understand as he was speaking the temperature went up 5%. Based on that if we could get him, Palosie, and Gore all talking at the same time we will have a mild winter. At least 5% above average.
 
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