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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | I thought all of my northern friends would get a chuckle... We are supposed to get up to ONE WHOLE INCH of ice and snow tomorrow and our small town is already SHUT DOWN! No school and several businesses made announcements that they would not be open tomorrow. What a small amount of ice will do in East Texas!! |
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Location: Tx | For a minute there I thought you were from my small town! lol..... We are also shut down tomorrow but I am from central Texas.  |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | Next to Heaven - 2018-01-15 10:32 PM
For a minute there I thought you were from my small town! lol..... We are also shut down tomorrow but I am from central Texas.
We are halfway between Dallas and Houston on 45- you’d seriously think a blizzard is coming with all that’s going on! Mind you it was also 63 at my house today. |
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| That's nothing! HERE, in Wichita, Ks they closed schools today due to the COLD! A part of me wonders if we are getting THAT soft, the other part wonders if we are getting smarter. I just know they didn't call off school due to cold when I was a kid and nobody died. I could see it if the roads were slick too but they are NOT, it snowed maybe a half inch yesterday.
Edited by Griz 2018-01-16 5:53 AM
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Location: North Dakota | We got 5 inches of snow last week with 40 MPH winds...The wind chill was around -45 that day. It was basically a white out blizzard and our schools didn't even delay up here in ND. I think they closed north of us but where I am everything was up and running. I still had to walk my frozen butt all over my university campus.
If we shut down everytime we got snow, ice, cold... we would be shut down all winter. Our gigantic teams of plows are out as soon as the snow hits along with salt and sand trucks. We are prepared up here. I suppose that is the difference.
Hope you all stay warm down there today!! I feel for ya! |
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| As explained to me by my soon to be SIL, who has lives in the San Juan mountain area, the thing is the county and city and states who have a lot of winter weather are prepared and know what to do. They have all the equipment needed to keep the roads as clear and safe as possible. The utility companies are the same. But down here in South Texas, we don't have snow plows or sand stock piled for ice. No one down here knows how to drive in the ice and snow. People with trucks don't know to put several hundred pounds of something in their bed to keep the truck from spinning (now I do, bahahaha). We are simply not equipped to deal with ice or snow. So if you are in an area that doesn't have the equipment to keep the roads safe, stay home and don't feel bad about it. I kinda look forward to these days as they only come every 10 years or so. |
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| Everytime we get even a drop of ice, people hit the panic button.
It becomes entertaining to me as I watch all these people scramble around bc my head all I see is the scene from Ice Age where the dodo birds were marching around and preparing for the Ice Age and the one dummy chanting, "prepare for the Ice Age" and it's actually chaos LOL
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| We are in Iowa and had most schools had a delay today if they didn’t close due to cold. It might be above zero now but the wind chills are still well below.
Ice....I can totally understand. Especially if they don’t know exactly when it will switch from ice to snow. We had ice late last week and things were just a mess. Some folks I run with were in a trailer accident over the weekend after hitting black ice (all ok just sore, horse included.). Not many weather phenomenons scare me more than ice. I freaking hate it. |
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Location: NC | Im in nc and the last "snow" storm we got closed everything about 3 days. But with that said the plow finally drove past our house 2 days after the start and backroads still were covered. They dont have the salt/sand trucks as the north does. And they brine down here when we are supposed to get anything |
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Location: Texas | I hit ice three times at least on my way to work today. we don't know how to drive in it down here and when you are on a winding road with ice, it sucks. I was able to get to a gas station to get lunch and some other stuff in case they close roads on the way home.
I can drive through downpour thunderstorms we get down here no problem, and I was with another vet who grew up in Jersey and she about pulled over and had a panic attack over it. We are accustomed to different weather events!
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | Even in the north we hate the ice! We got 4 inches of snow yesterday and it was 19. It was beautiful out. I was happy I got to ride. We have had bitter cold for weeks so anything outside was not an option. (temps below zero and windchills at -20 +/-)
It is all a matter of what you are used to. Be safe. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Ice is the worst and most dangerous for us to have to deal with, we are not used to this kind of conditons.. And most dont know how to drive in this so its best to close down for a day or two to keep everyone off the roads as much as possible... |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Southtxponygirl - 2018-01-16 1:29 PM Ice is the worst and most dangerous for us to have to deal with, we are not used to this kind of conditons.. And most dont know how to drive in this so its best to close down for a day or two to keep everyone off the roads as much as possible... Put Texans on Ice... and watch the fun begin. 
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | IRunOnFaith - 2018-01-16 2:19 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2018-01-16 1:29 PM Ice is the worst and most dangerous for us to have to deal with, we are not used to this kind of conditons.. And most dont know how to drive in this so its best to close down for a day or two to keep everyone off the roads as much as possible... Put Texans on Ice... and watch the fun begin.
Most dont have the common sense to be driving in the first place and then for them to drive on ice covered roads, oh boy not a good combination..  |
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| MOST places hate Ice! I certainly hate it!
Was 5th in line behind a sand truck on Thursday. Watched #4 pull out to try to pass the 20mph line. Watched him go left, right, left and around and into the ditch all in about 5 seconds. IDIOT! He's lucky he didn't hit one of the people he was trying to pass. And then he turned off in a mile after he drove out behind the line. UGH.
I would MUCH rather be late and alive than in a hurry and in a ditch, and worse! Wish more people thought this! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Nateracer - 2018-01-16 2:58 PM MOST places hate Ice! I certainly hate it!
Was 5th in line behind a sand truck on Thursday. Watched #4 pull out to try to pass the 20mph line. Watched him go left, right, left and around and into the ditch all in about 5 seconds. IDIOT! He's lucky he didn't hit one of the people he was trying to pass. And then he turned off in a mile after he drove out behind the line. UGH.
I would MUCH rather be late and alive than in a hurry and in a ditch, and worse! Wish more people thought this!
Yep every body is always in a hurry here too. And then when they do pass you they slow down to turn as soon as they get passed you. No common sense at all  |
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Location: MN | I'm in Northern MN and we got about 5 inches over the weekend. Come Monday morning the wind picked up significantly, thus blowing the snow across the road creating lots of black ice. I cant tell you how many people I have seen in the ditch since Monday morning!!! Granted the wind was enough to blow you around and then to hit a patch of ice = not a good combo. BUT, people are still flying around weaving in and out of people like idiots. I was born and raised in GA so I am scared to death to be one of those folks in the ditch when its -30 below out. That and I would NEVER hear the end of it from my SO. He would never,ever let me live that down lol. |
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Location: Kansas | shoot, they closed all the schools in my area...but of course us adults don't get a snow day  |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | IRunOnFaith - 2018-01-16 2:19 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-01-16 1:29 PM Ice is the worst and most dangerous for us to have to deal with, we are not used to this kind of conditons.. And most dont know how to drive in this so its best to close down for a day or two to keep everyone off the roads as much as possible... Put Texans on Ice... and watch the fun begin.
Trust me Coonasses on ice is even better, we never get this kind of weather down here, 13 degrees this morning and we got 2.5 inches of snow that refroze on the roads last night. Every bridge on I-10 between Houston and New Orleans was closed. |
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