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Post by heyyitskait on Feb 13, 2014 10:30:12 GMT -5
It'd be cool if my school would cancel afternoon classes. I don't really want to drive to Schenectady in the middle of this shit for class when we aren't even cooking tonight. I-90 is already littered with accidents.
Post by wannaberoo'ing on Feb 13, 2014 10:36:25 GMT -5
These incredible, unprecedented weather events are just going to keep becoming more common: the nature of climate change, extreme and sometimes unpredictable storms or overall radical seasonal changes going on. The past year especially, and now, this ridiculously harsh winter (after having two unusually mild winters), the affects of global warming are becoming increasingly apparent. No one can be prepared yet for what this new and radically different climate will bring. But holy shit are we learning!
More deadly tornadoes and super storms last year in the Plains than ever before, clear through to parts of Tennessee. The hottest summer on record for some states and extreme droughts the year before. Record rainfalls here in the Northeast causing some places to experience dangerous flash flooding that have never had flooding issues before. A record cold July (and the wettest in history here in Pittsburgh, my basement flooded three times last summer). People all over this area lost their homes last year due to historic flooding, homes they had lived in all their lives, destroyed in a day. So much ridiculously unusual and extreme weather going on that no one can be prepared for.
may you Northerners who are continuing to laugh at us poor barefoot, idiot Southerners be carried away by a swarm of our finest Palmetto bugs. Seriously, guys, enough already. You should be ashamed. This is not the spirit of Inforoo.
may you Northerners who are continuing to laugh at us poor barefoot, idiot Southerners be carried away by a swarm of our finest Palmetto bugs. Seriously, guys, enough already. You should be ashamed. This is not the spirit of Inforoo.
Don't go barefoot in the snow, that's a terrible idea.
may you Northerners who are continuing to laugh at us poor barefoot, idiot Southerners be carried away by a swarm of our finest Palmetto bugs. Seriously, guys, enough already. You should be ashamed. This is not the spirit of Inforoo.
I've lived here most of my life and I am still terrified of Palmetto bugs. But there is nothing like someone newly arrived from another part of the country seeing one for the first time. It is B-grade horror movie worthy.
I've lived here most of my life and I am still terrified of Palmetto bugs. But there is nothing like someone newly arrived from another part of the country seeing one for the first time. It is B-grade horror movie worthy.
I'll never forget the time when I was loaded off of cheap vodka while playing Mario Tennis on the 64 in 2010 and one of those things came flying down from the 2nd story look-over and landed right on my leg...talking all kinds of shit. I screamed....i killed...I conquered.
It all came with a price though. Because I think it gave me a slight case of PTSD.
Do people in Atlanta realize how many people north of Nashville are laughing at them?
Seriously, my last full Michigan winter had measurable snowfall from mid October through mid march. We had snow on our road all the time. I was driving a 96 Mustang with speed tires, not exactly a snow car.
So if you're freaked, if your city and state can't handle a few inches of winter precipitation, just stay home, stay warm, and you'll be fine. I have lived in a house with no heat due to a loss of electricity. It's why i owned a kerosene heater.
Is it funny when a power line goes down and some senior citizens ventilator kicks out? Is it funny when a power line goes down and starts a fire that engulfs an entire neighborhood because the road is too icy for the firefighters to drive down it? I work around power lines everyday, which means I'm a first responder when the line goes down, it's not a joke and it can be deadly.
Do people in Atlanta realize how many people north of Nashville are laughing at them?
Seriously, my last full Michigan winter had measurable snowfall from mid October through mid march. We had snow on our road all the time. I was driving a 96 Mustang with speed tires, not exactly a snow car.
So if you're freaked, if your city and state can't handle a few inches of winter precipitation, just stay home, stay warm, and you'll be fine. I have lived in a house with no heat due to a loss of electricity. It's why i owned a kerosene heater.
Is it funny when a power line goes down and some senior citizens ventilator kicks out? Is it funny when a power line goes down and starts a fire that engulfs an entire neighborhood because the road is too icy for the firefighters to drive down it? I work around power lines everyday, which means I'm a first responder when the line goes down, it's not a joke and it can be deadly.
It's bad that your not prepared for it, and it's funny that people feel like it's some unnatural event.
I'm from nw tn, and my family had power out for three days a few years ago. It wasn't the end of the world. You get a generator, or you get a heating source that does not rely on electricity.
And when the storm is 3 days out and predicted, if you aren't prepared, it's your own fault.
It would be like people in Florida with a 3 day hurricane warning not preparing. They laughed at new York during sandy. I remember multiple conversations about that then.
It's not the citizens responsibility to clear the roads and put salt down. Not everyone can afford a generator. No one in Florida should be laughing at anybody anywhere else ever.
Power was back on before I woke up. Snow cream was been eaten. Time to go injure myself sledding.
Flanz, my office is open today, but we're allowed to stay home if we're willing to use vacation time for it.
There is between 12"-18" of snow on the ground on Long Island (the direction I'm headed), but my office is refusing to give early release. The LIRR (Long Island Railroad) is shut down, so people are snatching up hotel rooms to stay in tonight, but....no early close.
I'm leaving in an hour, fuck it.
Also, I hope you all realize the difference between my comments yesterday questioning the cities/municipalities of the south and their plans for this sort of mess and Memphis being a complete fucking mutant.
You diss the government for not protecting it's citizens.
Memphis disses the people for not having generators and heat sources that don't rely on electricity when the government fails. Then blames those individuals and says the power outages are their own fault.
Everything has closed up here in the good ol' Commonwealth. Anyone trying to say us northerners are just coasting the storm out romping around in 2 feet of snow with no closures or issues is lying.
This kind of weather sucks for EVERYONE, no matter what part of the country you live in, we don't have magic snow powers north of the Mason Dixon line. In the words of the immortal Red Green...
Remember, I'm pullin' for you. We're all in this together.
They laughed at new York during sandy. I remember multiple conversations about that then.
Anyone "laughing" at others during a natural disaster is a piece of shit, imo.
I had just left the Gulf Coast of Florida, having virtually been wiped out by Hurricane Ivan and a few bad tropical storms previous to Ivan, and had wandered back to my third home in Minnesota. That summer, Hurricane Katrina hit. I was in shock, glued to the TV every chance I got watching the horrible events unfold, feeling a mixture of sad, angry, outrage. My friends were down there, and I knew what that hurricane was gonna do.
Unfortunately, some of my northern "friends" (we didn't stay friends for much longer), chose instead to mock and ridicule the people of NOLA and the Gulf Coast, saying things like "they should have been prepared!" "they should have just left, those idiots!" I couldn't believe the lack of humanity and compassion some people exhibited during those horrific hurricanes.
When Sandy hit, I thought about the same things: feeling sympathy for those who are going to loose so much and have their lives turned upside down. Some people can never get back what they lost in a natural disaster.
I have gotten to experience tornadoes, hurricanes, winters here, winters in Canada, all kinds of extreme weather in my life (I come from gypsy horse trainers family). Extreme weather sucks and is dangerous no matter what or where. Yes, in short, laughing at others' in these situations is serious dickheadery.
Power was back on before I woke up. Snow cream was been eaten. Time to go injure myself sledding.
Flanz, my office is open today, but we're allowed to stay home if we're willing to use vacation time for it.
There is between 12"-18" of snow on the ground on Long Island (the direction I'm headed), but my office is refusing to give early release. The LIRR (Long Island Railroad) is shut down, so people are snatching up hotel rooms to stay in tonight, but....no early close.
I'm leaving in an hour, fuck it.
Also, I hope you all realize the difference between my comments yesterday questioning the cities/municipalities of the south and their plans for this sort of mess and Memphis being a complete fucking mutant.
Yea, we've got around 10 inches by me and I was able to work from home. It's mostly raining now but it's very slushy and icy out in a lot of places still.
My mother is in her 70s and lives 2 hours south of here. She has not had power since yesterday. She is sitting in a freezing house eating peanut butter and jelly, and oh, btw, she has one arm in an immobilizer because of a broken shoulder. The original forecast did not call for them to be hit as hard so neither one of us thought about me driving down to get her, primarily because at first we were projected to get the worst. I could just as easily have brought her here to a house that lost power.
A generator costs several hundred dollars and that is not in most people's budget, considering it only gets used every 10-20 years at most.
Memphis, I don't know you and probably never will. But I hope that as you grow up you develop some empathy. Otherwise you are going to be a very lonely old man one day.
No takers on my offer....surprisingly, I still have power...although with the icicles on the power lines and gusty winds, it will be a miracle if I don't lose it at some point. On the local news they are showing a house with a tree that landed on it that is only a couple miles from me.... :0
Outside is a total sheet of ice pretty much. The precip is like a frozen mist right now but there's another band moving in. My animals seem totally confused about what is going on.
But I'm ready for whatever. Except the tree landing on the house thing. That would be totally uncool.
You should put a trampoline on your roof so the tree just bounces off.
Then again I suppose that probably would've helped better before the storm...
Post by monkybunney on Feb 13, 2014 13:49:48 GMT -5
The south, well specifically the greater metro ATL area, is under-prepared for this kind of weather. We could have been better prepared within reason I think, but as others have pointed out it's impractical for our local government gear up like they do in the northern states that regularly see this kind of weather or much worse. I'm of the opinion that we do need to seriously consider it though or at least plan on seeing this kind of weather regularly. Like wannaberoo'ing said the global weather patterns are changing and we can expect this sort of stuff to become the norm. I've lived in this area for the past 20 odd years and the last 3 years the weather has been pretty damn weird for this area; virtually no winter for the past 2 winters and extremely mild summers compared to the brutally hot ones I remember a few years back, now we get hit with TWO serious (for our region) winter storms back to back. I'm not a meteorologist but the weather ain't been right 3 years running compared to the 15 years prior.
@zenfnp I'd have taken you up on your offer but by the time I realized that it sounded allot more fun than riding it out at my place I had already passed the rubicon.
Seems to be melting pretty well here. Char-tica is getting back to normal.
Same here as far as the roads go. Given, it was helped along a ton by our county's road dept being on point with scraping every road in the county. They even made it to our little backroad today. I am liking my chances of an easy drive to work in the morning.