LoL, been in the upper 70's here last few days. Had to turn on the freakn AC. Now rain tonight and tomorrow, then back to the 30s. This crazy scenario has been playing out every week for freakn months now. It's hell on the body.
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Yep, weather and climate are absolutely synonymous.
North country where it's typical -30 for a month, 47 degrees and raining. Damned ice age I tell you...
PS 30 degrees is too cold to golf? We grill hamburgers in blizzards bro!
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Three things:
1) the roads are taken care of - I mean, extremely well care of. Unless you're driving in the middle of a BAD storm, no problem.
2) Northerners equip cars with winter tires and many of them have four wheel drive.
3) We drive in the snow 6 months a year. We know how to drive in it.
As far as trusting other drivers, why would I trust them, ice or no ice? Always keep an eye out.
I'm just poking fun at the south because I grew up there and experienced the hundreds of cars abandoned on streets because of an inch. Truth be told - it makes no sense for the south to be prepared for it though. Just like it makes no sense for us to have tornado shelters all over the place up here.
Also - the roads aren't icy up north as much as down south in all honesty. Truth be told from someone who has lived both places - the souths roads are WAY worse. Because it never gets true winter, only glimpses. When it's true winter and doesn't get above freezing much, the ice is all sanded away - the constant melting and refreezing is the problem, which, this winter, is indeed a problem up here, since it is raining right now and will be below freezing again tonight.
Yep, weather and climate are absolutely synonymous.
North country where it's typical -30 for a month, 47 degrees and raining. Damned ice age I tell you...
PS 30 degrees is too cold to golf? We grill hamburgers in blizzards bro!
Please......LoL....they close schools if there is a chance of flurries here. And yup, doesn't make sense to spend millions of dollars for something that happens maybe every few years (at least where it actually affects the roads). All they do around here is usually sand the bridges, not much else, as they are not equipped. But you have idiot drivers no matter where you live.
I know bro
please take it all as tongue-n-cheek, that's all it is. I totally get it. I remember having such a hard time driving in TN, especially living in the east where it was mountainous and I got myself into trouble a couple of times with black ice, but luckily never got hurt.There was this one particular time, that was real funny. It was my last winter there. Started snowing, but not accumulating at all, just flurries - newspaper reported over 100 cars abandoned on main roads, even a few in the middle of a busy intersection. But no snow on the ground, not even quite cold enough for ice.
But today here is terrible and this reminds me of what it can be like down there...I gotta go out in a minute, and not looking forward to it - everything is literally sheer ice, this is practically an ice storm we're experiencing...
Yeah, I got that, hence I was making fun of "us" too with the flurry joke; which sadly isn't a joke since they really do close schools just on a chance.
Yep, weather and climate are absolutely synonymous.
North country where it's typical -30 for a month, 47 degrees and raining. Damned ice age I tell you...
PS 30 degrees is too cold to golf? We grill hamburgers in blizzards bro!
Couldn't be truer, last time any snow accumulated here in Jax was in '89. The bridges all iced over and it shut the city down. We got a whopping quarter inch, and that was the drifts.
Growing up in NY and having learned to drive in snow, I was one of 2 who made my shift at work that night, must have passed a dozen cars on the side of the road in the 2 miles between home and work.
Hope you have a good day today _J, I'll make some decisions and get back to you on that PM. Thanks brother.
10" fell here from noon to 3 am last night plus 40mph gusts of wind, and schools aren't even delayed. I know we all here in MN know how to drive in it, but most people here, being in the city, have regular cars. They do a good job of getting main roads plowed quickly, but there's only so much you can do... drives me nuts. People risk their damn lives just trying to get to work.
I thankfully don't have to go to work this morning, but my partner is a teacher and had to drive to St Paul in her little Honda Fit. God forbid the kids get a snow day once in a while.
EDIT: oh yeah, and good morning D_J! Just stopping by to b#%@h a little...
I thankfully don't have to go to work this morning, but my partner is a teacher and had to drive to St Paul in her little Honda Fit. God forbid the kids get a snow day once in a while.
EDIT: oh yeah, and good morning D_J! Just stopping by to b#%@h a little...
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COLD here this morning....30 degrees....had to cover the flowers and shrubs last night to prevent frost-freeze damage. Damn climate warming....
Gee that sure is brutally cold inspects 
Btw...NASA - What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Btw...NASA - What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Btw..on the topic of snow and cold...
I know, DJ...I'm fired
I know, DJ...I'm fired
I know about actual COLD....was deer hunting long ago in the Adirondacks, was 20 below zero...but, now I like to watch animals, no hunting animals.
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