Post by: K Frame on November 24, 2005, 06:26:05 AM
It started snowing last night, and is continuing on and off. Not much accumulation, but even a little snow makes this ugly mill town pretty.
Post by: 280plus on November 24, 2005, 07:00:59 AM
Post by: jefnvk on November 24, 2005, 08:19:19 AM
Here in Midland, a few inches. Just a dusting.
Post by: mtnbkr on November 24, 2005, 09:22:55 AM
Chris
Post by: El Tejon on November 24, 2005, 10:55:59 AM
^%$$#@ goofy weather in this state.
Post by: Art Eatman on November 24, 2005, 01:19:31 PM
That's the way it goes. Just another shitty day in Paradise...
, Art
Post by: grampster on November 24, 2005, 02:32:25 PM
PS Happy Thanksgiving all.
Post by: K Frame on November 24, 2005, 06:09:23 PM
Post by: Seymour Skinner on November 25, 2005, 12:35:45 AM
Here in northern Utah, it should have dun snowed 3 times by now, but so far, the only flakes were my in laws yesterday, who discussed every detail of the new Hairy Potty movie during thanksgiving dinner.
When I was a kid, a snowstorm was only slightly below Christmas morning itself, but after driving in it for a decade, I prefer what the dog leaves on the lawn.
What would go good with the weather reports and make this thread complete, are those HELPFUL traffic reports every ten minutes on morning radio: "Lookout for brake lights...blah blah...slow and go out there...pocket of heavy slowing around...blah blah...a mattress in a lane, lookout for that...blah...overturned semi, broccoli ALL over the road...keep it here on the Z Morning Zoo for all your traffic and weather on the 9s...weather and traffic on the 4s...blah blah blah...lookout for brake lights...pocket of heavy slowing due to some rubbernecking...blaaaaaaaaaa." God I love the internet
Post by: K Frame on November 25, 2005, 05:57:23 AM
You want a traffic report?
"There's heavy traffic on Ort Valley Road this morning. Three cars are going slowly behind Jacob Yoder's milk wagon. It looks like one of his horses has thrown a shoe. The situation isn't much better on Hayvice Valley Road, where there's traffic as far as the eye can see [note, sight distances on Hayvice Valley Road are around 200 feet in most places] as the Amish head to Friday market at Peachy's..."
Yep, my parents live in Amish country, just not the over commercialized Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Post by: grampster on November 25, 2005, 10:23:10 AM
Back to the weather: What is starting to rot my socks is the fact all the local tv channels are now in competition with each other to see how many Cometologists or Meteorologists or whatever they go by. Now, I live in Michigan. Around November 15 or so, it starts to get cold and it usually snows. For the last week these morons on all three local channels have been predicting the Storm of the Cenury. Winter Storm Warning, Wind Warning, Blowing Snow, Drifiting, Life Threatening Snow and Cold. ad nauseum for Thanksgiving day. They managed to screw up everybodies holiday because families cancelled trips by air, car, cart and wagon as a result.
Now the wind blew all night Wednesday, it was 5 degrees, and it snowed, maybe an inch, maybe 3. I woke up yesterday and the SUN WAS SHINING. Was it cold? yes. Was there some snow? yes. IT'S WINTER IN MICHIGAN, FOR CRAPS SAKE. I went out into the driveway and actually started to snowblow my drive until the neighborhood kids started coming around and pointing at me and laughing. I was humiliated. I think I'm going to sue the tv stations for battering my self esteem.
Are any other of you'ens getting sick and tired of the weather dolts making mountains out of molehills with regard to the weather? They must all be Democrats.
Post by: Guest on November 25, 2005, 10:38:58 AM
Grrr...
Post by: El Tejon on November 25, 2005, 02:33:56 PM
Besides, dated a young lady at a local television station. She told me that weather is intentionally misreported in order to generate ratings.
Post by: Guest on November 25, 2005, 04:34:31 PM
Michigan's tourism motto: Don't like the weather? Wait ten minutes.
Post by: K Frame on November 25, 2005, 09:08:45 PM
Come to Washington, DC, metro, where our "trifiling weather fluctuations" come with about 100,000 drivers who hail from regions of the world where they have about 700 native language words for sand, high temperatures, monsoons, etc., but not a single word for snow...
Post by: Guest on November 26, 2005, 03:39:59 AM
Post by: Art Eatman on November 26, 2005, 11:31:19 AM
, Art
Post by: grampster on November 26, 2005, 12:37:25 PM
Now you quit pickin' on them northren folk. It's cold up there and you need to be charitable about their feelings.
Gramaw.
Post by: DrAmazon on November 26, 2005, 03:56:11 PM
During that time a newspaper columnist (don't remember for sure if it was Mike Hardin or Dave Barry) questioned why everyone craved french toast during a blizzard-why else would we all run out and buy eggs, milk and bread!
I'm looking forward to my first winter in VA. Over the holiday I got reminded that humid cold cuts to the bone more than the dry cold in CO. I love telling people here about the blizzard we had when I still lived in Denver (April of 02 if I remember right). I still have photos of the 48 inches in the backyard!
Post by: Art Eatman on November 26, 2005, 04:02:24 PM
So I ain't there.
, Art
Post by: grampster on November 26, 2005, 07:26:07 PM
Your right about those Detroiters. An inch of snow and it's a natural disaster and they shut the town down. Too bad they don't leave it down. We have a saying in Michigan about our taxes. "The dollars we send to Lansing don't stop till they get to Detroit." The re-elected mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick was behind by 15% the day before the election and won by 10% the next day. Dawn of the Dead is a movie title they should resurrect for election day over there. heh.
I'm sitting here right now, listening to the whine of snowmobiles in the woods. The lake only froze over Thanksgiving morn, so it'll be a week if it stays cold and the shanty's will start popping up on the ice.
Post by: jefnvk on November 26, 2005, 07:45:34 PM
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Well, grampster, I spent thirty years in Detroit, one winter. You know what? Those people don't know how to drive on snow!
Correction. Those people don't know how to drive, period.Every single person I know from that big yellow blob on the map I like to call Detroit (much to their annoyance, because non are actually from the City of Detroit) exhibits the same driving tendencies. Riding people's asses, driving everywhere in a hurry, using the left-turn lane as a way to jump across a bunch of lanes of traffic then complain when someone is actually using it to turn, etc.
I'm glad to live somewhere where snowmobiles outnumber cars in most parking lots.
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on November 27, 2005, 06:40:29 PM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on November 27, 2005, 09:57:26 PM
Several of us came out and pushed him off of our block
We were confinced he would catch some traction and achieve ludicrous speed right into our parked cars