N Texas snowmagedden!!!!!

[brianmanahan]

You know the rules, pics of your "friend"?

i dont have a pic, but

8.75/10

 

[Bock]

TX snow partially melts during the day & the refreeze at dusk/night is straight up deadly.

Edit: Google Cobblestone ice. http://youtu.be/dFmCpd2ppgw this shit everywhere

 

[dawp]

I used to live in Ft. Worth, the ice storms they get there are really nasty.

now I'm about to move to Charlotte, NC from KC MO, guess I'll see how the weather is there.

 

[zanejohnson]

TX snow partially melts during the day & the refreeze at dusk/night is straight up deadly.

Edit: Google Cobblestone ice. http://youtu.be/dFmCpd2ppgw this shit everywhere

this exactly. that's what every road around here is like right now...

if the road is sloped at all (like most roads are, for drainage) you're going in the ditch. you can turn your wheel either direction and it doesn't make a single bit of difference, the vehicle goes STRAIGHT into the ditch.


that post someone posted on the last page of a real "snowmagedden," is NUTS

i couldn't imagine living through that....


we've had two freezes (iced over the roads) this year so far.... but the last one wasn't that bad, this one is BAD.

 

[zanejohnson]

I used to live in Ft. Worth, the ice storms they get there are really nasty.

now I'm about to move to Charlotte, NC from KC MO, guess I'll see how the weather is there.

i'm about an hour north of DFW

 

[zanejohnson]

oh god.

it just started sleeting again!

 

[marvdmartian]

Being Tex-ass...they probably also got some of that super-slippery "Southern Ice"

Yep, 10x more slippery than anything seen up north!

Actually, having grown up in NY state, and now living in Texas, it's more a matter of an absolute lack of snow removal equipment (or trucks to spread any salt or chemical ice melt, of which Texas towns generally have none), combined with a large, mostly rural state, full of people who mostly have ZERO experience driving on snow and ice.

Hell, just yesterday, as I was coming home, I saw some yahoo in a 2WD Yukon pulling out from a stop sign, turning left.....then further left, then even further left, before they had enough sense to get their foot off the gas, and allow their tires to get some grip again, so they could straighten themselves out. Dude was just about sideways, blocking the 2 lanes, before he recovered.

That's why, even though I have 4WD and learned how to drive in the snow, I mostly stay home after this sort of weather. It's not that I can't get to where I'd need to go, it's the idiots who have no idea how to drive in it, that I'd rather not have crashing into me!

 

[AMCRambler]

Well if it really is ice and not just snow that been packed down then yeah that shit is slippery as hell. We get ice up here and the only thing that saves us is the salt trucks. You don't have them there so game, set and match.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Yeah that kinda snow would largely shut down Seattle. Having grown up on Spokane, it still astounds me.

 

[norseamd]

lol, that's a light dusting.

this

 

[olds]

Take that flag down

 

[DrPizza]

Just based on the OP, I can't tell if it's sarcasm or not. Seems like sarcasm, kind of a "lol, this is what everyone's whining about here."

a friend of mine just said that her college in TX was canceled due to "dangerously low" temperatures of 34 degrees

Buffalo, NY has experienced 42 minutes at 32 degrees in February. 22 minutes one day, and 20 minutes another day. That's the warmest it's been. I'm inland about 60 miles southeast - we're generally colder than Buffalo. The other night when I did my night chores - breaking ice out of buckets and refilling buckets of water, the 18 degrees with a light breeze felt like a heat wave. That's nearly 40 degrees warmer than it was a couple nights before. Last night, it was -10F with a breeze while I was out doing chores. At this point, 34 degrees is going to be shorts weather. Hell, 34 degrees is closer to swimming temperatures than it is to the coldest we've experienced.

Yep, 10x more slippery than anything seen up north!

Actually, having grown up in NY state, and now living in Texas, it's more a matter of an absolute lack of snow removal equipment (or trucks to spread any salt or chemical ice melt, of which Texas towns generally have none), combined with a large, mostly rural state, full of people who mostly have ZERO experience driving on snow and ice.

People keep saying "snow plows," which might lead people from out of state to think that magically, thanks to equipment, we don't drive on snow covered roads. I'm in NY, and I don't have a personal snow plow to follow everywhere I go. If it's snowing, there's snow on the roads. Thanks to snow plows, if it's not snowing the next day, the roads will be fairly clear of the stuff; maybe a little slush thanks to the 10 pounds of car rotting salt poured per square foot on the roads. But driving on roads with 2 or 3 inches of snow isn't unusual at all during the winter. Meh, just slow down from 55 to maybe 45, if the road isn't straight.

 

[96Firebird]

Also, salt decreases it's effectiveness at very low temperatures, which we've definitely had plenty of here.

 

[Raduque]

Had some snow here in west Texas. It's been freezing into ice during the night.

 

[WHAMPOM]

No! No! Everything in Texas is bigger(exaggerated)!

 

[FeuerFrei]

Thanks for the pics. I've been seeing snow on the radar out that way for a few days and wondered how bad it was.
(note: Constant snow presence in Texas is highly unusual. )
Here in East Texas we had our annual (if that) snowfall Wednesday with 4"-5". It was building on sleet left over from Monday. It snowed steadily for hours that morning but temps were above freezing before the snow ceased around 1pm.

A cold winter day in Texas is when it tops out in the thirties. (panhandle excepted) Twenties is downright frigid. Back toward the beginning of February I had my window open because the high reached 70°.

 

[MetalMat]

Houston rarely ever gets snow but from time to time Dallas can get some legit snowfall. Back in 2010 during the NBA all star week a crap load of snow got dumped on Dallas, enough for me to make a snowman.

 

[zanejohnson]

here's a few pics from a couple hours ago, it's been sleeting/snowing off and on all morning.

its supposed to get up to 43 later today, so we'll see how much melts off... and then it's supposed to drop down into the 20's again, so it's gonna get real nasty if alot of it sticks around...

i drove to the store earlier, the roads are still pretty much covered with a thin sheet of ice, but it's driveable as of right now... slushy on the main road, slick as fuck on the non much traveled roads (like mine)

 

[MetalMat]

Damn Zane, thats quite a bit of snow. Where do you live?

 

[zanejohnson]

and before anyone asky why the F i'm not driving the jeep...... it has a blown headgasket atm

 

[zanejohnson]

Damn Zane, thats quite a bit of snow. Where do you live?

about an hour north of DFW, closest town is a little town called Collinsville.

 

[zanejohnson]

Houston rarely ever gets snow but from time to time Dallas can get some legit snowfall. Back in 2010 during the NBA all star week a crap load of snow got dumped on Dallas, enough for me to make a snowman.

true that, these last couple years especially, hold up i'll dig up a pic of last years snowpocalypse..

 

[zanejohnson]

last years snow hell

 

[McLovin]

ZJ, Olds is right take that flag down!

Important Things to Remember

Traditional guidelines call for displaying the flag in public only from sunrise to sunset. However, the flag may be displayed at all times if it’s illuminated during darkness. The flag should not be subject to weather damage, so it should not be displayed during rain, snow and wind storms unless it is an
all-weather flag.

http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/flagdisplay.pdf

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's just a dusting though. We get more snow than that just from wind blowing existing snow around.