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[DON]

Details Frank, details!
Been shoveling??….snow

 

[Frank]

Details Frank, details!
Been shoveling??….snow

Actually- YES! Rare event here, and totally shuts everything down.

 

[chad]

Frank dont cover da world? We do (ford6)-
over 2 pg 4 for more goodies (thnx Frank, fun fact. I’m a local
trivia guy, will use it).

 

[FuzzyDriver]

Actually- YES! Rare event here, and totally shuts everything down.

Bizarre to see New Orleans covered in snow, and here in southeast Michigan all we have is brrrrrrrrrr cold, but no snow on the ground. Hit -5º early this morning.

 

[Frank]

Bizarre to see New Orleans covered in snow, and here in southeast Michigan all we have is brrrrrrrrrr cold, but no snow on the ground. Hit -5º early this morning.

Second morning- We're totally "socked in"- @ 25* with a mere ice to sleet to snow = 4". I've lived in a "normal" environment where it snows, and worked for Va. DOT and drove the plow/salt truck (in the Appalachians, challenging and dangerous- loved it). Its humorous in one way and frustrating in another here in the deep south where snow is rare- there is NO equipment of any kind, and locals who have no idea how to drive in it. We can't move until it thaws naturally. That's normally one day, but as everyone east of the Rockies knows, the cold is deep-set this year. We're in for at least one more day of sitting around the wood stove reading/ relaxing. A forced January vacation.

 

[chad]

thnx 4 da report Frank.
Family in Lafitte get froz pipes (nothing buried 3, 4 ft + like up here / the ‘frez line’ or its depth distance).
So I understand the oddity of actual sno.
Agreed:
Its ‘fun' (read finacially advantagious) to push it around. One feels abit like a kid w/a Tonka truck in the sand box. BUT...
after hours non-stop (paper bag meal on the seat, near empty coffee thurmos, full baldder) no fun any more. Customers
needing access @ 6am, plowing thru the nite, etc, etc. Add n top equipment break downs it’s just not form me any more
(40% loss of muscle mass w/aging 60, 65 + yrs old). Like the desert (but opposite extreme) one can die out there. We still
call it “White Gold” but climate emergency has made it rare now (winter only comes in Feb now). Where R U in Pelican State?

 

[Frank]

thnx 4 da report Frank.
Family in Lafitte get froz pipes (nothing buried 3, 4 ft + like up here / the ‘frez line’ or its depth distance).
So I understand the oddity of actual sno.
Agreed:
Its ‘fun' (read finacially advantagious) to push it around. One feels abit like a kid w/a Tonka truck in the sand box. BUT...
after hours non-stop (paper bag meal on the seat, near empty coffee thurmos, full baldder) no fun any more. Customers
needing access @ 6am, plowing thru the nite, etc, etc. Add n top equipment break downs it’s just not form me any more
(40% loss of muscle mass w/aging 60, 65 + yrs old). Like the desert (but opposite extreme) one can die out there. We still
call it “White Gold” but climate emergency has made it rare now (winter only comes in Feb now). Where R U in Pelican State?

Way east of Louisiana chad. SE corner of South Carolina on the Atlantic. .

 

[chad]

o0OP... but...
here’s a local friend’s sno near U:
facebook gretchen . bozarth
(each time I post the url goes crazy & posts sompin in german)
you’ll see her home in one of those typical ‘gulf communities’ all on the coast,
at least 2 pic right away...

 

[awasson]

Second morning- We're totally "socked in"- @ 25* with a mere ice to sleet to snow = 4". I've lived in a "normal" environment where it snows, and worked for Va. DOT and drove the plow/salt truck (in the Appalachians, challenging and dangerous- loved it). Its humorous in one way and frustrating in another here in the deep south where snow is rare- there is NO equipment of any kind, and locals who have no idea how to drive in it. We can't move until it thaws naturally. That's normally one day, but as everyone east of the Rockies knows, the cold is deep-set this year. We're in for at least one more day of sitting around the wood stove reading/ relaxing. A forced January vacation.

That’s the problem with us up on the west coast of British Columbia… When I started driving 45 years ago, we had regular snow storms every year and everyone was geared up and knew how to drive in the snow. These days, we sometimes go a few years without any snow and then we have an epic dump of snow that goes on for a week. There are people who have driven a few years confidently but have never contended with snow. I tend to stay off the roads that first day so I can avoid the whirling dervishes on the roads, with their overpowered cars and rubber band tires. Then the next few days, it’s just me and the experienced drivers. This season it snowed once to my knowledge in the middle of the night and it was gone by morning. It’s cold enough but it’s also been clear and sunny. We might not see any notable snow this year.

 

[Frank]

That’s the problem with us up on the west coast of British Columbia… When I started driving 45 years ago, we had regular snow storms every year and everyone was geared up and knew how to drive in the snow. These days, we sometimes go a few years without any snow and then we have an epic dump of snow that goes on for a week. There are people who have driven a few years confidently but have never contended with snow. I tend to stay off the roads that first day so I can avoid the whirling dervishes on the roads, with their overpowered cars and rubber band tires. Then the next few days, it’s just me and the experienced drivers. This season it snowed once to my knowledge in the middle of the night and it was gone by morning. It’s cold enough but it’s also been clear and sunny. We might not see any notable snow this year.

Yes the weather patterns are nothing like when we were young. This will be my last weather post. Here is the street outside my house this morning, Saturday- 4 days after the storm. It was 24* again last night, yesterday's slush that could have been plowed clean in one pass is now a solid ice mess-again. The deep south is totally unequipped for this, because it is very rare. The average January high is 65*, it has not been 60* yet this calendar year, and daily hi/low average is around 32* for the last week. Being a nation-wide truck driver for two decades, I quickly learned that light snows in southern states is more hazardous than snow in states where the locals know how to handle it. Our vehicles have been parked since Tuesday. (Blessed to live in walking distance to work.)