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dsheinem wrote:Suck it up, quit moaning, and accept that if you live in Chicago it will be fucking windy, that Phoenix is insanely hot in the summer, that you won't see the sun much in Seattle, and that if you live between West Virgina and Maine you'll regularly have cold winters with lots of snow.

Meanwhile in Atlanta, a snowflake is enough to destroy traffic and give rise to the living dead. Truth.

dsh wrote:snow

I hear ya, dsh. I'm on LI, so I'm gonna be getting part of the same storm you are.

I can almost understand closing a school "in anticipation of snow." I remember when I was in high school, for some reason it was a big deal to get all the buses back to the school for an early dismissal. If they KNOW that the blizzard will hit during school hours, it's easier just to cancel school all together. Why was it so hard to get all the buses back and organize an early dismissal? I have no idea.

But you're right. People freak out over the littlest bit of snow and it's ridiculous. And the media always makes any snowfall out to be the end of the world. I worked in hell (aka the supermarket) for almost 10 years, and it got old. People wipe the store out as if they're gonna be stuck inside for the next week. We'd see a spike that would be at least equal to the volume you'd see during holidays. Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl, snow storms. On average, the time I'm usually actually stuck inside for blizzards is half a day. If the snow falls overnight, you're usually out by the next morning. Hell, even a few years ago when it snowed 3 feet I was able to get out on the second day.

One thing that drives me nuts is how selfish people get. Rock salt will sell out every where. Really, one bag is enough to do my walkway. But because a lot of people buy more than they actual need, some people don't get any at all. It's not fair to put a limit on it. What if you have a really long walkway/driveway. Or what if you're buying a bag for yourself, and then another for your senior citizen parents/neighbor/something.

I was reading the forecast for tomorrow and saw the word thundersnow. I don't know why, but the word "thundersnow" made me laugh.

On Friday the forecast was flurries for Monday and Tuesday. Then on Saturday and Sunday it changed to 12-18". Now I check it this morning and it's fucking 20-30" They say 12-20" by morning, then 20-30 inches by noon. Well, looks like I wont be going into work tomorrow.

s1mplehumar wrote:Ticked: I just went to play some NSMBU only to find out my save file is wiped out.

How did that happen?

Ziggy587 wrote:

s1mplehumar wrote:Ticked: I just went to play some NSMBU only to find out my save file is wiped out.

How did that happen?

Clueless. There was an update, presumably for Luigi U DLC that it updated for. Yeah, I haven't played it in forever. Still, I had the bulk of the stars and I wanted to finish it up. I am disappoint.

Snow in the south is the end of the world. We get it every few years at best, and it typically is an inch or two of ice at the bottom. Driving on snow is fun, driving on ice is stupid.

However, we preplanned for the snow this year, since everyone kept saying how bad it was going to be. So I grabbed an extra amount of whatever canned soup was on sale when it was a good sale. I also grabbed a dozen MREs, an IBC (with 40ish gallons in it), and some backup propane tanks. My wife and I can live like a month if the power goes out (even if her friends move in with us for the duration). Im not too much of a prepper, just had the money at the right time.

Smile - Found a copy of WEG Star Warriors at a fleamarket yesterday - Missing only one die. This is the companion starship combat game to the WEG Star Wars RPG. I got it for a steal. Ontop of that I have my garden mostly planned out for this year.

Ticked - Ran out of coffee at work. We are provided a coffee like substance, comes in a big bag and the machine tries to mix it.

Abilene we used to consistently get a decent snowfall every winter. Certainly not like, chicago or whatever, but more than enough for snowball fights, snowmen, fun stuff.

It'd occasionally get icy and since it's central Texas and nobody can drive on ice, we'd get school closings, but that'd basically be maybe once or twice a year tops.

Just a 4 hour drive south in San Antonio though? Nothing. I'm having my Abilene relatives telling me about 18 degree weather and ice everywhere, while here in SATX it's barely ever dipped under 40. SUPER mild, and I'm told that it's basically always like this in winter.

...Summers should be fun. :X

AppleQueso wrote:Just a 4 hour drive south in San Antonio though? Nothing. I'm having my Abilene relatives telling me about 18 degree weather and ice everywhere, while here in SATX it's barely ever dipped under 40. SUPER mild, and I'm told that it's basically always like this in winter.

...Summers should be fun. :X

How humid does it get in San Antonio?

AppleQueso wrote:Abilene we used to consistently get a decent snowfall every winter. Certainly not like, chicago or whatever, but more than enough for snowball fights, snowmen, fun stuff.

It'd occasionally get icy and since it's central Texas and nobody can drive on ice, we'd get school closings, but that'd basically be maybe once or twice a year tops.

Just a 4 hour drive south in San Antonio though? Nothing. I'm having my Abilene relatives telling me about 18 degree weather and ice everywhere, while here in SATX it's barely ever dipped under 40. SUPER mild, and I'm told that it's basically always like this in winter.

...Summers should be fun. :X

It will usually freeze 10-14 days each winter at night, but typically no lower than 28 or 29 degrees. Last week of Jan to first week or 2 of Feb is usually the coldest. It does get hot there, but I preferred it to Houston, as SA is more dry than the oppressive Houston humidity blech.

^ If that's the case, I'd die in Houston. I could barely handle the couple days I spent in San Antonio.

Yeah I've heard it can get pretty humid. Even if it's drier than Houston, it's still probably going to be a LOT more humid than I'm used to.

Like I said, should be fun.

Out here in Seattle-land any amount of snow shuts everything down. The city has absolutely no infrastructure to deal with it and is not allowed to lay down salt even if they did (as the hippies are worried about fish in streams) so you get a nice combination of slippery roads and steep hills.

But I can understand that. We don't even get snow every year in the greater Seattle metro area, and the places closer to the mountains that do get snow are prepared for it. What really grinds my gears is how everyone out here freaks out when it rains. When it rains everyone drops their speed by 25% and comes to dead stops before turning. It drives me freaking crazy, because you'd think they'd have learned how to handle rain by now. And it's not like we even get heavy rains that reduce visibility and cause you to hydroplane. I can understand that first rain after the dry summer; there's a lot of oil on the road at that point. But after that stop driving like a wuss.