aurfalien Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Nippy?! We'll have to nip you! California folk........ ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Scott... you're not alone. Around here the "high" tomorrow is supposed to be 7. SEVEN degrees. That's the high for the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurfalien Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Scott... you're not alone. Around here the "high" tomorrow is supposed to be 7. SEVEN degrees. That's the high for the day. Well, at least its a nice prime number. It looks cool even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Scott... you're not alone. Around here the "high" tomorrow is supposed to be 7. SEVEN degrees. That's the high for the day. Geez. If it got that cold in Atlanta, the city would just shatter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Geez. If it got that cold in Atlanta, the city would just shatter. Yeah, I remember the news reports about a year ago where two inches of snow "paralyzed" Atlanta! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Yeah, I remember the news reports about a year ago where two inches of snow "paralyzed" Atlanta! I was driving home from work, 6 miles away, and ended up having to leave my truck in a car-lot and walk because everyone literally abandoned their cars in the middle of ALL the roads and streets....on the sides, on the medians, in the middle of intersections. The entire city was a vast parking lot...even the interstates. There was simply nowhere to go, no way to get anywhere because of the abandoned cars in the way, until the sun came out and melted it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Two inches of snow causes mass panic? What is it with you people? I know snow is pretty rare in Atlanta, but seriously... two inches brings a city to its knees? Edited January 17, 2016 by Harry P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Two inches of snow causes mass panic? What is it with you people? Don't ask me. I'm a transplanted Yankee, and 2" of snow to me is nothing. Part of the problem is the hysterical way the media was whipping up even the possibility of snow for several years, and a lot of folks simply became numb to the whole thing. Then when a little bit of nasty stuff hit, no one was prepared. There probably weren't 50 pairs of snow-chains in a 25-mile radius. And I saw quite a few high-end 4X4s on their roofs. I guess if you can afford an expensive rig like that, the laws of physics just don't apply to you. Edited January 17, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 We also had a "snow day" that pretty much shut down Chicago... back in January 1967. Except that we didn't get two inches... we got 23 inches. Yep, just about TWO FEET of snow fell that day and overnight. The city was literally shut down. This is Lake Shore Drive a day or two after... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Bay, I wish we'd get that here. The city wouldn't move until May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Another street, same day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I remember a snowstorm in '03 in Denver that pretty much shut things down for a couple days...looked it up, was 31 inches. Another big one I remember from Dec. 2006--the airport shut down for over a day and cancelled my Christmas travel plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurfalien Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Well, I have you all beat. "The great Freeze" in Cali were we saw 1-2" of snow in Malibu Canyon. Was crazy. But I do recall our patio plants turning black from frost and our citrus crop just about killed off that year, was '05 I think. In all seriousness, I feel for you guys, I really do. Simply think warm thoughts is all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Hey, don't feel sorry for us! That "Great Blizzard of '67" is one of the highlights of my childhood! I was just a little kid, had just turned ten, but I remember that schools were closed for days afterwards! We had a blast playing in all that snow. A little vacation from school courtesy of Mother Nature. Woo hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The epic storm from my childhood was the Great Blizzard of '78..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978 It wreaked havoc on Ohio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I Made a bunch of money shoveling snow from the blizzard of 79 in Chicago..I was 2 in 67... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyjim Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The Chicago snow of '67 was a great time. I walked several miles from home in south Berwyn to my job at the Jewel in Oak Park. There weren't 24 hour stores then so those of us who showed up slept on the check out counters. There was plenty of food in the store and an oven. The highlight came when a bread truck got stuck in the snow several blocks from the store. A few of us borrowed some sleds and went to rescue the bread. We sold just about everything before we got back to the store. All cash and no change. We had to give the money to the store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Ed Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The Chicago snow of '67 was a great time. I walked several miles from home in south Berwyn to my job at the Jewel in Oak Park. There weren't 24 hour stores then so those of us who showed up slept on the check out counters. There was plenty of food in the store and an oven. The highlight came when a bread truck got stuck in the snow several blocks from the store. A few of us borrowed some sleds and went to rescue the bread. We sold just about everything before we got back to the store. All cash and no change. We had to give the money to the store. I'm going to guess that soon as you could you made change for the Bread that was bought you did, it was sold at fair market price and gave the Owner(s) what they were owed. Wow, Honesty, Respect and Hard Work. Boy the world was sure screwed up back then huh?.................................................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyjim Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 We didn't have change, Ed. People along the way back to the store were happy to just run out of their warm houses and pay. We never planned to sell any bread, just get it back to the store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High octane Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 We also had a "snow day" that pretty much shut down Chicago... back in January 1967. Except that we didn't get two inches... we got 23 inches. Yep, just about TWO FEET of snow fell that day and overnight. The city was literally shut down. This is Lake Shore Drive a day or two after... I remember that snowfall well Harry, very well. Lucky enough to get my car home and leave it there. I hitch hiked it to work the next day, and maybe took the bus the next few days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent G Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 All that 1967 weather came right down the Mississippi River valley and dumped about 13 inches on St Louis as well. St Louis blizzard of '82 gave us 26 inches in 8 hours. Now that screwed up traffic!The absolute best was the Las Vegas blizzard of '08.8 inches of heavy wet snow fell by my house. Folks completely panicked and abandoned their cars here as well. This a high desert so it does snow, but......out here we have an entire segment of the population that has never seen snow in their lives outside photos. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Ah, your all a bunch of wimps. Complaining about a little snow. Got to be tough (or is that stupid?) like us up here in the ice box of the lower 48. (Where again is that gun?) ? Edited January 17, 2016 by unclescott58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Ah, your all a bunch of wimps. Complaining about a little snow. Got to be tough (or is that stupid?)Speaking of wimps, the "epic" Atlanta SnowJam of '82 also brought the city to a halt. We only got about 6", but it started shortly before evening rush hour (with virtually no warning) and by the time the traffic peaked, it was too slick for most non chain-or-stud-equipped vehicles. I had a sports-car shop downtown, close to Ga. Tech, and a main 4-lane road out of downtown was out back. By dark, it was a parking lot. We made coffee, filled a thermos, and started walking down and giving it out in styro cups to stranded drivers, then stayed open all that night with the pot still on, giving it to police and the occasional straggler who walked by. Hot sake, too.By dawn, most everyone had gone...but the cars were all where they'd been left. Most drivers had actually managed to get their cars far enough to the side to leave one lane open. I had studded tires in stock, and put a pair on the back of my Triumph GT-6, then went out driving for a couple of hours. Ghost town. Lotsa fun to be one of the very VERY few mobile people in a situation like that.The storm of 2014 started shortly after morning rush-hour, and by 10:00 AM it was starting to get really slick. The problem was different this time. The roads were already so cold that cars passing would melt the snow, but it would almost immediately re-freeze into a sheet of ice. Again, no chains or studded tires, even though the weather forecasters had warned of the coming storm. Nobody took it seriously, they all went to work, and around noonish they ALL tried to get home at once.With the roads frozen with a 1/4" thick cap of solid ice, without chains or studs, you simply couldn't move...not even 4-WD vehicles. I realized that day that Atlanta had a lot more hills than I'd ever been aware of, as thousands of vehicles came to a spinning-sliding halt while trying to make it to the tops of even the shallowest of them. I got stuck behind a line of cars in front of the Big Chicken, all trying to make it up the hill on Hwy. 41. I didn't have studs or chains...just M&S tires on the back of my truck, but I was able to get it off the main drag, off-roading over the median, and get to back-streets that were still mostly snow, then finally a car-lot where I parked it out of the way....and walked home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Back around 1981 I was riding home from work in a van pool. We had a extended length Dodge van and an average of 10 people. One evening it took us EIGHT hours to get down the Garden State Parkway (NJ), usually an hour drive. We were just sitting still on the road most of the time and were playing cards, driver and all. Occasionally we'd change drivers, without having to pull over. We finally got down to the Park and Ride lot and were waved away by police. The cars in the lot were up to their windows in snow and no plow had gone there, so we then had to drive everyone home! That took another two hours.Then in 1991 we had a Northeaster that dumped a few feet of snow on NJ. Work was closed for a few days, but the facility manager didn't leave the plant for three days, sleeping on a couch in the building. They had to shovel off all the flat roofs so they wouldn't collapse, and truck snow off the property because there was no where to put it. The following year I got the job as Facility Manager. I bought the Geo Tracker 4x4 so I could get there in bad weather, and prepared for the worse! Wouldn't ya know... it never snowed once during my stint as site manager! Not once! BUT, I inherited the department budget and I was over budget for the entire year in April due to the snow removal costs from that storm. And it was a running joke all year that I was the guy who was screwing the overall budget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 We also had a "snow day" that pretty much shut down Chicago... back in January 1967. Except that we didn't get two inches... we got 23 inches. Yep, just about TWO FEET of snow fell that day and overnight. The city was literally shut down. This is Lake Shore Drive a day or two after... Man do I remember that. I was living back there then. One of our cars were out in the drive beside the house and the snow drifted so bad all I could see of the car was a couple of inches of the antenna ! Long gravel driveway. Two days to dig out ! That was a day to remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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