Got 35.5 inches of snow overnight !

hardcorejesse22 · 02-06-2010

State of Emergency has been called for my area. All the highways (including the turnpike and interstates) and shut down. Lots of people stranded in their cars along highways (some for nearly 20 hours), they called in the military to help "save" stranded people. Most people are out of power. It took me and 2 other people 4 hours today to shovel one driveway. That's how much snow there is. It went from being no snow and completely grassy yesterday to nearly 3 feet, all in one night. The local weather was only predicting around a foot last night so it was quite a surprise for everybody when they woke up. So yeah, it's pretty much chaos around here. Traffic wrecks everywhere, a charter bus collided head first with a car (no word on whether or not the guy in the car survived) literally 50 feet from my house (pic below). and another pic is below of me trying to clear out my grandmas driveway although the picture doesn't really do justice to how much snow there is... I love winter!

Yoduh · 02-06-2010

Yeah, that's why I live in Florida now.

In Conn, they never let me shovel my driveway with a flamethrower.

Cyclontzy · 02-06-2010

Xdohl · 02-06-2010

They canceled various activities in my town for today, and everyone was freaking out, stocking up on food.

Not a single flake.

hardcorejesse22 · 02-06-2010

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Originally Posted by Xdohl

They canceled various activities in my town for today, and everyone was freaking out, stocking up on food.

Not a single flake.

yeah like 30 miles north from my town they only got like an inch. weird haha

onedef1 · 02-07-2010

wtf was the problem with that accident... the roads are still visible.... damned ppl just overreact the minute something unusual hits the road.. idiots. ugh... if you dont know how to drive in THAT, stay the hell home... geez.... what a moron, whomever caused it. and dont blame the weather... thats NOTHING. lol I go jogging in that....

Cyclontzy · 02-07-2010

people have lost the ability to drive, I'm from chicago, bad weather is the norm and I drive a two door caviler that thing is like a sled in the winter..everyone should start driving on my car and they'd be perfect drivers rofl..

boneybone · 02-07-2010

I don't know the exact date but a couple of years ago, or more, I was walking to my car in the morning, it was a weather like that in the pictures but add more ice, anyway, I slipped and fall head on to the ground because my hands were in my pockets.

Dented the front driver-side door with my head on the way down. It was a really cool looking, perfect bowl shaped dent. Heh...

I always make that 'hands in pockets' mistake in snow and constantly head-butting the ground.

Thank God it's thick as a brick.

I had a point, a good one about driving, bad weather, when I first started typing this post but I can't remember what it was right now...

icthus · 02-07-2010

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Originally Posted by onedef1

wtf was the problem with that accident... the roads are still visible.... damned ppl just overreact the minute something unusual hits the road.. idiots. ugh... if you dont know how to drive in THAT, stay the hell home... geez.... what a moron, whomever caused it. and dont blame the weather... thats NOTHING. lol I go jogging in that....

Even some of us Okies can and love to drive in that stuff! Nothing like passing people that think they are already spinning out.

kinopah · 02-08-2010

the issue here (in nc) is that people confuse ice and snow. we almost never get more than 6 inches of snow, on which there's really no excuse to drive poorly. i'm always amazed, however by the tendency of people (northern transplants included) to try to drive on a half-inch of ice, which we get 4 or 5 times each winter. i think those days must account for half of our single-car accidents for the year.

anyway, that looks like a lot of snow, jesse.

icthus · 02-08-2010

WE just got 2" in the last 30 minutes!

onedef1 · 02-08-2010

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Originally Posted by icthus

Even some of us Okies can and love to drive in that stuff! Nothing like passing people that think they are already spinning out.

Actually I thought OK got a good amount of snow, granted it would be mostly blowing snow....and windy as all get out.... I thought you got more than you sound like you do...

Even so, though, if you spin out on the snow in OK, chances are good you wont hit anything...

Bahahahahahah!

icthus · 02-09-2010

Week or so ago we got 6" but at Christmas we got 14''. Most Oklahoman's don't know what to do with icy/snowy roads. I40 (main interstate through central Oklahoma) was completely covered and people were driving about 20mph. I was scaring the hell out of my wife at 60mph passing everyone.

Good times.

Oh and we still have concrete barricades to run into! lol

onedef1 · 02-09-2010

Well, YEAH... pass everyone, if you have the skill....We've got so many out of state transplants here whom are terrified of anything on the roads... rain included...sheesh...and they go SO slow. I blame these drivers for the majority of snow related accidents.

Bumper Car theory... if everyone is going 20 on an icy road and crash, they get all tangled up.... but if one is going 60, those going 20 will be cleared off the road quickly. Its much more effective.

Off topic, I blame cops for the majority of non snow related accidents... if theres a cop on the OTHER side of an 8 lane divided superhighway who has pulled someone over, WHY are you slamming on your brakes?!?! he's BUSY.... and even then, if you've got the balls to speed, then SPEED, dammit. you're so brave speeding until you see the cop car!

Moreover, I think all vehicles should be equipped with a sensor that will make the car turn instantaneously if you leave your @#$% blinker on for more than 1 minute.

icthus · 02-09-2010

I agree with everything but the language.

onedef1 · 02-09-2010

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icthus · 02-09-2010

jockeys · 02-11-2010

heh, we just got about 5-6" here in Texas... hell just froze

Yo-am · 02-13-2010

hah. yeah, im in Texas 2 and those 5-6 inches got the schools closed.
we're kinda unprepared for snow. Tornadoes are no big deal, but when ice falls from the sky, something wrong. lol

mOonman vic · 02-13-2010

yeah the snow shut down a lot of things here in atlanTa we got like 6 inches yesterday.

that's the most snow i've seen since i was in another state.