I heard a few places are getting two feet of snow or more

It's coming down nonstop (sometimes turning to rain so the snow can turn to slush then freeze) but the town's doing such a good job at maintaining the roads that it doesn't really matter. The snow banks are getting ridiculously huge (much taller than I).

It's days like this that remind me how spoiled my community is.

I do admit that things can get a little unnerving at times when the roads get slippery - I came close to getting in an accident yesterday when the car behind me was unable to stop at a stop sign (he could dodge even though he couldn't stop/slow down so I wasn't hit or forced into traffic). Also, stopping my car at the bottom of a hill for a red light sometimes feels like I'm waiting to get hit form behind during the more brutal days.

edit2: Only a little less than couple feet expected for today/yesterday so nothing too off the chart's right now.

edit3: I wish there was a way to reach my roof to clear it

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 02-02-2011 at 12:31 PM.

What's been pushing the storm out east is also pushing the wind our way as well...

For me, it's not so much, "Snow covering your door so you can't get it open" snowed in, as it is, "surrounded on all sides by steep, curved hills that are much too treacherous to attempt while driving an oldsmobile" snowed in.

It rained at first, then turned to freezing rain, and then snow. And then it hasn't gotten up above 20 degrees, and the sun hasn't really come out. So layer of ice under layer of snow in a place where we can go years without snowfall.

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We've been snowed in for going on 3 days here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas.

For me, it's not so much, "Snow covering your door so you can't get it open" snowed in, as it is, "surrounded on all sides by steep, curved hills that are much too treacherous to attempt while driving an oldsmobile" snowed in.

It rained at first, then turned to freezing rain, and then snow. And then it hasn't gotten up above 20 degrees, and the sun hasn't really come out. So layer of ice under layer of snow in a place where we can go years without snowfall.

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That sucks.

Statistically we may have it worse but we are used to it we have the equipment on standby to deal with stuff like this. Our drivers - while the worst in the country during normal conditions - understand how to drive on snow and ice.

This shit isn't normal for you guys. You don't have the equipment or and driving in/on this stuff isn't second nature.

So.... when I say "that sucks" I'm not being sarcastic.

edit: HOWEVER - if the snow here isn't preventing us from using our gas grills you guys shouldn't let it stop you from BBQing.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 02-03-2011 at 06:15 AM.

It is, however, so cold that I have gone from man to woman and then to some sexless being entirely. I found others like myself and we built a utopia free of discrimination, bound together by our mutual fear of the cold. We have come to call ourselves the Unspoken, as our voices tend to be abnormally high-pitched. Join us.

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There was much rejoicing when Mr. Parcelan said this:
No snow yet. It's too cold for it up here in the mountains.

It is, however, so cold that I have gone from man to woman and then to some sexless being entirely. I found others like myself and we built a utopia free of discrimination, bound together by our mutual fear of the cold. We have come to call ourselves the Unspoken, as our voices tend to be abnormally high-pitched. Join us.

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2051/does-it-ever-get-too-cold-to-snow

How cold is it up there exactly?

It was cold enough for my oil tank to freeze up here a couple weeks ago and that's cold enough for me. Had to run of diesel.