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Snow Day! I am off work, and so is Daniel! Yippie Skippie!

Anyone else out for the snow? Rick?

I know, I know, Chicago...............80 feet of snow............blah, blah, blah! But this is the South...........we don't get snow very often, and yes we shut down if it gets over 1 inch on the road! Snicker......................

This is the most we've had in years, and apparently it's going to start again this week. Today it's not holding us up here, though. White on the ground but the streets are just wet. Enjoy your snow day!

you guys over in arkansas? just looked outside here in memphis and nothing but rain here.

Yes, we're supposed to get some Wednesday. I've seen enough snow already. It was record cold here, and it's supposed to get back down to 12 degrees. The other day I was driving home from work and had to stop at the convenience store, where I pulled in, got out, went in and got what I needed, came back out to the car and as I went to grab for the door handle, it started sliding down the parking lot. I had parked on a patch of "black ice", and I couldn't believe my eyes. This man and woman were getting in their car a couple of parking spaces over, and they ran over and helped me get it stopped. I was just stunned.

No snow here but it will be in the low 30's tonight.lolol

Babyblue wrote:No snow here but it will be in the low 30's tonight.lolol

crank up the heat

Rick wrote:Yes, we're supposed to get some Wednesday. I've seen enough snow already. It was record cold here, and it's supposed to get back down to 12 degrees. The other day I was driving home from work and had to stop at the convenience store, where I pulled in, got out, went in and got what I needed, came back out to the car and as I went to grab for the door handle, it started sliding down the parking lot. I had parked on a patch of "black ice", and I couldn't believe my eyes. This man and woman were getting in their car a couple of parking spaces over, and they ran over and helped me get it stopped. I was just stunned.

Last year we had freezing temps overnight and some genius business didn't turn their sprinklers they had on a timer off. I was on a little access road near my daughter's school, so no traffic at the time, luckily. I have been in Florida for 20 years, and never once had a patch of ice to worry about. It never even occurred to me that could happen. I hit that ice and there was no stopping at the stop sign. I was stunned too! I wasn't even sure what was happening for a split section! I forgot how to even stop on ice! Luckily it wasn't a huge patch so I was able to stop when I hit the dry pavement.

Unbelievable that Dallas has such low temps like that! It has to be a shock to feel temps like that for you guys!

StevePerryHair wrote:

Rick wrote:Yes, we're supposed to get some Wednesday. I've seen enough snow already. It was record cold here, and it's supposed to get back down to 12 degrees. The other day I was driving home from work and had to stop at the convenience store, where I pulled in, got out, went in and got what I needed, came back out to the car and as I went to grab for the door handle, it started sliding down the parking lot. I had parked on a patch of "black ice", and I couldn't believe my eyes. This man and woman were getting in their car a couple of parking spaces over, and they ran over and helped me get it stopped. I was just stunned.

Last year we had freezing temps overnight and some genius business didn't turn their sprinklers they had on a timer off. I was on a little access road near my daughter's school, so no traffic at the time, luckily. I have been in Florida for 20 years, and never once had a patch of ice to worry about. It never even occurred to me that could happen. I hit that ice and there was no stopping at the stop sign. I was stunned too! I wasn't even sure what was happening for a split section! I forgot how to even stop on ice! Luckily it wasn't a huge patch so I was able to stop when I hit the dry pavement.

Yeah, that's how we stop here too, just skid into the curbs to stop, no brakes needed in the winter. Don't even get me started on pulling out of the garage and trying to drive down the back alley. With all the snow and chinooks we've been having, all the snow is freezing then melting then freezing then melting. It's like a wicked rollercoaster ride just trying to drive 10 houses down the alley.

You guys are all wimps I tell ya, wimps!

Tomorrow Feb. 9, more snow predicted. Anywhere from 2-5 inches in our area.

We have a water tower right by our school, and on our day after the snow day we went back to school. The water tower leaked and the next day............two trees below it were covered with 3 inches of ice all over!

No snow on the ground but ice all over the ground around the tower and it sprayed all over the road so one guy hit the ice at 5:30 am and flipped upside down into a ditch! Now mind you, no snow anywhere.............and this guy hits a patch of ice from a water tower!

Thank goodness for him our ROTC teacher comes to work early in the morning, and he finds this man soaking wet and near hypothermia! There is nothing for a good mile or so from the school. So when I arrived at work, they were pulling his car out of the ditch and sanding the road for ice.

Deb wrote:

StevePerryHair wrote:

Rick wrote:Yes, we're supposed to get some Wednesday. I've seen enough . It was record cold here, and it's supposed to get back down to 12 degrees. The other day I was driving home from work and had to stop at the convenience store, where I pulled in, got out, went in and got what I needed, came back out to the car and as I went to grab for the door handle, it started sliding down the parking lot. I had parked on a patch of "black ice", and I couldn't believe my eyes. This man and woman were getting in their car a couple of parking spaces over, and they ran over and helped me get it stopped. I was just stunned.

Last year we had freezing temps overnight and some genius business didn't turn their sprinklers they had on a timer off. I was on a little access road near my daughter's school, so no traffic at the time, luckily. I have been in Florida for 20 years, and never once had a patch of ice to worry about. It never even occurred to me that could happen. I hit that ice and there was no stopping at the stop sign. I was stunned too! I wasn't even sure what was happening for a split section! I forgot how to even stop on ice! Luckily it wasn't a huge patch so I was able to stop when I hit the dry pavement.

Yeah, that's how we stop here too, just skid into the curbs to stop, no brakes needed in the winter. Don't even get me started on pulling out of the garage and trying to drive down the back alley. With all the snow and chinooks we've been having, all the snow is freezing then melting then freezing then melting. It's like a wicked rollercoaster ride just trying to drive 10 houses down the alley.
You guys are all wimps I tell ya, wimps!

I have driven in snow Deb! Actully in blizzard conditions where you can't see anything but the tracks on the road But it's been so many years!! Plus, add to that I never expected to hit a patch of ice in Florida!! I expect that in snowy conditions! I've been in a car a couple of times ending up doing a donut in an intersection! No fun!

We don't get a huge amt of snow in Minneapolis (usual - 55 inches). We've had 63 so far this winter but the problem is that it never gets warm enough to melt. So the stuff that fell in November is still on the ground! Minus 9 right now, supposed to get to 5 above today.