snow in the south

[anthony_marquart]

OMG,.. you would think we are preparing for nuclear fall out here..

1-3 in in Charlotte today.. people are locking there kids inside,.. raiding the store shelves..

 

[Samuel Hagan JR]

They gotta get bread and milk. Lol. That's normal for my area. 1/2" of snow and the food stores are emptied.

 

[Robert Pickard]

Dang it was 83 here yesterday and 82 today have fun with that white stuff

 

[anthony_marquart]

Ill be running boats on Sat,.. mid 60's

 

[moparbarn]

no boats here, almost 4" of ice on my pond. & i'm south of the mason-dixon line. this has been both the coldest & longest lasting cold spell since i moved up here in 2001.

 

[anthony_marquart]

holly cow,.. that's alot of ice man.. I have thought about one of those ski blade / tricycle / sailplane things for running on the ice. They can actually really fast.. like an RC sailboat on razor blades..

 

[moparbarn]

i don't think i've ever had much more than an inch before this.......yeah, ice boats haul butt!! i still vaguely remember the only full scale ice boat ride i ever took. early 50's on canidagua (sp?) lake in new york, our next door neighbors in rochester had a lake house there. their boat was more of an ice yacht. it had a windshield, & seated 3. 2 in front & the driver behind. to a very little boy, it seemed like we were going 100 mph+

 

[Ray Sametz]

20 min from me, first time in years on the Naversink river in Red Bank.......==={}

 

[anthony_marquart]

Snow here. It is true here that an inch is worse then other places. No real service on the road.

 

[Andy Greene]

 

[RodneyPierce]

It always cracks me up seeing the south get snow. Get an inch and it closes down entire cities. Makes me chuckle coming from the midwest.

 

[anthony_marquart]

me too,.. but I understand more now.. There are no plows or salt trucks.. 1 inch packs down to 1/4 solid ice on the road,.. and it stays there!! it was pretty slick on the roads..

 

[RodneyPierce]

Even with plows or salt trucks (which they usually dont use on the neighborhood streets BTW, although they do spread sand) there is till much snow left on the streets. I guess me growing up in Iowa my entire life has me "conditioned"

 

[moparbarn]

i was born in rochester, n.y., so i have a little "conditioning" too, rodney

. even salt on the roads has a minimum temp that it will work at. it's main purpose is to melt through the ice & create a layer of water between the ice & the road. that way it's bond to the surface is broken & the plows can remove it.

 

[Ronald van Essen]

Great picture........

 

[JoeWScott]

188" of snow so far. 12" of ice on my favorite lake! And there's a good possibility that Lake Michigan will freeze out to the Manitou Islands this winter.....

 

[glenng]

Ski resort owners would have killed for 188" in the sierras this year

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After some years of "conditioning" as Robin puts it, driving in snow is not bad. Being ready for the white stuff is a must. When I was in N. UT. I'd chuck my old tires when the tread depth got below 50% . I would not buy a new 4WD truck without a locking diff. in the back. I would never run my truck with less than a half tank of gas in the winter. I always kept a small tarp and a 60 ft. tow strap behind the seats for those that thought they knew how to drive in the snow.

On a funny note: my driveway sloped downhill at a pretty good angle. Nobody was allowed to park on the streets in the winter. One day when I got home from work there was about of 5" of fresh snow in the driveway and the back of my truck bed. I backed into the driveway opened the garage door and. set the E-brake and shifted into Park. I lowered the tailgate went and got a stiff broom and started sweeping out the back of the truck bed. Just about the time I got behind the truck to sweep the white junk off the tailgate here comes a full size Silverado sliding down the driveway chasing me into the garage

. It stopped about 6" away from the gearbox/headstock of my engine lathe and about a foot from me.