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Sanrith Descartes
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Coming home from dinner last night and the snow started dropping on Long Island. Mind you it was about 39 degrees so it wasnt sticking, but it was some seriously heavy shit. Wind was absolutely whipping and driving the snow sideways like in some movie.
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Lived in Point Lookout year round for 3 years as a bus-stop waiting kid. Some days that wind would come in horizontal and the "mist" was ice blast. I still have a frozen forehead.
Time has not been kind to the beaches of Pt. Lookout.
Time has not been kind to the beaches of Pt. Lookout.
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Cybsled
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With freezing rain or the like, you can at least just try to avoid driving if possible for a while and it will get resolved
Getting feet of snow sucks because unless you live somewhere that handles the cleanup, your ass is going to be stuck outside for hours clearing that crap
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Sanrith Descartes
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I have a fire station three blocks down the road from me. Guess who gets the plows rolling down their street before the snow stops?
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I remember being in Minneapolis during a bad blizzard and other than main streets nothing was cleared. On the street I was on the were dozens of residents, including me, hand shoveling the road. It was kind of awesome. That was almost 40 years ago, it's hard to imagine that would happen today
Mahes
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If we actually got real snow in the South those would be at the locale hardware store.
Sanrith Descartes
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Happens today. If you arent on a main or secondary road you can wait days/week to get plowed on like a cul de sac here. Its why lots of folks have a light plow or know someone with one.
Malakriss
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During one of the bad DC-area storms a decade ago we only had our main road plowed halfway through the storm, none of the courts. There was a good chance it would freeze solid and we'd all be stuck for a couple weeks so my brother and I shoveled a one lane path from our driveway to connect up. Then the house opposite us did their side so they could also get out. Everyone further down clued in that we wouldn't get another plow and shoveled/snowblowered their part of the road all the way down. Other courts were not so smart and the freeze happened, sucked to be them.
County got bitched at from all over so plow service started to improve since that year and we never had to repeat the feat. Didn't start as a communal thing but we got the ball rolling with the first leg.
County got bitched at from all over so plow service started to improve since that year and we never had to repeat the feat. Didn't start as a communal thing but we got the ball rolling with the first leg.
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Zapatta
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I saw it go last time. I will probably try and get a ticket and go check it out this time.
Nothing ties together mommy nature, half understood science, geology and astronomy like seeing an active volcano piping up liquid magma thru a skinny chimney from below the ocean floor. We should throw Biden in it as an offering to Pele.
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We had a solid 5 feet in Cleveland one storm, about 10 years or so ago. Drifts were eating cars and you know, there are ZERO trucks out, on any street. They finally got the trucks rolling down my north south main road (W. 25th) by morning. Side residential streets locked in for at least 2 more days or so.
I remember people just going out and making sure the trapped cars didn't have people in them (the BIG snow happened fast. You went out the wrong time to the bodega? Yer stuck now.).
Some people who did not understand Our Ways and were stuck on 25th, asked if we could help dig them out. Yeah. We'll be right back with our shovels.
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Woah. Big cold just roared through NW PA. Temps were just above 50 when I woke up. Pressure drop, now the cold air is seeping into the region. Foothills territory these days I am. Allegheny Nat. Forest an hour away to the east. Bigger ridges and valleys. Lake Erie air masses collide into the great mountains. And Canada says, "Hi!" to NW PA.
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