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Fogel
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Lanx
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I had complete cell/internet outage since yesterday from verizon. Had to sign up for xfinity wifi for 10$, just to have basic 50mbps to wfh, heh
Yea super icey, i drove out and saw so many dips from ppl creating puddles and spinning out
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I think they draw out of a hat for the weather, multiple times a day. Earlier it was forecst 50 for a high. It barely broke freezing. Then later the foecast overnight was 25, now it says 10. The forecast for tomorrow high is 54 hich I'm guessing it will top out at around 30 or less now.
rhinohelix
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We've had that over the years with the various floods and hurricanes. It's like carnies that follow storms, doing roofs and cleaning up trees/limbs etc. Some are OK and the others grifters following the money and looking for elderly and others to make them marks. We've got three or four tree folks on speed dial, though.
This is your once every 3-4 year burst of Winter™. You'll get a sticker in the mail and then you should be good until Canada gets full again. I agree much prefer heat to cold. I was never bothered at football practice 95 degree/90% humidity where the practice field was covered in rice hulls and they drained a swamp to build the high school a few miles from the Sabine River. You start talking about temps in the 20s I start wishing there was more places in Texas further south and west of what I have always called the Green Line, that separates green East Texas from brown West Texas.
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Haus
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Yeah, in Dallas it looks like we're in the "warm enough to start melting shit during they day, back into the 20's at night to refreeze it" cycle until the weekend if I am to believe "big weather".
My team where I work had planned our first in person meeting in three months for this week. I was going to drive down from Dallas to San Antonio for it Monday, but noped out. Figured I'd wait and see about today. Today the cameras on the highways looked clear enough to try to make it. I get 30 minutes south of Dallas and my boss calls me "Over half the team had their flights cancelled on them, you don't need to drive down if you don't want to, I'll shoot you a zoom link for things".
I was rustled for the 2-3 minutes it took me to get to an overpass I could use to turn around, but within an hour I was back home and in a robe...
Overall it wasn't that bad. Most areas on 35 were running n-1 lanes once outside town, and inside town all lanes were essentially clear for use.
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Sheriff Cad
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I'm supposed to go to Marshall Friday. I'm thinking thats probably not gonna happen.
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Cybsled
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If it is actually 2 inches of solid ice, you're not getting that cleared easily. Ice chipper would take forever - better off getting some ice melt product to thin it down, then it's easier to get rid of with a chipper
Either than or toss down a shitload of sand to give it some traction, but then that stuff gets tracked into your house when people step in it and you're stuck with cleaning up the sand once the ice goes away lol
Either than or toss down a shitload of sand to give it some traction, but then that stuff gets tracked into your house when people step in it and you're stuck with cleaning up the sand once the ice goes away lol
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The salt (CaCl2 + MgCl2) works great but unless your city is using it on the roads and it's unavoidable, I think I would rather deal with the sand (to avoid getting salt on vehicles). Salt the walk areas and sand the drive areas. Mud rooms and entryways are built in houses for a reason; take off your shoes at the door.
We got sleet that turned into snow, so the local access roads and driveways kept enough traction to drive on, luckily. The whole greater DFW metroplex should get above freezing by noon today and stay above freezing until early Friday morning (~2am), with a high in the 50s. Meaning it should all be gone soon.
We got sleet that turned into snow, so the local access roads and driveways kept enough traction to drive on, luckily. The whole greater DFW metroplex should get above freezing by noon today and stay above freezing until early Friday morning (~2am), with a high in the 50s. Meaning it should all be gone soon.