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FaerieKnight79 said:
Haven't seen snowfalls that bad since the mid 90's or so.
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Thing is? It wasn't all at once, that happened over a period of about two or three weeks where you got a few inches every day. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but when you got four inches daily, no warm weather, and the like... it builds up.

Now, if you want a lot, White Juan was one with over three feet of snow in less than twelve hours dumped. And it isn't uncommon for us to get over fifteen inches every couple of years dumped on us. And this being the wet, heavy snow at that.
 
Again, not seen snowfalls that bad since the mid 90's. Hell, snow sticking around longer then a day or two has become kind of unusual in the last ten years.
 
Harry Leferts said:
*Has flashbacks to a few years ago*
*Stares off into the distance*
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That looks like 2010's snowfall out here. We had a little over 40", coupled with the 40-50 mph winds. We had to have the county come out with a big wheel loader to clear our road so we could bury my father. I might have a picture someplace.

The joke was was that you had people out here going "OMGWTFBBQ!!!" over a measly half inch while friends of mine out east were virtually looking at some of the people out here going "What Are You On, dude?"

A larger concern for me are the cattlemen moving cattle between pastures who are: 1) Drunk or intoxicated and weaving down the road, 2) Forgetting that they are driving on a two lane blacktop road, 3) Chatting on their phone while driving or worse, texting, or 4) Any combination of the above. I would've added getting blown about by the wind,but the wind was very light (< 5mph) on Friday evening.
 
Apparently down in Louisiana people panic and entirely forget how to drive any time it snows... Even if the snow never actually reaches the ground. Meanwhile I'll be out with my coat open and wearing a somewhat thin tee shirt when it's -10 degrees below zero, maybe with a hat on.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Apparently down in Louisiana people panic and entirely forget how to drive any time it snows... Even if the snow never actually reaches the ground. Meanwhile I'll be out with my coat open and wearing a somewhat thin tee shirt when it's -10 degrees below zero, maybe with a hat on.
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We get that here in Arizona with people forgetting how to drive except its rain, because we don't get the white fluffy stuff. Everyone's forgets how to drive on wet streets after a month or so here - or so it seems. I've lived in areas where that white stuff comes down, or freezing rain where you chip the ice off your car door just to get the key in. Instead here keeping an oven mitt in your car to handle the steering wheel in summer is simply a good idea.
 
Minnesotan here. We had a massive blizzard that lasted a whole day, and when we finally managed to excavate our driveway, it was like a miniature valley of snow was on either side.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Apparently down in Louisiana people panic and entirely forget how to drive any time it snows... Even if the snow never actually reaches the ground. Meanwhile I'll be out with my coat open and wearing a somewhat thin tee shirt when it's -10 degrees below zero, maybe with a hat on.
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Can confirm. Snow in the air is bad enough - snow sticking to the ground just shuts us down. Snow accumulating, as it did in 2018 to the tune of two, maybe three inches, just freaks us the fuck out. As far as we're concerned, THAT was Snowmageddon.
 
Tara Li said:
Can confirm. Snow in the air is bad enough - snow sticking to the ground just shuts us down. Snow accumulating, as it did in 2018 to the tune of two, maybe three inches, just freaks us the fuck out. As far as we're concerned, THAT was Snowmageddon.
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Poor babies. I remember a single snowstorm covering everything in snow up to the windows back in the 80's in Davenport Iowa. Me and my sister had to climb out the windows and, armed with buckets, dig out the front door so Mom could get outside with a shovel and clear the walkway to the sidewalk. Then dig out the car, which was buried under twice THAT amount of snow after the snow plows further buried the already buried cars. School got canceled that day, as I recall. And many businesses ended up having to shut down for the day too.

Or when around 1995 I ended up walking home from school in a blizzard. Only for the weather report on the local radio station to be "Currently bright and sunny, not a cloud in the sky." The radio station was located in downtown Dubuque, which was currently in the middle of a blizzard.
 
We've probably got around four inches of the precipitated crystalline dihydrogen monoxide in my part of the Mitten, basically none of it on the roads because those were a touch too warm still while the stuff was falling.
 
Texan here. Around here, all the equipment y'all know gets used with snow(snowblower, snow plow, truck to spread salt) is considered unnecessary 364/365 of the year. As a result, when they are needed, everything tends to shut down.
 
If ever I needed proof that Global Warming is a thing, I just have to look around and take note of how mild winters have become since 2000.

Jormuungaand said:
3.5) Where the heck is the road under this stuff?
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That's when you (try to) drive using the Braille method. AKA "if you hear a rumble, you've strayed too far in that direction, hope there are no ditches."
 
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To now "barely snows at all, and it tends to all melt within days".

Hell, in the middle of Janary 2000 my mom was outside wearing tee shirt and shorts cause it was in the upper 70's temp wise and weeding her garden. This was in Iowa.
 
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Kinsfire said:
Jacen1 - I admit that I now wonder where you are, because I not only grew up in the Finger Lakes area, but also went to school at SUNY Oswego. First place I ever regularly experienced thunder-s**ws. (Didn't want to use the 'S' word again on you. *grin* Or if you want to make it sound upper-class, make it faux French Sneaux.)
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All I'll say is that your old school is in the same county as my home.
 
Tara Li said:
Can confirm. Snow in the air is bad enough - snow sticking to the ground just shuts us down. Snow accumulating, as it did in 2018 to the tune of two, maybe three inches, just freaks us the fuck out. As far as we're concerned, THAT was Snowmageddon.
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Delaware has a similar phenomenon - my in-laws usually do an NYE party and we attended in years past, and just the presence of flakes in the sky was enough to cause drivers ahead of us to slow riiiiiiiight down to less than half the posted limit. It was the most awful snow-driving experience I've ever had, and I once had my car fishtail off the road. That, at least, had the mercy of being brief and then done with!
 
As my sister once put it, a single snowflake being spotted in the air sent drivers in Louisiana into a blind panic, and caused them to entirely forget how to drive. Didn't matter if the snow was even reaching the windshields of the cars, let alone the ground. This in turn meant people would end up in ditches and wrapping their cars around various objects because, again, they entirely forgot how to drive upon seeing a snowflake.

Then again, my sister got a job as a store manager on the strength of spell-checking the job application and "You can READ?!"
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Or when around 1995 I ended up walking home from school in a blizzard. Only for the weather report on the local radio station to be "Currently bright and sunny, not a cloud in the sky." The radio station was located in downtown Dubuque, which was currently in the middle of a blizzard.
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This is what happens when they can't get personnel to the radio station and they stuff in a tape from some other date. Stale info about weather does not a good broadcast make.
 
Assembler Maniac said:
This is what happens when they can't get personnel to the radio station and they stuff in a tape from some other date. Stale info about weather does not a good broadcast make.
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Except the weather forecast was done live. A couple of hours later, that particular DJ commented that someone had looked out the window during the weather report, and began banging their head into a wall.
 
Nowadays, I can only see a proper snowing when I visit my siblings, who live in Missouri and Illinois. I'm in the Navy, and haven't been stationed in a 'snow zone' since leaving Boot Camp, and often underway during winter. That said, we have been getting a good amount of rain recently here in California.
 
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