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Of course he doesn't, he spent two days and 6 pages worth of posts trolling himself.
Which is about par for the course for him.
Death Storm, Jan 2026
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Which is about par for the course for him.
StllH8L8ner
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I was there this past weekend watching a blizzard come and go from the inside of the Chevy dealership in Washington. (Had a flat tire with a wheel lock on it. Only problem, I didn’t have the key). Couldn’t see more than 20 yards at one point…then the sun came out as I was leaving to come home.
Incidentally, we went to dinner at the steakhouse inside the Hollywood casino and it was fantastic. Only food place that was open around us that was walkable.
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The reason the South lost the civil war - they waited for their snow to melt.
CL82
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The size of the "swath" remains the same as the storm tracks further north. Instead of being in the south, though, it would be over the more populous Midlantic states. I'm not convinced that's a trade up.
Chin Diesel
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Yes on better equipped . And, damn. Now I'm feeling old. I started to type "22' but realized it's been almost 32 years since I was in Memphis in 1994 and we had a big ice storm in Jan or Feb. Shut everything down for 5 or 6 days. Place was a disaster.
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Sheesh.
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Frigid temps Saturday. Snow Sunday into Monday. Not sure I trust this one, but another Boston station is still saying widespread 12-18". I am on the edge of the red. UConn game will be fine. It's the power situation for the Patriots game I'm worried about. Imagine if that was a home game.
12-18" forcast for N NJ and N of NYC on local TV.
Just returned from local ShopRite - packed! Haven't seen a crowd like this since covid. Run on TP/AW!
ps - game Sat in Phil at noon. Should be able to get home bfore the snow flies.
Just returned from local ShopRite - packed! Haven't seen a crowd like this since covid. Run on TP/AW!
ps - game Sat in Phil at noon. Should be able to get home bfore the snow flies.
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After Saturday's game....
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3" of a ice would be among the top three worst recorded ice storms and probably drop half the trees and power lines in the area it happened. Pretty sure no region is really prepared for that, particularly if it is going to stay cold for multiple days afterwards.
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Alaska?
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HuskyHawk
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Too cold. The recipe for ice is warm enough to rain in the upper atmosphere then cold enough to freeze and then stay frozen. The ice storm in CT in the mid 70s was about as bad as it gets.
The problem with this storm is there’s another one coming after this and we aren’t expecting a warm up anytime soon. So it will be like 2015 or whatever year it was when it snowed on top of snow over and over and nothing melted.
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Dry true! We’re supposed to get 6”- 10” snow and .25 - .50” of ice. .50” equals loss of power for 3 - 4 days based on previous experiences. The cold front brings in near zero temps for most of next week.. That ain’t supposed to happen here.
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Worst winter weather related driving experience?
Since we're talking about this coming storm, driving, snow removal and lack of snow removal it got me thinking of my worst driving experiences in the snow and ice.
It was scary when a large chunk of ice came flying off the roof of a semi on the highway and smashed into my windshield but that was like 5 seconds of utter panic and then shaking after it happened and counting myself lucky. The weather was also fine with no snow on the ground where I was, just a long haul trucker who was too lazy to clean the roof of his truck.
My worst winter driving experience was in early January of 2014. I had to drive back from Georgia to Chicago and I was already a day or two behind schedule because of the winter weather but the weather on my route had cleared so it was time to go. I left early in the morning and everything was smooth sailing until I got to Indiana and the highway was coated in packed snow. It wasn't too bad and I was making okay time as it was getting dark out. Now it was fully dark and the road was getting worse but still not much to worry about...
Fast forward and everything had changed as some snow started moving in and the highway was getting a lot worse. Visibility was bad and I couldn't even see the exits, I'm driving at a snail's pace and the highway seemed like it hadn't seen a plow in days but I trekked on...
Next thing I know there's mounds/walls of snow taller than my car everywhere I look on the side of the highway as I continue on but I'll make it back to Chicago as long as I can still make out the road and drive 15 mph...that's the case until I see barriers I can barely make out and huge flashing detour highway closed signs right in front of me and a wall of snow like I've never seen before practically right up against my car.
I take the detour and I'm gripping my steering wheel driving slower than a street sweeper as I make my way through some unplowed surface roads in the middle of nowhere which feels like it will never end and finally get put on another highway and now it's wall to wall traffic....
We aren't moving and it's like this for a long time. I now realize I'm getting low on gas, not dangerously so but it's something to watch. It's getting pretty late at night, regular temp is well below zero with the wind whipping. I'm surrounded by semis some of which look they jackknifed a long time ago and were abandoned...
Fast forward and my gas is now getting really low and I'm praying for a big town/major highway exit/small city etc. anywhere I can pull off to get gas and try and get out of this situation.
It continues on like this for a long time and now it's really late at night and I'm getting incredibly nervous as my cell phone is about to run out of juice and I'm running out of gas. In the nick of time with my gas light on and cell phone dead I see a lot of lights ahead and there is a major rest stop with gas stations. I wait for a bit for a free pump as it seems like everyone else is in the same predicament as I'm in. I fill up and drive across the street to the McDonald's which is so crowded I can barely get through the door. I warm up and they give me directions to the town/small city basically telling me to follow the other cars and tell me there are hotels there and a Red Cross set up. I follow the line of traffic into town and start hitting up every hotel/motel and everything is booked and I make my way to the Red Cross which is slammed without any cots, chairs, or floor space available but it's 40 degrees below zero wind chill and I feel like a major crisis was averted. As luck would have it I gambled on trying one last hotel and they had one room left...
The next day the highways didn't open again until 1 in the afternoon and the roads were still a disaster. That 1 hour 40 minute highway drive was 3.5 hours and there were jackknifed semis everywhere some of them flipped over on their sides but I made it back to my apartment in Chicago where I was greeted with a frozen pipe that burst and water gushing like Niagara Falls into my laundry room.
That January was the coldest on record in Chicago with something like 20+ days below zero and a couple of days where the wind chill reached 50 below.
Since we're talking about this coming storm, driving, snow removal and lack of snow removal it got me thinking of my worst driving experiences in the snow and ice.
It was scary when a large chunk of ice came flying off the roof of a semi on the highway and smashed into my windshield but that was like 5 seconds of utter panic and then shaking after it happened and counting myself lucky. The weather was also fine with no snow on the ground where I was, just a long haul trucker who was too lazy to clean the roof of his truck.
My worst winter driving experience was in early January of 2014. I had to drive back from Georgia to Chicago and I was already a day or two behind schedule because of the winter weather but the weather on my route had cleared so it was time to go. I left early in the morning and everything was smooth sailing until I got to Indiana and the highway was coated in packed snow. It wasn't too bad and I was making okay time as it was getting dark out. Now it was fully dark and the road was getting worse but still not much to worry about...
Fast forward and everything had changed as some snow started moving in and the highway was getting a lot worse. Visibility was bad and I couldn't even see the exits, I'm driving at a snail's pace and the highway seemed like it hadn't seen a plow in days but I trekked on...
Next thing I know there's mounds/walls of snow taller than my car everywhere I look on the side of the highway as I continue on but I'll make it back to Chicago as long as I can still make out the road and drive 15 mph...that's the case until I see barriers I can barely make out and huge flashing detour highway closed signs right in front of me and a wall of snow like I've never seen before practically right up against my car.
I take the detour and I'm gripping my steering wheel driving slower than a street sweeper as I make my way through some unplowed surface roads in the middle of nowhere which feels like it will never end and finally get put on another highway and now it's wall to wall traffic....
We aren't moving and it's like this for a long time. I now realize I'm getting low on gas, not dangerously so but it's something to watch. It's getting pretty late at night, regular temp is well below zero with the wind whipping. I'm surrounded by semis some of which look they jackknifed a long time ago and were abandoned...
Fast forward and my gas is now getting really low and I'm praying for a big town/major highway exit/small city etc. anywhere I can pull off to get gas and try and get out of this situation.
It continues on like this for a long time and now it's really late at night and I'm getting incredibly nervous as my cell phone is about to run out of juice and I'm running out of gas. In the nick of time with my gas light on and cell phone dead I see a lot of lights ahead and there is a major rest stop with gas stations. I wait for a bit for a free pump as it seems like everyone else is in the same predicament as I'm in. I fill up and drive across the street to the McDonald's which is so crowded I can barely get through the door. I warm up and they give me directions to the town/small city basically telling me to follow the other cars and tell me there are hotels there and a Red Cross set up. I follow the line of traffic into town and start hitting up every hotel/motel and everything is booked and I make my way to the Red Cross which is slammed without any cots, chairs, or floor space available but it's 40 degrees below zero wind chill and I feel like a major crisis was averted. As luck would have it I gambled on trying one last hotel and they had one room left...
The next day the highways didn't open again until 1 in the afternoon and the roads were still a disaster. That 1 hour 40 minute highway drive was 3.5 hours and there were jackknifed semis everywhere some of them flipped over on their sides but I made it back to my apartment in Chicago where I was greeted with a frozen pipe that burst and water gushing like Niagara Falls into my laundry room.
That January was the coldest on record in Chicago with something like 20+ days below zero and a couple of days where the wind chill reached 50 below.
Chin Diesel
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I was going to say except Alaska except I've been in Fairbanks in the winter and you're just as up there only it's colder l.
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