pansies, i drove a tiny little car with no ABS or traction control on roads that have 2 inches of ice on them just to get to school
two years ago my driveway was a solid 4-5 inch thick sheet of ice, it practically destroyed the already broken asphalt under it
[editline]25th November 2013[/editline]
tell your lawmakers, where's your precocious non-civilization affected climate god now!
I'm not really that scared of driving on ice, what I'm scared of is OTHER drivers driving on ice.
I find it somewhat interesting how people can adapt to different weather.
In summer, anything above 80f is way too hot for me, meanwhile I have friends living in California, Florida, Texas, you name it with some crazy high temperatures that would probably kill me and they feel fine in it.
Meanwhile in winter, as I'm sitting waist-deep in snow while said friends from hotter places can't deal with temperatures under like 30, they tell me all about how the snow they're getting is screwing things up.
see the difference is, in texas when you get to 100 degrees, its a bone dry heat, in ohio, when it gets to 100 degrees, its usually accompanied by 90-95% humidity
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42976643]lol, gotta love the south. get a few inches of snow and a little sleet and suddenly the whole South-East just shuts down[/QUOTE]
yeah forget the regular tires and limited experience in slushy conditions #YOLO
[QUOTE=Sableye;42979018]see the difference is, in texas when you get to 100 degrees, its a bone dry heat, in ohio, when it gets to 100 degrees, its usually accompanied by 90-95% humidity[/QUOTE]
It's humid as fuck in south east Texas.
[QUOTE=Sableye;42979018]see the difference is, in texas when you get to 100 degrees, its a bone dry heat, in ohio, when it gets to 100 degrees, its usually accompanied by 90-95% humidity[/QUOTE]
Nope.
Summers in central Texas have 90% humidity with 100F+ heat. All of the humidity comes from the gulf wind constantly blowing in.
Rest of the year (3 months) after that is 80% humidity with 90F+ heat, with the occasional 30F day in the middle of the week.
Maybe us Houstonians will get to experience a half inch of snow like that one year.
Northwest Arkansas has been in the 12s-30s for several weeks now
Of course it's understandable for Texas though. I used to live in Southwest AR, and we were lucky to get one day of snow a year
[QUOTE=KnightVista;42976570]The weather in Texas is all over the place, this is what my front yard looked like about this time in 2010.
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We might get snow every 3-4 years so it was pretty cool[/QUOTE]
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It happened here in the Mojave not to long ago. Shit was weird.
I also used to live near a fire station/Main roadwhen it snowed, I could hear the engines going back and forth all day. Likely due to all the car screeches I was hearing.
Oh god some soccer mom will t-bone me while driving to class tomorrow.
Isn't this a good thing? I'm pretty sure Texas has a severe water shortage
[QUOTE=Dr.C;42984040]Isn't this a good thing? I'm pretty sure Texas has a severe water shortage[/QUOTE]
It's been pretty dry and we had a bad drought a few years ago.
I went to sleep with the air conditioner on the other night, it was 70 degrees, woke up the next morning and it was 42 in my room, so I turned on the heat and went into the other room like "What happened last night?" and my mom was like "I don't fucking know dude"
[QUOTE=Dr.C;42984040]Isn't this a good thing? I'm pretty sure Texas has a severe water shortage[/QUOTE]
Rain is good, yes. Ice and snow? nope.
People down here are idiots and have no clue how to drive in ice/snow conditions. The last time it froze down here for several days, there were literally 4-5 crashes and people flying off the road every mile or so of road.
Back in 2011 when it froze, I had to drive home from work (about 20 miles on IH-35) and it was scary. The entire 20 miles of freeway I had to drive was covered in a solid sheet of black ice because it had rained and froze on the freeway. People were flying past me at 70-80 mph and fishtailing, spinning out and crashing. This one dude fishtailed and started swapping ends while going down the freeway and flew across all three lanes of traffic about 100 yards in front of me before ending up in the ditch pointed at oncoming traffic.
The bigger scare was some 18 wheeler that was going about 60, passing me on the left and fishtailing two different directions. The trailer was trying to go faster than the rig so it kept trying to swing around the sides of the cab.
Luckily I was working the graveyard shift so it was in the middle of the night and traffic was light in the city. After I got out of the city limits, I was the only soul on the highway until i got to my town which was nice, but it still took an hour and a half to drive those 20 miles because I dared not go over 35 mph.
[QUOTE=OvB;42984043]It's been pretty dry and we had a bad drought a few years ago.[/QUOTE]
:v: Central Texas is still in a drought and has been for 3-4 years now. While the little bit of precipitation we're getting helps, the aquifers and major lakes are still super low.
[QUOTE=Karmah;42978097]I would never expect a southern state to get that cold[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I live in Mississippi and we're having oddly cold weather. I think the weather's broken or something. It's 4C here, and on top of that it's that part of the year where it rains or drizzles for like, a week at a time.
[QUOTE=Demolitions2;42978478]I have friends that live up north, and they get confused when I tell them it's cold in Texas. There are a lot of people who genuinely believe Texas doesn't go through winter at all. We just have Summer and not Summer, where it's slightly less hot.
My friend just drove from Alabama to El Paso, and she said it's snowing in El Paso, though here in Austin all we are getting is cold rain. Haven't dropped below 35 yet.[/QUOTE]That's because you don't know what real winter is, and you should pray that you never do.
Minnesotan (and by extension, all of the Upper Midwest) weather will trick you, it'll be sunny at first, it's a good 40 degrees outside so you don't bother wearing two to three layers of clothes that day, you're lulled into a false sense of security. Then, at noon, the angry Minnesotan weather gods will yank that sunshine out of the sky, dump two inches of freezing rain and then the faintest sprinkle of dainty snowflakes after it's all frozen. This makes the already slippery ice somehow more slippery, (which has coated everything, even you if you were unlucky enough to be outside) and to top it all off, there's straight-line winds and it'll be perpetually [i]at least[/i] -30 degrees. Of course when it's that cold, your skin becomes brittle and you will slice your hand open simply by touching things too hard. I cut my fucking finger on my own snot-encrusted mustache once.
This land is cursed, and all who live in it are forever cursed to sound like retarded Canadians.
[i]Never come here.[/i]
I love how nobody gives a shit when we get a foot of snow here in Pennsylvania, and schools don't even 2 hour delay half the time, yet in southern states 2 inches of snow or a half inch of ice can cause everything to shut down and nobody wants to leave their house.
[QUOTE=Period;42985640]I love how nobody gives a shit when we get a foot of snow here in Pennsylvania, and schools don't even 2 hour delay half the time, yet in southern states 2 inches of snow or a half inch of ice can cause everything to shut down and nobody wants to leave their house.[/QUOTE]
Not having snow plows and driving with normal tires sure is a bitch.
[editline]26th November 2013[/editline]
Throw in severe inexperience in driving in it on top of that and I don't want to leave the house either.
[QUOTE=Karmah;42978097]I would never expect a southern state to get that cold[/QUOTE]
I survived Oklahoma's 2007 winter....two weeks with no power...so many bodies..
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