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I was up in north Alabama for '92. We got snowed in for almost a week, lots of poker by firelight to pass the time. We were up in the foothills of the Appalachians so lots of very steep hills to sled down after we pulled the hoods off some cars from the local junkyard to use as sleds. I slammed one of those into a pine tree at the bottom of a ~70 degree incline going somewhere north of 20mph and went flying into a snowbank. Only my youthful good luck preventing injury or death. Good times!
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it's freezing there's snow how is the car on fire.. This is not the global warming I was promised.
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tater_salad posted:it's freezing there's snow how is the car on fire.. This is not the global warming I was promised. I guarantee that person's tires were slipping like crazy at the top of that hill and they had no idea what to do so they just kept flooring it until the engine literally caught on fire. People have actually died that way because nobody knows what to do when they get stuck.
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Paradoxish posted:I guarantee that person's tires were slipping like crazy at the top of that hill and they had no idea what to do so they just kept flooring it until the engine literally caught on fire. Yeah it was like... perfect shitstorm conditions. They're not complete strangers to snow in that area, but it's one of those temperate regions where nobody owns snow chains and there's maybe two plows for the whole city. Usually the snow drops overnight and everyone stays home for a few days and it's fine, that's your big storm for the season. That particular day, there was like four inches of snow in the middle of the day, nobody knows how to drive in snowy conditions and everyone was panicking. I walked home that day and I made better progress than the bus I usually took. People were abandoning their cars at the side of the road, it was a loving mess.
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lol just had a drain pipe freeze IN my house. its in exterior facing wall for about 18 inches. The rest is “buried below the frost line”. place was built in 2016 to local code and pipes were buried accordingly. not enough now bitch! called a plumber who cranked it for an hour and couldn’t make a dent. so no plumbing for me for a while! e: funny thing, I am in the lower 48 and it is 50F colder here than currently is in canadas arctic circle.
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I left Nashville for Disney World on Sunday, so I got out of the cold about 8 hours before snow hit.
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SixteenShells posted:Yeah it was like... perfect shitstorm conditions. They're not complete strangers to snow in that area, but it's one of those temperate regions where nobody owns snow chains and there's maybe two plows for the whole city. Usually the snow drops overnight and everyone stays home for a few days and it's fine, that's your big storm for the season. That particular day, there was like four inches of snow in the middle of the day, nobody knows how to drive in snowy conditions and everyone was panicking. no one in minnesota has snow chains and we manage
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Basic Poster posted:called a plumber who cranked it for an hour Worst porno ever.
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Platystemon posted:Worst porno ever. Just never noticed the bored look in her eyes.
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Hooplah posted:no one in minnesota has snow chains and we manage  i'm from minnesota I know what I'm doing/drives through snoqualmie pass in january without chains because I have AWD
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Spergin Morlock posted:
AWD is the most chicanery causing automotive technology ever
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Do pipes freeze and burst as much in other countries? do other countries have local building codes that are voted on by council people with immediate familial relations to all the large builders hell bent on min maxing their P&L? idk?!
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This is the best "southerners stuck on the highway when it snows" story of all time quote:Jan 29, 2014, 11:15 AM ET https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/10369602/chipper-jones-rescues-freddie-freeman-atlanta-braves-storm
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i am harry posted:I think it had something to do with mt st helen erupting. There are still bent over trees on my parents and grandparents property, from the 1996 ice storm and 2000 blizzard
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Hooplah posted:no one in minnesota has snow chains and we manage A lot of people in Southern states run summer tires all year long. All season tires are also poo poo in snow, but summer tires are useless and straight up death traps if you've got no experience in snow. Add overconfidence from AWD and traction control systems and it's going to be a disaster.
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oh you sweet summer tire
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Big rubber needs to be destroyed so we can invent tires that don't suck rear end
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it's all tires. my 6sp rwd car with michelin xice easily outperforms any 4wd suv with all seasons
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americans are incapable of changing their routines even one tiny bit regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in.
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Stereotype posted:americans are incapable of changing their routines even one tiny bit regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in. every american's mental resources are pegged in the red at all times due to some sort of fear, rational or otherwise
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10in of snow and all the guys in the neighborhood have to take their cars out for 5 minutes for the novelty of it. We've got three at the bottom of the hill that can't make it back up.
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Acelerion posted:10in of snow and all the guys in the neighborhood have to take their cars out for 5 minutes for the novelty of it. We've got three at the bottom of the hill that can't make it back up. that rules
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Dudes rock.
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Acelerion posted:10in of snow and all the guys in the neighborhood have to take their cars out for 5 minutes for the novelty of it. We've got three at the bottom of the hill that can't make it back up. 
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hey cool buffalo and the surrounding area is going to get another 1-2ft possibly.
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tater_salad posted:hey cool buffalo and the surrounding area is going to get another 1-2ft possibly. ...just so long as there's no snow in April for the total eclipse... 
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the key to summer tires all year long is living somewhere that has a bajillion snow plows out on the roads
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BIG HEADLINE posted:...just so long as there's no snow in April for the total eclipse... it'll be cloudy I promise. I cant' tell you how often the northern lights will be visible from our area and I go drive out to a nice dark spot for it to be cloudy.
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Woke Mind Virus posted:the key to summer tires all year long is living somewhere that has a bajillion snow plows out on the roads Or just somewhere it doesn't snow/get icey
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Woke Mind Virus posted:the key to summer tires all year long is living somewhere that has a bajillion snow plows out on the roads summer tires are hockey pucks below ~50f
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Woke Mind Virus posted:the key to summer tires all year long is living somewhere that has a bajillion snow plows out on the roads I'm not paying taxes
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:summer tires are hockey pucks below ~50f yep, summer compound even on a dry road is a disaster
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so when is the next exciting bout of weather? my body is ready
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:so when is the next exciting bout of weather? my body is ready
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Honky Mao posted:Big rubber needs to be destroyed so we can invent tires that don't suck rear end We actually already have Sufficiently Advanced Tire Technology, they're just expensive and will cost you maybe 1 mpg on the highway so OEM car manufacturers don't sell cars with them mounted: https://www.michelinman.com/auto/tires/michelin-crossclimate2 https://www.goodyear.com/en_US/tires/assurance-weatherready/13859.html The secret sauce is a high treadwear compound that also works across a much wider temperature range than conventional "all seasons" plus a tread pattern that clears water and can grip snow. Unless you're going off road or have a sports car that you will be performance driving, I don't know why you'd use anything else unless you're cost engineering your cars and/or trying to game fuel economy or range ratings by putting poo poo low rolling resistance tires on.
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Does this thread have a weather app recommendation for Android phones (not sure if iphone/android matters but just in case)? I have "Hyperlocal Weather" and I dunno but it just seems mediocre. Wondering if there's a more accurate forecasting app out there.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Does this thread have a weather app recommendation for Android phones (not sure if iphone/android matters but just in case)? I have "Hyperlocal Weather" and I dunno but it just seems mediocre. Wondering if there's a more accurate forecasting app out there. I use NWS Now. Lightweight, no-nonsense front-end for NWS reports. It's not on the Play store, but Fdroid has it and I think you can manually install the APK if you want to.
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