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In case you haven’t heard, parts of the central and southern US are experiencing record-breaking snow and freezing temps right now. https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/rare-winter-storm-slams-texas-with-snow-ice-and-bitterly-cold-temps/ quote:A rare winter storm in Texas is battering the state with heavy snow, ice and bitterly cold temperatures. My area is one of those affected and poo poo’s bad. Normally we might get a single snow in a year, about every other year, totalling one or two inches at most. We already got several inches of snow just a few weeks ago, which by itself was more than we typically get. We just got a second snow of at least 8 inches last night... AND THERE IS MORE COMING! THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN HERE! And temperatures are gonna stay below freezing until after that, so the snow we just got is not gonna melt between now and then. That kind of thing might happen a lot in other parts of America, but this is not one of those parts. Until this year the coldest it’s ever been here is 16°. It just hit 14° last night. And it’s gonna go down to MINUS 3° before this poo poo is over. The roads are nuts right now. Multiple deadly crashes and huge traffic pileups in major cities near me. The streets in my neighborhood alone are nigh impassible for my feeble little car, which is just as well since the car itself is buried under too much snow to be driveable anyway. I want to make pizza and gumbo for my stomach, but I have no mozz, no basil, no shrimp, no crawfish, only one onion and 3 ribs of celery. At least I still have working power. A whole bunch of people here don’t even have that now. https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1361348544154664961?s=20 Post here about how Snowpocalypse 2021 has affected you.
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It sucks OP
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Feb 15, 2021 21:21
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Feb 15, 2021 21:36
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I don’t own a leafblower  wait yes I do 
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Feb 15, 2021 21:41
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Wow that's some dry snow.
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Feb 15, 2021 21:44
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So how many edgy hot takes about global warming/climate change have already been made concerning this
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Feb 15, 2021 21:46
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Would they be cold takes
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Feb 15, 2021 21:48
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more like global snowming! but good luck to all you folks who will have trouble dealing w/ this. also thinking about the poor little outdoor critters and perennials and whatnot
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Feb 15, 2021 22:27
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Cold enough for ya, eh?
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Feb 15, 2021 22:35
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Congratulations on having to go to work every single morning in the Midwest. Holy loving poo poo you righteous champions.
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Feb 15, 2021 22:59
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You can see the bottom of their tires in the video. Christ forbid a plow did them in, once and it was up to the bumper!! You poor lazy shits.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:02
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My human form and 4 wheel dreadnaught is not meant to take the punishment of leaving snow so deep that I can still see tire tracks in it. Ya fuckin babies it's not even up to your hub caps My driveway looks like that right now and I park in it every day. Every day. I wake up to frost like that. And that's AFTER I've snowblowed it. Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 23:06
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So far it's gently snowing in Ohio and we're supposed to get 12" by lunchtime tomorrow. Gonna have to get wild overnight to make that deadline.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:10
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Have they tried shooting the snow?
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Feb 15, 2021 23:10
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I take my dog to poo poo out in my driveway that's deeper than that because it's easier than walking them in the REAL snow because the drive is what I've plowed. And you're panicking about THAT?
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Feb 15, 2021 23:11
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Feb 15, 2021 23:11
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OP so mad at the snow he's sitting in his idling car in tha drive way with the windows tweaked down blasting Hustle and Flow - Whoop that trick gheddem BASS VErsion 100% but not driving around the neighborhood because that would be unsafe.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:12
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Where I live allegedly we never got much more than a couple inches annually before I moved here but ever since I've lived here it's basically been a clockwork cycle of every 2 years there's a big ol storm where we get a bunch. In between year is what it "used" to be which is easy enough to handle but when it pours it pours, got about 12.5 inches between thursday and today, but I got friday and monday off from it and did my shopping before the storm hit (I mean it was in the news it was coming) so aside from shoveling in the morning so it doesn't build up too much on the driveway/sidewalks it's been p uneventful. The worst is when a plow comes through and just puts a foot tall mound of compacted snow and ice right at the entrance of your driveway. What I don't get is the people who just don't stay home. I was shoveling on sunday when it was 8-9 inches deep, live in a neighborhood where I'm certain hardly anyone would have jobs where they'd be required to go in on the weekend in a pandemic during a snowstorm, basically boomers that are either retired or have sufficiently white collar jobs, and I can't count how many cars were sliding around trying to go do ??? at 11:00 am on sunday with that much accumulation while it was still actively snowing. These are undoubtedly the same people who end up in all the local pieces about a 20 car pileup on our freeways just cruising around for seemingly no reason. ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 23:28
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can yall send me some snow instead of this endless loving rain because it's killing one of my really stupid sheep 
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Feb 15, 2021 23:33
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:can yall send me some snow instead of this endless loving rain because it's killing one of my really stupid sheep Aren't sheep already really stupid? Does this sheep just stand facing a wall all day or something
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Feb 15, 2021 23:38
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The Texas power grid is rear end and I'd say that should probably the lasting impression people take from all this
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Feb 15, 2021 23:49
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Welcome to Canada, Texas.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:56
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Shinjobi posted:The Texas power grid is rear end and I'd say that should probably the lasting impression people take from all this Honest question from up north, why is the grid taking such a beating during this storm? I have seen people pointing to everything from frozen wind turbines to the state having a separate grid being a contributing issue.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:57
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Global warming? Seems like we are in a global ice age at the moment.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:57
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Shinjobi posted:The Texas power grid is rear end and I'd say that should probably the lasting impression people take from all this that's optimistic for a region whose power grid can get owned by few inches of snow
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Feb 15, 2021 23:58
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Because US infrastructure is nearly unrivalled at being awful
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Feb 15, 2021 23:58
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We're projected to get between 6 and 14 more inches in the next 12 hours, which owns cuz it means I don't have to work tomorrow
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Feb 15, 2021 23:59
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IBroughttheFunk posted:Honest question from up north, why is the grid taking such a beating during this storm? Does this also happen during summer when everyone is running AC? Or is it caused by actual powerlines breaking from wind and ice?
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Feb 16, 2021 00:02
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IBroughttheFunk posted:Honest question from up north, why is the grid taking such a beating during this storm? I have seen people pointing to everything from frozen wind turbines to the state having a separate grid being a contributing issue. I'm nowhere near the industry so I can't give you any technical knowhow, but have a fun example of our state government at work: https://twitter.com/BlakeFox4News/status/1361417358967857154?s=20 https://twitter.com/BlakeFox4News/status/1361417461120131072?s=20 This weather did not sneak up on us. The forecast was pretty consistent in saying "poo poo is gonna be bad, possibly historically so." Not sure what benefit a few more days would have given us, but scrambling to fix an issue with broken tools in the middle of said issue is very Texas. You'll get a pass for not expecting the entirety of the state to be under a winter weather advisory, but we couldn't handle 24 hours of this poo poo before things started to break.
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Feb 16, 2021 00:11
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ekuNNN posted:Does this also happen during summer when everyone is running AC? Or is it caused by actual powerlines breaking from wind and ice? the difference between 75 and 100 degrees is much less than 75 and whatever it is now
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Feb 16, 2021 00:12
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ekuNNN posted:Or is it caused by actual powerlines *and Turbines* breaking from wind and ice? It's this plus the post above plus a shitload of houses in Texas have like no goddamn insulation because they were built by loving criminally inept contractors and so people have to be running space heaters in addition to their heat in a ton of places or they freeze, which creates the perfect storm of "rip grid" so they freeze anyway Texas!
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Feb 16, 2021 00:17
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Big Beef City posted:My human form and 4 wheel dreadnaught is not meant to take the punishment of leaving snow so deep that I can still see tire tracks in it. Keep in mind Texas is unprepared for weather of ANY kind. Hurricane: What? It's flooding??? Heat: Jesus christ, why won't my AC stop running? Cold/ice/snow (unfathomable): JFC, WTF Mild spring day: OMG IT'S SO COLD
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Feb 16, 2021 00:37
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The King Of The Hill episode where everybody freaks the gently caress out over a mild snowfall but this time its for real
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Feb 16, 2021 00:40
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:OP so mad at the snow he's sitting in his idling car in tha drive way with the windows tweaked down blasting Hustle and Flow - Whoop that trick gheddem BASS VErsion 100% but not driving around the neighborhood because that would be unsafe. hey I LIKE snow. I wish I lived in an area where this happens a lot. but we tried driving my car through this much snow once before and it ended up in a ditch. a guy in a pickup truck had to tow us out because we couldn’t drive out of it ourselves, even with AWD. also this happened twice Skypie posted:We're projected to get between 6 and 14 more inches in the next 12 hours, which owns cuz it means I don't have to work tomorrow I don’t have to work period  because I have no job
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Feb 16, 2021 00:43
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lol and now my TV screen has vertical green lines on it I’m watching ABC World News Tonight and it looks like David Muir is sitting in a neon green jail I am certain this is related to snow
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Feb 16, 2021 00:45
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Psycho Landlord posted:It's this plus the post above plus a shitload of houses in Texas have like no goddamn insulation because they were built by loving criminally inept contractors and so people have to be running space heaters in addition to their heat in a ton of places or they freeze, which creates the perfect storm of "rip grid" so they freeze anyway to be fair, most parts of Texas normally get hot enough (and not cold enough) that “more insulation” == “house get hot” == “gotta crank up the A/C more” even the more arid parts that do see a ton of snow activity in winter (north, west, and panhandle) typically get hot enough in the summer that insulation causes cooling issues
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Feb 16, 2021 00:54
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i thought it was supposed to be global WARMING!? checkmate, liberals 
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Feb 16, 2021 01:02
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I. M. Gei posted:lol and now my TV screen has vertical green lines on it haha you're one of the dozen people that watches network television
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Feb 16, 2021 01:20
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Aren't sheep already really stupid? Does this sheep just stand facing a wall all day or something They're dumb as hell and I love them a lot. This one could have any of a number of issues and she's been on her side and having a real scary time. She's up and running around right now! DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i thought it was supposed to be global WARMING!? checkmate, liberals see you're joking but I've been yelling at people on the internet all day about this.
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Americans: covid is fake masks don’t work muh freedumbs Also Americans: oh no a bit of snow!
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