W've been freez'n our buns off here.

Post #339,403 by Andrew Grygus 2/5/11 11:33:27 AM Reply	W've been freez'n our buns off here. It's been getting down to as low as 44°F at night and only to the mid 60s during the day. Relief is in sight though. By Monday we should have 80 in the day and 51 at night. I hear tell it's even worse in other parts of the country, but I find that hard to believe.
Post #339,404 by hnick 2/5/11 11:50:02 AM Reply	It's believable... I mentioned your comment to a neighbor's dog and he tried bite me. Fortunately, he was frozen to a fire hydrant and couldn't get at me...
Post #339,405 by Another Scott 2/5/11 12:08:54 PM Reply	:-D
Post #339,406 by SpiceWare 2/5/11 12:44:06 PM Reply	lots of accidents here apparently a number of people didn't think 1/4" of ice would affect their driving http://www.chron.com...itan/7414394.html Road conditions proved far better than Friday, when ice-slicked thoroughfares were blamed for a few deaths and more than 1,000 weather-related accidents across the region. http://www.chron.com...itan/7413953.html During a 13-hour period, beginning at 10 p.m. Thursday and lasting until 11 a.m. Friday, Houston police responded to 750 car accidents Â a 341 percent increase in the number of car wrecks Houston police normally work on a typical 24-hour day ... The Houston Fire Department also responded to skyrocketing numbers of car wrecks, about 60 percent higher than normal, with 307 vehicle crashes reported between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Friday
Post #339,407 by Another Scott 2/5/11 1:02:09 PM Reply	Yowza! :-(
Post #339,454 by jake123 2/6/11 1:45:00 PM Reply	I'm not surprised If you've little to no experience driving on ice, you almost certainly don't understand how quickly you can go from "controlled motion" to "sliding inertial one ton missile" with zero prospect of regaining control until you've stopped moving. People up here drive on ice all the time, and yet, when we get a good round of freezing rain... people still fuck it up. I'd imagine that drivers in Texas would be hearing Sobchak telling them "shut the fuck up Texas, you're out of your element here!" around the time the car went into the four wheel drift.
Post #339,414 by drook 2/5/11 2:44:16 PM Reply	F&*% you and the horse you served your guests -- Drew
Post #339,415 by lincoln 2/5/11 3:04:30 PM Reply	How Chicagoans handle winter http://triblocal.com...y-snow-photos/#/2 "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #339,437 by Ashton 2/6/11 1:26:25 AM Reply	Can thank La NiÃ±a for that hi-px zone protecting us from the travails of the Rust Belt salt-on-ice warz on carz. Balmy here in N.Cal as well.. neighbor horse, Flicka prancing about -- to cajole an extra apple. Guess we'uns Are The Chosen People; sorry about you other folks! :-O

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