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Southern Snowmageddon 2024 Thread

NMSbowhunter said:
It's not the cold weather that bothers me it is the fact that if you are not really careful and really lucky it will freeze up you pipes and you won't have water. Then when it thaws it will flood your house. Or if you get freezing rain, you can be without power for a week or more. My wife's cousins in the delta were without power for nearly a month in the late 90's from an ice storm.

I was out this morning in 12 to 15 degrees practicing my shooting in the yard. I had on my Sitka coat and was toasty. I have good clothes to keep me warm, but our infrastructure is not built for any degree of cold weather.
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I think the ice storm you are talking about was in 93 and it was a bad one.

Edit: I see @Mitchellfarmer1982 already got the year. A buddy of mines dad that lived down at Sardis had like 1200 highline poles down from his house to the first standing pole. Forget how long he was without power but it was well over a month. I got caught in Memphis when it hit and couldnt get back across the bridge for a 2-3 days and we still didnt have power and no estimate of when it might be back. I called my gf at the time, now wife. She was in college in Conway and she said there was power there. Told her to find me a hotel room and I would be there when I got there. Took 6 hours to make the normal 2.5 hour drive.
 
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GeoFish said:
Sorry, I am still a little confused. Global warming or comming ice age???
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www.snopes.com

FACT CHECK: Did a 1977 'Time' Story Offer Tips on 'How to Survive the Coming Ice Age'?

While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.
www.snopes.com www.snopes.com

content.time.com

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide - Apr. 9, 2007

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide
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Don't wanna cross the politics line, but that meme came up in a conversation I had with a friend lately. .
 
Nutterbuster said:
www.snopes.com

FACT CHECK: Did a 1977 'Time' Story Offer Tips on 'How to Survive the Coming Ice Age'?

While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.
www.snopes.com www.snopes.com

content.time.com

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide - Apr. 9, 2007

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide
content.time.com content.time.com

Don't wanna cross the politics line, but that meme came up in a conversation I had with a friend lately. .
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I was a sophomore in high school in 1977. I can distinctly remember the dire predictions that we in Michigan were going to be under another glacial ice age within the next 20 years. :tearsofjoy:

That said, I think 1978 was the most snow I ever experienced in northern lower Michigan. I could literally walk up the snow drift on the south side of the house right onto the roof for a couple of months.

Although these pictures are after a storm here in Boyne in Jan. 2014. These aren't piled snow pictures, the snow was too deep to throw up there . . . this is the actual depth of the drift off the front of the plant I worked at.

EDIT: I should mention that schools were closed but nothing else was. Business continued as usual.

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Nutterbuster said:
www.snopes.com

FACT CHECK: Did a 1977 'Time' Story Offer Tips on 'How to Survive the Coming Ice Age'?

While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cooling in the 1970s, viral images purporting to show a cover story on the topic are doctored.
www.snopes.com www.snopes.com

content.time.com

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide - Apr. 9, 2007

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide
content.time.com content.time.com

Don't wanna cross the politics line, but that meme came up in a conversation I had with a friend lately. .
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Cover is fake, underlying point is true(and 75 years of trend lead them to the cooling earth/impending ice age belief, only 50 years ago). Or am I misunderstanding?

Also don’t want to get political, because “the” science isn’t political, only who bureaucrats wants to justify sending our money to is political
 
boyne bowhunter said:
I was a sophomore in high school in 1977. I can distinctly remember the dire predictions that we in Michigan were going to be under another glacial ice age within the next 20 years. :tearsofjoy:

That said, I think 1978 was the most snow I ever experienced in northern lower Michigan. I could literally walk up the snow drift on the south side of the house right onto the roof for a couple of months.

Although these pictures are after a storm here in Boyne in Jan. 2014. These aren't piled snow pictures, the snow was too deep to throw up there . . . this is the actual depth of the drift off the front of the plant I worked at.

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No thanks,keep that in Michigan. I think we would literally die.
 
Dmathews87 said:
No thanks,keep that in Michigan. I think we would literally die.
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Snow is a great insulator! I shovel snow all around my house to keep the basement at 50ish when its minus for a week or two! You can be quite toasty in an igloo too....
Not to mention it snows less when it's actually cold (<10°)
 
boyne bowhunter said:
I will say this . . . I don't recall ever seen thick enough solid ice on the road here to actually skate on. We typically either get either rain or snow, not ice.
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tells me there is no salt on the road. That’s pretty cool though.

Curious, is that road asphalt or concrete? I know in the south the road surfaces tend to be smoother because runoff is more important and frost heaving isn’t so much a concern
 
Dope on a Rope said:
tells me there is no salt on the road. That’s pretty cool though.

Curious, is that road asphalt or concrete? I know in the south the road surfaces tend to be smoother because runoff is more important and frost heaving isn’t so much a concern
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Lol we get snow like once every 5 years, they ain’t budgeting for salt.

And we usually get sleet, which melts and then refreezes into black ice. This is why the south shuts down for snowmegeddons.

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gcr0003 said:
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So many questions....how does a southern boy like ypu know how to skate?...The road?! No wonder everyone is freaked out abt driving..... outs roads never ever look like that! You should try lake drifting on those roads!...
 
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