Southern Snowmageddon 2024 Thread

[BTaylor]

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.

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.

 

[GeoFish]

It was intended as a joke. My smiley face emoji doesn’t seem to have shown up.

I agree it is environmental- but it does seem to be a divisive topic.

Sorry, I am still a little confused. Global warming or comming ice age???

 

[NMSbowhunter]

They just settled on "Climate Change" since it changes every so often. They get tired of having to get new signs.

 

[MattMan81]

What all you southern boys are missing out on.

 

[Dmathews87]

What all you southern boys are missing out on. View attachment 98688

not entirely true, i did get to kick some ice sickles off....

 

[NMSbowhunter]

What all you southern boys are missing out on. View attachment 98688

We get to do that with delta gumbo mud.

 

[boyne bowhunter]

What all you southern boys are missing out on. View attachment 98688

I have to keep reminding the wife to kick them off in the parking lot at work . . . not in the garage or driveway where I need to clean them up.

 

[Nutterbuster]

Sorry, I am still a little confused. Global warming or comming ice age???
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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

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. .

 

[boyne bowhunter]

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

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

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide

content.time.com

Don't wanna cross the politics line, but that meme came up in a conversation I had with a friend lately. .

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.

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.

 

[Dope on a Rope]

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

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

TIME Magazine Cover: The Global Warming Survival Guide

content.time.com

Don't wanna cross the politics line, but that meme came up in a conversation I had with a friend lately. .

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

 

[Dmathews87]

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.

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.

 

[Samcirrus]

No thanks,keep that in Michigan. I think we would literally die.

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°)

 

[Samcirrus]

Wish I would have hit it first thing this morning. Still not bad all things considered!View attachment 98680

Lake or puddle?

 

[gcr0003]

Lake or puddle?

Street

 

[Dope on a Rope]

Street

Don’t try 2TCing in those

 

[Nutterbuster]

Street

Quit playing around and go test that solitude set for me!

 

[boyne bowhunter]

Street

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.

 

[Dope on a Rope]

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.

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

 

[gcr0003]

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

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.

 

[Samcirrus]

Street

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!...