Word is, Atlanta will be getting two inches of snow

Elijah

Go Tigers!

Eoin

JustineCaseyFeldown said:

bgebrent said:

Prediction of any snow here results in drivers in the ditch.  When we get predictions of rain, there's a run on TP and vodka.  I heard being heavy on the brake worked best in these snowy conditions @JustineCaseyFeldown.  We have 1 inch.  Woohoo.

Here too. It used to be that everyone knew how to drive. 

But one year I saw 17 cars off the road after an inch of snow. This was on 213 (fishless knows about 213)

friggin yuppies in BMWs. 

BMWs are hopeless in any amount of snow without winter tyres.

YukonRon

We had our snow Thursday. About an inch, not much in the manner of a winter event, other than the-2F wind chill. Perfect for smoking ribs.

Wolfpack

We got 5-6".  wondering if kids will have school Monday? Sad but likely true.

JohnInCarolina

bhedges1987 said:

I don't know if this is real. I saw on twitter this was a city last year that got 2"of snow... looks like the end of the world

This was Raleigh I believe.  Not last year but a few years ago - 2014 I think. The "snowpocalypse!" There is actually a funnier version of that pic - I'll see if I can find it.

We got several inches of snow - rather unexpectedly, starting around 1pm or so. It took me two hours to get back home from work that night in a front wheel drive sedan (this was pre S5) -  a commute that normally takes 10 minutes.  I kept having to turn around because I'd run into a spot on the road that wasn't flat, and, well...

People here have close to no friggin clue how to drive in snow.  And there are almost no plows to clear roads.  So what you get is an expose on the decisions people make in split seconds when they are confronted with something they're not used to.  They tend to make... really sh!tty decisions.  It's not pretty.  I don't think this is a "Southern man" thing so much as an human thing.

Signed, a Yankee a$$hole transplant living in the South.

JohnInCarolina

Little Steven

JustineCaseyFeldown said:

try not to die, please. 

my wife worked in DC, and they used to call off work for a half inch of snow. 

just feather the clutch a bit. Or if you are driving an automatic, drive slower than you normally do

that's pretty much it 

expecting 8" here. If it were a weekday, kids would have school still

God I hope Rodney has 4 wheel drive, snows and tire chains

DoubleEgger

I think the Sunbeam bread company hacked the weather service computers. The grass isn't even covered. 

Phatchris

Expecting 8-12 today... Can't wait to test out my new Duratracs!

The_Stache

South of Nashville... about 1.5 inches and 12 degrees...So time to try out cold smoke run #2 last night on some dry brined for 3 days salmon and a 6 hour smoke!

DoubleEgger

bgebrent

DoubleEgger said:

We got 2.5-3 up here.  Still there but roads are clear.  I told my much better half it was 6 inches of snow

theyolksonyou

Shocker

Marty_Huggins

We are not getting any snow but it's going to be like 17 degrees here tonight!

Focker

Phatchris said:

Expecting 8-12 today... Can't wait to test out my new Duratracs!

How I feel about snow here.  Haven't even shifted into 4HI with the Chevy, it plows through the snow.

Good tires.
Tube sand.
Go light on the gas.
Fall back a good distance.
Allow for a little extra time to get from A to B.

That grid posted earlier is accurate. 

Carolina Q

I had to look up Jim Cantore.

Ozzie_Isaac

bgebrent

Ozzie_Isaac said:

He's lives in our general neck of the woods.  I like his reporting.  He's one short dude.  Efficient in high winds.

SemolinaPilchard

Jim Cantore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUhadBBixE

Marty_Huggins

SemolinaPilchard said:

Jim Cantore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUhadBBixE

I remember when that happened! Did you see the Thundersnow one? Hilarious. 

XC242

Lit

It's not really the snow it's the ice. I slid across my patio earlier to get to my eggs to do burgers. My whole patio is solid ice right now and about half our cup de sac was a solid sheet of ice this morning. Was a really weak storm here overall though.

DoubleEgger

Lit said:

It's not really the snow it's the ice. I slid across my patio earlier to get to my eggs to do burgers. My whole patio is solid ice right now and about half our cup de sac was a solid sheet of ice this morning. Was a really weak storm here overall though.

We had some nice big chunks of sleet mixed in that provided some decent traction. 

pgprescott

In 14 we went to the HBPA show in Nashville. They got a bunch of the white stuff. It was scary, the state doesn't have any plows! It's one thing around town, the interstate was bad. You would be moving along then wham, no plowing at all. You hit 6-8" snow at 65, it's real fun. We barely made it there before they shut the roads down all together. It's also real nice walking in Nash Vegas when they don't shovel either!

theyolksonyou

We got more than expected. Maybe 2". But the roads were a sheet of ice. Called off baseball practice and started drinking...

Carolina Q

Never knew if this was true or not, but supposedly, years ago, Chapel Hill got a couple inches of snow. No snow plows so they just opened up the fire hydrants. Guessing that's the last time they did that.

Can anyone confirm this? Would love to know!

DoubleEgger

theyolksonyou said:

Shocker

YEMTrey

Did somebody say...........Snow?!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yp5KQcipK0

GregW

I said 6" to 7". Wife corrected me, said 5"

Jeremiah

GregW said:

I said 6" to 7". Wife corrected me, said 5"

Hopefully you make up for it in other ways...