Winter weather??

Chuckman said:
Now, I'm NOT saying I believe this. Just putting it out there.....

Bwahahaha!

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BRING IT! I was just talking a couple days ago about the 2000 blizzard with my youngest and one of her buddies... I would LOVE for them to experience a big snow like that 😊.
 
DurhamDad said:
BRING IT! I was just talking a couple days ago about the 2000 blizzard with my youngest and one of her buddies... I would LOVE for them to experience a big snow like that 😊.
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We talk about that blizzard quite a bit, it was a month after we got married.

Here is me and my ride at work. Our regular vehicles couldn't get around smaller roads.

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noway2 said:
Generally when it comes to winter weather the guy is spot on. Basically there. Is going to be a monster storm to our north thst brings questionable weather here bjt at a minimum we’re likely to be cold around Xmas.
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its basically sat over our area for the past week, just sending along Christmas blessings to all our friends in the carolinas 😍
 
Looks like cold weather is hitting all over the globe... Folks will mightily miss 'global warming' if these trends continue. They forget (or never knew) that earth spends most of its time in ice ages, and we have been lucky so far to live in warm times.
 
DurhamDad said:
Looks like cold weather is hitting all over the globe... Folks will mightily miss 'global warming' if these trends continue. They forget (or never knew) that earth spends most of its time in ice ages, and we have been lucky so far to live in warm times.
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Veering hard from the thread, I don't have an issue discussing climate change. Climate change happens; well documented in the fossil and geological record. I do take issue with manmade global warning, which I think is BS.

We probably will get warm(er) again. We've done it before. But we didn't do it.
 
Diablos said:
Global warming...

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I think I must have been an eskimo in a former life because this is the kind of weather I dream of having. I've lived in NC my whole life and can't stand the weather here, especially the humid summers. I'm constantly too hot, don't own any long sleeve shirts and only a couple of light jackets. The times I've visited Alaska in the winter with -25 degree temps felt like I was truly at home.
 
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Railsplitter said:
I think I must have been an eskimo in a former life because this is the kind of weather I dream of having. I've lived in NC my whole life and can't stand the weather here, especially the humid summers. I'm constantly too hot, don't own any long sleeve shirts and only a couple of light jackets. The times I've visited Alaska in the winter with -25 degree temps felt like I was truly at home.
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i dont like it this cold, but the summers here (in the western part of the state) are just about perfect. almost zero humidity and unless we get a really hot summer, temps are usually 80s-90s. hail is the only thing that sucks about summer
 
Great. I'm supposed to be traveling to Roanoke to go to the in laws for Christmas.
 
Railsplitter said:
I think I must have been an eskimo in a former life because this is the kind of weather I dream of having. I've lived in NC my whole life and can't stand the weather here, especially the humid summers. I'm constantly too hot, don't own any long sleeve shirts and only a couple of light jackets. The times I've visited Alaska in the winter with -25 degree temps felt like I was truly at home.
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You wouldn’t like it here in the summer. In NC a few back to back days of 100+ weather is a "blistering heatwave" & noteworthy. We call it July & August. This place has the most schizophrenic weather I've ever seen. It's nice having all 4 seasons, but out here, they're all cranked up to 11 😆
 
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Diablos said:
negative high temps next week with wind chills of -40 to -50, yall welcome to come out
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Who in the heck talked you into taking that job up there??



Oh. Yea.
Uh….Never mind. :rolleyes:
 
I love the 90’ plus days with high humidity. To me, cold and snow are very ugly four letter words! Snow is a novelty, as long as it is 4” or less and melts the next day.

I am very happy that we have four seasons here and it’s only truly cold for one. On a positive, I do enjoy some off the events that come along with the onset of cold weather, such as … the fair, turkey shoots (fire barrels ablaze), fall fishing, and getting some good fresh pork (hog slaughtering time).
 
Crankbait said:
Sounds like a great excuse not to go!
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That will be the argument. We are supposed to go up Friday afternoon so I'm hoping that if we get a big snow it hit ls on Thursday.
 
in January 2000, i flew back from Tampa
and all of our glass bottled Pepsi-Colas
that were in the storage building froze
and broke because it got down to ~10F
for 3 days and never got above freezing.
 
I could Show you pictures of our Home in NH with 6-8 foot piles of snow but will only show you a picture showing that I am prepared for a NC disaster i.e. NH dusting of snow.
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nhusa said:
I could Show you pictures of our Home in NH with 6-8 foot piles of snow but will only show you a picture showing that I am prepared for a NC disaster i.e. NH dusting of snow.
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Aw man… you folks from NH are snow hardened! In my previous job I would fly in to Boston and drive up to Nashua / Merrimack. When you say snow is expected.. it’s an understatement. I remember turning in for the night and waking up the next morning with cars covered to the roof, mailboxes no longer visible, etc… and you guys don’t miss a beat. Roads were cleared in no time. Here, we watch the news all day, to see our one snow plow run up and down 40 with a line of traffic in tow…. As they pass cars in the ditch.
 
Crankbait said:
I highly recommend getting a battery power coat. I have a Milwaukee coat and vest since all my tools are Milwaukee but other companies make them. Dewalt, Hart(Walmart), Makita, Action heat, Venture heat, etc. If you like wearing vest, I find they work really well in the cold because I can wear the vest under my bigger coat and it traps the heat in. I got my wife one for Christmas a few years ago and now just about everyone in our extended family has one now and half our church.

This is what my wife has and they are on sale now.

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I just got a heated coat from @Chdamn and I love it. It keeps me nice and toasty.
 
nhusa said:
I could Show you pictures of our Home in NH with 6-8 foot piles of snow ...
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I grew up in upstate NY not far from NH. I do remember taking the Greyhound over to Hanover during one winter vacation (there was a girl involved :rolleyes: ) and going through White River Junction. But the buses were still running. :)

I also went to college in Troy (I recall 20-below temps, and walking to class -- just business as usual -- classes were never cancelled), and graduate school in Rochester (where my Swiss thesis advisor used to ski to campus when the lake-effect snow got too bothersome to drive). And we still have a picture of me in the Chicago blizzard of '79 where I'm shoveling snow above my head to clear the driveway. Then there was all that business of jacking up the truck to put chains on it in order to take a kid into downtown Chicago to a hospital one time (ear infection).

Oddly, I miss that. My wife -- a Chicago girl -- does not. But growing up, I spent a lot of my time outdoors in the winter under somewhat challenging conditions.

Today my concession to our current weather was to go out to the barn and check the antifreeze in the tractor. Just in case. It was fine (good to 15 below 0 -- which we'll never see). End of winter preparations here.

As my wife remarked last night while watching the weather reports that included frantic and emotional descriptions of the terrible winter weather in parts of the country ... "So it's late December and it's cold and snowing a lot in the north. That's a shocking surprise. Must be climate change, eh?"
 
Timfoilhat said:
Sure there is. 33 degree rain followed by 31 degree icing
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Yes indeed, and in all seriousness I wanted to reply to @nhusa to say that while indeed he has earned the right to laugh at most here when we struggle to deal with a few inches of snow, he needs to watch out for the quarter inch of glaze that can appear without much warning, especially on bridges.

Beware the drizzle after a few days of freezing temps....

While we are on memory lane, the ice storm of 2002 was another marker in time. Power out for five days, friends with wells and electric water heaters came to stay over... Lots of tree damage.

ETA: And five days was getting off easy... Many folks outside of town were out for 10+.
 
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DurhamDad said:
Yes indeed, and in all seriousness I wanted to reply to @nhusa to say that while indeed he has earned the right to laugh at most here when we struggle to deal with a few inches of snow, he needs to watch out for the quarter inch of glaze that can appear without much warning, especially on bridges.

Beware the drizzle after a few days of freezing temps....

While we are on memory lane, the ice storm of 2002 was another marker in time. Power out for five days, friends with wells and electric water heaters came to stay over... Lots of tree damage.
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All of my weather planning is based on two events that occured in my heavily wooded old neighborhood with above ground power lines.

That ice storm, and hurricane Fran in 1996 that came right up I-40 to knock on our front door.

I was not prepared for my house to be 38 degrees
 
kcult said:
Snowanoke.
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We called it Hoanoke back when I lived there. I hate that place. The only redeeming quality of living in that area was access to the Jefferson National Forest and the James River.
 
Chuckman said:
I'm ok with a big snow, say, once a year. Then 65 again.
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Often this is the view that southerners who've never lived in the north have of that. It's somewhat helped by the news nowadays, which just focuses on the "newsworthy" events during winter -- and ignores the fact that in the north winter is a real season that lasts from at least late October through at least late February (and often longer). Sure the storms come and go, but then what? What about between the storms? What happens then? Mostly nothing, and it's all still there: the cold temperatures, the piles of snow (in the streets, along the walks, in schoolyards, ... wherever it's been plowed and not taken away). In cities something has to be done with that snow -- and there's nowhere to put it along the streets. So it has to be trucked somewhere and dumped in/on rivers or piled into snow mountains that may still be melting through March.

When we first moved down to NC and encountered the winter, and it snowed a bit that first year, I remember the parking lots in Pittsboro being "full" of snow and ice from the snow being driven on. I was helping people get their cars out of the old Byrd's lot in Pittsboro. What was being done about it? NOTHING. Not a plow in sight. No organized snow or ice clean-up.

We marveled. "What do they do? Why aren't they plowing it?," we wondered. And then it melted!! Then we got it. When it snows here, you just WAIT. Then in a day or two (or maybe three) it just goes away. Snow removal? What's that? That's God's work. Compare to places like Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, Syracuse, Albany, ... or in line with those or north of them. It comes and then just sits there and gets deeper and more in the way. For months. It's not 65 again after a couple of days. It's 25 or 20 or 10 or -5 or ...

Still, I think even at my current age, I prefer that to the heat and humidity of the summers here. (Not to mention the lack of trout.) But my wife sure doesn't, though she now likes to head north in August or September for a bit. 😂
 
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711b said:
Often this is the view that southerners who've never lived in the north have of that. It's somewhat helped by the news nowadays, which just focuses on the "newsworthy" events during winter -- and ignores the fact that in the north winter is a real season that lasts from at least late October through at least late February (and often longer). Sure the storms come and go, but then what? What about between the storms? What happens then? Mostly nothing, and it's all still there: the cold temperatures, the piles of snow (in the streets, along the walks, in schoolyards, ... wherever it's been plowed and not taken away). In cities something has to be done with that snow -- and there's nowhere to put it along the streets. So it has to be trucked somewhere and dumped in/on rivers or piled into snow mountains that may still be melting through March.

When we first moved down to NC and encountered the winter, and it snowed a bit that first year, I remember the parking lots in Pittsboro being "full" of snow and ice from the snow being driven on. I was helping people get their cars out of the old Byrd's lot in Pittsboro. What was being done about it? NOTHING. Not a plow in sight. No organized snow or ice clean-up.

We marveled. "What do they do? Why aren't they plowing it?," we wondered. And then it melted!! Then we got it. When it snows here, you just WAIT. Then in a day or two (or maybe three) it just goes away. Snow removal? What's that? That's God's work. Compare to places like Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, Syracuse, Albany, ... or in line with those or north of them. It comes and then just sits there and gets deeper and more in the way. For months. It's not 65 again after a couple of days. It's 25 or 20 or 10 or -5 or ...

Still, I think even at my current age, I prefer that to the heat and humidity of the summers here. (Not to mention the lack of trout.) But my wife sure doesn't, though she now likes to head north in August or September for a bit. 😂
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Glad you typed it and saved me the effort. Spot on description.
 
I grew up in a town the Ed Mathews of CH #2:literally points at the map and laughs at. It’s called Chardon, OH and it’s known as the “snow belt”.

I had enough the year I shoveled 3 feet of snow off my flat roof. My last year there.
 
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711b said:
Often this is the view that southerners who've never lived in the north have of that. It's somewhat helped by the news nowadays, which just focuses on the "newsworthy" events during winter -- and ignores the fact that in the north winter is a real season that lasts from at least late October through at least late February (and often longer). Sure the storms come and go, but then what? What about between the storms? What happens then? Mostly nothing, and it's all still there: the cold temperatures, the piles of snow (in the streets, along the walks, in schoolyards, ... wherever it's been plowed and not taken away). In cities something has to be done with that snow -- and there's nowhere to put it along the streets. So it has to be trucked somewhere and dumped in/on rivers or piled into snow mountains that may still be melting through March.

When we first moved down to NC and encountered the winter, and it snowed a bit that first year, I remember the parking lots in Pittsboro being "full" of snow and ice from the snow being driven on. I was helping people get their cars out of the old Byrd's lot in Pittsboro. What was being done about it? NOTHING. Not a plow in sight. No organized snow or ice clean-up.

We marveled. "What do they do? Why aren't they plowing it?," we wondered. And then it melted!! Then we got it. When it snows here, you just WAIT. Then in a day or two (or maybe three) it just goes away. Snow removal? What's that? That's God's work. Compare to places like Buffalo, Rochester, Chicago, Syracuse, Albany, ... or in line with those or north of them. It comes and then just sits there and gets deeper and more in the way. For months. It's not 65 again after a couple of days. It's 25 or 20 or 10 or -5 or ...

Still, I think even at my current age, I prefer that to the heat and humidity of the summers here. (Not to mention the lack of trout.) But my wife sure doesn't, though she now likes to head north in August or September for a bit. 😂
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In the south we CAN have that attitude. Although I've spent some time in areas where it's winter from Halloween to Easter, I prefer the south where it's very possible to follow a "big" snow with comfortable temperatures. I like when winter visits, not when it moves in to live.
 
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