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This even more just in - the weather thread
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 09 Dec 2013, 13:44 ---snow and freezing rain where I am. The snow it slushy now but everything is glazed in thick ice.
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That is when the fun starts.
On another note - there was a major snowstorm that hit my hometown in Racine on Sunday. Huge accident on the main freeway that essentially bisects the county. At least one person dead in the accident, tons of others hurt, and somehow someone lost their dog in the whole thing.
The freeway is still "rural" in that part of the county, though there's more in the way of population down there than there is up here where I live now. They had to divert traffic off the main Interstate and onto the side frontage road five miles to the north.
Up here, we're starting our crazy mid-January weather patterns - drop below zero during the night, and then when it starts to warm up in the morning, flurries hit. As an idea: it's currently right at 0°F; it's supposed to get down to -15°F for a low this evening; then - as it warms up to 8°F tomorrow, it's supposed to snow in the morning. Add in 14 mph winds, which make the wind chill OMGWTFFMAO, and you get what a "Tuesday in North Central Wisconsin" is like.
cesium133:
The Northerners around here may get a kick out of what the city here uses to plow its roads.
bhtooefr:
Hey, I lived on a gravel road where the township used a grader to do that.
Mind you, there wasn't a stoplight in the township...
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 09 Dec 2013, 18:04 ---The Northerners around here may get a kick out of what the city here uses to plow its roads.
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...Yes? They use those - and front end loaders - to clear our parking lot.
94ssd:
Yesterday I overheard someone compare the weather to "The Frozen 9th circle of Hell" from Dante's Inferno. Very apt comparison considering all the damn ice. I wish there'd been some snow to make things pretty.
Just like my ice-scraper, my windshield wipers have fallen victim to the freezing rain. This morning they were frozen to my windshield. When I tried to pull one off, the rubber part came clean off the rest of the blade and stayed stuck to the glass. The other one didn't fare too well either. A lesson to anyone who is considering just buying the cheapest wiper blades in the shop like I did.
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