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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 03:57:43 PM
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The weather here was shit for 2 days. First we got a few inches of snow, then up to an inch of ice from freezing rain, followed by like 6 inches of more snow. There was a Level 3 snow emergency (that can get you arrested for being on the roads) in this county until 4 PM today, and it will remain at Level 2 (where you're wanted off the roads) until tomorrow morning. We also got a second dose of power outages caused by falling trees. Not nearly as bad as what Hurricane Ike caused in September, but still over 30,000 outages in our area. What worries me is that it could still happen. Some tree or telephome pole holding up a ton of ice could give out as long as that crap doesn't melt.
Here are a couple of pictures I just took, before daylight faded completely.
This one with flash (http://zdnrug.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pH-68uXysjg5ELin-MDlPb9HZRxH3NJp3gFabFMBOYnNtYbo5VEpizTHu64MBlpyl1xCVelUwCX_T2VFY0ysiQQ/Ice%20storm%20(flash).JPG)
This one without flash (http://zdnrug.bay.livefilestore.com/y1psn395eYXQqhabiN9Kqawjkx_EFkmDysZ0TWS-UtGvMgWtMgM8COZGOoLE88ajKkJ2gAoBdXZesGmh0guQ0R9EA/Ice%20storm%20(no%20flash).JPG)
I have a feeling things would have been much worse if the September inland hurricane hadn't already knocked out the weakest trees and limbs.
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Much as I'm not a fan of snow I can't deny how beautiful it looks resting on the tree branches coated with ice.
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As I live in the same city as Cobra, here are mine (http://scottws.zapto.org/gallery/?level=album&id=6).
Edit: I wish I got some from a bit later. Those were all taken fairly early after the ice converted back to snow and the snowflakes were huge. It continued snowing for a few more hours after that and that silver car across the street in some of those pictures was completely covered. I also wish I got a picture of the huge sheet of ice I pulled off of Jennie's car's roof. It must have been 3/4" thick and it was about 2' square.
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Almost makes me miss Colorado. Almost. I love the look and atmosphere of snow, but I honestly never went out and played in it or anything. I like how it mutes everything and makes the world quiet. I'm usually indifferent to the weather, except that I like the rain because it cools things off, but something about how snow makes the world shut up for a bit is cool.
To quote Yahtzee, "Now I need to go play an FPS before my body finishes absorbing my testicles."
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I live in Cbus. It sucks. The roads are terrible. The roads have 6 inch deep slushy on them, and then there is snow on top of that.
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I'm not going to lie here; I fucking hate snow unless it's on a mountain and under my board/skiis.
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The recent weather has made some nice icicles. There are a couple hanging off the back of my house that must be 4.5' long. I took some pictures, but I haven't checked how they turned out just yet.
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I added a couple pictures of icicles as well as some pictures of the remaining ice on my deck's railings during the meltdown.
http://scottws.zapto.org/gallery/?level=album&id=6
Last night I was walking my dog and it was literally dangerous. It was very windy and under trees and power lines it was basically raining chunks of ice.