View out the front door of chez Curmudgeon at 9AM:
Yeah, freakin' Photobucket won't rotate the damn picture left. Oh, well. At 6:45 this morning, this was all grass. And it's still coming down pretty hard. Tomorrow morning is gonna be a mess.
EDIT: Whaddya know, it did finally rotate.
EDIT TO THE EDIT: weather.gov updated the .4-.6 inch sleet accumulation forecast to 4-7", or by a factor of 10. Yeah, gonna be fun in da morning.
I went to work today and did paperwork. The job we had lined up canceled because they were closing. Now I'm back at the house listening to the woods behind the house fall apart.
I might have to take the Samurai for a spin. 
wae wrote: I was coming back north from Florida through phase one of this yesterday. I pushed hard to make it to north of Atlanta on Monday night/early Tuesday morning, slept at the rest area and went to hit the road around 8am Tuesday. I-75 was basically a sheet of ice. They had something down that made it rough ice instead of smooth ice, but it was still really slick. I turned off the trailer brakes to keep it from locking up and jack-knifing me, and then just did a slow and steady up the highway while getting my doors blown off by tractor-trailers doing about 50. After crawling about 20 miles up the highway, I found an exit that I didn't need a reservation to drive down so I gassed up, and found a motel, preparing to just hunker down for a day or two, get a hot shower and some wifi and just work from the hotel until it was clear. Google told me that I75 was shut down due to an upside-down tractor trailer, and I listened to the radio a bit and heard Atlanta stations talking about how there was a lot more coming and Chattanooga stations talking about how they had just a little rain at the time, but sleet and freezing rain coming in the afternoon through the weekend. I figured that if I didn't push the 25 miles to north of Ringgold I was stuck for the duration. So another slow and steady back on the highway and -- sure enough -- when I got north of Ringgold where the semi was flipped over, the roads turned to just wet and then by the time I was north of Chattanooga, it was dry roads and sunny skies. After that experience, I absolutely understand how the place gets shut down. I don't know if they don't have the ability to treat the roads or what, but when there's that much ice on the road -- and there was every bit of 3/4" or more of ice covering the pavement -- if the slightest thing goes wrong, things are going to get out of hand quick. The hills made it even worse, because when traffic would grind to a halt, it definitely took some doing to get going again on the ice up the hill. Oh, and as I continued up I-75, I saw no fewer than a hundred power line bucket trucks and utility trucks booking south.
You mean to tell me OTR truck drivers(you know, people who drive for a living) are having major problems because of this "snow" storm. Some of that "snow" is all over crankwalk's car too.
As MadScientist said, it's a lack of equipment on the local/state government and individuals during this "snow" storm.
Meh, I will take a couple of paid days off while not having to drive into work for no reason. You northerners have fun with your cars rusting away.
^That. I'm getting paid to drink cold beer that has a half inch of ice on it from the back porch. I'll have 6 paid snow days this year and I had vacation next monday for Presidents day. Mother nature gave me a whole lot of vacation this year.
yamaha wrote: You lucky bastards......if we get even an inch or two of snow and some wind right now we'll be snowed in for another day. I've challenged a few friends to try making it to my house in a car before the roads are plowed with a reward of beer......nobody has been able to claim the beer yet.
I've made that same challenge, but I'm afraid if they do they'll be living with me until they get plowed out.
Since we are getting the drought end of this fuzzy lollipop I would love just a 1/8th of a inch a rain for a few days to refill our reserve tanks for the garden.
You guys are hogging all the water. Also we never get snow days, I never actually thought that was a real thing.
Bobzilla wrote:yamaha wrote: You lucky bastards......if we get even an inch or two of snow and some wind right now we'll be snowed in for another day. I've challenged a few friends to try making it to my house in a car before the roads are plowed with a reward of beer......nobody has been able to claim the beer yet.I've made that same challenge, but I'm afraid if they do they'll be living with me until they get plowed out.
Nah, about at that point, I'd get out the tractor with the loader or the snow blower on it and make them leave.
Ben Franklin: 'Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days'. 
Well, we have 5 inches of snow on the ground (Raleigh, NC) and sleet has been falling for a few hours now. Chuck never made it home, there was gridlock and accidents everywhere. He was able to make it to his moms, so he is safe and not stranded on the road somewhere.
They are predicting freezing rain tonight, with a possible 3-5 more inches of crappy white stuff tomorrow. Stay safe out there everyone! 
NOAA revised their forecast for tomorrow, they are saying this will keep up till about 4pm, a high of 39 then a low of 27. Friday's gonna be a mess too.
Total is about 5 inches so far and a little sleet in there so far in NW Atlanta suburbs. At my moms place by Road Atlanta its over 8 inches.
More tonight. I'm about 30 minutes or so from Road Atlanta. Was about 3-4" here, not too bad.
Some dude on a 4 wheeler was pulling his buddy in a plastic drop in bedliner earlier today. I failed to get a pic. 
Anti-stance wrote: Some dude on a 4 wheeler was pulling his buddy in a plastic drop in bedliner earlier today. I failed to get a pic.
Funny, we used to do that with a 3 wheeler and a Hydro-Slide. The cops never could catch us though they damn sure tried. Something about Hydro-Sliding down Main St. in downtown just drove them nuts. To be younger and dumber again.
In reply to Toyman01:
No cops are coming back in this neighborhood right now. Even if they did, they would probably tell them to just be careful. A plastic truck bedliner should tell you about the people that live around here.
Here's a funny article from our local "The Onion" type news site.
Toyman01 wrote:Anti-stance wrote: Some dude on a 4 wheeler was pulling his buddy in a plastic drop in bedliner earlier today. I failed to get a pic.Funny, we used to do that with a 3 wheeler and a Hydro-Slide. The cops never could catch us though they damn sure tried. Something about Hydro-Sliding down Main St. in downtown just drove them nuts. To be younger and dumber again.
In an ice storm several years back I was pulling a buddy around the neighborhood with a Honda SL125, a piece of rope and a stop sign. We waxed hell out of the sign, bent the front up and tied a rope to it. With a little practice we were able to get to about 15 MPH or so.
The funniest part was when we came to a 90 degree turn, I made the turn but he kept going straight. The rope kind of 'slung' him around as it yanked the back of the bike around, as I was going down I saw him come flying by with his eyes squeezed shut, right into a snow covered pile of yard debris.
I learned today my Civic's inner fender liner is in fact not able to stand up to snow. An hour and half and some time using tin snips I completed my 8 mile commute. LOL.
93EXCivic wrote: I learned today my Civic's inner fender liner is in fact not able to stand up to snow. An hour and half and some time using tin snips I completed my 8 mile commute. LOL.
I remember doing that once with my old Tempo. Only I just yanked hard and never put it back.
I rode the k1200s in the morning. Nashville got no accumulation at all. I mean it spit a little yesterday, but that's it.
Bobzilla wrote:93EXCivic wrote: I learned today my Civic's inner fender liner is in fact not able to stand up to snow. An hour and half and some time using tin snips I completed my 8 mile commute. LOL.I remember doing that once with my old Tempo. Only I just yanked hard and never put it back.
I had that same E36 M3 happen yesterday......berkeleying ice ridge at the intersection. I just reached under the car and pulled, broke into 3-4 pieces.....lol
LOL
"One man whose car was vandalized described the images as “big ole dicks on my car, yo!”"
Anti-stance wrote: In reply to Toyman01: No cops are coming back in this neighborhood right now. Even if they did, they would probably tell them to just be careful. A plastic truck bedliner should tell you about the people that live around here.
I live in the snowiest city in America at 108.5 inches and counting this snow season, I haven't missed a day of work, and I have a fwd coupe lowered to the ground. The slower you drive the less likely you are to crash.
Cotton wrote: I rode the k1200s in the morning. Nashville got no accumulation at all. I mean it spit a little yesterday, but that's it.
I can guarantee you that my old Honda wouldn't run for E36 M3 in this temp. And I would be an ice block.
7 on the ground now, slacks off for a bit; then 2 - 3 inches an hour until morning.
15 - 20 inches expected.
Maybe hurricanes aren't all that bad .....
crankwalk wrote: 2 inches of snow and almost a half inch of ice (not compacted snow) so far in Atlanta and will get thicker to over an inch of ice by tomorrow morning. My favorite part about winter is this always cues up the comments about Southerners being retarded hillbillies and how Northerners chime in about how hearty they are. No point arguing about it and I never hear Southerners insulting Northerners but whatever. If the NOAA is calling for catastrophic ice amounts, it's usually pretty legit and not Southerners just overreacting. Over 100k without power now and predictions of 750k losing power by tomorrow. A simple "Good luck" would be sufficient instead of the belittling that goes on.
Let you in on a secret...smart people of any geopgraphy stay off the roads when that merde starts to form on the cars and trees. Don't make much difference who you are or how you drive with what tire, its going to end badly.
^Agreed. Beer and pizza were the only things I did for 3 days until it went away. I STILL feel like I accomplished something. 
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