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They torched the remaining hazmat so as to speed up getting the tracks cleared, regardless of the additional hazards surrounding residents would have to face. It wasn't until after burning all of the rest of it off when that they said "whoops, there are other hazardous chemicals there too." BS They railroad knew exactly what was there. It was right on the consist. The big railroads are just as bad as other large corporations that have an almost monopoly. It is all about the $$$. I know through working in emergency management. We have had incidents locally where Norfolk Southern had to stop train traffic and they always whine that they lose a million dollars an hour when a line is shut down and implicitly say "screw public safety."

Didn't he also go by Saukville and a couple of other usernames between his multiple bans?

"For example, I love lifting weights. There are many mental and physical health benefits that not only serve me well now as I close in on 40, but will hopefully pay off all the way through old age. I love the journey. I love trying to get better. Perfect linear progress doesn't happen forever, but you put the work in to be the best version of yourself." I never worked out in my adult life, but had physically demanding jobs which helped keep me in shape. However, after getting a desk job with Emergency Management a few years ago, I kind of let myself go. So a little over a year ago, I began lifting and doing cardio. As I just turned 65, I now feel better than I did since I was in my 30's, and that even includes a couple of months last year where I battled cancer with chemo and radiation. Anyway, I'm looking forward to our I-69 semi-tipping winds this afternoon.

I haven't seen any posts from Powerball in the past couple days. I wonder if he has power.

Chinese balloon descending? https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-us/index.html

That's a crappy way to break a futility run.

It looks like cromartie picked up about 6". Kind of interesting that he hasn't posted on this thread recently about how it's going to bust and that a torch is just around the corner. Here is a representation of how his yard looks:

Suppression = Depression

Our peak depth was 6.7" at around 2 PM (EST), but have already lost a couple of inches to melting/compaction with the marginal temps, kind of a letdown. Was cool to see periods of +sn though.

Thanks for giving me confidence in my call.

I'm a winter lover and also enjoy following any kind of anomalous weather, but as I get older (just turned 65), I just want that type of cold to keep its a$$ up in Canada.

I'm riding Malacka11's favorite model at 10:1.

Me kicked back watching model run after model run having FWA in the sweet spot for max snowfall potential, while the ORD crowd laments a possible miss south and the Ohio group fretting about mixing issues Me when the track takes a last minute 75 mile shift northwest or southeast I'm realistically calling for 5.5" here.

No. 1 event of the year here. Still spitting flurries, but just measured 2.6" on the ol' snowboard. Kinda depressing that we are in late January and that's the deepest snow we've seen.

TOL and us down here in FWAland are rowing the same boat. Sitting under the bullseye 72 hours out, but not at all confident that it is the final solution.

Top 3 event here and maybe #1, as it is still snowing. We had 2.2" on 11/12 and 2.5" on 12/22. 1.9" at my 7AM CoCoRaHS reading, so it might approach the magical 2.5" mark.

Might as well get used to it - See the Chicago Weather Records thread.

Thought I'd move this over here so as to not clutter up the storm thread. Eight of the top 15 February Chicago snow totals have occurred in the past 15 years. Looks like quite a trend to me. 1. 2011 29" 3. 2015 26.8" 6. 2016 22.5" 8. 2008 21.8" 9. 2021 21.6" T 11. 2018 20.3" T 11. 2007 20.3" 15. 2014 19.5"

Several recent ORD Februarys are insulted by those posts

Call it intuition, but I think we'll score in this area (North Central/Northeast IN) even if it comes as multiple minor events over the next 10 days or so. Anyone down toward I 70 might as well post the Eurythmics.

The Watch just went up for the eastern couple of tiers of counties in IN and the whole western half of Ohio.

I vote for cromartie

Thanks for the input. It really brings to light some of the factors that goes into issuing products. It will be interesting to see how it affects forecast wording when advisories finally drop. Sorry to completely derail the thread. Now back to your regularly scheduled short/medium range discussion which looks to be more interesting next week.