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January 16-18th: Rolling the dice


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Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

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2 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

Classic Flash Freeze. Road & Air temps just above freezing. Get either light rain or snow, enough to get everything wet. Then clear skies post frontal turns everything to ice.

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6 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

Yup. Wet roads from earlier and the snow melt from the first burst is now all ice. Kids would be getting late opening or more tomorrow if it wasn’t already a holiday.

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12 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

After working in public safety and transportation for almost 20 years, I can tell you that light to moderate snow events are far, far more impactful. Folks see the lane markers and think they can drive like it's dry roads. Nope.

9 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

Classic Flash Freeze. Road & Air temps just above freezing. Get either light rain or snow, enough to get everything wet. Then clear skies post frontal turns everything to ice.

Yup. Rapid onset of an arctic airmass and no wind to wick the surfaces dry. Classic flash freeze.

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2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

After working in public safety and transportation for almost 20 years, I can tell you that light to moderate snow events are far, far more impactful. Folks see the lane markers and think they can drive like it's dry roads. Nope.

From my own experience of learning to drive in the snow over the past year I can attest there is nothing more that I hate than driving on "wet" mountain roads with temperatures in the 20s. Feels like a ticking time bomb. Driving in the snow is fine as long as you take it slow and learn to tap the breaks but slush/ice is a complete gamble. 

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32 minutes ago, nj2va said:

We went sledding at Blackwater Falls tonight - it was in the low teens with light pixie dust snow. Fun times and highly recommend for those visiting.

Currently 13.9 with pixie dust flurries, fire going in the wood stove, and enjoying a martini.

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That'll be next weekend. Its always so much fun!

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6 minutes ago, snowfan said:

I almost busted my ass on my own steps.

This, is one thing I don't miss in my getting older years. It was fun laughing at everyone back in Jan 1987 when I was young and spry and walking faster than the slow moving traffic in the heavy snow and sliding around on ice patches while whooping it up.

But today I'd just fall and bust my hip. I used to laugh so much about that stuff in the later 1980s.

AGE, it's catchin' up.

I am GLAD I live south of Austin TX.

BUT - I am pulling for the Mid Atlantic to get a 4 foot BECS.

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11 minutes ago, Jebman said:

This, is one thing I don't miss in my getting older years. It was fun laughing at everyone back in Jan 1987 when I was young and spry and walking faster than the slow moving traffic in the heavy snow and sliding around on ice patches while whooping it up.

But today I'd just fall and bust my hip. I used to laugh so much about that stuff in the later 1980s.

AGE, it's catchin' up.

I am GLAD I live south of Austin TX.

BUT - I am pulling for the Mid Atlantic to get a 4 foot BECS.

A 4ft BECS?? I can live with that!!:D

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4 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

A 4ft BECS?? I can live with that!!:D

This sub would come ALIVE! Watchin models and getting all excited, I'd be GLUED to this place. Kuchera clown maps would be going crazy showing 85 inches of snow over DCA, they'd be running out of colors.

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