HonestIndian

65 below with wind chill? You were lucky (cardboard box?)!

I've four times experienced 81 below with wind - twice in Chicago, once while ice fishing on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and once at a conference in Bloomington Minnesota on Groundhog Day.

65 below (mutter mutter) - Why, we'd be swimmming in that!

Please oh please let it be like ice jam 2k. pleease oh please no worky.

Mr. Coffee,

Emissions testing in PA has been in effect for a long time if you live in the Philly area.

One thing Wisconsin has taught me, besides the fact that Cheese Is Life, is how to drive on ice and snow. Also, the best vehicle for driving on snow is not a big, lumbering 4WD truck, unless you are driving in uncleared roads with 2 foot drifts. When driving on ice and hard-packed snow, a light front-wheel-drive car with a handbrake works great. Used to have a Golf, it would skitter across the snow like a rabbit (ha, get it?).

The issue is not "OMG we are slipping we are OW3NED!!11!" it's knowing that you definitely will slide and you can control it. I once spent a couple weeks in a town that never really had much snow before, and couldn't deal with it fast enough so that any of the roads got cleared. I think every single corner I took in that town was made by going into it at full speed, slamming on the brakes and starting a slide, turning the front wheels and gunning the engine to pull the front around, and pulling the handbrake to drag the back wheels and straighten us out. Either that or popping the handbrake to slide the rear wheels out when I wanted to do a 180. I remember shooting up into a slanted parking lot covered with ice, pulling a 180 in the parking lot while sliding up and over in an arc to the other driveway, kind of like the hammerhead maneuver.

Mr. Coffee Nerves
I'm sorry to keep belaboring this, but I am staggered by the inspection thing.

Food for thought: The weather and deterioration of cars is incredibly different from north to south. Damage to exhaust systems/the need for emissions tests is higher because of all the slag and salt from October until February.

If you get a chance, you'll see some older cars around these parts that are in excellent condition.

why should Atlantans panic? They're all just transplanted Yanks anyway!!!

This is so hilariously true. The great thing about growing up in Georgia is the if there is one single snowflake or patch of ice on the road, there was no school.

The snow never got all nasty and dirty from staying on the ground for weeks like up north. It falls, you play, it melts the next day, and that's it. It's all good.

ProgrammerCat

I forgot to ask you the other day - in what thread did you torpedo virginal Lily? I want to have an oogle.

/thanks K

Fannin County is even funnier. We get out of school because of snow... as soon as everyone gets home, the snow stops.

The hubbub down here isn't so much panic, really. It's more excitement, IMO. I'd love to see snow before the New Year. It's only happened one other time that I can remember, and that was December of 1991 or 1992.

Regarding the milk and bread stuff, let me share a few personal experiences.

Just monday, I was at the grocery store with my family, and my wife asked me to go pick up some milk, butter, and soda. I got them in reverse order, and discovered that the store was almost sold out of milk. They didn't have ANY of the 2% milk my wife drinks. I wondered at the time if there was a winter storm warning that I hadn't heard about. hehe.

But back in early 1999, when I was living in Spartanburg, SC, my wife and I went out on a Thursday night to do our normal weekly grocery shopping. Sleet was forecast for the night, and while checking out, our cashier and bagboy were making smart-ass comments about all the dumb southerners buying up all the milk and bread and crap. These two kids were apparently from Indiana or something.

Anyway, we ended up getting 4 inches of sleet before nightfall, and a couple inches of snow overnight. When I got up in the morning, the pine trees that surrounded my apartment complex had fallen such that all three exits were blocked.

Later that day, they were cleared away, but the power had gone out at 8am that morning. We ended up driving 2 1/2 hours to stay with my wife's parents for the next two days. It took that long for the power to get restored.

We laughed at those two smart-ass kids for days.

NO! Not atlanta!

How will people EVER get to the Clairmont Lounge!?!?!


(the highlight of me and the wife's trip there... if you go, i HIGHLY suggest it, if only to be insulted by the stripper who grabs and chugs your beer.... but thats its charm!)

2003-12-03 11:57:45 AM rcf1105
Y'all northerners and dairy belters can laugh at those of us who aren't used to snow all you want, but just wait until your schools and businesses start shutting down in the summer when the temperature goes above 90.
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I've lived in New England for 25 years and the closest I've seen to a shutdown from the heat is when the a/c broke in one of the courthouses in New Haven and the employees were sent home. Apparently, their union contract had something in there about min/max temps that employees work in. That was in 1982.

Kaka: That thread had something to do with a police stand-off in Alabama, I think... It was very entertaining.

Honest Indian, easily one of the best posts today!

snow covered highway + front-wheel-drive + 60mph = a fun time
Just make sure to honk and wave at the tards in their SUV's who are actually off road for the first time. ;-) Yes, I am that asshole who's laughing at you.

Y'all northerners and dairy belters can laugh at those of us who aren't used to snow all you want, but just wait until your schools and businesses start shutting down in the summer when the temperature goes above 90.

Most of us don't go to summer school. We made an effort to pass the classes the first time around.

I won't add to the many reasons listed above why snow and ice plays such havoc on us down here in the ATL, it's been covered quite nicely, thank you one and all. But I will say milk and bread is for wusses. I stock up on beer, nachos and condoms when it threatens snow. Gotta' get your priorities straight....

/loves snow in the south

one twat a best thread does not make.

2003-12-03 12:25:28 PM tdz
one twat a best thread does not make.
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Your opinion, maybe. I had a good time with that thread, and I think other farkers that were in that day would agree, as well.

This is older than making fun of the Brits teeth. Stop flogging the cracked leathery hide that is all that is left of the horse that died and rotted away centuries ago. Idiots.

Son_of_Jack

Thanks SOJ - I did have the extreme pleasure of being in on that one. Programmer Cat made a reference the other day as to how she destroyed LC - I was just curious what happened. I would hate to think that we will no longer be blessed with Lily's Lilly White view on the World. :)

Just stock up.

""You people are mean. I hope someday someone shoots at your loved ones on a regular basis."


Still warms my heart....sob...sniff

Lol, People don't even realize who LilyConner really is even though it's been posted in several forums already.

(not me, just still find it a riot)

Kaka: ProgrammerCat is a "he". I made the same booboo - in that thread, I think!

Uhhh-- actually, 4WD does help get a little more traction on icy or snowy roads. It's not just for getting out of snow drifts. I live in Minnesota and notice that my suv doesn't fishtail when I turn and shiz when I have the 4WD on. I'm not saying you still don't have to be careful, it just gives you a little more traction. SO THERE

Kaka: ProgrammerCat is a "he". I made the same booboo

D'oh! Sorry PC


For the record - I still think Lily was an alias for another trolling Farker.

Luxowell

Sadly, the Clermont is no more.

This made the main page?

I don't know why everyones laughing at us. While the rest of you sorry suckers are sitting in your cubicles putting in your 8, we're kicked up at home with some hocho. Now, you wanna talk about funny: I can't wait 'til July and August when we get the news reports about you yankees dropping dead by the hundreds because of a "heat wave".

ramblinwreck

Actually I just don't give a fark.

Intelligence is inversly proportional to the amount of milk you buy when it snows.
Personally, I think they should be worrying about restoring a government after thier successful coup, but maybe that's just me.

itsthesmell,

The plus about living in the North is making more money, having a passable education system, bettter dentistry, lower crime, and living in houses with basements and no wheels.....you get universal snow days......it's a trade off.

And I don't have a cubicle, I have a half-cubicle with a view of an alley, thank you very much. In ten or fifteen years I might get an office.....another ten? One with a door and a mini-fridge! After that? Sweet death!

wayward2: The only inspections that Georgia has are emissions, and that's only in Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Henry, Gwinnett, Paulding, Rockdale counties. But, those are only emissions inspections, not mechanical or road-worthiness.

As a native Atlantan (that can read - HonestIndian)I have to agree that people in Atlanta people do drive like some post-apocalyptic battle. But that's not exclusive to SUV's. P.O.S. cars, BMW's, Lexus (what's the plural of Lexus? Lexii?), beaters, you name it they all drive like they are trying to escape a giant burning wave of death and you are slowing them down.

I heard of a guy that was pissed off about cars speeding through his neighborhood, so he'd hide in front of a parked car and wait for a car that was speeding and he'd roll a little inflatable kids ball right in front of the cars. Don't know if it's true or not, but if it is I bet it scared the BEEJEEZUS out of whoever he did it to.

And everyone else is generally correct - people in Atlanta do kind of freakout when it snows. You have to make a good show of it if you want to justify a day off. Funny though, we have more folks here that moved to Atlanta than were born here. Seems like many of them forgot how to drive in the snow. Just my .02 worth.

The department of redundancy redundancy has recalled recalled the first paragraph paragraph of my previous post post.

*Slaps forehead*

What is it with people insisting that they have to have French toast every single time the roads get a little icy?

I tried this in the Fark Forum, but no one seemed to know what I was talking about.

Would someone post a link to the LilyConnor thread?

Purty please?

2003-12-03 12:54:31 PM DaFuente


Luxowell

Sadly, the Clermont is no more.

I've never been to the Clairmont, but my husband's fraternity used to take all their new pledges there and buy them lap dances from 300 pound women. That place is practically an institution.

You know, it's never been documented, but I always assumed the Union won the civil war was because a series of flurry-like snowstorms rendered "Johnny-reb" useless on the field of battle.

"I dunno whats wrong, Jonny-Ray....I keep slippin on this snow!'

"Run faster Johnny-Ray.....longer strides! Longer strides!"

"It ain't workin'! I keep fallin' down."

Wow, HonestIndian, you're really good at those sweeping generalizations about the south.

Suddenly an unfamiliarity with harsh winter weather turned into everyone living in mobile homes and not being able to spell our names. I can assure you that there are people just like that living above the Mason Dixon.

2003-12-03 01:01:40 PM itsthesmell
I don't know why everyones laughing at us. While the rest of you sorry suckers are sitting in your cubicles putting in your 8, we're kicked up at home with some hocho. Now, you wanna talk about funny: I can't wait 'til July and August when we get the news reports about you yankees dropping dead by the hundreds because of a "heat wave".
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To add to what HonestIndian sez: We actually have 4 seasons and not 2. From where I live in Connecticut, I'm a two hour or so drive away from Boston, New York, Newport (Rhode Island). I can see the Red Sox, the Mets, the Yankees, the Celtics, the Nicks, the Nets, the Rangers, etc., etc., etc. Get my drift? (and our traffic isn't anywhere NEAR as bad as Atlanta's)

P.S. I don't have to sit in a cubicle... I have my own office, thankyouverymuch!

Thanks the_Rev! I missed that earlier...