Fifty schoolchildren trapped on buses. I assume our host is pretty frozen in. The frigid air just missed us to the east; we've been hovering in the mid-30s day and night.
I hear it's rough in Atlanta. Way out here it's not so bad. We've got the first snow in four years. You can hear the distant voices of cheerful children sledding, some of them for the first time, others for the first time they can remember.
I read where Chipper Jones went out on a 4-wheeler to rescue Fredddy Freeman from the freeway....after three inches dropped. Man, I do. not. miss. southern drivers in bad weather. Snow started falling again here sometime last night. It's snowing here like a white Carolina spring rain. We've already gotten three inches with no end in sight for the next two days....says I as I watch a lady from the neighborhood walk up the hill using ski poles. But I can guarantee that, while we will shirley have accidents, we won't have fatalities or traffic problems. Hell, the plows haven't even been sent out yet. They'll go out this afternoon, though, right before the busses take kids home and people start driving home from work. 0>;~}
IIRC, the last major winter storm to hit Atlanta was the spring break storm in 1995, and that one was more snow and wind than ice. (I missed that one - got out three hours before the storm hit, came back after everything wrapped up and melted off.)
We loved snow as kids! All the mysterious places in the woods got doubly so, the pines always had a secret little needle carpeted clear spot up next to the trunk, and the boughs would droop to the ground under the burden of snow, making a nice hidy-hole. The swamps, normally impassible, would freeze, so we could explore the hidden islands and channels. As teens, we would immediately look for the largest parking lot we could find and conduct traction exercises with car.....go for long walks at night in the woods with our friends, the moonlight lending vision because of the snows reflection, --and the quiet-snow has the sweet side effect of muffling so many distant sounds.
We dipped below freezing last week for about a nanosecond. Our porch being upstairs and exposed beneath, it built up a thin layer of ice on the north side. I walked out onto it and promptly fell right on my tuches. Actually, it was more of a slow-motion jack-knife split, which I would have said wasn't physically possible. It was more graceful in the execution than in the recovery, the latter exhibiting something of a stranded-turtle aspect.
raven As teens, we would immediately look for the largest parking lot we could find and conduct traction exercises with car....
Ah yes, wheelies in the parking lot. Good times. One unintended consequence of practicing wheelies: good practice for dealing with snow on the road. Play can help practice for real life scenarios.
LOL Well, not today! Apparently, a foot of snow doesn't warrant the plows going out on a priority route such as a bus route. Although, I will say that shovelling the driveway and the front parking spaces was quite a nice work-out. Maybe tomorrow after we get another 6" or so overnight they'll see fit to send out the plows. We'll see. Not that it matters to me, my cars will easily get me where I want to go. 0>;~}
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I hear it's rough in Atlanta. Way out here it's not so bad. We've got the first snow in four years. You can hear the distant voices of cheerful children sledding, some of them for the first time, others for the first time they can remember.
I read where Chipper Jones went out on a 4-wheeler to rescue Fredddy Freeman from the freeway....after three inches dropped. Man, I do. not. miss. southern drivers in bad weather. Snow started falling again here sometime last night. It's snowing here like a white Carolina spring rain. We've already gotten three inches with no end in sight for the next two days....says I as I watch a lady from the neighborhood walk up the hill using ski poles. But I can guarantee that, while we will shirley have accidents, we won't have fatalities or traffic problems. Hell, the plows haven't even been sent out yet. They'll go out this afternoon, though, right before the busses take kids home and people start driving home from work.
0>;~}
IIRC, the last major winter storm to hit Atlanta was the spring break storm in 1995, and that one was more snow and wind than ice. (I missed that one - got out three hours before the storm hit, came back after everything wrapped up and melted off.)
LittleRed1
...the plows haven't even been sent out yet.
You have snow plows!?
Eric Hines
We loved snow as kids! All the mysterious places in the woods got doubly so, the pines always had a secret little needle carpeted clear spot up next to the trunk, and the boughs would droop to the ground under the burden of snow, making a nice hidy-hole. The swamps, normally impassible, would freeze, so we could explore the hidden islands and channels.
As teens, we would immediately look for the largest parking lot we could find and conduct traction exercises with car.....go for long walks at night in the woods with our friends, the moonlight lending vision because of the snows reflection, --and the quiet-snow has the sweet side effect of muffling so many distant sounds.
We dipped below freezing last week for about a nanosecond. Our porch being upstairs and exposed beneath, it built up a thin layer of ice on the north side. I walked out onto it and promptly fell right on my tuches. Actually, it was more of a slow-motion jack-knife split, which I would have said wasn't physically possible. It was more graceful in the execution than in the recovery, the latter exhibiting something of a stranded-turtle aspect.
raven
As teens, we would immediately look for the largest parking lot we could find and conduct traction exercises with car....
Ah yes, wheelies in the parking lot. Good times. One unintended consequence of practicing wheelies: good practice for dealing with snow on the road. Play can help practice for real life scenarios.
I remember seeing several years ago, people in Washington DC abandoning cars because of 3 inches of snow.
Nature has a way of humbling everybody.
"You have snow plows!?"
LOL
Well, not today! Apparently, a foot of snow doesn't warrant the plows going out on a priority route such as a bus route. Although, I will say that shovelling the driveway and the front parking spaces was quite a nice work-out. Maybe tomorrow after we get another 6" or so overnight they'll see fit to send out the plows.
We'll see.
Not that it matters to me, my cars will easily get me where I want to go.
0>;~}
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