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Weather thread, Part II

After all the predictions, we ended up getting 2-3 inches of snow.
Enough to make it pretty, but not so much that the road clearing crews could not remove it pretty quickly.
 
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Tidewater said:
Plenty of warning for this storm.
Despite that, big pile-up on the interstate in eastern Illinois (go to Weather.com for the video).
I mean, come on, people. Did they not warn you for days that this would be a bad storm?
Is it not worth it to just pull off the interstate and wait for a few hours until the DOT clears the snow off the interstate? Damage to the truck. Damage to the cargo. Injury to driver and others?
If I owned a trucking company, I'd tell the drivers that insurance will not cover them in a snowstorm like this. It is just cheaper and safer to wait something like this out.
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This AM, lines were down across Gov. Drive at Monte Sano Blvd. We can get up and down, but people are trapped on the south side of Monte Sano. They can get out via Cecil Ashburn road over to south HSV, a road which didn't exist when you were here, or, if far enough south, around the south end of Green Mountain. When you were growing up here, that would have been no big deal. Now, probably 50K people live on the south side of the mountain and depend on Gov. Drive to commute to work, a lot of them at Huntsville Hospital. There's no way I'd live over there, with this happening several times a year and I'm sure you remember how hard it would be to try to widen the road. BTW, my winterization moves, now the hot water tank is drained are vastly simplified. I just don't have to worry about my shop any more. I went to bed at 53F and it's now 26F and dropping at 1:00 PM. Friday is the worry - snow or (argh) freezing rain. The #2 weather guy at the NBC affiliate says the latter. I tend to trust him. Although he's from the NE, he went to MS State for meteorology, and he came to HSV from being #1 at Providence, RI. Anything but that and the destruction that comes with it. Last winter, I was bringing firewood in from the shed. It was single digits and we had about a half inch of ice under 2" of snow. I was wearing crampons but still fell. That crap is hard to get upright on. I finally battled my way to my knees and, from there, I could finally get back up. I have better crampons now. A friend borrowed them to visit family in northern Finland and Sweden, so they're already been proof-tested...
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
This AM, lines were down across Gov. Drive at Monte Sano Blvd. We can get up and down, but people are trapped on the south side of Monte Sano. They can get out via Cecil Ashburn road over to south HSV, a road which didn't exist when you were here, or, if far enough south, around the south end of Green Mountain. When you were growing up here, that would have been no big deal. Now, probably 50K people live on the south side of the mountain and depend on Gov. Drive to commute to work, a lot of them at Huntsville Hospital. There's no way I'd live over there, with this happening several times a year and I'm sure you remember how hard it would be to try to widen the road. BTW, my winterization moves, now the hot water tank is drained are vastly simplified. I just don't have to worry about my shop any more. I went to bed at 53F and it's now 26F and dropping at 1:00 PM. Friday is the worry - snow or (argh) freezing rain. The #2 weather guy at the NBC affiliate says the latter. I tend to trust him. Although he's from the NE, he went to MS State for meteorology, and he came to HSV from being #1 at Providence, RI. Anything but that and the destruction that comes with it. Last winter, I was bringing firewood in from the shed. It was single digits and we had about a half inch of ice under 2" of snow. I was wearing crampons but still fell. That crap is hard to get upright on. I finally battled my way to my knees and, from there, I could finally get back up. I have better crampons now. A friend borrowed them to visit family in northern Finland and Sweden, so they're already been proof-tested...
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You have got to be the only person in Alabama who owns crampons.
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
This AM, lines were down across Gov. Drive at Monte Sano Blvd. We can get up and down, but people are trapped on the south side of Monte Sano. They can get out via Cecil Ashburn road over to south HSV, a road which didn't exist when you were here, or, if far enough south, around the south end of Green Mountain. When you were growing up here, that would have been no big deal. Now, probably 50K people live on the south side of the mountain and depend on Gov. Drive to commute to work, a lot of them at Huntsville Hospital. There's no way I'd live over there, with this happening several times a year and I'm sure you remember how hard it would be to try to widen the road. BTW, my winterization moves, now the hot water tank is drained are vastly simplified. I just don't have to worry about my shop any more. I went to bed at 53F and it's now 26F and dropping at 1:00 PM. Friday is the worry - snow or (argh) freezing rain. The #2 weather guy at the NBC affiliate says the latter. I tend to trust him. Although he's from the NE, he went to MS State for meteorology, and he came to HSV from being #1 at Providence, RI. Anything but that and the destruction that comes with it. Last winter, I was bringing firewood in from the shed. It was single digits and we had about a half inch of ice under 2" of snow. I was wearing crampons but still fell. That crap is hard to get upright on. I finally battled my way to my knees and, from there, I could finally get back up. I have better crampons now. A friend borrowed them to visit family in northern Finland and Sweden, so they're already been proof-tested...
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PLEASE take care of your self - and Liz, my brother.....
 
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Tidewater said:
You have got to be the only person in Alabama who owns crampons.
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Actually, there are quite a few. I just rarely have to use them around here. Hiking the mountains in winter, I've used them quite a bit. We used carry the instep type - easier to put on but not as effective. These stretch over your shoes. When we had the condo in Vail, we used them a lot in the middle of winter...
 
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PLEASE take care of your self - and Liz, my brother.....
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Oh, we're fine. We can get in and out. I'm glad we don't live in Hampton Cove. on the south side of Monte Sano, what used to be fields are now solid subdivisions from the mountain to the Tennessee...
 
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Bamaro said:
They are using bulldozers to clear roads of abandoned cars around LA so fire trucks can get through! :oops:
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The fire out there is insane, but it's been made worse by lack of water in some of the hydrants - apparently the water reservoirs used to run the hydrants were either not full or too small.
 
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The fire out there is insane, but it's been made worse by lack of water in some of the hydrants - apparently the water reservoirs used to run the hydrants were either not full or too small.
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Well, according to Trump, it's all the governor's fault. Last night, I had CNN on and there was some Republican congressman on a panel. He was asked about the situation and started off with "The problem is that you can't build anything in California." I changed channels...
 
Well, it's still snow to freezing rain and back to snow. I'm hoping still that our altitude will keep it all snow.
crimsonaudio said:
The fire out there is insane, but it's been made worse by lack of water in some of the hydrants - apparently the water reservoirs used to run the hydrants were either not full or too small.
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They had the county fire marshall on earlier and he said that the problem was that the entire water system, including hydrants, was never designed to handle five major fires at once. IOW, it wouldn't have mattered how much was in the reservoirs; the system just wasn't robust enough to allow sufficient throughput. This whole thing hits me a bit differently, I guess. We were just through there a couple of months ago and my SIL is only 40 miles or so away. Also, my sister used to live in Topanga Canyon years ago. It runs north from the Palisades. From the aerial pix, the just raced up the canyon, incinerating her old house, along with all the rest. Also, I can't make contact with my grandson to see if he were sent down there or if he's still up in the Pacific NW...
 
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This whole thing hits me a bit differently, I guess. We were just through there a couple of months ago and my SIL is only 40 miles or so away. Also, my sister used to live in Topanga Canyon years ago. It runs north from the Palisades. From the aerial pix, the just raced up the canyon, incinerating her old house, along with all the rest. Also, I can't make contact with my grandson to see if he were sent down there or if he's still up in the Pacific NW...
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FWIW, two colleagues (one of which is a fellow nominee on a Grammy-nominated project this year) lost their homes today, and one lost his studio as well. I have many friends / clients who are in danger of losing their homes and / or studios, so this is something that hits very close to home for me.
 
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