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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:24 PM
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TX newspeople freaking out cuz it's cold outside..
I've been down here 18 years, you think I would be use to their panic attacks that hit as soon as the temp drops below 60! One Dallas channel sent their news crew looking for people daring to be "outside" tonight. Dudes, it 46 degrees ABOVE zero, not BELOW!!
The breaking news of it GETTING COLD in November was shown before any of the other news tonight! AARRRGGHH!
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:26 PM
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1. Meanwhile, it' 60 degrees right now in Boston
we're supposed to have a balmy day in the mid-60s tomorrow. Very pleasant for this time of year.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 PM
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3. No fair n/t
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:27 PM
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2. Hey, I'm in Houston
This is COLD for us! The wind here will almost knock you over, and it cuts right through you. If you're from the great north, I realize that this is nothing to you. Those of us who have lived here for all or most of our lives are just not used to it. You have to pick...should we acclimate to the blazing heat and humidity (most of the year), or the cold (rare)?
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:37 PM
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8. Cold in Houston
is awful. Been there and did not like it at all. I would rather be here in Kansas and really cold but without the humidity.
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 PM
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4. LOL
as a former texas resident, I remember that!! Everytime it dropped below 50, people went into a mass panic and raided the supermarket. I always hated the self-important Dallas stations. "Genocide in Rawanda, we'll tell you how that will affect North Texans":eyes:

Now I live in Illinois where it is "chilly" when you have an inch of snow on the ground.:eyes:
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:45 PM
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12. And they'll find that one Rawandan who lives in N Texas....
Oh yes they will...and they will preface it with "An interview you will see only HERE, on Channel x"
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:55 PM
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14. Exactly, lol.
Fox is of course the worst at this, but they are all awful.
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Winamericaback Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 PM
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5. Florida
Ahh enjoying the nice warm (high 70's) days.. hell I can still use my pool ;)
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:29 PM
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6. And doncha just love snow and ice coverage?
Thirty solid minutes of Winter Weather Carnage, usually.

Of course, it continues to blow my mind that people out here go drive on that stuff when they know perfectly well that no one down here can drive on it. Helllloooo? Two years ago, this happened, and there were like three hundred accidents in one hour, you should know enough to JUST STAY HOME. Idiots.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:32 PM
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7. I DO stay home....they can't drive in the rain, forget snow or ice
We lived in SC a fews years ago, and it snowed...we were an hour and a half out of Myrtle Beach...it had been something like 70 years sine the last snow...The shit wouldn't go away, we stayed below freezing for 4 days....shut the whole town down...no school, most people didn't work...no equipment to clear the roads, what a MESS!
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:40 PM
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9. "Is that ice?" QUICK hit the BRAKES...crash!
Oh, yeah..and all of tonight's coverage is just over <gasp!> the "first frost". People lined up at Home Depot for cold weather supplies for our temp dip that is due to hit 35 degrees tonight...the one news report that stands out in my mind was from a couple years ago "Just ahead, how you need to dress for the cold weather that is arriving in the morning". Ooohhh..you mean going get the mail in my bare feet tonight was wrong???? Just can't seem to shake these NJ/yankee genes!!
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argyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:42 PM
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10. I know we're deadly on snow but can anyone drive on ice? We get
freezing drizzle down here. It turns roads into glass in a matter of minutes. We don't get much snow but we do get about two ice storms a year.Sleet's bad enough but freezing drizzle?
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:53 PM
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13. Now imagine Dallas' High Five under ice...
Locals know what I mean..for others, picture two highways coming together and 5 different levels of overpasses going every which way between those 2 highways. Overpasses=ices easily=Dallas shut down and paralyzed until March 2005.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:03 AM
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15. Oh, yeah, this'll be the first winter for that bad boy, won't it?
Drive through it every day on the way to work. Thank heaven my boss realizes that Weather Insanity = Perfectly Good Reason To Stay Home.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:13 AM
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16. When there is a "Winter Weather Driving Advisory"
I keep my butt off the roads. I have lived in the mountains in N.CA and I know how to drive in the stuff. Most people in Texas should not be on the roads when it's icy/snowy. It's like demolition derby on ice. :)
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 03:28 AM
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19. Remember the great ice storm of 2003 that totally shut down the
Metroplex for TWO DAYS!!!!!

Man what a mess.

Like you, if there is ice on the road, I am in the house. I used to drive in it very well in Tennessee but not in this place.

Them and their big trucks that they think protect them from having an accident..guess again, guys.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:45 PM
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20. Bg trucks roll over too...
During that ice storm the DMN had a pic on it's website of a HUGE SUV in the gutter on I-35---laying upside down. They think that they are invincible in those things...meanwhile they take out 2 or 3 other cars when they wipe-out. Idiots.
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:43 PM
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11. you should be in L.A. when it rains!!
Every storm is the storm of the century with TEAM coverage!

It is absolutely ridiculous. :eyes:
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:19 AM
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17. I was born in Buffalo, NY. I remember digging tunnels through the
snow to get to school. Then I go spend some time in North Carolina where schools were closed with 1/2" of snow (with no make-up days). I was lovin' that!
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:23 AM
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18. I've been in Corpus for Xmas a few times
One time, there was a freeze warning, and man did everybody go apeshit. You'd have thought the Russian ballistic missiles were on their way.
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BoX o BooX Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:47 PM
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21. I lived in Dallas one winter.
Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 09:48 PM by BoX o BooX
It was freaking HILARIOUS when two inches of snow PARALYZED the Metroplex.

"StormWatch! With Doppler Radar!"



edited to get rid of the smow.
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:53 PM
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22. Snow
is the funny thing for me. Being from Michigan, it snows a lot. My dad grew up right on the Ohio River in Indiana. The town had one snow plow. If it snowed ONE inch, school closed. Cracks me up.

In Alaska, we've had snow already for about two months. And it is motherlovin' cold out, too.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:26 PM
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23. When there's a little snow or ice
Everyone rushes to the grocery store to hoard supplies. "We might be snowed in... FOR A DAY!" Austin sure learned the lesson of the Donner Party, that's for sure!
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