CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | Weeeeee - who else can ice skate...
this evening on their roads, sidewalks and streets? |
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David
No,there is another.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
clubs: | I fell this morning.... I wished all I hurt was my feelings  |
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rds24a
Teach Your Children
Premium
join:2000-12-13
Springboro, OH
clubs: | 2 hours and 21 minutes - northside to southside. That drive home sucked.
Mental note...never drive down a road named "Far Hills" when it is icing.
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| I left work at 4:10 and did not think it was doing anything - then I had to scrape my windows. Got our free meal from the place that is doing preK and private kindergarten for my 2 kids. Main roads were ok and even their parking lot. Hit our street and it was bad and had a bit of a hill. Wife tried to get up another street in the van and had to stop before the hill thanks to another sliding car on a side street. She backed to a driveway as she could not make it up the hill.
She had to go around to another street that had a much gentler hill. Then she got stuck in the driveway and then she set the emergency brake because she was worried about the car 'rolling backward' - uh-huh. I drove the car into the garage - she is miss lead foot...
We live on a corner and a girl nearly took out the stop sign - sign was wedged behind the front, passenger side wheel right where the door meets the front quarter panel. Somehow a tow truck was available and got her out a bit later and after the cops showed up. |
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BurntCricket
Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do
Premium
join:2000-09-02
Here
clubs:
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It was fun coming home from work, my normal 15 minute drive took 40 minutes.
Roads were just wet until Cleveland, then ICE.
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It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. |
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lotusracer
Premium
join:1999-11-26
Moline, IL
| reply to CylonRed
The worst thing about the ice here is that it's too cold for salt to work on it.....
Then, we got 5" of snow.....
Thursday, we have another storm coming that will either give us another nearly inch of ice, up to 12" of snow or something in between! 
Crap weather... I wish the pig spleen would have been wrong. |
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lotusracer
Premium
join:1999-11-26
Moline, IL | reply to CylonRed
Ha, off in Iowa, they used Garlic salt on the roads!
»www.mysanantonio.com/videos/36281769.html |
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Hall
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join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
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| reply to CylonRed
My street is more of a hill than people realize... The first casualty was my neighbor's full-size work van. Well, not a casualty, just a "bruised" bumper, though the other car had more damage. Another car hit a 'school ahead' sign and while they were sitting against it, another car rear-ended them. Another car did a couple 360s and hit a power pole. They parked their car and walked home. Finally, this morning, one of the school teachers locked up her brakes and slid in the same power pole. She hit it awfully hard, or so it seemed (and sounded) but she just backed her car up, parked, and went into school.
My wife said cars were sliding down the street all night. |
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lotusracer
Premium
join:1999-11-26
Moline, IL
| reply to CylonRed
"Death Storm 2008" is headed our way... hope I don't wish I had a generator.
Hope we all escape the potential wrath of this one.
A WINTER STORM WARNING is in effect from noon Today through noon tomorrow for areas from the Quad Cities and north. AN ICE STORM WARNING is in effect from noon Today through noon tomorrow for areas south of the Quad Cities. A potent winter storm system moves in This evening with a mix of freezing rain and sleet to the south and snow to the north. Our latest forecast data is slowing the system down a little and keeping the ice farther south which will mean higher snow totals for the Quad Cities. We expect sleet and snow to break out this evening briefly before changing over to freezing rain for areas to the south and snow to the north through the overnight. We expect as much as a quarter to half inch of ice accumulation for areas south of the Quad Cities. From the QCA north where things will be colder, we will see more snow than ice. Snow totals will range from 3"-6" from I-80 to Hwy 30 and anywhere from 6" to 12" north of Hwy 30. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | SW Ohio tonight is supposed to get more freezing rain then switch to rain and it will be in the 40's tomorrow... Funky weather. |
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Sureshot
Cellar Dweller
Premium
join:2000-08-15
Lake Mills, WI
clubs: | reply to CylonRed
Holy crap do we have a lot of snow here! |
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lotusracer
Premium
join:1999-11-26
Moline, IL
| said by Sureshot  :Holy crap do we have a lot of snow here! I thought we got a lot of snow last year, but we currently have more right now than we did last year at this time.
I'm sure getting tired of moving snow every other day. |
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Sureshot
Cellar Dweller
Premium
join:2000-08-15
Lake Mills, WI
clubs: | It's tough on the lakes too. I see a few shanties out on our lake but not many. The snow just makes it take longer to ice over nice. |
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iFractal
What?...ever
Premium
join:2002-12-04
| reply to CylonRed
On top of all the snow, SE WI will be under a wind chill advisory Sun. and Sun. night. The natural gas company will love their increased profits. 
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Epidemic of the mannequins. |
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lotusracer
Premium
join:1999-11-26
Moline, IL
| said by iFractal :On top of all the snow, SE WI will be under a wind chill advisory Sun. and Sun. night. The natural gas company will love their increased profits. You know that when the weather is mild and usage is down, they still increase their prices because they don't make enough money.
We can't ever win that battle. |
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burner50
Pinlifter
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join:2002-06-05
EN22wm | reply to CylonRed
I'm glad I missed all the ice... We just wound up with 9" of snow. |
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BurntCricket
Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do
Premium
join:2000-09-02
Here
clubs: | reply to CylonRed
No more snow here but it is COLD, 3F now and -10 with the WC.
One good thing about it being so cold, not much or no snow.
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It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | We are in the teens till tomorrow with up to 40 mph gusts with wind chills possibly in the -10 to -15 F. |
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BurntCricket
Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do
Premium
join:2000-09-02
Here
clubs: | It looks like no white Christmas either, starting Tuesday it is going to warm up.
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It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| Yep - more of the same bitterly cold then warm temps a couple days later. This would be like the 3 or 4th time this year that we have temps in the high teens low 20's only to go up to 50 F a day or 2 later. Now it is going from single digits to 40's... |
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