Big winter storm on the way!

[GDS_Starfury]

I was just in SRQ last weekend but Im living in Palm Beach.

[JasonPratt]

Dad used to go gator poaching as a kid down there (his dad was captain on a tug boat, immigrated from French Canada).

That was back when they were endangered, of course. (Or maybe before then, would've been the 50s.) Would never have believed myself they could be so incredibly un-endangered (and pestilent ;) ) that they'd be offered as relatively cheap food.

(They certainly aren't gormet. Chicken and lots of things are better. Gator isn't bad but  )

[bayonetbrant]

1-2 inches coming down right now, maybe more.  They've already shut down most of the city.  The problem today was the same thing that happened last year - it came in faster than they thought, and hit right as everyone was on the roads (this time it was morning rush hour) so there was no chance to get the plow trucks out.

The major surface streets were OK where cars were driving over them while it was coming down, and were able to wear tracks through the accumulation OK before anything piled up.  But the side streets / neighborhoods were a mess b/c they're the last to get any plow attention and they lacked enough traffic to wear a track through the accumulation.

From Wade Ave to Page Road on I40-W (the main road in/out of RTP) - a stretch of about 6 miles - there were 7 different accidents this morning through 9am, and probably some more since then.

[mirth]

Almost 11am and it's warmed to 8F. It was -11F at 6am.

More snow tonight. Least it will stay in the mid teens.

[BanzaiCat]

It was 25F here this morning with wind chill. We were just missed by a storm a county or two to the north, which froze shit over up there. In Huntsville (about 40 minutes north of me), it snowed. It's 36F now, supposed to get in the upper 40s. There will be people out there in parkas and gloves.  ::)

[mirth]

I would kill right now for temps in the 40s. There would be people out in shorts and t-shirts.

[LongBlade]

Almost 11am and it's warmed to 8F. It was -11F at 6am.

More snow tonight. Least it will stay in the mid teens.

Quit yer cryin'.

I grilled chicken wings last night in 3 degrees.

[BanzaiCat]

[Barthheart]

Almost 11am and it's warmed to 8F. It was -11F at 6am.

More snow tonight. Least it will stay in the mid teens.

Quit yer cryin'.

I grilled chicken wings last night in 3 degrees.

You could almost be a Canuck!  O0

[LongBlade]

Almost 11am and it's warmed to 8F. It was -11F at 6am.

More snow tonight. Least it will stay in the mid teens.

Quit yer cryin'.

I grilled chicken wings last night in 3 degrees.

You could almost be a Canuck!  O0

Believe me - I felt like one.

Note to self: buy flame-retardant jacket capable of being comfortable in 0 degree temps.

[steve58]

I would kill right now for temps in the 40s. There would be people out in shorts and t-shirts.

Yup, we (up in Northern Virginia) got about 7-8 inches of snow Sunday/Sunday nite.  Come Monday me and my neighbors were out shoveling in our T-shirts as the temps rose to about 50F...think I even got a bit of sunburn .  Of course, Monday nite the temps plunged back down to about 8F 

[OJsDad]

Almost 11am and it's warmed to 8F. It was -11F at 6am.

More snow tonight. Least it will stay in the mid teens.

Morning radio host said it's pretty bad when he temp at the North Pole is warmer than here. 

[Staggerwing]

Hey! I have that same grill!

[Gusington]

It was -6 when I left my house this morning.

[mirth]

It's a balmy 14 tonight.