Snowmageddon 2014 Part II

[Reverenddel]

Back to the forecast...weren't these the same folks who claimed i was gonna get 6-9 inches of snow? I got 1...

I swear they sound like a 1970's pick up bar! Praising the inches, but deliver LOTS less!

[OakRidgeStars]

Our television provider dropped The Weather Channel and now uses another weather forecast channel. The provider was warned that the move would result in weather related deaths.

I can't say that I miss DirecTV very much. I certainly don't miss the bill.

[WRW]

Our television provider dropped The Weather Channel and now uses another weather forecast channel. The provider was warned that the move would result in weather related deaths.

I can't say that I miss DirecTV very much. I certainly don't miss the bill.

We wouldn't have it if it were my call. Silly entertainers.

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[MarcSpaz]

I really need to order a new winch now that I have my new Jeep. One of my favorite things to do when it snows is drive around and winch other 4x4 out of ditches.

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[Palladin]

Bearnado watch now in effect... Polar vortex has been sighted dropping polar bears on unsuspecting townships in the upper midwest. School systems should be closed at once...

All this climate change is freakkin' me out - actually, this is more like the winters when I was a yoot.

Which were nothing at all like the winters when my pap was a youngun...

If you aint ready, you'd better get ready. If you don't know how to get ready go to

READY DOT GOV

Where they will provide pointers on where and how to stock up on MILK and BREAD.

Hell, I got so warm and fuzzy just thinking about all my tax dollars at work, I saved 50% on my heating bill. You too, can learn this one weird trick - it's true.

[OakRidgeStars]

The watch is now a WARNING!

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.p ... ubpjvso6mU

Serious you guys.

[Palladin]

@ marc - I like to ride around pulling wenches out of ditches, too... but my wife won't let me bring them home.

[MarcSpaz]

LoL

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[OakRidgeStars]

@ marc - I like to ride around pulling wenches out of ditches, too... but my wife won't let me bring them home.

Maybe she should put snow tires on her broom

[skeeterss0]

now they went and did it! They gave it a name (Leon):

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-win ... m-20140127


Used to be only hurricanes had names now any bit of bad weather they name. Talk about the media Hype!

[OakRidgeStars]

It's supposed to raise awareness. Or hysteria. Or something.

http://www.weather.com/news/why-we-name ... s-20121001

[WRW]

It's supposed to raise awareness. Or hysteria. Or something.

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Personification makes it REAL. Yeah, buddy! Anybody remember the storm of '73?

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[dorminWS]

I do remember a butt-dragger along in there about '73.

They build up a lot of awareness and hysteria (and viewership, don'tchaknow), and then they get it wrong anyway. They had called for some snow here, but when I left the house about 7:30 this morning it was 6 degrees and they'd changed the forecast to a ZERO percent chance of snow. That was fine with me. Right now it's all the way up to 11 degrees, but there's enough of that "zero percent" out there to turn the roads and the ground white - maybe a half-inch or so. Looking for a low of -2 tonight, and up here at 2,170 feet, we're usually a few degrees below the forecast. I believe tonight will qualify as one of those "freeze-the-cast-iron-balls-off-a-brass-monkey times that sailors used to recount. Maybe they should have named this storm BONZO or CHEETAH.

[skeeterss0]

Starting to snow in Norfolk

[OakRidgeStars]

10 - 12" of snow fell in Virginia Beach

[dorminWS]

10 - 12" of snow fell in Virginia Beach

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

OUCH! Bet that's gonna make a lot of folks' day.

We lucked out and only got 3-4". But the bad news is that it is about -10 degrees here right now.

[mamabearCali]

My mom (va beach) has 10 inches. Here in chesterfield we look to have about 2inches.

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[OakRidgeStars]

I always send pictures of "snow on the beach" to family members in Arizona and SoCal. It just blows their minds.

[skeeterss0]

got 8" here in Hampton. Been out shoveling and salting this morning

[Mav]

Yeah hyped up weather reports... way to clear out wal-mart...

Nice shots there OakRidgeStars.. i go for a walk there every morning.. well almost every morning I'll have to get my but down there this week.

and I an't shoveling nut'n.. don't have to be anywhere and its going to be 45 of Fri and 55 on Sat and 60 on Sunday.. I figure most of it will melt by then..

Be safe everyone.