How did everyone else in the South fare in the recent sno-pocalypse?
9Locally we got about 3 inches and it was down to 15 or so at night, but REALLY folks… it’s NOT the end of the world as we know it.
Roads were icy in patches where they were in the shade all day, and it never got much above freezing yesterday so that didn’t help. Slow down and take your time and it’s all good. The city sanded the bridges and major hills so it wasn’t that bad. At 22 degrees at midnight last night on the way home from the ER it was no trouble at all if you kept a reasonable speed.
Hope you all kept warm and safe in your nests…
I seriously toyed with firing up the hot tub, but decided against it since I have to work this week and didn’t want to fork out the $$ if I couldn’t use it a few times. Pool temp is brisk 45.6…
Here are a few pics.
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No snow or ice near me, just got cold.
If by snowpocalypse, you meant the a/c was turned on … yes.
@narfcake Do you live in Australia or something?
@cengland0 SoCal. High was 79°F yesterday, and was still 70°F at 6pm last night.
(The HVAC is automatic at my work, so it’s not up to me when it’s on.)
@narfcake …Gotta love it.
I always tell people cold is easier to deal with.
Keep putting on clothes until you get comfortable
Heat is another story. You can only get so naked before you get in serious trouble (plus you’re still hot!)
…of course, I do live in Alabama…
@chienfou That doesn’t work for me. Once I get cold no amount of layers will help me.
@moondrake I am a regular heater in general. My wife sticks around primarily so I can keep her feet warm at night
@chienfou dry heat is different than humidity from hell
@Cerridwyn yeah, " it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity" is the state moto…
@chienfou in the last photo, there seems to be a couple of toes missing on the right foot. Did they make it through the sno-pocalypse okay?
@elimanningface Good call! Frostbitten extremities are for reals – just ask @ACraigL!
@elimanningface guess they were just curled under too much. I had stepped out to take pics of some icicles in the gutter and after I took off my crocs I couldn’t resist stepping in all that fluffy snow…
We received about an inch and a half, twice in six weeks is super unusual in south central Alabama. We do not have snow equipment here.
The snow we got is still here, should melt today. 44 and sunny.
All nine pets are inside and I am keeping the fire going. Be glad when this snow leaves and we get back to normal, 50s. Gonna be 60 Saturday, sunny!
Schools have been out for four days which includes MLK Day.
Twenty-five wrecks in one town.
Hope this break will help slow down the flu epidemic, here. Two in my house have it, will feel real lucky if I escape.
@Calabama Looks like we are ‘neighbors’. I’m in central AL up I-85 from Montgomery.
Got some sand thrown out by the city on the biggest hills (2 of which create a valley with a creek/bridge at the bottom of it that is between the city and the elementary school and local hospital where I work. Thanks to the thaw during the day the road is pretty slick right now, but still navigable if you are careful).
The flu here seems to be winding down some. I have seen a lot less in the ER this week than we did a couple of weeks ago. Hope you donge that bullet at your house. Remember, good hand washing, cover your cough etc. (of course I mean the others in your house)
And you’re right about the weather. This weekend should be lovely.
@chienfou We are not far away from each other, Valley Grande, right outside Selma. Selma has nothing, I go shopping/out to eat in Prattville, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa(where I am from).
My son’s quick test came up negative but because of his symptoms, they gave him meds and his dad had it first. My hands are dry from all washing and sanitizing everything, so far so good! I have not been sick in years, don’t want to ruin my record!
Schools are called off tomorrow too.
@Calabama Yeah, I 'm about halfway between Montgomery and Auburn off I-85.
Glad you have dodged the flu so far. Scary news about that poor child in Pike Road. How heartbreaking!
@chienfou Yes, a little third grade girl. That broke my heart, all of the deaths seam so unreal, when people when they have been to the doc. My son’s quick flu test came up negative but the doc gave him 3 scripts because his dad had it and his symptoms. He is doing really well.
@Calabama tamiflu one of them?
@chienfou They both took Tamiflu. My son had sinus infection, so meds for that and cough med.
I still have been healthy! Well in body! Mind? Always debatable!
Hate you had to work on that beautiful weekend! I spent Saturday in Tuscaloosa and lots time of outside Sunday. Nice today, I’ll be outside soon.
Have you and yours been able to stay healthy?
@Calabama Did you join 40K close friends for the celebration? WhooHoo!
@chienfou OH, YES! 40K Strong! I saw the whole team walk by and everyone. Calvin threw me a football, told him I was going to miss him and I loved him, he was so funny!
I met Henry Ruggs, last year taking my kids on a field trip in Montgomery and told him he had great things before him. I yelled his name, he came over, made him remember me, he hugged me and I got his pic. I was hollering so much I forgot to take the QBs till they walked away.
I had so much fun! Walked for miles! WOO HOO!
I graduated from Bama.
We just had a minor cold snap, 20’s at night, 40’s and 50’s in the daytime. This is what winter is like here, and January and February are usually our coldest months. We need some nights below freezing to kill insects and help the chile crops. Humidity has been in the teens to low 20’s so no snow.
@moondrake what is “chile?” I’m not being a butthole at the moment, I am genuinely curious and not sure what you are referencing.
@elimanningface
/image chile peppers
@elimanningface Chile (chee lay) are peppers (and also a country). Chili (chill ee) is a kind of stew. Chilly is what my feet are right now. Here in the Rio Grande Valley our main crops are chile, cotton and pecans.
@moondrake, @medz - lol, you learn something new everyday. Thank you
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@elimanningface When visiting family living in Hatch NM, I made the mistake of saying I wanted to buy some of the Hatch peppers then I was there.
I know better now. They are Chiles. Not peppers or chile peppers. Just Chiles.
@elimanningface around here, a ‘chile’ is a small/young person.
@daveinwarsh Hatch Chile Festival is an annual expedition.
@moondrake When the Chile Fest isn’t going, Hatch is just a wide spot in the road…
Lots of Chiles growing, but also lots of huge onions!
This southern town had a melt down over practically nothing (speaking as someone who grew up in the snow belt).
@Kidsandliz yeah, I know what you mean. You would think they never had seen snow before (and they DEFINITELY never drove on it!)
Having lived in St Louis, the french alps, Boulder Colorado, several cities in Minnesota and Wisconsin prior to our current stint in AL I can assure you that this ain’t squat.
There was ice in the birdbath this morning; it was 27 last night. It’s 50 now, will be 24 tonight. I have towels along the walls where I still don’t have baseboards, or flooring, and earlier this week the insurance company and I had a brisk and entertaining conversation. They had closed my file (Irma damage) and have now reopened it. Must have been something I said. Restoration will begin next week sometime.
@OldCatLady Did you check your policy for a baseboard exclusion?
@sammydog01 The discussion was ‘full and frank’, and they have agreed to finish the inside walls, replace the baseboards, paint two interior walls, and caulk the exterior, then repaint the back wall.
@OldCatLady I was just kidding- they obviously need to do all of that. I hope it happens soon.
I wore pants today.
@RiotDemon good call!
@chienfou pants again today.
@Moose There’s a lot of that going around. Is it the car version of ‘cold enough to freeze your ****s off’?
@OldCatLadyPerhaps it is evidence that he is panicked as he doesn’t own a snow brush for his car? You know, because it is the deep south version of buried in snow?
@Kidsandliz We don’t need no stinkin’ snow brush, just drive 70 down the road and it all blows off!
(or gets thown off the car when it hits that tree…)
Children have been out of schools for two days but go back tomorrow - we had about 1/16th of an inch of
snow. We had a little ice on the roads but the main reason school was out was due to the cold temperature. We just don’t have the clothes for cold weather down here close to the Gulf. For example, this is the first time I have been able to wear a long wool skirt, heavy Coat and gloves in about five years. (Except a few weeks ago when we had another weird cold front move in.)
@margot5115 Wow, is that true! When I moved from Orlando to the frozen north, I only owned a raincoat and sweaters. When I moved back here, 35 years later, I brought my suede jackets, serious gloves, woolen scarves, knee socks, and about a cubic yard of sweaters. This year I’ve hauled a lot of them out. They work just fine.
@OldCatLady yeah, it’s nice that it works that way. No batteries to fail, no software to upgrade…
I still have clothes from when we lived in the north (MN and WI) that I pull out a couple of times every few years just to keep them from getting musty!
@OldCatLady, I’ve donated most of my cold weather clothing to Goodwill due to the fact that I just can’t wear it here. Someone else needs that stuff. So - out it goes to another happy place.
@margot5115 When I lived in Miami, on those very few
30deg days, you usta see all the winter styles of the past 30 years when you went out.
@cranky1950 - Yip, I wore my maxi black wool skirt - a classic from 1999 today! I LOVED WEARING THAT!
@margot5115 We have couple of ‘ski coats’ that my wife has been after me to purge from the closet that are definitely not in the current fashion palate…
@chienfou lol!!!
They cancelled school AGAIN for tomorrow. Still too much patchy ice around. I think that’s the longest ‘snow days’ break I can remember locally in the past 30 yrs! Guess they will have to steal some days off the spring break cause they generally don’t plan so many weather days…
@chienfou I taught for forty years and I never had a week off for snow. My first year of retirement! In 93, I was on maternity leave, I do not remember how many days they were out.
I can never remember two snows, period. It will help the peaches! Do you get them from Chilton County? The Best! Last year we did not have enough cold days, that is if a late frost doesn’t get them!
Last year was sparse.
They do not build this many days in. When one school of mine flooded, we had to go half day on Saturdays, and stay later each day to make up the hours. I think being A State of Emergency will help there.
It’s been so cold, I stored my batteries on the front porch…
@shahnm I’ve been keeping the produce I bought this week on the porch.
@moondrake That’s a good idea, but it’s so hard to find the room these days, what with all the batteries and dead hookers.
@moondrake Mine would have been frozen into cannonballs and ice sheets… got down to teens and twenties at night.
I have used a cooler on the porch at night to keep stuff cool while it thaws (turkey, pork butt for smoker etc) on occasion though.
Here in Montgomery, I measured 4+ inches in the back of my truck. Got down to about 14°. Anywhere on the surface streets that is shaded still has icy patches. Parking lots still have patchy ice. 26° now with 50° expected tomorrow, so those icy patches should finish melting.
I don’t know how to add pictures or I’d share. Longest freeze I’ve seen in 11 years.
@sarahsandroid howdy neighbor… we’re in Elmore county…
Same thing here. Took a pic of snow on the table on the deck with a tape measure buried to 3.5 inches on the first morning.
Glad things are getting back to normal. Have the grandkids down from Nashville for a schoolfest play at the ASF on Friday ( Snow Queeen) that I was afraid would be cancelled due to the fact the local schools were closed.
@chienfou I wanted to see that. My son and I are going to go to the Shakespeare plays coming. They had a day of free tickets for each play but I think, you had to pick them up there. It is an hour away hour from me. I love plays. Went to A Christmas Carol, a few times.
I took my PreK 4 class to see Goodnight Moon, I prolly loved it more than anyone!
So far still clear of the flu!
@Calabama kids loved it. I stayed home to sit with Dad due to his dementia so mom could go… That made 4 generations! 6 y/o granddaughter was enthralled!
ASF is a true state gem. We have seen dozens of plays there over the years and have never been disappointed. Tix have gotten pricy, but sweet deals has them for half price pretty often and the opening weekend is usually cheaper ( plus they have a free reception after… Bonus!)
Glad you have dodged the flu so far. I ended up working all weekend (16 hrs overnight Sat, 12 Sun) and we have run out of flu tests. Still seeing lots of potential cases we just treated as positive.
@chienfou That is too bad, I thought this weather-break would slow down the spread. I wish people would stay home when they are sick.
Have you seen a lot of allergy related illnesses, bronchitis?
Dog flu too is spreading. Mine do not get around other dogs, so they should be fine. Not any stray dogs around and we live in the country.
@Calabama Unfortunately not all employers are on board with the stay @!#$@^ home if you are sick concept. Not only do they dock your pay, you have to shell out for a Dr visit to bring a note…
As for the dog situation, I’m shocked that you live anywhere in AL in the country and don’t have a stray problem. EVERYBODY knows if you grow tired of your pet, he gets too big, too ill, or too expensive (or whatever other pathetic excuse you can dream up), you are supposed to turn him loose out in the country some place…
@Calabama Hopefully not TOO many of the 40K had the flu, cause you KNOW they were gonna be there come hell or high water…
@chienfou
We really do not have a problem with stray cats or dogs. We have had four dogs come live with us, only one might have been dropped off, he has seizures but we take care of our boy. The others knew where their dogs were and gave them to us. Two were purebred labs!
A cat or two might come around but all healthy, no ferals. Have not seen a cat in a long time.
SO TIRED OF PET SURRENDERED STORIES. It is death do us part ANY pet I get. I hate people a lot, for giving one up for any reason, except the dangerous ones. I hate them for the way they treat them. Turned one dog in, I saw was being hungry and neglected. Humane society guys said it was ok, called three times. Last time he laughed, I said I’ll go higher, I called the sheriff. Dog was gone next day.
I always had sick days so calling in was no problem and I had an assistant because my kids were four, I knew who was taking care of them. I was not absent but five days in the last five years. I have not been sick in several years.
We did not even have to have an excuse.
Those fans were going to come! Some came over 800 Miles!
I feel fine…
Did not think about the flu, just #17!
I did not even take sanitizer! What is the incubation time for the flu?
@Calabama You should be in the clear from that exposure on Saturday.
Not bad, only had 3" here and it was above freezing most of the day through the storm so driving was not terrible. It iced up at night but I didn’t need to be anywhere so I stayed in. It’s icing again tonite so fell asleep in front of the fire. Tomorrow is in the mid 40s so most of the snow will be gone.
@cranky1950 yeah daytime was fine, with the roads getting slushy and then drying off anywhere the sun hit the pavement. Under the spots that stayed shady it just turned to slush, then ice when the sun went down. Especially inconvenient on the hills/bridges in the creekbed areas.
Here in Montgomery, I measured 4+ inches in the back of my truck. Got down to about 14°. Anywhere on the surface streets that is shaded still has icy patches. Parking lots still have patchy ice. 26° now with 50° expected tomorrow, so those icy patches should finish melting.
I don’t know how to add pictures or I’d share. Longest freeze I’ve seen in 11 years.
@sarahsandroid ditto see above reply to your first post…
It will be in the 70s this weekend on the Alabama Gulf.
@margot5115 mid 60’s here in central AL as well.
So you’re from LA right?
@chienfou YES!!!
@margot5115 east or west of Mobile bay?
@chienfou Fairhope. You?
@margot5115 Elmore Co (halfway between Montgomery and Auburn up I-85)
That makes at least 4 of us from the Yellowhammer state:
@Calabama, @sarahsandroid, @margot5115 and myself… mehbe we should start a club or something?!
@chienfou
club sounds fun! Meh club.
@chienfou There is also alabamagal, do not know if she lives in Alabama.
@alabamagal …Well?
SE Georgia; no snow. :-|
The frost on my car survived the 25-minute drive to work this morning; that’s a first. Don’t worry; I defrosted the windows with the keyfob remote long before hitting the roads.
@PocketBrain Aaand… now you have a reason to buy every bell and whistle possible on your next car.
@OldCatLady like heated seats!
The schools here have missed 6 days of school so far in January. One district is making it up by adding 5 minutes to every day until April because that’s totally the same as more school days.
@sammydog01 rotflmas - that sounds about right (smirk)
@sammydog01 It is more about the hours you spend. Some schools go longer each day and have go less days. 900 to 1000 hours, instructional hours make a school year. Most schools go 180 days, used to be 175. We had to make days up, that is what we did, longer each day.
@Calabama I get that it’s technically meeting the requirements but an extra five minutes isn’t really making anything up.
@sammydog01 I never considered it making up time either. Just five more minutes the kids/teachers have to watch the clock to get out.
It is totally unproductive time. They need full days to make up full days. It is taking the teaching and learning time these kids need.
@sammydog01 I think the ‘state of emergency’ declaration helps eliminate that issue if I’m not mistaken. Plus when they count by ‘days’ it’s a full day if they stay past noon I believe (which is why they let out 2 hours early on Tuesday, way before the snow started.)
@Calabama since we homeschooled our kids, they were totally screwed when the local school was out…
@chienfou LOL!
@sammydog01 Yeah you are so right about that.
@sammydog01
5 more min per day of rude jokessmd cell phone use for the students.
Yea!, school district.
South Jersey was ccccooold
@unmlobo300 yeah. Having lived in International Falls at one point I can remember those times when anything over 0 was a HIGH for the day!
(fun fact: 40 below is the same temp in Celsius and Fahrenheit!!)
FWIW all that’s left of the snow today is a 30X15 foot patch along the north side of the barn/leanto and another smaller patch on the north side of the house. Plus a few smaller patches in the shade/north of some of the bushes like the big camellia etc.
I think we’re getting the dregs of it now here in west Texas. Temp dropped about 30 degrees from yesterday with snarling winds tearing stuff up. Going to have the lowest temp for the winter so far tonight. No precip though.
Well well well I just heard the ice cream truck trolling the neighborhoods… LOL
@Kidsandliz sure sign summer can’t be far off…