Shipping delays due to inclement weather

@BillLehecka Or crampons. What wimps LOL

@SSteve thanks for making me miss California, jerk. Please post pictures of LA traffic and some housing prices to make me feel better.

@SSteve Fort Funston sounds too fake of a name. Is that a real fort, or a made up kiddie playground "Fort"

@Pamtha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Funston

@Pamtha Fred Funston was in command of the Presidio of San Francisco when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit. He declared martial law and tried to stop the spread of the fire. He would have been in command of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI, but died of a heart attack first. His great-granddaughter is making a movie about her solo trip across Alaska in 1994. She has an interesting life story in regards to him but it's too long to go into here.

@JonT I avoid L.A. as much as possible. Unfortunately, my best friend moved down there so I've been twice in the last nine months. Before that, I hadn't been there twice in nine years. As far as housing prices, read The Chronicle on any given day. You're sure to find an article that at least mentions the insane housing costs in S.F.

@SSteve I have a solution for your no rain. I am sure meh can arrange a shipment of ice, which by the time you get it should be nicely melted (hopefully not evaporated by then). Oh wait. You needed it before next summer? Better ask Boston to send snow next day delivery instead of dumping the snow into the harbors and the rivers. They can probably handle that no problem.

@MEHcus been playing around in MS paint again?

@hollboll @MEHcus Just extend the Gulf of Mexico (feel free to wipe out Mississippi too) and problem solved.

@hollboll it probably took @MEHcus a solid 2 hours to complete that masterpiece.

@MEHcus I want a refund! Not for any of my orders, but rather for my flag that I bought, obviouslly one star is a lie!

@JonT @hollboll I straight up googled it yo

@Bingo

@Mehrocco_Mole Best break out the Antarctica gear then to get ready...

@Kevin that looks like people who complain about not getting delivery and the box is all shoveled out.

@Kevin I think I have a new mail person on my route. I clear around my mailbox because last year, if there'= was so much as an INCH of snow, the mail person wouldn't deliver. Not even the notice saying why I'm suddenly not getting mail. Last time I had to go to the Post Office to find out why I wasn't getting mail, the notification telling me to come to the post office was in the bundle to be picked up.

@Noddy93 exactly the inverse in our town, especially when the temp drops into the single digits. The USPS folks don't want to exit their vehicles for parcels.

@RedOak the delay to my house has nothing to do with the weather. i live 100 miles from Meh and if they dropped it in the post on monday i'd get it on tuesday. instead i get it on thursday. i understand that it's cheaper over all... but it is annoying. Mondo posters in austin also uses one of these mail programs... one time a tube went through my town on I-35 three times before it was finally delivered. At least the shipping is cheap/free (am I still on free vmp?)!!!

@Noddy93 I was Extremely impressed when I purchased something at 9pm est from eBay on a Friday night. And it showed up usps first class the next Monday. If it were the 2 day delivery I'd be ok they were early. But cheap ground with no tracking. Wow!

@WINTERMUTE we don't get ice like this often enough for us to have any kind of infrastructure like that set up, which is why people go crazy and have no idea what to do when this happens once or twice a year.

@JonT buuut,we prepared in Florida... "The Florida state Department of Transportation bought 42 tons of salt ($12,400) and 10 salt spreaders ($26,400) that attach to the front of dump trucks. They stocked 4,400 gallons of potassium acetate, a chemical used to remove ice ($26,400). Also the department purchased five snow plows — yes, snow plows — for $22,000. The plows attach to the front of existing DOT vehicles. The plows are multipurpose. They can also be used to shovel sand or debris that might cover roads in the event of a hurricane. They said that the department needs to be better prepared for the possibility of severe winter weather, and that includes snowfall after the unexpected incidents in 2014."

@JonT also, Texan drivers don't pay enough attention when their driving

@JonT Go north, get a sled. Come back to TX. Find a gulf course. Problem solved. You now know what to do.

@JonT how about meh. Do you have it set up so that most if not all of you can work from home so that you don't need to worry about the traffic? I'm guessing snow tires aren't the biggest seller in Texas.

Although if you had snow tires on meh. That could get interesting. Especially if you had a limit 3... By interesting I mean really bad.

@sohmageek snow tires don't do swat on ice...

@cleverogre Hmm lets see - 5 snow plows more than 5 cities… yup - Florida is prepared

@Kidsandliz your comment proves my inability to exhibit humor. My apologies for my failed sarcasm.

@cleverogre nope - you did fine - I was responding with dead pan sarcasm too LOL

@Kidsandliz I wish "sarcasm" tag was real. It would solve so many misunderstandings. =)

@Kidsandliz yes. I completely know that. I'm in vermont. Studs help a little chains do too but ice sucks. Snow tires help with guess what? Snow :)

@sohmageek I grew up in the snow belt. I also lived in northern idaho and drove to seattle on a regular basis over snowquamie pass (chains in the summer sometimes). Tx just sent us their nasty weather here in mississippi - thin layer of ice that up north we'd scrape off, sigh, and be on our way. Here they emptied out the grocery store, everything is closed or late opening and there isn't even any icicles on the trees. Wimps. You'd think it was an icemageddon or something.

@sohmageek yep, we all have company laptops so that we can be productive and work from home if necessary but we like to all be in the office as much as possible.

@JonT I can't blame you for wanting to go in. It seems like a fun place to work at. It's nice when you can work at home when it's bad out and you don't have to risk it. Our company even has showers for if (for some people it's when) there is no power at home and you want a hot shower. (They used to have an exercise room also.)

@Kidsandliz this forum software hates underscores it seems.

@Kidsandliz it's the plus sign causing the problem.

@Thumperchick Thank you for figuring that out.

@Thumperchick PS so what exactly did you do so I can do it myself in the future?

@Kidsandliz there was a plus sign in the url. I deleted it.

@sohmageek I don't think they got any, or if they did maybe 1mm. I think they got ice, but if they got the same as was sent our direction from them (I am in MS) that is minimal - very thin glazing.

@sohmageek @kidsandliz yeah we didn't really get snow, it was more like freezing rain that turned into terrible ice. We're supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow tonight though...yay...

@Mehrocco_Mole Hey - stolen from the internet "January 19 th. , 1977, snow fell in South Florida for the first time in recorded history"… be sure to put a shirt on if it happens again.

@MEHcus Great, I ordered 3 of the 4 items listed...

@tightwad I know we're supposed to blame @Barney for these weather delays but comments like this make it super easy to think it might actually be your fault.

@MEHcus There is a good chance it's my fault...seems to me I get blamed for things like this generally

Is it because you are such a @tightwad?

@MEHcus Barney is busy shoveling the driveway.

@MEHcus Should I be concerned my earbuds haven't shipped yet? Did they get tossed out into the snow?

@tightwad there was a 40 car pileup on one of our highways a few hours ago. Yup.

@tightwad @JonT And, to be clear, Dallas should shut down if snow falls. It happens infrequently enough and people just don't know how to handle it.

@joelmw so if anyone argues that Massachusetts has the worst drivers, are wrong. (It's New Hampshire)

@Kevin Massholes are terrible drivers too...but then most people in New England are...

@tightwad The difference between Masshole drivers and everyone else is that they actually pay attention when driving.

@Kevin Insufficient data. Texas drivers are pretty bad. They're horrible on snow and ice. I honestly have no idea about Massachusetts or New Hampshire, though my experience of Pennsylvania drivers is that they're assholes who have no idea what the colors of traffic lights mean. That's the closest I come to an even moderately-informed opinion on anything northeastish.

@joelmw Well, I do have experience driving in DFW and Boston. DFW drivers are oblivious to everyone else, but traffic flows pretty well. Boston drivers will cut you off, but only because you let them. Also, car insurance is more expensive in DFW

@Kevin Ha. I was going to describe Dallas drivers as especially narcissistic and oblivious. I guess I'm not the only one who noticed. :-)

@joelmw I will say that Texas drivers are MUCH more likely to let you in using the "zipper" system than New England drivers.

@tightwad here's the thing, imagine a bubble around your car. In Dallas the bubble is 4 to 5 feet around your car, so if you want to change a lane or zipper in most drivers give you that space. But in Boston it's 2 to 3 feet.

@tightwad hey..I learned to drive in Massachusetts..and I am a great driver!

@tightwad I might have to agree with you. The zipper works pretty well--particularly at entrance ramps--around here.

@thismyusername hah just got a shipped message, well played.