Winter weather
 

The snow,and icy weather has hit north,and west Texas. For all of you that will be driving into Texas,be careful. I am trying to get in touch with my supervisors to see how the roads are out in Lubbock. Hopefully,it wont be too bad out there tonite. One thing that I dont understand about the winter in this area,is when is it supposed to be snow,and not rain. The temps have stayed anywhere from 25 degrees,to 30 degrees the last couple of days,but it has been raining,and sleeting. So,how is that when the freezing point is 32 degrees,but yet it is 30 degrees,and there is rain falling. How weird is that?. We very seldom get plain snow. We always get freezing rain,and then it is a sheet of ice everywhere. Im just jabberin,so if this doesnt make any sense,dont worry. :P

Be careful out there, Dallas and Ft Worth are a complete mess according to the news this morning.

Right now it's not icy here where I am yet (about 45 minutes to the south), but I'm also sitting on that line where things are changing over.

My son is at wac, south of Dallas, ok so far, but forecast is not good, even for us 300 miles south, and suppose to last until Tues. morn..I was worried about my son Friday, he had a load to WI, from Laredo, would have been right in the middle of that mess, someone must have been thinking ahead and cratered his turbo just north of Dallas, getting a loaner 780 in wac...

Re: Winter weather
 

Re: Winter weather
 

Yeah,and 85 degrees in El Paso :P

Freezing rain is caused when the air temp above the ground is warm, but the air temp at the ground is below freezing. The precipitation starts as rain instead of snow, and then hits the ground and freezes.

Normally it would fall as snow and hit the ground as snow, unless the air temp was warmer down there.

Yeah,youre right,Colin. That's what happened here. It cracked me up. Sunday morning,I walked out,and it was around 11. It was pouring down rain,yet it was 20 something degrees. Anywhere else in the country,it would have been snow. :P

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm always amused by how loudly these Texican's snivel and whine...when they get a little bit of da North....eh?

Good God y'all........ :? Grow some hair. :P
27 degrees and some ice up here is T-shirt weather...(shaking my head in disbelief).....pansy's

And when it is 75 degrees up there it is too "hot" for you... :lol:

Ya, lived in both areas. 80 degrees + up north, and I get whinny calls from my friends up there how we can deal with the heat down here.......

BTW, now where getting rain, sleet & snow here. Yep, no salt trucks here or plows... Living up north this would be a normal Jan. day, but here things just stop.... Makes for rough driving in these hills with 10 degree grades all over, not flat like MI.....
Wish I had my old snowmobiles now............... :D

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I wasnt complaining,I was just talking about what type of weather we are having. :P Ok...maybe I was,but it wasnt about how cold it is,it was because it was raining when it was below freezing out. :P

Don't try talking any sense with me.... :?
I'll just get confused. :? :lol:

I lived in Corpus for 7 years...
so I do know what you are sayin' and up against.

I just can't resist, and behave....but
If I got you hot under the collar...then I did my part to help. :lol: :lol: :lol:
I know you'd do the same for me. 8)

Hot under the collar. :lol: :lol: Havent heard that one in a long time. Nah,ya didnt.

I remember one year on harvest,we were cutting barley for the booz makers,or what ever they use that itchy stuff for,north of Grand Forks,ND. The farmer's wife asked me how cold it gets in Texas. She made a remark about our 40 degree weather as compared of their -40 degree weather. I was like yeah,so how hot does it get here? 85? 90? :P

At least the Grand kids are having a ball. Kerrville just shut down. They predict 3 to 8" of this "Northern" stuff??

http://hillcountryvogels.com/snow-2007-s3.jpg

Ah crude, it was snowing in L.A. the other day, now it's snowing south of San Antonio, Tx, geez what's next?? Key West, Fl freezes over?? Must be El Nino again :lol: Here we were 73 yesterday in the Mid-Atlantic and today it's a high of 39 with what looks like snow clouds hanging over us. It's all good though, as long as it decides to stay cold for the next couple of months so that I can get over this sickness I have. My allergies have gone nuts and I broke out with a cold that slowly turned into bronchitis. This 75 to 35 is bad for people like me with allergies.

On the Noon News today they said it had JUST started snowing in the Carolina mtns. Expecting UP TO one full INCH by Midnight! Avery county schools have allready closed and sent the kids home! :shock:

We're expecting a few hours of "mixed" snow or freezing rain Thursday morning. The SNOW DESK on Channel 9 will be fully operational and posting updates every FEW minutes! Jeez!!!

That's like here where at the mere threat of a storm, the local news preempts all programming for about 48 hours until all the weather is over :shock:

At HOME, yes!! Safe??? Probably not! :lol:

I got through Texas a few days ago with perfect timing. Due to a layover in Cali, I missed the worst of it (though you wouldn't know it by all the warnings of CHAOS by the truckers heading West!) A little ice on the bridges! OOOh!! They should have been there LAST year when it was a truck parking lot with lights reflecting off the interstate covered in an inch of ICE! Doubles couldn't get up the "hills!"

Right now, I'm "cowering" at home hoping I don't have to hit it again on the way out! :lol:

Actually, my trucks broke again, so I may be home for a few.

Yeah, this has to drive you nuts. It not like snow in the Mountains there is some strange event. :evil:
The news broadcasts go overboard here too. They make a state of emergency out of anything. Sometimes they hype the ever-living crap out of some pending DOOM...only for it to never even happen. #@$@!!%$#. It's all about ratings. You get the feeling they LOVE the worst possible stuff to happen. Some reporters can't even contain that little smile when they have a hot story of someones tragety. You wanna smack the make-up right off their Lead story face.

But now ice and snow in South Texas....that's kinda like Hell freezing over. Even the Bad Ass Stud Horse is whinnying kinda high pitched....and tip toeing all sissy-like.

This oughta bring all the Fire Ants inside... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh yeah.... I KNOW!!! Meteorologists just LIVE for this stuff!!! Every time a tornado comes CLOSE to the Carolinas... the "Severe Weather Desk" pre-empts ALL prime time coverage until it is over! :lol:

Of course, we WERE hit by HUGO back in '89!!

I KNOW why Roadhog is laughing! I used to live in Denver!! But, someone DID make a good point about how FLAT it is in Michigan! :wink:
[Though I'm not sure I've EVER seen a 10% grade in TEXAS!!]


:lol:

Who was that Texas88???...pfffbbbtspittle...he was from South Michigan...that's like OHIO. Nothern Michigan is very hilly. PFFFbbbbttslobber :P

I ain't kiddin' ya. :)

Careful, RH: We've all seen the pictures you posted of the Mackinac Peninsula! Didn't see hill ONE in those pix!! About as "hilly" as the Florida KEYS, if you ask ME!! :lol:

No, not the freeways, but a few side roads here are, and some are where school buses go.

I just came back from going to the store down the street. The snow birds down here must be rolling on the floor laughing over all the fuss down here.. :roll: Roads are just not cold enough to have anything stay, but the over passes might be a problem.

I Forgot to let the Jimmy warm up, soon as Pulled out of carport, rain froze on window, and Pi$$er froze. Ahh, felt like the good ole days up north.

Ohhhh they're plenty steep. :)
Each year now they seem steeper too.
I wheezed more this year Deer huntin' than ever. :lol:

We're not exactly ridge runners like y'all...but we ain't no flatlanders neither....skinnnnnffff hoike fluuugie. :? :lol:

Probably due to the tilt in the axis of the Earth, the REAL cause of Global Warming!

I suggest that NEXT year you try hunting DOWNHILL!!!

And leave a few of those "pints" behind! :shock: :lol:

Hey, Golf, I sent you a P.M. ...Somewhat off topic, but also quite fitting for the winter weather!!
:shock:

:D ... Snow Bunnies...? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Leland10/wub.gif

P.M. Private Message. S.B. Snow Bunny Hmm..... Yeah.... I can see how he got them mixed up! :shock: :lol:

Roadhog.... you REALLY need to get LAID(over pay!) :lol: :lol: :lol:

I wanna know where this "Mackinac Peninsula" is? :roll:
You been there road kill? :P

Never heard of the place. But one good reason why we should go to War with Canada.

War is God's way of teaching American's Geography. :lol: :P

That's right

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Alright... you TWO!!!! Very funny!!! Most of us down here have never figured out y'all's language anyway!!

It's the Strait of Mackinac, Mackinac Island, Mackinac Bridge? and (I believe) a town called Mackinac..... so, since it's not the U.P...... I'd call it the Mackinac Peninsula!!!

What the heck DO y'all call it?????

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh, sorry!!! That's a FORT Mackinac and a MackinAW City!!! Sheesh!! Why is everything ELSE named Mackinac except a CITY and a COAT???

I bet it's pronounced with a Katherine Hepburn accent, too!!!! :P

BTW, I believe the pictures were of the Leelanau Penninsula, (where Roadhog REALLY lives) so his "location" under his avatar is a LIE!!! Maybe HE needs to be taught some Geography!! :P :P :lol:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/3...211f8b6b_o.jpg

*headdesk*

Someone call the National Guard! It's snowing in Texas!

They've already shut down I-20 at Ranger :roll:

What amuses me most, is that on the news this morning, TXDOT admitted to only having ONE salt/sand truck out for the entire DFW metro area....

I suppose you should have maybe two Saltshakers there...but...if they could only get the roads salted before they melt first. :? hahahahahaha :lol: Good thing God doesn't allow Cabin Fever in Texas... :P ....y'all would be freaking out in three days and eatting each other the next. :? :P

But...my condolances...I'm sure your nads are freezing off...I doubt there is a LongJohn Store anywhere in the whole State. :lol: :lol: :lol:

We got around a foot here in N. Michigan. My sister's place this morning in N. Indiana...
they just missed the 10" of snow that fell west of them.
But the Horses and Cattle woke up to a beautiful Crystalline view.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...rystalview.jpg

Yeah,I had to run to Ft. Worth to drop a load of Chep pallets,and pickup a backhaul in Saginaw. The metromess is a skating rink. I ran into the snow around,Decatur.(30 miles north of Ft. Worth)So,if yall are going to DFW anytime soon,be careful. Kinda slushy.


820 West.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k1...bbit379/18.jpg

Side of Total Warehouse. Also,Joe Bob Hunt terminal. :P
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k1...bbit379/17.jpg