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Reminder for Southerners

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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
Just a reminder for you guys that live in the southeast.
The next time a northerner laughs or makes fun of you when you show him a picture like these.


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Remind him of this.

It's the first time the hottest day of the year has fallen in September, or outside of the meteorological summer, since 1983, according to First Alert Meteorologist Ryan Hanrahan.
Students left Wolcott High School just after noon and a thermometer gun showed temperatures between 85 and 87 degrees inside the school.
"We?ve been taking readings all day, starting at 8 o?clock this morning, and just throughout the day took more temps and obviously, they kept going up and up and up," said head custodian Russ Tardiff.



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People can't drive in that stuff down here. They still want to run 80. We don't get much snow, more ice. We haven't had any of it in a while.
 
Don't know where you are, but the laughs start after some transplant boasts about how they "drove in 48" of snow" where they
came from. They failed to mention that they never drove anywhere til the plow came by. But they are the first ones to need
Triple A to get them out of the ditch.
 
A friend was talking about that the other day. She said up north you don't to worry about getting out cause you never have to wait over two hour's for a snowplow to come by. Down here you never see a snowplow for two day's so you're stuck unless you have a four wheel drive & mabie a set of chains. She's the first northerner I've seen that would fess up to it.
 
The temperature thing is funny. Years ago we were in Toronto during a heat wave, highs in the 80's. They had safety warnings on the radio and tv.
 
I'm in north Texas and I was out yesterday when the snow moved in. I truly was in fear for my life the way everyone when nuts. They either drove much faster than they should have or really slow and there was only a slick spot here and there, mostly bridges and overpasses. Before I could get home I saw three wrecks and careflight vehicles and ambulances going everywhere. Even the walmart parking lot was treacherous. People were driving between the cars in the parking lot trying to find a close place so they wouldn't get snow flurries on them.
 
I was up in Alpena Michigan at the Besser Block Machine School a few times in Jan and Feb,it was -20 one time the snow was like driving on sand no problem at all,today we had about an inch of
snow and it was slick and mean to drive in.
 
Not where I live we were snowed in at Christmas for 4 days before the plow came. Been without electricity for over 3 days at -10. Had to haul water from the creek 1/2 mile away with the quad and keep the wood stove full
 
I could never understand why when it snows all the people flock to the store and buy out the place. Don't they have enough food to go for a day or two? Or a week if necessary? I don't think we have an over stock but I bet we could eat good for two weeks with out worrying about going to the store if we were snowed in or the store was empty because of some disaster. And we have a few buckets of those freeze dried packets for real food emergencies if it was weeks. Do people really buy by the day and don't even think of a few days ahead. We only shop once a week normally. Seldom go the grocery store more often.
 
Chill factor near Lafayette,La. last night was around10 with a 22 degree temperature.by wed. It'll be 75 degrees.But here in the southern parts of La,tx and miss.its high humidity that affects us most.
 
had about 6 inches on the rail of the deck , don't much stick up there, at about 12 o'clock . then it continued to about 4:30 . just south of Richmond , va. about 25 miles . and yes I think the pictures are about right and I'm glad I don't have to get use to the snow .
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Say what you like about the north. BUT...
I learned to drive in rural upstate New York. In that area, they do take care of the roads, but there is always a time between when the snow comes and the plow comes. That is the tricky part. As teenagers just beginning to drive, my friends and I used to go to parking lots and practice doing "donuts." Once the cops figured out that we were actually LEARNING how to handle a car on slippery roads, they left us alone. Those were lessons that lasted a lifetime.
Now, here in southeastern PA, we do not get the big snowfalls like up in the lake effect regions of upstate New York. But when it does snow, I don't worry about getting where I want to go as much as keeping away from the ones that never really drove on snowy roads.
Curiously (or not) it always seems to be the 4-wheel drive and SUVs that land in the medians and ditches first. Seems that once you strap a motorist into a 4-wheel drive with seat belts, shoulder straps, air bags, anti-lock brakes, and traction control, they seem to think they are immortal - and drive like it! Then you see the "deer in the headlights" expression on their faces when they land in the ditch.
 

Please don't confuse what they do for the snowflakes in urban Ct with what we do with rural kids in the actual north.
 
Down here it is instinct to rush out and buy everything from the grocery store when you here the "s" word. We know for the most part everything will melt quickly and you can try to resist but usually the pull is just to strong.
 
I used to live in Dallas. I hated service calls when it snowed. The snow turned people into nuts.I was going down LBJ when a nut passed me doing at least 80. Next thing I saw was him playing pin ball with the guard rails. By the time I got to the wreck. I had to pick my way through the parts.
 
i lived in northern Maine (Caribou) for four winters and pulled trailers out of Minnesota in the winter. I will take the heat here in southern Mississippi any time!
Elmo
 
Mark
My wife left her facebook page open and I saw these pictures posted in different post.
I brought the 4 pictures together in one post when I saw they sent kids home from school because it was 90.

In all fairness. The reason they sent the kids home is because many schools up there do not have A/C.
Weak society today. I went to high school in New Orleans in a school that did not have A/C.
 
We didn't either in the Houston area. Thought the 9 month school season was due to just that.....hot-humid summers. I think school started the 6th of September and some years it was a bear with the heat.
 
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