It's snowing in Southern Maryland
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A few weeks back when we got like an inch (probably less) of snow in Houston I kid you not, I saw a news reporter hold a ruler in the ground while she was talking about the 1/4 inch drift....
I was in Iowa for 9 days over Christmas, and had my fill of winter. Hit the ice on the roads on my drive up, had the negative 20 windchill the first couple days, had all the new snowfall and bad road conditions, drove through the super dense fog twice, and drove back through melting snow without an operational windshield wiper fluid dispenser. :no:
I was so happy to get back to 75 and sunny in Austin.
I was so happy to get back to 75 and sunny in Austin.
GOD BLESS TEXAS! In the mid 70s in Houston today - oh so nice!I was so happy to get back to 75 and sunny in Austin.
I'm not terribly sad... I was going to make a mocking post about how it's snowing here (kinda rubbing it in Iowa's face) but then I read that bit in the weather forecast and had to shake my head...
So there is still some sarcasm to the post, but man thats sad :no:
And I got my fill of winter weather when I was in Iowa too... delayed flights getting out there, 0 degree temps the next day, snowed almost every day except for the day it rained, cleared all the snow and turned to Ice. There of course was snow on the ground the next day as I was leaving...
So there is still some sarcasm to the post, but man thats sad :no:
And I got my fill of winter weather when I was in Iowa too... delayed flights getting out there, 0 degree temps the next day, snowed almost every day except for the day it rained, cleared all the snow and turned to Ice. There of course was snow on the ground the next day as I was leaving...
I lived in Rockville in the 70's for several years, I was stranded on the GW Parkway twice one winter. They just parked metro buses and told everyone to get off in a driving snow storm! Got 12" in one storm and brought Metro area to a standstill! I happens there and it will happen again. One winter it got so cold that pipes broke in buildings in DC and had ice flows coming from windows 10 stories up!But most of it isn't reaching the ground because "very dry air persists at the surface"
You have got to be frigg'n kidding me
This place sure ain't Iowa...
Haha, that is funny! I lived in Gaithersburg for 9 months last year and drove to work in Bethesda every day. We had 4 inches of like a sleet type snow and the whole place area was just shut down. There were 20 people in the office with 8 from Iowa...8 people showed up that day and the other 12 didn't...those 8 people were us Iowans! The funniest thing I saw was before the storm got there, they would just park the snow plows on the side of the interstates and no1 would be in them for hours???
You think that's bad you should have been in Seattle over christmas! What a frickin nightmare!
it seems that every time I go back to the Midwest for the holidays, I have an annual affirmation ritual as to why I live in Colorado, this most recent trip included sub zero temps (air temp, not wind chill) as I cross the missouri, followed by snow, then rain, freezing rain, fog, then a few days of depressing clouds with temps in the balmier 20s, then back to single digits. As I rolled back into denver, the temp gage in the car tells me it's 55 out, ahh yes good to be back, and it's 61 as I write this.
