Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:26 am Post subject:
Pack It In Guys.
Subject description: I'm stuck at work.
Been a long time since I got hit with an actual blizzard. Shitty part? I still had to come in to work, where I'm still at and won't be leaving til 7 AM tomorrow morning because of road closures.
That was the highway this afternoon.
I'd get more pictures, or bigger ones, but I don't have any.
Suffice to say, if my boss doesn't give me Friday off, I'm telling my employer to go to hell for not closing to let everyone leave for home safely. _________________ KGR | AT
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Somewhere along the I-70 corridor in Missouri (aka the state in which I live). _________________ KGR | AT
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I can't even shovel out my front door without being covered in snow. Last edited by hotrods20 on Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:03 am; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
haha, I just woke up to 10.5 inches of snow and snow drifts in excess of 3 feet Damn, my backs gonna hurt after shoveling all this crap. _________________
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I'm taking the siblings out and making a snow fort.
IE, shoveling snow off the driveway, and letting them use it to make walls. _________________ Okay, my signature was starting to annoy even me. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject:
Meh, Michigan got missed. We got snow drifts around 12-15 inches but that's only in really ideal locations, the average snow-fall in my area was like 6-7 inches. Very disappointing, I wanted to see a good storm.
But meh, uni closed down unnecessarily, so all's good.
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hard to get an idea of just how much snow that is based on the picture as it looks over a lot of things rather than at a comparison level.
Also...our news has a bad habit of labeling this shit as blizzard levels or something else catastrophic sounding when it isn't quite as bad.
We kinda lucked out where i'm at though. The snow we've had from past snow showers was nearly melted then we just got a 1/4" of freezing rain on top of it the first night and probably another 1/4" the 2nd day. So now for a couple days the roads were just pure ice. But now the roads are better but everywhere else it's still pure ice...like my drive way...
The snow with the thick ice on top actually looked kinda cool especially at night where house lights were reflecting off of it. Kinda made things look like they were flooded. But the ice has caused TONS of trees to break or even rip out of the ground. Think i counted at least 40 trees with large limbs that had broken off on our drive into work today. _________________ Kalistia Crestland (2)
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject:
Here in upstate NY we get blizzards like that all the time, most of us know how to drive in it successfully.. MOST of us
we pretty much always have to go to work/school no matter how much snow is piled up.
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject:
We got five inches on Tuesday, and another six earlier this morning. This is highly unusual for this part of Texas.
University of North Texas has been closed for a week (which sucks btw). Roads are iced from when it melted and refroze Tuesday night. Epic 25-car-pile up on I-30 yesterday.
Here's some pretty pictures, just because.
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You guys may not know this. But GLOBAL WARMING in the reason this is happening. Kind of weird?
Mother Nature is doing this to rebuild itself because of Global Warming.
I have 15 inches maybe. The last few days, school wasn't cancelled but it was delayed. Around here, we're starting to get used to it.
DaTS, your photos look like average snowfalls around here. Then again, it's Denton so yeah that must be unusual. QUICK_EDIT
Five inches is driving weather. Get outta my face with that five inch nonsense. _________________ KGR | AT
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:59 am Post subject:
lol it was 11 inches. and it was solid ice on the road. _________________ "Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young QUICK_EDIT
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:19 am Post subject:
snow
Here in North East PA we have been fortunate with the snow, though we did get a sleet/snow/rain mixture that gave a foot of snow over a weeks time a nice ice shell. Last report was 3-5 inches coming today. The amount of snow we have had over the past 5 yrs is nothing compared to the winters I had as a kid in Northern Illinois.
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Mother Nature is doing this to rebuild itself because of Global Warming.
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Unless this is simply one of those rare winters, it's just how global warming works; longer, hotter and dryer summers and shorter yet colder and moist winters (in the Northern hemisphere that is). _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Yeah you may be right. After all, this is nothing compared to the blizzard of 1978. If only I lived to see that. Most were stuck in their houses. QUICK_EDIT
Pfft, easily 3 feet stacked of snow/ice in Boston, nevermind the plow hills and the fact that you can't see to pull out of a driveway or street because theres a 5 foot mound of snow on both sides. I mean, we've got so much we've come to melting it with flamethrowers because it'll never melt by itself.
Global Warming. More like Global Bullshit, like Crim said, its a winter you get every 15 years or so. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
Lol, and just because of such occasional, harsh winters, you don't think seven billion humans haven't already affected the climate? You don't seem to comprehend just how gigantic our pollutionof the air, not to mention other problems, is. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:02 pm Post subject:
So gigantic that one Earth fart (decent volcanic eruption) easily equals the entire pollutant output of mankind since the industrial revolution. Ouch. _________________ YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
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Not like I came to talk about global warming, get over yourself. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject:
EVA-251 wrote:
So gigantic that one Earth fart (decent volcanic eruption) easily equals the entire pollutant output of mankind since the industrial revolution. Ouch.
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by humans is nearly two orders of magnitude greater than the emissions of volcanoes in a year.
Sulphur dioxide is released in great amounts from volcanoes. A colossal (technical term - somewhere around the size of Krakatoa) volcano emits between 15-30 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide, which is about equivalent to the total SO2 emissions of China (from what I'm aware are the largest emitter of SO2 currently). Considering these sorts of volcanoes happen maybe a couple of times a century and the emissions of other volcanoes are much lower I'd say we're probably producing more sulphur dioxide than volcanoes are right now.
I've seen the numbers and humans versus nature... nature wins since it's not just volcanoes that cause CO2 and sulphur dioxide.
Spell check fail. I used the right spelling of sulphur and it says it's wrong. _________________ KGR | AT
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I think the point was to show that human action is large enough to have an affect on the enviroment, the comparison was made to volcanic eruptions because those are known to cause climate change (see Tambora Volcano). Eva stated that all of humanity's emmisions for the past 150 years or so did not equal a single eruption, and Clazzy has shown though links that human emissions 'outproduce' volcanoes on a yearly basis. _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:01 am Post subject:
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I've seen the numbers and humans versus nature... nature wins since it's not just volcanoes that cause CO2 and sulphur dioxide.
This is a valid point, but DaFool's right about what I said. This is just comparing volcanoes to man-made emissions.
At the same time, the environment has dealt with the carbon cycle for longer than we've been about. Animals, volcanoes and freak chemical reactions emit carbon dioxide but trees and certain carbon sinks (materials that are pretty adept at absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere - either through dissolving into a liquid or via a chemical reaction). As we've industrialised, we've cut down lots more trees and pumped out a lot more gases into the atmosphere so less is taking away the excess carbon dioxide we're generating. Even if we're emitting 1% of the total emissions of nature we can still be making a massive impact. _________________
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anyway i have looked at the data on both sides, and, well...
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject:
I hold the belief that increased C02 will allow for greater/faster plant growth, which will help reduce the C02. How much it will help, I don't know.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject:
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I hold the belief that increased C02 will allow for greater/faster plant growth, which will help reduce the C02. How much it will help, I don't know.
Neither do I have evidence for it, it's just an assumption
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I hold the belief that increased C02 will allow for greater/faster plant growth, which will help reduce the C02. How much it will help, I don't know.
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Pack It In Guys.
Damn, my backs gonna hurt after shoveling all this crap. 
