"blacktruck18" (blacktruck14)
01/12/2019 at 20:55 • Filed to: None
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"blacktruck18" (blacktruck14)
01/12/2019 at 20:55 • Filed to: None | 1
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We got 4 or 5 inches, I am staying home playing PlayStation and keeping warm with some bourbon.
Hooker
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:03 |
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They told us a week ago we were getting some here just east of Charlotte, NC. They lied. So I too, am drinking bourbon. But because I’m mad. What kind of bourbon are you taking part in?
LongbowMkII
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:06 |
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Winter storm (x) needs to die. These aren’t hurricanes.
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blacktruck18
> Hooker
01/12/2019 at 21:08 |
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Bulleit, what about you?
They said we would get 4-7 in Indianapolis, we are probably going to get close to 7 before it’s supposed to stop tomorrow morning.
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blacktruck18
> LongbowMkII
01/12/2019 at 21:11 |
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I get it, give something a name and people are more likely to remember it, makes it easier to convey the information.
CB
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:11 |
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... where's the storm? Unless you're somewhere eastern seaboard and southern. Then it makes sense.
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Hooker
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:12 |
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Makers. Never had Bulleit. A buddy of mine has Blanton's. He swears I need to try it too.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:17 |
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still no snow here...... its sucky,,,i hate it
facw
> CB
01/12/2019 at 21:19 |
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Nothing where I am (obviously). Doesn’t look like we are supposed to get anything until next weekend.
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blacktruck18
> Hooker
01/12/2019 at 21:20 |
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I've never had Blanton's, I've also heard it really good, I might pick some up next time I get liquor.
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facw
> LongbowMkII
01/12/2019 at 21:22 |
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Yeah, I don’t see much value. And if there is value, that should fall to the NWS or something, not just be a thing the Weather Channel made up.
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blacktruck18
> CB
01/12/2019 at 21:24 |
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I am in Indianapolis, it hasn’t been too bad here. At least from what I’ve seen, from my house cause I haven’t gone outside all day.
Kiltedpadre
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:25 |
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Nope, ready for it to end. Had to work today and will be working again tomorrow. Almost got hit four times today by folks sliding around in it.
Originally they said it would all end by 4am tomorrow. That would’ve been nice because the roads would’ve been cleared before work. Now they say it may continue till 1pm.
I look forward to my on-call week ending Wednesday so I can have a drink.
WilliamsSW
> LongbowMkII
01/12/2019 at 21:32 |
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So. Much. This.
It’s fucking stupid.
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WilliamsSW
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:33 |
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I had it a while back and really liked it.
Just Jeepin'
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:37 |
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I drove from Indy to the Seymour area and back. It’s not terrible, but it ain’t great either.
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Just Jeepin'
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:40 |
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Lovely day for a Jeep ride through a national forest. (No, not that one. I’m no monster.)
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blacktruck18
> Kiltedpadre
01/12/2019 at 21:40 |
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I got off at 2 this morning and won’t be going back until 5 Monday evening . I got lucky and can enjoy all of it from home.
One of my neighbors has a newish ( 2014?) GMC Sierra that has to street p ark , I have been waiting to hear it get hit all day, so far people seem to be driving carefully though, at least through our neighborhood.
Being on call is the worst, I used to hate it.
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blacktruck18
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
01/12/2019 at 21:43 |
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Boo!!! Hopefully you get some soon.
Snow is the best when you have nothing to do.
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blacktruck18
> Just Jeepin'
01/12/2019 at 21:48 |
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I was just looking at the WRTV website, I didn't notice anything about crazy accidents and stuff, I figured people were handling it well enough.
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Hooker
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:49 |
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Around here it's hard to get. Which is sad. Usually sells out fast.
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Hooker
> WilliamsSW
01/12/2019 at 21:49 |
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Ill have to put it on the list!
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Just Jeepin'
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 21:52 |
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I didn’t see any pileups, but definitely several off the road. I got a little slidey myself on I-465, southeast side. Spooked me pretty good.
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WilliamsSW
> Hooker
01/12/2019 at 21:55 |
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You guys have reminded me that I need to go buy some myself!
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Hooker
> WilliamsSW
01/12/2019 at 22:06 |
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Glad to be a positive influence!
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WilliamsSW
> Hooker
01/12/2019 at 22:24 |
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Not easy to find though!
atfsgeoff
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 22:24 |
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Currently visiting my parents in Garner, North Carolina. I was going to drive back home to Allentown in Pennsylvania tomorrow, but f- that. I’ll wait till Monday morning to head out in hopes that 95 and 270 in maryland will be clear by midday.
jminer
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 22:27 |
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We got 14 inches here today, that’s a ton of snow for the lower midwest (St Louis).
Also this may be the old man in me, but I hate that they started naming winter storms like they’re damn hurricanes!
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WilliamsSW
> Hooker
01/12/2019 at 22:47 |
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And... now I’m drinking Maker’s too.
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LongbowMkII
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 22:58 |
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snowing in the Midwest during January is hardly an extraordinary weather event.
loki03xlh
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 23:02 |
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8" inches here in St. Louis. Streets were fine today, but may freeze over tonight.
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LongbowMkII
> facw
01/12/2019 at 23:02 |
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With Heat Wave Steve we’re expecting triple digit temps from Houston to Oklahoma City!!
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blacktruck18
> Just Jeepin'
01/12/2019 at 23:20 |
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Ya, I kind of wanted to go Hoon around in my truck a bit, being inside and warm sounded way better.
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Just Jeepin'
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 23:25 |
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I did stumble upon a present for mom.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> LongbowMkII
01/12/2019 at 23:47 |
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LongbowMkII blackcar14, now with less blackcar
snowing in the Midwest during January is hardly an extraordinary weather event.
The midwest gets hotter, colder, icier, windier, drier, wetter, more humid, along with tornados, pop-up severe thunderstorms with damaging lightning, wind, hail, and flash-flooding rain, and generally more widely unpredictable than most places, but it never qualifies for news wider than local or regional. A few snow flakes in coastal areas or major cities, makes national news, with stories about massive pileups, and runs on supplies in stores.
There are places that are more extreme, but not that VARY between extremes as much as mid-continent, mid-latitude areas that are not regulated by nearby large bodies of water to stabilize temperatures and humidity levels. The biggest mid-l atitude, mid-continental areas are central north america, and central asia. Not equatorial or tropical , but not arctic or antarctic, either... and ~ 1000-miles or more from the nearest oceanic body of water . Entirely at the mercy of varying jet stream air masses.
There are places that are:
W etter, but don’t get as dry, and drier, but don’t get nearly as much water. Destructive f looding in the spring may give way to a crop-killing, livestock-endangering, prairie-fire risking dro ught in the summer and fall. This year, fall was so unusually wet that some of the crops were inaccessible to harvest due to mud.
Hotter, but don’t get as cold, and colder but don’t get nearly as hot. Heat stroke in 100+ degree summers with 90% humidity where sweating can’t cool you , and some winters it gets below -20 degrees Fahrenheit, where frost-bite and freezing to death is a real concern for exposure.
Don’t change from 80 degrees with pop-up thunderstorms, to below freezing and snowing in less than a week. We can sometimes have 3-4 seasons represented inside the same month.
8 inches of snow in my location today... didn’t even close the roads. 0.8 inches of snow in other parts of the country close businesses, let alone roads.
Plus it is hovering between 28 and 32 degrees today and tomorrow , so depending on sun and wind, melting and re-freezing causes icing and black ice.
But don’t even start about:
“AWD is not necessary, and just a crutch”, and
“ SUVs are bad and SUV drivers should feel bad ” junk,
or just shrugging off legitimate concerns about range anxiety and getting stranded and exposed when the batteries in an EV die in a rural area, many miles from a charger, in the middle of winter, or summer.
LastFirstMI is my name
> blacktruck18
01/12/2019 at 23:50 |
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At least you don’t have to worry about forest fires, right?
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> blacktruck18
01/13/2019 at 03:53 |
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forecast seems to think we might get some in about a week
but thats still far too far off to count on
Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
> blacktruck18
01/13/2019 at 11:41 |
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Metro DC here, the initial fore cast was 3-6 inches, then it dropped to 1 - 3 inches, then went back to 3-6. As it stands we have 4 + and its not supposed to stop until later tonight.
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Hooker
> WilliamsSW
01/13/2019 at 16:24 |
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I am now sadly on steroids and I can find only some evidence that alcohol is appropriate. :( So I sit here drinking water.
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blacktruck18
> Just Jeepin'
01/13/2019 at 17:18 |
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I am not sure how I feel about that. I may have to look for some.
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blacktruck18
> jminer
01/13/2019 at 17:21 |
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14 inches is a little too much, anything above mid-shin and I want it to go away.
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blacktruck18
> Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
01/13/2019 at 17:22 |
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Not sure how it will turn out for you, we only got about an inch from midnight until this morning.
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blacktruck18
> LastFirstMI is my name
01/13/2019 at 17:24 |
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Yes, that is one thing I don’t miss about the Pacific Northwest, not exactly forest fires, but the fire alerts for most of the summer. “Don’t BBQ, no fire pits, don’t even go outside with glasses on just in case the sun reflects off them and set 17 blocks of dead grass on fire.”
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Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
> blacktruck18
01/13/2019 at 17:30 |
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We are 7 inches and its still coming down, almost everything is closed tomorrow.
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Just Jeepin'
> blacktruck18
01/13/2019 at 17:52 |
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This place has all sorts of interesting foods, and in the fall it sounds like a great family outing. My first time: the maintenance man opened up for me ( they had decided to stay closed this weekend due to the weather).
