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No? Now long until it is Spring?

We got a fucking blizzard in J'Oklahoma! 22F, 65 mph winds blowing chunks of ice sideways. All the highways are closed, national guard is out rescuing people stranded in the ditches.

I'm just hoping we don't lose power again...

Get used to it.

Yeah chief its not even January yet. We are boned.

Got a ways to go...suck it up.

We're over the hump, days are getting longer!! Keep the faith. Just think how cool ragnarok is gonna be.

It's actually +3 here today. But instead of riding, I have to endure family.

Hehe, we got the same thing up here, but I think East GF got a lot more snow. We hand just the icy stuff till late last night when it god cold enough that it had to snow I guess.
First white Christmas here in about six years though.

How about now? Is it spring yet now?

piccini9 wrote:How about now? Is it spring yet now?

No.

Holy white out.



Yesterday's weather apparently broke some sort of records. We've often had more volume of precipitation, but the wind was so fierce that these snow drifts would appear in minutes.

It took everybody by surprise, so there were lots of stories on the news about people stuck in their cars without adequate clothing. Being xmas eve, lots of assholes were driving around, trying to do their last minute shopping. As a result, there are literally thousands of abandoned cars on the streets of OKC: Big, frozen pile-ups at every intersection. To make it worse, many of the plows and sand trucks were overwhelmed by the snow and got stuck.

I know that those of you in more northerly climes scoff, but we're just not used to seeing this sort of thing here. It's a bit of a novelty and we're not prepared for it... but the weather in J'Oklahoma is always full of surprises. We get snow a few times a year, but more often it's a thick coating of ice, making driving extremely treacherous.

I was supposed to drive my dad to my aunt's house for xmas dinner today, but there's no way the Sentra could make it out to the road, let alone to town (the driveway is 1/4 mile long, uphill, and the snow's about a foot deep on average). The good news is that it's up to 38 and the sun is beating down, so this stuff is melting at a pretty good clip and the highways are open again.

I'm supposed to go pick up my nieces tomorrow, hopefully that trip won't entail any undue drama...