So now it's 20 degrees. Last night we had sleet so every vehicle is coated in ice and none of the locals here can seem to figure out how to scrape that off since they have no ice scrapers or snow brushes. (HA! I do! And they are for rent semi-reasonably!)
There is a dusting of snow on most grassy areas. (They call it snow. I call it heavy frost.)
All highways and major bridges have been shut down, including every elevated span leading into/out of the city. Streetcar and bus service has been suspended today and every public building has been closed.
Meanwhile, now that I don't have to go to work today, I'm going to walk down to the bar and get me some coffee.
As a local(ish), I must say: what the hell is a snow brush? Never heard of such a thing. Ice scraper, sure, but never a snow brush...
ReplyDeleteIt's a brush that you use to brush the accumulated snow from your car in more civilized climes. Usually has an ice scraper on the one end.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to watch people freak out over what snow-country denizens consider to be nothing, but as a native Midwesterner who now lives in a semi-Southern state, I never leave the house when there's more than an inch of snow. The highway department has no equipment to remove snow and no knowledge of how to do it, and driving in it would be fine if you weren't surrounded by people who have no idea what they're doing. It's like walking through a room full of drunks juggling chainsaws. I stay home till it melts. Everything is closed, anyway. (And sleet is ten times worse.)
ReplyDeleteHey Murphy;
ReplyDeleteWe got it here too, 2 inches and I will have to go to work also. Being an adult sucks. At least the dogs will like the snow.
P.S Like the "Drunks drunks juggling chainsaw" comment though, I am so going to appropriate that one, Thanks
ReplyDeleteHey Murphy;
ReplyDeleteWe also have the Show here and most of the people here don't know how to drive in it. Will be sporting for me to go to work tonight. I do love the "Drunks Juggling Chainsaws" comments, I will so appropriate that one.
"going to walk down to the bar and get me some coffee. "
ReplyDeleteNow that sounds like a good idea. Take it easy. It's 16 degrees right now in Texas were I'm at. And roads were closed for a while (the residential area roads looked fine but once I got on a main road... man did it get scary!) Maybe today by noon I'll venture out.
Sounds like my wife when she looks out the windows and sees snow.
ReplyDeleteI grew up driving in it. She grew up in SoCal. I did a nice, fully-controlled power slide/drift around the corner the other day, and she was white-knuckled and hanging on the door handle.
Heh. I was in Charleston, SC once when they got 3" of snow. From all of the cries of distress, you'd have thought that General Sherman was knocking on their doors.
ReplyDeleteI was in Memphis once and saw the same thing. Every third pick-up truck in the state was in a ditch by noon.
DeleteProblem here is that the houses aren't built for this. NO insulation, poor heaters, exposed pipes...Mine's one of the better ones but I've got these issues now. And the elevated roads ice and the ice won't melt off for a while, meaning most bridges and concrete road spans are too dangerous to drive on. We've had fatalities today because of it. Interstates and Mississippi River bridges are all closed because of this. It's more serious than it looks.
ReplyDeleteThat's what happens when the only way in or out is elevated roads. New Orleans metro area is just one big island. Bonne Carre Spillway, Lake Pontchartrain, and the Mississippi River are the boundaries. And even the best houses around here are really configured for cold like this, wherw the water comes in is exposed to the elements on almost every house.
ReplyDeleteAnd we got nuthin' up here... LOL
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