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« Reply #5110 on: December 11, 2016, 05:24:10 PM »
That looks like something you'd pull out of a shower drain.

I think my grandma has a tattoo of it in her calf. Violet/green looking.
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« Reply #5111 on: December 12, 2016, 10:51:04 AM »

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« Reply #5112 on: December 12, 2016, 11:12:35 AM »
West Coast

Snow in the forecast at any point in the upcoming week: People flood the stores buying generators, chains for their tires, and groceries for a month, yet still go out thinking that the city/county plowed the roads, which they did not.

One week later, the city/county says they are developing a plan for plowing the roads, meanwhile suggesting everyone stay home (because the plan won't be implemented anyway).
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« Reply #5113 on: December 12, 2016, 11:35:31 AM »
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed that the west coast wasn't included, but the rest of it was pretty good.

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« Reply #5114 on: December 12, 2016, 12:06:29 PM »
I live in the South, and I would just like to say...

That's pretty close.
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« Reply #5115 on: December 12, 2016, 12:13:09 PM »
Midwest is pretty on too.

I remember when I was in highschool, our superintendent was from Minnesota, so he never called snow days.....ever. Then one day we found out he retired and we were so excited to get someone who might actually make a good call. Turns out the next guy was from Alaska.
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« Reply #5116 on: December 12, 2016, 12:26:25 PM »
At work, we used to have snow days (or late starts or early dismissal) extremely rarely, even if there was a state-of-emergency on.  Then one day somebody got in a bad wreck on their way home under those circumstances.  Suddenly, we started getting accommodations for snow very easily...
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« Reply #5117 on: December 12, 2016, 12:31:39 PM »
I grew up in Michigan, then lived for four years in Maryland, right near Chesapeake Bay.  Our first year there, they predicted 2 inches of snow and the entire area went into full-blown panic mode.  Schools closed early, stores and businesses shut down, it was just short of an actual Emergency with sirens and broadcasts on every TV and radio station.

My wife and I literally could not believe it.  We'd grown up with snow; it meant you allow a little extra stopping distance, just in case.  That's it.  We laughed our asses off at the entire county acting like it was the end of civilization.

Two days later, we figured it out.  Snow there is rare; some winters they didn't even get snow, not once.  So there were no plows or salt trucks or any other kind of equipment to actually deal with it.  I had no trouble driving to the store, but everything was closed!  That's why people stocked up on everything.  Getting to the stores wasn't the problem.  Everything being closed down was the problem.  It was easier to just not go anywhere for a few days than to learn how to drive with snow on the ground, so that was the culture.

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« Reply #5118 on: December 12, 2016, 01:03:34 PM »
Yup. People in Texas are unaccustomed to snow and generally try to avoid it. Moreover, the facilities aren't really in place. Going back to the picture, you think they're particularly adept at de-icing planes at DFW? NYC airports have a hard time keeping up. Lastly, people collectively shit themselves whenever child safety becomes an issue. Parents don't want their kids riding some ancient yellow bus driven by a white trash speedfreak and school districts don't want the liability. Truth is, school days can always be made up, if they even need to be.

On a side note, who doesn't enjoy a damn snow day? If it's an infrequent occurrence, stay the fuck home and have a nice, unscheduled day off.
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« Reply #5119 on: December 13, 2016, 12:30:59 PM »
I've heard about a woman in Texas ending up in "depression"?! because of snow... she said she never seen it and that's not right and she doesn't want it and so on and so forth?! well...  :chill

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« Reply #5120 on: December 13, 2016, 12:37:46 PM »
I can only speak for Boston, but the collective memory of how we dealt with the snow seems to reset some time in the summer. Every year people act like it's the first time.

I've heard about a woman in Texas ending up in "depression"?! because of snow... she said she never seen it and that's not right and she doesn't want it and so on and so forth?! well...  :chill

My company had several Indians move to San Francisco because they couldn't deal with the snow. One told me he and his family were essentially cooped up in their apartment for 6 months. I told him that the solution is winter activities like skiing and skating, but he wouldn't hear of it.
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« Reply #5121 on: December 13, 2016, 01:08:13 PM »
If you even mutter the word 'snow' in St. Louis every supermarket will be raided for milk and bread....and I'm not kidding, schools begin to close before even a flak falls from the sky. It's insane. And then there's the obligatory 'everyone forgets how to drive' once there's the most subtle hint of snow precipitation on the road. When this city gets 2" of snow you'd think we got 7 foot by the way everything shuts down and people act.
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« Reply #5122 on: December 13, 2016, 01:20:28 PM »
There's some truth to what you guys are saying, but I think y'all are also conflating panic with jubilation. I hit the stores and "forget how to drive" because all I'm interested in doing on a snow day is sitting home with a bong full of snow and playing video games. Occasionally getting out to hunk snowballs at little kids. A whole lot of what y'all are describing is simply people resigning themselves to being home for a few extra days and preparing for it. Schools will shut down for liability and safety reasons. Dallas's state of the art light rail system tends to shut down if there's inclement weather. Plenty of businesses will have people stay home just to avoid the added risk of driving (and there is added risk). So yeah, some of it is panic but much of it is just making the best of it.
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« Reply #5123 on: December 13, 2016, 01:32:54 PM »
If you even mutter the word 'snow' in St. Louis every supermarket will be raided for milk and bread....and I'm not kidding, schools begin to close before even a flak falls from the sky. It's insane. And then there's the obligatory 'everyone forgets how to drive' once there's the most subtle hint of snow precipitation on the road. When this city gets 2" of snow you'd think we got 7 foot by the way everything shuts down and people act.

Where in St. Louis is that?!?! I had like a handful of snow days in my entire highschool time. But that was Ladue, maybe we were made of sterner stuff ;)
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« Reply #5124 on: December 13, 2016, 02:29:49 PM »
If you even mutter the word 'snow' in St. Louis every supermarket will be raided for milk and bread....and I'm not kidding, schools begin to close before even a flak falls from the sky. It's insane. And then there's the obligatory 'everyone forgets how to drive' once there's the most subtle hint of snow precipitation on the road. When this city gets 2" of snow you'd think we got 7 foot by the way everything shuts down and people act.

Where in St. Louis is that?!?! I had like a handful of snow days in my entire highschool time. But that was Ladue, maybe we were made of sterner stuff ;)

Dude...Adami.....the past five years it's went of the crazy scale as far as when snow is forecast. Maybe KevShmev can chime in also. I'm the same way....back in 'my day' they didn't cancel anything. Now it's total opposite. The FOX School district literally cancels classes if snow is even predicted.
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« Reply #5125 on: December 13, 2016, 02:31:43 PM »
Wow that's crazy. And here I thought St. Louis couldn't get worse!
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« Reply #5126 on: December 14, 2016, 05:04:32 AM »
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« Reply #5127 on: December 14, 2016, 05:07:53 AM »
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« Reply #5128 on: December 14, 2016, 05:57:26 AM »
Must've been Kwyji sending all the wrong songs.   ;D

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« Reply #5129 on: December 14, 2016, 08:02:24 AM »
If you even mutter the word 'snow' in St. Louis every supermarket will be raided for milk and bread....and I'm not kidding, schools begin to close before even a flak falls from the sky. It's insane. And then there's the obligatory 'everyone forgets how to drive' once there's the most subtle hint of snow precipitation on the road. When this city gets 2" of snow you'd think we got 7 foot by the way everything shuts down and people act.

Where in St. Louis is that?!?! I had like a handful of snow days in my entire highschool time. But that was Ladue, maybe we were made of sterner stuff ;)

Dude...Adami.....the past five years it's went of the crazy scale as far as when snow is forecast. Maybe KevShmev can chime in also. I'm the same way....back in 'my day' they didn't cancel anything. Now it's total opposite. The FOX School district literally cancels classes if snow is even predicted.
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The worst "freak-out" reaction I ever saw was during my sophomore year of high school.  I think it was in January.  I got on the school bus that morning, and it was cold and overcast.  We get to school.  During first period, it starts snowing, so the school system closes up shop and sends us home.  By the time I got off the bus (around 10:00 am), it has stopped snowing.

By around 1:00 pm, all the snow that had accumulated had melted, and you couldn't even tell that anything had happened. 
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« Reply #5130 on: December 14, 2016, 08:35:00 AM »
If you even mutter the word 'snow' in St. Louis every supermarket will be raided for milk and bread....and I'm not kidding, schools begin to close before even a flak falls from the sky. It's insane. And then there's the obligatory 'everyone forgets how to drive' once there's the most subtle hint of snow precipitation on the road. When this city gets 2" of snow you'd think we got 7 foot by the way everything shuts down and people act.

Where in St. Louis is that?!?! I had like a handful of snow days in my entire highschool time. But that was Ladue, maybe we were made of sterner stuff ;)

Dude...Adami.....the past five years it's went of the crazy scale as far as when snow is forecast. Maybe KevShmev can chime in also. I'm the same way....back in 'my day' they didn't cancel anything. Now it's total opposite. The FOX School district literally cancels classes if snow is even predicted.
I have always lived in North Carolina.

The worst "freak-out" reaction I ever saw was during my sophomore year of high school.  I think it was in January.  I got on the school bus that morning, and it was cold and overcast.  We get to school.  During first period, it starts snowing, so the school system closes up shop and sends us home.  By the time I got off the bus (around 10:00 am), it has stopped snowing.

By around 1:00 pm, all the snow that had accumulated had melted, and you couldn't even tell that anything had happened.

In defense of the FOX school district...where our kids attend....the majority of the roads where these kids live are rural, windy....tiny two lane roads so I 'get' the precaution. But the past few years like I said....even when snow is predicted they start to cancel classes without even seeing if it actually snows. There have been several days where the kids were at home and there was literally no accumulation at all.

The driving and how the populous reacts to even the slightest bit of snow is actually pretty funny. It's comical....we still reference the 'snowpacolypse' of a couple years ago when the city got somewhere around 2-3 inches and it was like we had an East Coast blizzard.  :lol
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« Reply #5131 on: December 17, 2016, 05:56:19 AM »
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« Reply #5133 on: December 22, 2016, 04:10:23 PM »
This thread is way too large. Locked, new one incoming.
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