I have had enough of this %#&@& winter.

[ggiese]

I just wanted to add that those Southern states don't have the cold-weather equipment that we have North and East. They probably don't have any salt trucks.

No plows - no salt trucks - nothing...

A couple years ago I was in Charlotte when a ice storm came through. Frankly - it was absolutely comical to me. The roads really weren't bad at all - but the local folks were all freaked out. Schools, businesses - damned near everything was shut down. They interrupted regular programming (even cut in on the news) to provide updates on the ice storm.

My favorite story about that experience - some boneheaded local reporter was broadcasting a story about how bridges freeze first and are especially hazardous. He was standing on the bridge with semi's buzzing by him. The most insane part of the story was when he knelt down in the roadway and pressed a thermometer against the pavement to show it was at the point of freezing - with semis buzzing by blowing their horns at him for blocking the road...

My experience with Atlanta is that traffic is generally very messed up during the evening rush even on bright, sunny warm summer's days. It took me 45 minutes to drive less than a mile from my office to the hotel. And folks were doing the craziest things - like forcing their way through gridlocked traffic. The damned traffic is at a dead standstill and a few of these chowderheads apparently believe the best way to get traffic moving is to blow the horn and go against the flow. I seriously thought Chicago traffic was the worst - until I saw that nonsense in Atlanta. Now I completely appreciate my fellow drivers here when the only flip me off in traffic...

[TheGreekTitan]

6 more weeks!

[CptnBlues63]

6 more weeks!

I don't put much faith in anything predicted by a rodent. Regardless of what he predicted last year, we still got snow in May.

But, there is an ape who predicts the super bowl................so who knows *shrug*

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireSto...inner-22294762

[cinda]

Yesterday this storm we have right now was suppose to be a few inches of light snow. It's by far extremely heavy and much more then 2 inches my thinking is 6 to 8 once it's done . what a mess!

[kingbeefy]

Yesterday this storm we have right now was suppose to be a few inches of light snow. It's by far extremely heavy and much more then 2 inches my thinking is 6 to 8 once it's done . what a mess!

Similar thing happened to us last week, just on a much smaller scale. The weather humans here said we might see light flurries, resulting in a dusting, beginning at 10am last Tuesday and ending at around 4pm. It started pretty steady at 9am and ended at 9pm and left 3-4 inches. Around here, 3-4 inches is a big deal, especially when it wasn't expected.

I wonder what the average income is for a meteorologist? I feel extremely solid in "bad guessing" skills. I am very easily wrong more than I am right. It seems like that's a career path that might suit me well.

[ashauler]

We're supposed to get hammered tonight and tomorrow.....6-9" by the time it's over, I'm betting on 4-6. The problem will be the 30-40 mph winds that will undoubtedly accompany the snow.

[cinda]

We're supposed to get hammered tonight and tomorrow.....6-9" by the time it's over, I'm betting on 4-6. The problem will be the 30-40 mph winds that will undoubtedly accompany the snow.

I was going to earlier warn the kanas people that snow is coming. Keep your kids home and any one else you do not want living on the highway. I better not see any crazy news cast that people are stuck on in a school or highway. They have been warning us all week. That said hubby has his reversal of the colostomy operation tomorrow. He' got to be there at 6 am. But the hospital is like 10 mins away and I got a driver and a big truck. Wish me luck!

[CoventryCat86]

My experience with Atlanta is that traffic is generally very messed up during the evening rush even on bright, sunny warm summer's days. It took me 45 minutes to drive less than a mile from my office to the hotel. And folks were doing the craziest things - like forcing their way through gridlocked traffic. The damned traffic is at a dead standstill and a few of these chowderheads apparently believe the best way to get traffic moving is to blow the horn and go against the flow. I seriously thought Chicago traffic was the worst - until I saw that nonsense in Atlanta. Now I completely appreciate my fellow drivers here when the only flip me off in traffic...

I spent all of 2012 driving to New York City pretty much every day and even in the worst of the worst (mid-town Manhattan at 5:00 pm) the New York drivers are the best I've ever seen, no leaning on the horn, no cutting people off just for the heck of it, etc. Yes, there were a few incidents of people behaving badly but on a percentage basis, it was extremely minimal.

I've driven in Chicago too George and it wasn't bad. I think the problem in Atlanta is it's infected with too many non-New York northerners.

The weather up here in Nova Scotia has been relatively mild, -6C (21F for you flatlanders). It's supposed to drop to -8C or so over the weekend for a couple of days.