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FWIW, I've got a little less than an inch here in Aiken County. I'm waxing up the runners on my sled.
Posted on 12/25/2010 5:50:28 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for all of the Midlands until late Sunday night. We will see some snow during the last few hours of Christmas day and overnight into Sunday morning.
I never knew snow was so rare in the carolinas and tenn.
Having lived most my entire life in NE/IA and vacationed in UT, CO, the dakotas, MN, and MO, all I know is snowy winters. You guys just don’t know what winter is until you’ve seen a north central nebraska ice storm or northwest iowa thunder-snow. You get out in the badlands of NE, SD, and WY and if the wind blows hard, just an inch of snow is a disaster. And then there’s MN. It gets so cold up there your car will barely make enough heat to keep the ice off a fist sized area ON THE INSIDE OF YOUR windshield. Tank driving experience comes in handy.
Just rain down here in the Low Country.
You forgot to include your Ping List.
Meh. Thanks for the heads-up.
What with the lack of sunspots and the Gulf Loop switched off...
those of us in the know are preparing for the coming ice age...
...in which millions will die...
the good news is that dims, rats, progressives, liberals, democrats and communists
will go first.
Now showing snow forecasted at around 10:00 AM for Charleston, S’ville, and Myrtle Beach.
Sho’ nuff. Ah well, it’ll be gone in a day or so.
Snow now. About an inch.
Yesterday, we were at my in-laws in Marietta (SC)and it snowed quite a bit while we were there.
First white Christmas around here since '63.
Little over 2 inches of wet snow here in Joe Wilson’s district in West Columbia, SC. A “lake effect snow” transplant from Michigan several years ago, I am amused. Usually everything closes down here on the “threat” of snow. Churches closed today, but the retailers are open for the day after madness. Snow will be gone by the afternoon. Mid 50’s mid week.
32F and blizzard in Newport News, VA at 9:30 am.
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FWIW, I've got a little less than an inch here in Aiken County. I'm waxing up the runners on my sled.
0bama’s fault.
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It is now twenty minutes past eleven AM on the 26th and a steady light snow is falling here within earshot of I-95. Probably an inch and a half on the ground here.
I keep remembering my introduction to the unreliability of “expert” sources back when I was in grade school. My parents bought a new set of encyclopedias and one of the first things I did was look to see what they said about South Carolina. Under climate it said, “Snow falls ONLY in the mountains”. I immediately informed my mother that the new books couldn’t be counted on.
I don’t think you can blame the rear wheel drive, I have driven for fifty miles at a stretch with RWD on pure ice, frozen rain anywhere from a skin to three inches thick. The only time I hit anything was when another car turned left right in front of me and I couldn’t stop. Going down the road like a slinky probably resulted from either stepping on the accelerator too much or stepping on the brakes too hard.
I have driven up and down many hills with rear wheel drive with ordinary tires, the biggest problem I had was getting started and getting stopped. Getting started is usually a matter of knowing how but stopping is a matter of planning ahead and praying that nothing jumps out if front of you.
Some of us still have nightmares about February of ‘73! There were people stranded everywhere, helicopters were rescuing folks from the interstate highways. Snow removal equipment had to be brought down from Pennsylvania and points North. The official measurement at Rimini was 24 inches. Hardly anyone down South is prepared for that. People were burning the seats from their vehicles on the road to try to get warm. I personally knew at least one family who were stuck in a service station for three or four days and glad to be there. I was a nicotine addict at the time and I walked a four mile round trip in 17 inches of powder to get cigarettes. I was sore for a week after that, no snowshoes or skis, just bogging to my knees with every step.
By the way, the official forecast for that storm was, “Possible heavy accumulations up to FIVE INCHES in some areas.
Christmas Day was 50 degrees and sunny.
4-5” here, and staying by the fire..lol
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