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Posted on 01/14/2024 7:26:18 PM PST by know.your.why
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - With frigid temperatures on the way, Governor Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency Sunday afternoon for portions of Alabama.
“We are anticipating unusually cold temperatures in Alabama this week, so I am urging everyone to be prepared, take caution traveling and stay weather aware.”
The areas of North Alabama listed in her declaration include Huntsville, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa.
“unusually cold temperatures in Alabama this week”
But due to global warming, it’s unusually warm unusually cold temperatures.
Hurry up! Put them on a bus to Chicongo before they freeze.
I have been through three ice storms..to date… No power for days.. Tree limbs everywhere.. nobody controls a vehicle on ice.
I do hope my grandsons near Huntsville get a huge snow dump.
If your ancestors can survive an Alabama snowstorm, than so can you.
Your ancestors had Alabama snowstorms, right?
You folks don't happen to have studded snow tires on your vehicles, by any chance, do you?
Didn't think so. Be real darn careful.
SOE keeps people off the roads. Worst thing is a pile up on an icy road and emergency vehicles can’t get through. Trees and power lines can come down, so good to have an emergency plan for heat. Food will keep if you put it outside in the cold. Most folks in the south don’t have fireplaces or generators.
Next will be a snowball fight on the beaches of Antigua and Barbuda. Milton Waddams of Office Space will complain to the waiter.
I live in Alabama a few miles from I-85. Yall up North can keep yo snow and ice. We don’t want nor need it!
I used to drive on snow a lot, but it has been many years since I last did so. I know enough to stay off the roads now.
Browning Mt got to close to -40 and these people are worried about a little chill in the air?
Tires are so much better now that snow itself should be no big deal. Glare ice not so much.
The problem is that Alabama local governments do not have snow and ice removal equipment or supplies - no plow trucks, no salt trucks, etc. So the roads get really treacherous really fast, especially if it ices. I lived in northeast Alabama for 15 years and I've been through it. Everything shuts down until the ice melts, and power is often out as well. Also Alabama homes are generally not built with deep cold in mind, like in more northern areas. Lots of pipes will freeze, with no way to get it fixed until the weather warms up again. And lots of homes have heat pumps, which are close to useless under 40 degrees and totally worthless when power is out. I learned that lesson the hard way and had a heat intensive propane gas log installed in my fireplace and some propane space heaters in the rooms away from the fireplace after the blizzard of '93 knocked power out for 3 days and we had to abandon ship and stay with our neighbors. Oh, and natural gas service is uncommon in the rural areas so everyone has electric stoves, so when the power gets knocked out you can't cook, either, unless you can set up a camp stove or grill outside in the cold. So to summarize: frozen roads, no power and no water in many areas, especially the rural areas, and no way to cook a meal. State of Emergency is absolutely the right call and I appreciate Gov. Ivey, who seems comatose most of the time, calling it.
Oh sweet memories! The blizzard of ‘93. I never want to see such a thing again. The weather forecaster said the rain system earlier this week that brought us 3 to 4 inches of rain in a day, mimicked the system of ‘93 perfectly except without the freezing temperature. I was so glad to hear that the cold air stayed away until the system had moved up the coast.
The 93 blizzard paralyzed the south. We had 10 inches of snow, was without power for a week, and only survived in my house because of the wood stove. As I said, it paralyzed the south. All winter storms do. We so seldom have any measurable ice and snow so cities do not invest in sand trucks or snow plows and no one has snow chains on their tires. When it does arrive, it is better to just shut everything down until it melts.
An actual ice storm wreaks havoc with downed lines and a lot of other problems...I’d rather get 3 feet of snow.
I just made my wife mad with my cynicism about the SOE.
My brother in law from Illinois used to make fun of us in Georgia for how we drive in “snow”. I told him for years it wasn’t necessarily the snow. I have driven in snow with no issues. The bigger problem the layer of ice under it, or when the snow melted and refreezes. This is especially true in areas that don’t have snow plows / salt trucks and don’t clean off the roads.
I don’t care how good you drive, how slow, how careful, it is hard to drive anything on a sheet of ice, especially up and down the hills of north GA
Anyhow, he got caught in one of those ice events and ended up in a ditch. He says he gets it now, lol.
Headline makes it sound like there is a glacier moving through Tennessee.
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