01-09-2010, 02:31 AM | #1 | |||
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Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Wow, this cold snap is one of the longest I've seen, and the last time it snowed here in central Florida, it was like 1989 I think. I'm from Louisville Kentucky, so I know all about it, but it'd be fun to see how people down here deal with it. I hope it DOES snow.. Driving in it would suck though. no salt or plows here.
Check this forecast out:
Saturday Cloudy with a chance of showers...possibly mixed with light snow and sleet at times in the morning...then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Colder. Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Wind chill readings 24 to 34.
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01-09-2010, 02:54 AM | #2 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Don't worry, unless you're originally from the hills in Kentucky, people are just as dumb in KY driving in the snow as they are in FL, LOL. In either place, snow shuts everything down. Well, maybe not really, but mostly. Coming from growing up in the hills of Appalaichain Kentucky (during the cold snaps of the 70's and early 80's) to living in NY, VT, and now Chicago, I've just got to laugh at people who don't know how to deal with snow.
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01-09-2010, 03:09 AM | #3 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Eh, we did fine in Louisville, but you always see some idiots doing 360's.. lol.
I do kinda hope it snows enough just to see how people freak.. and everything shuts down. heheh It's funny though, here in Florida, I see people get all bundled up in coats when its only like 65F... to me, that's nice.. a break from the humidity is good too.
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01-09-2010, 08:55 AM | #4 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Idiots doing 360* even @ only 15MPH STILL occurs. People's inability to drive here is WHY most things shut-down, and gives me ample opportunity to get a daily laugh.
@Z, my vintage "Polaroid" is dated Jan 19, 1977 with snow on the ground. IIRC, we did not go to school that day, and was the first Hillsborough county "snow day" officially recorded.
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01-09-2010, 11:32 AM | #5 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
The temperature here this morning was 1 degree (very cold for our area). We had a light snow on Thursday (only 1-2 inches), but the temperature has been in the teens for almost a week, which means everything is frozen solid.
Unfortunately, we don't get enough snow anymore for the residents to know how to drive on it. I feel comfortable because of things my dad taught me, but I've not had many opportunities to actually practice them.
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01-09-2010, 01:06 PM | #6 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
I actually took Driver's Ed on the snow, my first poor experience driving was on a dry road. I was used to driving on slippery roads, the dry thing confused my teenaged mind. I just love watching the idiots with 4x4's driving like it's nothing, though. They seem to forget that being able to go doesn't equate being able to stop.
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01-09-2010, 02:20 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
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01-09-2010, 02:32 PM | #8 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Regards from Norway with -13F and 3 feet snow. An unusually harsh winter, I'll admit to that...
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01-09-2010, 02:39 PM | #9 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Good tires and slow speed = very easy driving in snow. Having driven in snow for 30+ years helps too.
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01-12-2010, 01:08 AM | #10 |
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Re: Snow in Central Florida?!?!?!!
Well, we did see some flurries and sleet (lol, the newspaper called it 'ice pellets' heheh) which was cool.
In Louisville, I remember staying up all night when it would snow, hoping that we'd have a snow day, but damn those Jefferson County Schools... they rarely gave us snow days.. (because with a big city, we had the salt trucks, plows) grr.. so I'd be tired as hell, and stay home and sleep sometimes. LOL! or go play in it. I threw a snowball at a car once, and they slammed on their breaks, and backed up, and chased me through the neighborhood... It wasn't an ice ball, just loose snow. The guy was yelling at us like we opened up a P90 on his car. We lost him. hehe (when we hit the back of his car, he was going like 10mph) so we didn't endanger him or anything. made a snow-chick with a bikini... hahaha
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