Author Topic: Ice Hysteria '07 (Read 458 times)

Maverick · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:54:19 PM »

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Originally posted by jhookt
Mac is a pretty funny guy if you are into "i'm so dam old jokes." i've have done the best i can to enlighten everyone who asks about the great state of Texas but i fear so many people live down trodden lives that thier senses reel and thier minds reject the thought. life in texas is one of those things you have to enjoy to understand which i guess is why so many people just dont get it and hate the fact that they probably never will.

i dunno wether you are seriously degrading my home state or if you just happen to be on the "Only 2 things come from Texas" bandwagon, whatever the case may be i feel sorry that you dont get to enjoy the Texas lifestyle.

Lighten up Francis. I've been in Texas, have family in Texas and the wife is from there. I also lost my first career because of a texas ****** and his inability to drive cost me the full use of my right arm. In spite of all of that I can still find humor in Texas and enjoy my Texas friends. If that chaps your hide y'all better slap some cow patty on your posterior to keep from kissing your own texas backside.

rpm · « **Reply #16 on:** January 20, 2007, 12:00:20 AM »

If there is a more liberal city in Texas than Austin, I can't tell you what it is. Now comparing Austin to San Francisco would be like comparing apples to oranges.

Slash27 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 20, 2007, 07:16:47 AM »

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Originally posted by jhookt
lol that's funny. although on the flip side of that the roads up here in the the DFW were prettty bad. not to defend hysteria causing media types, but if the weather up here could be judged as a precursor, then the predictions for down there in Austin weren't to far off course IMO

The weather forecasts in D/FW couldnt have been a bigger cluster F. WINTER WEATHER WARNING from last friday through last monday. Up to two inches of ice or more predicted. "Catastrophic ice event" predicted one. What happened? Some bridges iced over. So the forecast for tuesday as predicted on monday night at 10pm, " Some light snow flurries with no accumilation. Sorry kids, school wont be closed in the morning " Exact quote. So we wake up that morning at the fire station to find our vehicles covered in sleet and snow and the roads nice and nasty. Schools close by the dozens. I hate weathermen. They cry wolf again and again and again and completly drop the ball when we do have something serious. They are wrong 9 times out of 10 but strut and gloat the one time they get something halfway right.

Sorry for the rant but these guys wear me out.

Slash27 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 20, 2007, 07:21:01 AM »

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Originally posted by Tarmac
Do they even have infrastructure for dealing with this kind of stuff down there? Salt trucks (with big enough salt stockpiles to keep them running), plows, etc?

I can see how things would get pretty bad if those weren't available.

Lots of sand and plenty of trucks. The news teams always have camera crews on stand by at the lots when we have an "arctic blast of doom" No one around here uses salt but I do believe in Oklahoma they do.

majic · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:49:47 AM »

Why on earth wouldn't they use salt?

eagl · « **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2007, 11:04:30 AM »

I'd rather have a little "ice hysteria" than what usually happens in Colorado the first time it snows each year... Those retards remember how at the end of the PREVIOUS winter, they actually had gotten the bad-weather driving thing down pretty well, and they take that confidence with them on the road the first time it snows. The result is an ugly series of fatal accidents. It happens EVERY YEAR in Colorado.

Contrast that with the so-called hysteria that really did cause people to exercise more caution, and I personally prefer the excess of caution. My wife got to work safely that day, in part due to people being a bit more cautious than necessary. Yea she was a bit late because traffic was slow, but I'd rather see her late to work than dead or wrecked because people scoffed at the weather reports.

lukster · « **Reply #21 on:** January 20, 2007, 11:13:56 AM »

The problem in Texas is that people never really learn how to drive on ice or they forget. It's not unusual to see half a dozen cars or more competing with the guardrail for it's space on the first day of ice on my trip into Dallas on hwy 75. It never fails I get behind some bozo who when they discover there's ice on the bridge they just entered hit their brakes.

rpm · « **Reply #22 on:** January 20, 2007, 12:09:58 PM »

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Originally posted by majic
Why on earth wouldn't they use salt?

They don't want the cars and bridges looking like swiss cheese like they do up north. They switched to a non-corrosive agent several years ago.

eagl · « **Reply #23 on:** January 20, 2007, 12:11:36 PM »

I wish more places would use a non-corrosive melting agent... My car got more rust after one winter in England than it had in the previous six years.