Snow In Arkansas--World Coming to an End--Moron Festival

[ROX]

Unbelievable.

We've got like 3 1/2" of snow so far and the world is shutting down/coming to an end.

People are driving at 2 and 3 mph.  Semi's stuck on by-pass on ramps.  Complete morons with no clue how to drive in good weather are careening into each other because they didn't have the common sense just to stay home.  So far 26 accidents on just 9 miles of 4 lane highway in just 2 hours.  My wife is so busy at the OR at the big hospital in town she's staying all night.

What ever happened to common sense?

Ok--I'll be the first to say it..."Hold my beer and watch this".

[kilo2]

Frakin kidding me up here in Springdale not a bit of snow.

[Dadsguns]

Arkansas = Common Sense    

 

I tried to find the picture of a few years ago here in Virginia beach where there was was an ice storm which caused several large pile ups mostly around the interchange area, it pretty much shut this area down from the people that continued to just fly down the road at highway speeds then just drift off into the shoulder or barricades... 

[ROX]

Frakin kidding me up here in Springdale not a bit of snow.

kilo---it's specifically a South and Central snow event....some sleet and ice down near Shreveport.  Central is expected 3-6" and we have almost 4" already.

If you live up northwest you will get flurries to 1" tomorrow night.

Northeast goes unscathed.

[oakranger]

We are getting snow for the first time this winter, too.

[ebfd11]

LOL I am currently down in SC and you wanna see a mad dash to the grocery store for bread, milk and eggs. People are funny down here and I gotta laugh, but OMG its gonna dump 3 inches on the ground. From where I grew up 3 inches would be considered a dusting.

[kilo2]

People freaked out here and we are only getting an inch.

[Reschke]

Well it started dropping sleet here in Birmingham, AL around 3:30 this afternoon and now we are getting snow and rain mixed together. Temperature here today hasn't been above freezing all day long and its supposed to drop between 3-6 inches of snow here around Birmingham with at least 2 inches of ice under all that. We will be lucky to have electricity in the morning.

[Spikes]

We are lucky enough in NY to have a foot, finally.

[ROX]

Now it's 4 1/2" and still falling here on Music Mountain.

Most of the city is shut down and only traffic on street roads is happening.

We normally have ICE STORMS instead and I'll take a snow storm (yes, anything more than 1" is considered a "storm" here.  I grew up in Waukegan, IL and went to college in Minnesota.  We learned how to drive sophmore year in high school driver ed in the winter and did winter interstate driving practice.  Here, there IS no mandatory driver's ed and the roads are literally a demolition derby.  Sad.

This is by far the most snow I have ever seen in the South...I've lived here 10 years and never more than a couple of inches at a time and that is a rarity.  They do get more in NW AR where it is far more mountainous than here...that's also the only place that has plows to handle it.

[allaire]

I just woke up about 45 minutes ago and what do I see.  What appears to be 2 inches or more of snow on the ground.  I hit the wally world last night and it looked like there was a sale on bread.  People start to freak out here at the slightest hint of winter weather.  Unfortunately it will be a frozen mess in a day or two.  To all the people affected by this stay warm and safe.

[rogwar]

Frakin kidding me up here in Springdale not a bit of snow.

Hey I'm Springdale High class of 1983!


You should see when we get snow in Texas. It's even worse!

[ROX]

We are getting snow for the first time this winter, too.

This is a place that in some areas is semi-tropical.  We normally don't get snow.  Big snows are a once a decade deal.

Hint:  The eatery a half mile away on Bull Bayou serve gator.  I have cactus in my yard.

[vorticon]

it really doesn't take much snow to diddly things up, when nobody is running winter tires and the plowing/sanding equipment isn't running.  even in canada a early snow storm causes havoc.

[Dichotomy]

Hey I'm Springdale High class of 1983!


You should see when we get snow in Texas. It's even worse!

I'm kind of bummed it wasn't worse.  Good excuse to stay home an play AH