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Pray tell how can we have these idiots getting stranded in their cars in the SE USA. It's not like they didn't know this weather was coming. You just stay home and take care of family till it passes. Gives all of us in the south a black eye. What a bunch of numnuts! Sorry, but I think some of these people need to croak to get em out of the gene pool.
 
foreigners houston.... you'd be surprised on how many we have down here that knows how to drive in these conditions... John Reb
 
We the weather liars said it was going to be a middle to south GA. snow and ice event. Atlanta didn't call school for today, and the city is crippled with snow and ice. I can't believe folks can't sit by the fire and play on the internet. I am a knucklehead for sure, all our gate latches are them fancy metal one's that lock by themselves when you shut the gate. They are frozen shut, but I have fixed them now with a blow torch. Even the one's that have chains you can't unlatch them till you melt the ice. Sure glad I got propane yesterday, no matter what the price was. Anyone with some common sense stays off the roads when it snows in the south.
 
Hey when Sandy hit up in the northeast I remember a bunch of tough guys down south had nothing but bad things to say instead of keeping there mouth shut. When you deal with things all the time like hurricanes they arent a big deal down south and people are prepared. Its funny when the shoe is on the other foot with this snow and cold weather down south. If people arent used to weather it doesnt "give the south a black eye" it just makes you human god forbid.
 
But look how many folks up north didn't have food and water put up. I mean we had fuel for the generators and propane to cook with.
There are knuckleheads everywhere no doubt about it, but most of them are liberals and democrats.
 
highgrit":1zthlv2s said:
They are frozen shut, but I have fixed them now with a blow torch.
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:lol2: I'm about to go check mine. Taking a pile of newspapers to light and thaw out whatever needs it. I don't think it's warmed up 1 degree since daylight.
 
ga.prime":11r6vpm3 said:
highgrit":11r6vpm3 said:
They are frozen shut, but I have fixed them now with a blow torch.
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:lol2: I'm about to go check mine. Taking a pile of newspapers to light and thaw out whatever needs it. I don't think it's warmed up 1 degree since daylight.
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Take along some beer. Peeing on them thaws them right out
 
shadyhollownj":4pxsg5w2 said:
Hey when Sandy hit up in the northeast I remember a bunch of tough guys down south had nothing but bad things to say instead of keeping there mouth shut. When you deal with things all the time like hurricanes they arent a big deal down south and people are prepared. Its funny when the shoe is on the other foot with this snow and cold weather down south. If people arent used to weather it doesnt "give the south a black eye" it just makes you human god forbid.
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I think you are somewhat confused. Atlanta is not really part of the south. Also, if you've ever driven through Atlanta you would also know that it only takes a thunder shower to shut down traffic. And lets not go racist and blame the mayor either. Muhammad was only given 30 hours notice that a winter storm was heading his way.
 
shadyhollownj":3imo3pad said:
Hey when Sandy hit up in the northeast I remember a bunch of tough guys down south had nothing but bad things to say instead of keeping there mouth shut. When you deal with things all the time like hurricanes they arent a big deal down south and people are prepared. Its funny when the shoe is on the other foot with this snow and cold weather down south. If people arent used to weather it doesnt "give the south a black eye" it just makes you human god forbid.
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This is where I totally disagree an idiot is an idiot no matter where you are from.
You need better public officials or residents with an IQ higher than 70 .
You are still stupid to try and sit on the coast and ride out a hurricane, just like your are stupid if you don't know how to drive
on snow and ice and get out an try to conduct business as usually.
If you are not capable of reading a NOAA report of severe weather kinda of asking for it.
Over here everything was shutdown before it got here.
 
No matter where people are in a disasater and they do stupid things like building their houses in flood zones and they get stranded . You hear them say we need somebody to help us, what has happened to people helping themselfs, they are all getting dependent on a Gov. agency to help them, growing up we had no rural fire depts. people put out their own fires, we had no ems , the hearse went to the scene, when the hurt person saw the hearse coming they got well real quick, people gets skunks on the porch and they call the sheriff dept to help them. we used to be a rural county that took care of themselfs now we are becoming a city bred somebody help me county. :help:
 
shadyhollownj":1mfb8nlu said:
Hey when Sandy hit up in the northeast I remember a bunch of tough guys down south had nothing but bad things to say instead of keeping there mouth shut. When you deal with things all the time like hurricanes they arent a big deal down south and people are prepared. Its funny when the shoe is on the other foot with this snow and cold weather down south. If people arent used to weather it doesnt "give the south a black eye" it just makes you human god forbid.
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Maybe I am wrong, but aren't you required by some obscure northern law to ALWAYS call that event SUPERSTORM Sandy?

Did New England just suddenly turn into a coastal region a few years ago--or was it always?
Let me think now--uh------yeah, there was that whole Boston Tea party thing so there must have been ships and where there are ships there are oceans so I'm guessing, this ain't the first time in history a hurricane hit New England. In fact, it's not even uncommon. The track of every New England hurricane for the last 150 years:
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M5farm":1ddjtxn8 said:
Stupid - you can't fix stupid no matter what region your in.
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That's the truth. People here have been around snow they're entire life and the first snow of the year they act like they've never seen it before. I always say "you live in Ohio, it's snowed, your vehicle is crap, you can't drive, what does that mean? ROAD TRIP .

Larry
 
Shocking who replied with such an unbiased open minded opinion. Thanks for explaining the whole ocean=ships=hurricane thing. I dont know how this board would get by without you. Way to hold on to your hate for Superstorm Sandy. I love how a few towns in north jersey (that should be classified as new yorkers) that lost there vacation houses and acted like it was the end of the world makes you think everyone here is dumber that you. My neighbor had a house on the bay that him and his dad built like 60 years ago and it was leveled in the storm. They got no FEMA money and received no insurance money. They were prepared but still lost their house. I dont think that their misfortune was funny or a joke cause we are from jersey and not texas. Keep up your internet tough guy approach it at least gives me a laugh. On a side note it is our REPUBLICAN governor ,that could be our next president, that is being investigated for using Sandy money illegally and blew up the whole media storm.

Caustic I'm not saying that conducting business as usual isnt stupid it is. I was just saying that if the towns dont get snow and dont have the equipment to handle it then its gonna be a mess no matter what. Idiots are the majority nowadays unfortunately.I mean if its a blizzard when you go to work and you think your honda is gonna make it home 8 hours later then you deserve to sleep in your car. Heres where you went wrong. Public Officials and IQ. Thats like oil and water.
 
Hate Sandy? That's like saying I hate the air or the water or wind or the Earth itself. It was a storm, just like hundreds--probably thousands thru out time before it. There was nothing "super" about it.
My twin brother had his house on Bolivar Peninsula leveled in "Plain ol" Hurricane Ike. He knew the risk, accepted it, and bought it anyway. It had stood longer than he had lived, but he knew the potential was there and accepted it. It hurt to lose it--he had owned it only 6 months when it was taken by Ike.

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He knowing all this, and seeing first hand what can happen, rebuilt on the same spot.

I live, in the middle of a 161,000 acre National Forest. We've owned the property since 1966. There has never been a major forest fire in this county, but I know full well, that there is a very real potential that one can come ripping thru these tall pines and take away everything I have worked for and own and there's nothing I can do to stop it. I built a new house in 2009 anyway, even knowing all this.

I live near a small trickle of a river--it's my eastern property line, which puts me in the FEMA 100 year flood plain. Never, in the memory of the oldest person living has water reached where my home is, but I recognize without a doubt, that the potential exists for water to wash away my home and cattle and I accept that risk, even tho there is no precedent for it to happen. It's been so long ago that the East Fork has been in major flood that FEMA can't even set a Base Flood Elevation for flood insurance--they can only speculate that the potential exists.
It 'can" happen and when it does, it won't be a 'super' flood or a 'super' fire, or a 'super' storm--it will just be nature doing what nature does in it's everyday interaction with man, and I won't whine and complain that it did. I CHOSE to live here KNOWING the potentials.
 
Well the story only gets better. Governor just sent all DOT employees home at lunch. DOT employee I spoke to said he had no idea when he would be called back. Apparently the FEDS gave them a lot of money to buy snow equipment and the money was never used to buy any.

While I am not a big fan of the DOT and their wasteful ways, I don't think they could have done much to avoid this but I think whoever made the decision to send the children to schools was either retarded or just plain greedy. We didn't and I am nearly five hours south of Atlanta. Of course not having the children in the schools did jeopardize the federal payment for each child so this would have cost Atlanta a lot of money.

Greybeard, what if a dooper came out of the woods and killed one of your cats. Would that be a super-dooper?

BTW - Just in case you don't know what a dooper is.

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Jo, yeah they closed all the schools around here on Tuesday and Wednesday and at least one I know closed today. We didn't have nay traffic jams.
 
Sure glad I live in the country, and a county that deer out number people. A southern knucklehead is a lot better than being a dumb yankee, at least in my southern eyes.
 
Our schools are closed today. The Bug is raking in the money with her babysitting business. Probably be open tomorrow though.
 

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