The "Holy %$%# It's Cold Out There" Winter 2017 Thread

Barthheart · January 17, 2018, 06:16:42 AM

Not if it's frozen solid....

mirth · January 17, 2018, 06:30:50 AM

Scotchicle

Toonces · January 17, 2018, 07:32:32 AM

Quote from: mirth on January 17, 2018, 01:50:50 AM
Scotch always helps.

^ This.

BanzaiCat · January 17, 2018, 07:41:41 AM

Says it's 19 F here right now. LOL awesome.

Gusington · January 17, 2018, 08:40:38 AM

God bless the idiots with no traction control whatsoever who try to cross hills and valleys in a snow storm. I don't know how Darwinism has not weeded these people out yet.

mirth · January 17, 2018, 08:49:47 AM

Quote from: BanzaiCat on January 17, 2018, 07:41:41 AM
Says it's 19 F here right now. LOL awesome.

Hahahahaha! It's warmer here!!!

BanzaiCat · January 17, 2018, 09:58:01 AM

It's well below freezing outside, still. The news reporters are still out in it and driving around in it while saying "don't drive, stay home." Even more hilarious is their dash camera footage as they mosey along and some dipshit in a pickup truck blows by them at twice their speed.

Gusington · January 17, 2018, 10:10:51 AM

Do they have traction control or are they frozen in fear as they are here?

BanzaiCat · January 17, 2018, 10:22:10 AM

The frozen in fear part.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/hundreds-of-accidents-reported-as-houston-area-deals-with-icy-roads

Normally there's about 220 or so accidents every 24 hours, but yesterday in a 9-hour period there were over 300...with much lighter traffic.

Gusington · January 17, 2018, 10:32:32 AM

Just a mile from my driveway some jackass could not get up the hill and just sat there, frozen in fear, spinning his wheels and blocking the road. My carpool bud put his hazards on, muttered 'fuck this guy' and we went around the jackass with our 4wd. Jackassery overcome, for now.

BanzaiCat · January 17, 2018, 10:34:13 AM

There aren't many 4WD vehicles here, except for the occasional jacked-up truck.

bayonetbrant · January 17, 2018, 10:35:41 AM

yeah, we had flakes in the neighborhood here around 0620

we started getting the snow around 0940

Gusington · January 17, 2018, 10:35:49 AM

Knaves.

BanzaiCat · January 17, 2018, 10:43:46 AM

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 17, 2018, 10:35:41 AM
yeah, we had flakes in the neighborhood here around 0620

Wait, when did you move in?

;)

Sir Slash · January 17, 2018, 11:42:59 AM

True story. After Hurricane Charlie back in 2004, I was on my way to work, a 42 mile drive, and nobody had power. As I got close to work I could see the power was back on and of course everybody was crowding into the gas stations to get gas. I was listening to the reporter on the radio giving everybody hell for trying to get gas all at once and how they should just wait until later so the people who really needed gas the most could get it. As I listened I happened to drive past a gas station and who was in line... the Radio Station van with the upset reporter in it. Sometimes, "Self-Service" has two meanings.