IMJack Posted February 26, 2003 my whole life, I never thought I'd not like missing two days of school. The weather that was terrorizing the northeast finally made its way down to Texas on Monday night. We got an inch of snow and sleet. The sad thing is, one inch of snow is enough to totally shut down the city of Dallas. The city just isn't equipped to handle any snow at all. (And snow is such a rarity that they don't need to budget for it.) So UTD is closed for the second day in a row. It first closed Monday night, before my Criminal Justice class. I'm going to toally miss that class this week. This is bad because mid-term exams are all next week, and we were supposed to get our review materials today. This rant has no point. Just lamenting the city of Dallas's total inability to handle a little snow. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted February 26, 2003 Dude that suckes. Try calling you teachers. Ask them what would you be doing in class this week. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted February 26, 2003 I feel you. We get snow quite commonly, but can we handle it? No. Because this is Britain, and eveyone in local government is an incompetent fucktard. There was a little snow in the South East a few weeks ago. People were stuck on the motorway OVERNIGHT. 16 hours. And then the gritting trucks were finally called out, only to not be able to get through because of the traffic.. If you are in the USA, breathe in heavily through your nose when you get an easterly wind, you may just be able to smell the retarded drifting across the ocean... 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted February 26, 2003 1" hahaha Better hide in the storm cellar, there's a Biggun comin'! 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted February 26, 2003 pritch said:If you are in the USA, breathe in heavily through your nose when you get an easterly wind, you may just be able to smell the retarded drifting across the ocean... That smell makes me want to puke and gave me a head ach. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted February 26, 2003 1" and it shut down? Wow...It takes at least, I'd say, 8"-10" to shut anything down here. Hell, I've driven to school (which is 22 miles away) when there's like 1.5" or so of snow, as well as tons o' ice (including black ice), on the road itself. We just leave earlier. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted February 26, 2003 Heh. Back home, it would take at least 3" sticking to the road to even slow the city down. A lot of people I've talked to who come from the Rocky Mountains or the Midwest say the same thing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted February 26, 2003 IMJack said:Heh. Back home, it would take at least 3" sticking to the road to even slow the city down. A lot of people I've talked to who come from the Rocky Mountains or the Midwest say the same thing. In Aspen the roads never get shutdown. If ya dont have A four weel drive car you cant go any ware in the winter. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted February 26, 2003 IMJack said:Heh. Back home, it would take at least 3" sticking to the road to even slow the city down. A lot of people I've talked to who come from the Rocky Mountains or the Midwest say the same thing. Exactly. I live in Colorado. Westminster, to be specific. From my experience, most of us don't worry about snow, heh. And I commute Mon-Fri down to DU. Going down Federal, no less... 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted February 26, 2003 pritch said:There was a little snow in the South East a few weeks ago. People were stuck on the motorway OVERNIGHT. 16 hours. And then the gritting trucks were finally called out, only to not be able to get through because of the traffic..That little snowstorm was a bit unusual. IIRC it fell pretty quickly and the temperatures were very low. I was at Heathrow at the time - the plane needed de-icing. The M4 had been gritted a fair bit - much more and the grit itself would have become quite a major hazard. But yes, Britain deals with its few inches of snow each year rather badly. I recall one time I was in Norway and there had been blizzards for days on end, yet the trains were still running pretty much like clockwork. 0 Share this post Link to post
FirebrandX Posted February 26, 2003 IMJack and I live in the same area. I've been stuck at home because I live downhill near lake Lewisville and the road is too slick to drive up. Suckage... 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted February 26, 2003 This ain't good: Through the magic of Teh Intarweb, I have learned that my Data Structures midterm, which was scheduled for next Wednesday, has been moved to the Monday after Spring Break. Teh suck. I wonder how many other classes will follow suit... 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 26, 2003 TeamKill said:1" and it shut down? Wow...It takes at least, I'd say, 8"-10" to shut anything down here. Hell, I've driven to school (which is 22 miles away) when there's like 1.5" or so of snow, as well as tons o' ice (including black ice), on the road itself. We just leave earlier. It takes a couple of feet to close our school, but we only get 2 snow days. It is teh suck to trudge through 2ft of snow to a shool that should be closed. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted February 26, 2003 pritch said:I feel you. We get snow quite commonly, but can we handle it? No. Because this is Britain, and eveyone in local government is an incompetent fucktard. There was a little snow in the South East a few weeks ago. People were stuck on the motorway OVERNIGHT. 16 hours. And then the gritting trucks were finally called out, only to not be able to get through because of the traffic.. They can't handle it up here in the North East either. One night (a few weeks ago) they failed to grit the dual carriageways and I got dragged away from DooM at 12:30am to go and dig out a car that a member of my family had managed to stick in a bit of snow as a result of spinning off the road. (that was only minor compared to what was happening in other parts of the country - and I heard that some councils in the Lakes are having to stop gritting because of budget cutbacks - disaster recipe) 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted February 27, 2003 I'm guessing it's a British term for putting sand on the roads in order to increase traction. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted February 27, 2003 It means putting salt on the roads in order to melt it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted February 27, 2003 Well, damn. The term 'grit' is a bit misleading then. 0 Share this post Link to post
Insomniak Posted February 27, 2003 I was told by a family friend from Houston that rain & snow were serious threats. Anyways, i've only missed 1 day of school due to the weather, but that was 2 feet of snow 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted February 27, 2003 Paddy was driving down the motorway when he started flashing his lights and honking his horn at a passing lorry, after a while the lorry pulled over. "What?" said the driver. "You are losing your load" paddy replied. The annoyed lorry driver said "I'm gritting you plonker!" 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted February 27, 2003 fodders said:Paddy was driving down the motorway when he started flashing his lights and honking his horn at a passing lorry, after a while the lorry pulled over. "What?" said the driver. "You are losing your load" paddy replied. The annoyed lorry driver said "I'm gritting you plonker!" Heh. English English. 0 Share this post Link to post
999cop Posted February 27, 2003 It's interesting hearing it snowed in Texas 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted February 27, 2003 Bloodshedder said:Well, damn. The term 'grit' is a bit misleading then. I think they use a variety of substances (rock salt typically, I believe), but it is generally in small pebble-sized lumps, rather than a fine powder. These lumps can easily get knocked up into the air as vehicles drive over them - one of them came close to smashing our windscreen on the way to Heathrow on the occasion I mentioned. So "grit" seems a reasonable term. Heh, a link. 0 Share this post Link to post
mewse Posted February 27, 2003 i am a snowman, someone please call the police so they can come and thaw me, how am i even using this keyboard 0 Share this post Link to post