Today, I saw real snow in my hometown for the first time ever. Florida’s previous record was 3 inches in 1895. Today, we received about 6-7.5 inches of snow. And - I can’t believe it - it’s still there right now!
The implications of this are of course kind of terrifying, but seeing everyone so excited and playing outside has been nice. I’ve watched people introducing their pets to their first snow, making snow angels, playing with makeshift sleds. I’ve heard people cheering and having fun all through my neighborhood.
People are happy to be off work. Even the Waffle Houses are closed. There are no cars on the road. It’s a nice little respite during a particularly horrifying time. I know it’s a symptom of something much worse to come, but it’s beautiful anyway.
Feel bad for all the people who are about to have frozen water lines. That’s going to suck.
OP if you are concerned about frozen water lines a couple of tricks are to leave cabinet doors open under sinks or leave faucets cracked open so water trickles out slowly. If you have access panels to crawl spaces that contain water lines leave those open too.
2 hurricanes and more than 6" of snow?!? We haven’t even got 6" TOTAL for the year yet in northern Iowa.
Haha global warming farce amirite?!
Yup, just another “freak weather event” to throw onto the massive pile of others that they just ignore. Soon they’ll be making a conspiracy of why orange juice has gotten so expensive.
Fitting with US withdrawal of Paris climate agreement
Damn, imagine hell freezing over and a bunch of them still don’t get the message
goddamn you guys have more snow than we do in finland where usually at this time of year we should have a lot!
Ohh, wanna trade? We have a surplus of fire over here.
Once again the free market solves everything
Watch out for all the Yankees who’ve moved down and assume they know how to drive in snow because they come from someplace that gets snow all the time. What they don’t realize is in places where it rarely snows we invest very little in snow removal and pretreatment, which can result in a very different experience than what they’re used to!
Luckily, there are barely any cars out right now. Almost everything is closed, even Waffle House, which is kind of a big deal.
They’ll be busy telling everyone “dOeS thiS LoOk likE gLoBal WaRmInG tO yOu?”
Sadly I’ve actually heard people say this in person. I’ve been stuck in this ridiculous state my whole life.
The Gulf of America must be super unhappy about the renaming.
“If global warming is real, then why is there snow?”
Polar vortexes go further down as jet stream gets weaker. Polar vortexes move cold from the Arctic to fuck this one asshole in particular. Most of Europe right now is “spring like” 6C+ warmer than usual. There’s a spot in Greenland warmer than Southern GA.
Even just for Northern Hemisphere (Winter peak FYI), all time record hot for first couple of weeks of year.
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