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Fighting the good fight |
Better stock up on bread, milk, and eggs... We've got snow incoming! Looks like a widespread 6+ inches of snow is in store across northern Texas, most of Oklahoma, and northern Arkansas tomorrow into Wednesday. NWA is expected to get 6-10+ inches, which is above average for a snowfall around here. We tend to get 1-3 inches several times per year, 4-8 inches once or twice a year, and 12+ inches every few years. This also means Wednesday is sure to be a shitshow on the roads, since in my experience nearly nobody around here knows what the hell to do once the white stuff sticks to the road. At least it won't be -20 degrees like the last round of snow we got just before Christmas. And it's supposed to be basically all snow, instead of the nasty ice storms that we get from time to time. Stay warm, stay home (if you can), and enjoy that French toast that everyone apparently craves on snow days. | ||
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Rainy & 50s forecast here in SE TX. Take care those of you chilling further north. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
Yawn. It's nice being retired and NOT having to try to get to work etc. Picked up my new Yamaha 2400 watt inverter generator this afternoon. I'm ready. Got the milk bread beans and 24 liquid chickens in the carton and TP yesterday. . | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
Chance for two inches or less by Wednesday morning here. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
We will get it after you… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM TUESDAY TO 9 PM CST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 5 and 10 inches. My wife will probably work from home on Wednesday. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
CenTex as well. | |||
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| Freethinker |
 “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz This life is a drill. It is only a drill. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions about where to go and what to do. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Better to panic early... Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
Mrs. Mike just said it’s gonna rain tomorrow. Guess central Tx ain’t gonna be that cold "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Don't forget the TP. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Nah, everyone's still got that stockpiled from 2020. TP doesn't spoil like milk/bread/eggs do. | |||
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Last week I got a foot of snow in 36 hours or so. I am still alive. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
The local news is reporting that the City of OKC street department is spraying some sort of beet juice, from sugar beets, on the road surfaces now instead of the traditional deicing chemicals previously used. Supposedly this is the newest latest and greatest thing. I don't know but this sounds kind of high tech redneck engineering, lol. "OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Oklahoma City's Public Works Department tested a brine and beet solution on Sunday, with the goal of de-icing roads more efficiently than salt. The beet solution is used in many northern cities including Calgary, Washington DC, and Cincinnati. Experts say it can work in colder temperatures than salt and is more cost-effective. Sunday morning Oklahoma City treated 11 bridges and overpasses with a brine beet solution to see how well the potion performs. "Most of the mixture is a beet juice product and it's all organic, it's all very eco-friendly," said Oklahoma City Public Works Emergency Manager, Mike Love Jr. "It's supposed to give us a colder working temperature, sometimes in the negatives, it just depends on the percentage of mixture." The solution does not stain the roads or damage vehicles, and the cities that already use it, praise it. "Talking with other cities and other applicators, they swear by it," Love said, "This has been going on for 20 years everywhere else but here. So hopefully it brings us a little bit closer to cutting edge and it really does affect the city and our citizens." The brine can penetrate hard-pack snow, which experts say is one of the most dangerous things on the roads after a winter event. "Hard-pack especially when it's cold, salt does not penetrate it, and a plow will ride on top of it," said Love. "It is the hardest thing to break up, and most east-west streets with high buildings like our downtown area, that stuff can hold past an event for five to six days, this product is supposed to be able to punch through that at a saturation point without sunlight." Not only can the brine work on colder temperatures, but it also expands the city's operating ability, while also saving them money. "It's just to make us more effective and have more units in the field with our existing budget and with the workforce being the way it is these days, it's not getting any bigger but the city is not getting any smaller," Love said. The city is very hopeful that the beet brine solution will benefit the city and Oklahomans during winter weather, and will continue to monitor its performance this week as we face some icy conditions. lINK TO STORY | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Well, enjoy the red streets! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Happily Retired |
Local weather people claim we are due for 3-5 inches later today and tonight. We ain't going anywhere. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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Being originally from MN not too concerned Could be fun, planning on going to my local Walmart and watch the locals smoke tires. You can add SW MO into your title we are forecasted to get 7-12”. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Interesting it's being used as a deicer. Beet juice is often used to fill rear tractor tires for ballast (mine are filled with the stuff) as it's heavier than water, has a low freezing temp, non corrosive, and ecologically friendly should you get a puncture (unlike antifreeze or salt water). No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
^^^ learn something new every day. In my mid-20s working for a GC, I remembered tearing out part of the third floor of a sugarbeet factory and reconstructing it. Huge machinery in there; epic! Only runs in season. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Now, you'ins can make fun of my family tree on account of it is kinda twisty and gnarly (exceptn for cousin Effilina's branch since she ran off and married outside of her raising), but DON'T NEVER ever raise no questions about our redneck engineering!  | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Predicting a high of 43 and a half-inch of rain here today. Nicer ttomorrow. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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