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Big Z
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 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject: Ice, Ice, Baybay! |
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The Dallas/Fort Worth area was subjected to one heckuvan ice storm last night. School is canceled, work is canceled, and I'm LOVIN' IT! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gad2x7DSlQ
Yeah, I know a lot of you are like, "Please, that's a beautiful summer day for us!" Guys like Turk and Pepa go swimming in this kind of weather. Well, we're in Texas. This is absolute madness for us.  (Though I could totally go swimming right now!)
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0ceanZombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey! my school was cancled today so i got a day of. |
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ZombieAndi
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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aww, I love Maddie's shirt/coat! Is this self-knitted?
That's really much ice you have there.
I hope people put not too much salt on the ways, it hurts Maddie's paws.
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Joedward
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Cool stuff Collin (see what I did there? Cool....as in cold, you see... )
I'm actually jealous, I'd like to see some ice and snow, but probably wont for a few months. 
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Big Z
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ZombieAndi wrote: |
aww, I love Maddie's shirt/coat! Is this self-knitted?
That's really much ice you have there.
I hope people put not too much salt on the ways, it hurts Maddie's paws. |
The sweater is store-bought. And fortunately, we use sand here instead of salt.
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Zombie Bizzle
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool dude...Why doesn't this stuff happen in California? |
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The Jinja Zombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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"It's coooooooold!" 
Heh, that doesn't look like much compared to the stuff we had over here in Inglaterra last month, but for Dallas... yeah, that looks pretty cold.
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ZomDarkie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Big Z wrote: |
| And fortunately, we use sand here instead of salt. |
Salt pwns all. Sand just makes things messy and slippery, whereas Salt ACTUALLY melts the stuff...having lived for two weeks in nothing but ice, snow, and later slush...Seattle learned it's lesson. They specified they'd use salt next time around. Whooo!
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Battle Zombie Alita
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Our car has more salt on it than snow. Headlights don't work. It was Tan, now its White.
Did color problems leak from automakers to TLG?
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DarkZombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, they cancel school and work for that in Texas? That'd be like beach weather in Connecticut right now. We had about a foot a couple weeks back and most of it's still sitting around just to make my 5-day a week walk home (a cold) hell. Fortunately it's only 2 and a half blocks  But still a challenge not to slip and cave my head in on black ice. Now I can sympathize with my homies on Hoth.
Did I mention I hate Connecticut?
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TurkGuy19
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Ice, Ice, Baybay! |
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| Big Z wrote: |
| Yeah, I know a lot of you are like, "Please, that's a beautiful summer day for us!" Guys like Turk and Pepa go swimming in this kind of weather. Well, we're in Texas. This is absolute madness for us. (Though I could totally go swimming right now!) |
heh, don't group me in with Pepa. I'm 6 hours north of him. I have MUCH colder weather
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| And fortunately, we use sand here instead of salt. |
Salt pwns all. Sand just makes things messy and slippery, whereas Salt ACTUALLY melts the stuff...having lived for two weeks in nothing but ice, snow, and later slush...Seattle learned it's lesson. They specified they'd use salt next time around. Whooo! |
we use a combination of Salt and Sand because, well, it gets to cold for salt to actually be affective in melting the ice.
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ZombieKenobi
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| 0ceanZombie wrote: |
| Hey! my school was cancled today so i got a day of. |
School was cancelled for me as well, and I love it  . The only bad thing was my mom made me get up somewhat early to go snowblow the driveway, which I really didn't mind. Here outside of Cleveland, we got a good foot o' snow with another 5-6 inches expeted throughout the day.
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thrasher zombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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We got ice and snow in St.Louis, and I'm on my second snow day. Not to mention I didn't go to school on Monday from being sick, and we are off on Friday for teacher meetings. Which means a 1 day school week for me! Suckers
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EmperorZombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| ZomDarkie wrote: |
| Big Z wrote: |
| And fortunately, we use sand here instead of salt. |
Salt pwns all. Sand just makes things messy and slippery, whereas Salt ACTUALLY melts the stuff...having lived for two weeks in nothing but ice, snow, and later slush...Seattle learned it's lesson. They specified they'd use salt next time around. Whooo! |
True that darkie, that was three weeks of hell frozen over
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ZombieSeptemris
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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That must be quite an event in Texas! When schools close due to snow, it's always a fun day.
Talking about weather, it was -33°C here on monday. That's -27.4 F for you imperialists. I had to put a toque.
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ZombieAndi
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ZomDarkie wrote: |
| They specified they'd use salt next time around. Whooo! |
What is "Whoo" when your poor dog refuses to walk one step more because all the paws are dark-red from the salt?
I prefer sand or little split stones (or pure snow)
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ZombieGIR
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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I got about a foot of snow this morning.
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dWhisper
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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I have a few pictures to post. Collin got the little girl's version of the storm... the real one was up north a bit. Basically, a quarter to half an inch of ice covering every part of my truck, freezing doors shut and requiring some ingenuity to get myself in. Schools closed for 3 days, thus far.
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thrasher zombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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/me bites dWhisper
Now you can fill in that extra 1% of evil
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Up here in Boston, we got about 6 inches of snow, give or take. Obviously, we had a snow day.
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ZombieDraykov
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Gotta love the local weather reports down here:
"Jane, there is a clear watery substance, much like water, but frozen. It's like ice, Jane, and it's everywhere. Check out this bush...covered in what appears to be...ice! 400 people were too weak-willed not to go out and buy pork rinds last night and have, as a result, completely blocked freeways this morning. We could all die (let's just conveniently ignore that it's gonna be back up in the 60s in the next day or two)."
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dWhisper
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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You really think your zombie teeth can pierce my mighty dragon/dinosaur/Barbra Streisand skin? I shall make a snack of you, little zombie.
Anyway...
You see where there's windshields and truck? Took me about two hours to chip away enough ice to get there. From the inside, I couldn't break through the ice holding a door shut. Even throwing my weight and shoulder into it.
There are a few more in my Photostream on Flickr
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TurkGuy19
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm...glad it's never freezing rain here. Only snow!
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TK-425
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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You, sir are lucky. We never get anything like that here in Tampa. If you don't believe me, Andrew will tell you.
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Jettbacca
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| We get this on an almost daily basis up in Nova Scotia. It's crazy. Today it was minus 20 celsius with wind chill |
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Darth's Zombie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Since I've finally turned, I can post here with a clear conscience. (MMMMnnnnnnnnnnn! BrAAaaaaaaiinnsss!)
Here in Ohio we had snow yesterday, freezing rain last night and then 6 inches of more snow today. Needless to say we had a level 2 snow emergency all day today and no school or work. I've got some stuff in my garage so I left my car outside and now I can't get in it. The ice is so thick I can't open the doors (about 2 inches thick).
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ZombieGIR
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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dWhisper- I got that earlier this month, to a lesser extent. It was like the whole world was laminated when I got up in the morning.
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dWhisper
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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It's essentially shut down the area. Several without power, no internet for most of today (horror of horrors), and most places have been closed. Rumblings are that schools will be closed the rest of the week. Now the bigger problem is that it's melting during the day, freezing at night, and taking down trees. More roads were blocked today from branches than snow.
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knapplZ
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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dW, that's why you don't live in R-Kansas.
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