Georgia Snow Flurries

[Hawk]

Here's what the snow flurries looked like at my house today.
Bear in mind. We don't often get snow, especially like this. It shut Atlanta and surrounding communities down because the snow falls, melts, then freezes, then snows again.
What looks like snow is actually a blanket for a sinister bed of ice.

We live about 40 miles north-north west of Atlanta.

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[Gumboots]

What's snow?

[Hawk]

What's snow?

It's that white stuff you DON'T put up your nose.

[Gumboots]

Never seen it.

[nedfumpkin]

Here Hawk, these are from last year. 10 hours before the picture was taken there was absolutely no snow. :)

[RulerofRails]

That's a real snowfall! Hope you guys enjoy the snow. It really is wonderful. Appreciate the beauty.

[Hawk]

That's not fair Ned. You can't compare Canada with Georgia.

Hope you guys enjoy the snow. It really is wonderful. Appreciate the beauty.

I do appreciate the beauty. I love snow. I was raised in the Chicago area.

Unfortunately, down here is mostly ice sleuthing itself as snow.

[Lama]

That's impressive for Georgia. Thanks for sharing the impressions.

I was raised in the Chicago area.

I got into Chicago on Amtrak #29 on Monday, January 6th, at the height of the "polar vortex" mess, and was stuck in the city until Wednesday Jan 8th, when I got on #5, The California Zephyr, which was the first train out of town in two days.

Here's a picture of the scenery near South Bend on January 6th, and another of a train in Chicago Union Station on Wednesday Jan 8th.

[nedfumpkin]

That's not fair Ned. You can't compare Canada with Georgia.

Hope you guys enjoy the snow. It really is wonderful. Appreciate the beauty.

I do appreciate the beauty. I love snow. I was raised in the Chicago area.

Unfortunately, down here is mostly ice sleuthing itself as snow.

Hawk, you are right it is not fair to compare, not whaat I was doing...just showing you it could be worse.

Actually, the area that I am in is not a snowy place due to geography. The surrounding area has a snow belt, but where I am I don't usually get much snow.

In the pic, all that snow was gone a week later. It's already happened twice this year...get a pile of snow and then it melts in a few days.

I don't mind snow or cold, it's the wind I don't like. :)

[Hawk]

Hawk, you are right it is not fair to compare, not whaat I was doing...just showing you it could be worse.

I know. I was just kidding.

[Blackhawk]

I got into Chicago on Amtrak #29 on Monday, January 6th, at the height of the "polar vortex" mess, and was stuck in the city until Wednesday Jan 8th, when I got on #5, The California Zephyr, which was the first train out of town in two days.

I was in Chicago a few days before that storm when they got 14+ inches of snow. Then as the next storm was approaching (the one you were in), I drove to St. Louis, and got hit with 10 inches of snow the next day. It was a snowy few days. I've been lucky in avoiding most of the snow since then though!

[nedfumpkin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZbdTviosiQ

Hey Hawk...apparently you folks didn't get snow. :)

[Hawk]

Probably all the pollutants in the air.

Reminds me of the song 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow' (Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow) by Frank Zappa, except here in Atlanta you probably shouldn't eat the white snow.

[Stoker]

Go Nanook!

[Gumboots]

Just as long as you don't start beating on baby seals with lead-filled snowshoes.

[Stoker]

Just as long as you don't start beating on baby seals with lead-filled snowshoes.

If that happens I'll take a mittenful of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area. And then Pounce! and Pounce again! I just hope I don't get a dog-doo snowcone stuffed in my eye....

P.S: I sure miss Frank. Knowing what I know now, I have to wonder if his cancer was just a random thing, in light of his ability to see through the wall of Bullsnot built up by the powers that be, and have the courage to actually say the truth about what is going on in the world.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Right now "they" are in the process of moving the tables and chairs out of the way. Exactly when the brick wall at the back of the theater will be seen by the sheeple is yet to be determined.

[Gumboots]

Given the history of RT3 patch development we should probably be thinking more along the lines of:

The mystery man came over, and he said "I'm outta sight".
He said for a nominal service charge I could reach nirvana tonight.
If I was ready, willing and able,
to pay him his regular fee,
he would drop all the rest of his pressing affairs and devote his attention to me,
but I said
"Look here brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris".

[Gumboots]

P.S: I sure miss Frank. Knowing what I know now, I have to wonder if his cancer was just a random thing,

Yes. Next question.

[Hawk]

Wow! This topic took a turn on a strange path. Guess it's time to lock it.