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Well it's in the early AM here. Everything out there is now covered in a solid blanket of white. Couple of inches deep on my porch rails, unsure about out in the yard. Best I could tell when I looked out side it might still be dropping, flurries at least.

This definitely isn't normal for this area. I like it, wish it would do it more often, but it isn't normal. Be interesting to see if we get more through the day tomorrow, or how soon it'll be melted and gone. Not looking like there will be more accumulation, but suppose to be in the teens and twenties so it might stick around for the day.
Georgia has had snow before. not sure about Macon but Agusta & Ft Gordon had 18" in the spring of 1973.
then there was the "storm of the century" in the late 1990s.

funny thing about this gulf coast snow, at 6" they have more in this one storm than Toledo Ohio has had total this season.
'bout 45 miles north of me is Bobbys home base, due to lake effect he's had more.
 

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All this stranger weather is because the poles are reversing… I’ve been telling people that for years now.
let’s be careful here. I don’t speak for all, and they’re always will be a few outliers. But I can say with confidence the majority of the Poles have not, and will not, reverse in their patriotic, honorable, and ethical pursuits!

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IMPORTANT EDIT: Sorry to those who know. When I posted, the images were the same size. I can't figure out how to balance them. I would never intentionally put my family coat of arms above the Republic (of Poland) flag or banner.
 
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Georgia has had snow before. not sure about Macon but Agusta & Ft Gordon had 18" in the spring of 1973.
then there was the "storm of the century" in the late 1990s.
Wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was simply saying that it is not normal for Middle GA.

"Storm of the Century" was early 90s, better known as the "Blizzard of '93" around here. The next year was the"Flood of '94" when Macon was underwater. I'm sure this will become the "Blizzard of '25", maybe we can get a"Flood of '26" to clean Macon up again.

Last notable snowfall at my place was an inch or so back in 2014 IIRC. It wasn't much and didn't last long, thinking it was melted and ice by mid afternoon. Before that it was '93 which I only vaguely since I was around 7 at the time. Couple of inches and it hung around for at least the day and into the next before it melted. Of course there have been a few dustings through the years between, but just enough to melt and form ice when it landed.

Florida is in a similar boat. It's gotten snow before, just few and far between. Some areas it might be a first time. I'm sure this one will be their winter "Storm of the Century."

I don't watch the news, but from what I'm hearing I-16, I-75, and I-475 through Macon are currently shut down. Apparently semis can't climb the hills due to ice and are blocking them. Macon is basically sitting in a bowl, so all three interstates descend into Macon from all directions. They're basically stuck in Macon, sucks for them. Not a place I'd want to be sitting all day. They've closed them until it warms up enough for it to melt and trucks to get moving again.

As long as power doesn't go out, I've got everything I need for the next few days here in the house. Unless someone calls asking for help, I don't even intend to set foot out the door today. The snow covering everything looks too nice and I don't want to mess it up. As of right now I have to report for work tomorrow morning and it'll be turning to ice and mud by then, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Yes, we're closed for this. This part of GA isn't prepared for this weather, because we practically never get it. I'd rather be closed down for a day or two than them start salting the roads and having to rescue more people that can't drive in it.
 

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let’s be careful here. I don’t speak for all, and they’re always will be a few outliers. But I can say with confidence the majority of the Poles have not, and will not, reverse in their patriotic, honorable, and ethical pursuits!

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...but I have a heavy skepticism about the magnetic pole reversing as well. Some variation in field strength is normal and natural.

Interestingly the magnetic pole positions are the closest they've been aligned with true poles in the last several hundred years.
 

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All this stranger weather is because the poles are reversing… I’ve been telling people that for years now.
With my luvk, theyll get stuck half way so that we're rotating north and south. Temperature swings from -80 to + 110 twice a day.
 

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let’s be careful here. I don’t speak for all, and they’re always will be a few outliers. But I can say with confidence the majority of the Poles have not, and will not, reverse in their patriotic, honorable, and ethical pursuits!

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I said poles (with a lower case p) not Poles (with an upper case P). I always try to use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization when writing. You know the old joke about helping your Uncle Jack off a horse.
 

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I said poles (with a lower case p) not Poles (with an upper case P). I always try to use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization when writing. You know the old joke about helping your Uncle Jack off a horse.
Luckily, i never had an uncle named Jack.
 

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Snow person from the other side of the border here, after about a week of consistent extreme cold (between -7F and -25F) the temperatures are finally warming up to a balmy 5F. With that's it's brought over night snow and some pretty heavy duty winds.

We're looking at getting nearly a foot of the white stuff overnight and driving conditions are BAD. Thankfully MAB3L is handling it like a champ despite the weather thanks to a bunch of shit in the bed, and Blizzaks.

Having lived up here my whole life, this winter is actually close to the ones I grew up with just 15-20 years ago. The last few years we hardly had below freezing temperatures, or snow that stuck around until after Jan 1st. I think we had 2, maybe technically 3 green Christmases in a row from 2020 to 2023.

When I was growing up, I remember running out of space on my lawn to put snow from the driveway, but now it seems pretty rare that we get over 2-3 feet in a year.
 

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Georgia has had snow before. not sure about Macon but Agusta & Ft Gordon had 18" in the spring of 1973.
then there was the "storm of the century" in the late 1990s.

funny thing about this gulf coast snow, at 6" they have more in this one storm than Toledo Ohio has had total this season.
'bout 45 miles north of me is Bobbys home base, due to lake effect he's had more.
Yeah, that lake effect thing is kinda crazy. I went to college in Edinboro once upon a time. More than once I tempted fate driving to and from there, mostly in a 2wd Ranger. There unfortunately were mishaps. I still have the Ranger though and somewhere I have a pic of that Ranger parked on the street and the snow on the curb was taller than the bottom of the windows. Wild times. They hardly plowed back then, just let it get packed to ice on the roads. I ran chains when I could. Also bought an 89 Bronco II off a junkyard and fixed it to have a 4x4 to drive around campus back then. Kinda wish I wouldn’t have sold it. It was a good truck and it was in really good shape when I sold it to one of my professors for his kid. I used that money to get the first real incarnation of the Choptop on the road, running on 33’s.
 

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Good to see you bought fuel. Might be warmer if you close that door.

where are you thats so cold?

i was just there to drink some coffee and check my phone....both freeze if i dont keep them in there...currently i am in ohio. in a hole in ohio or over by 36 depending on what i am doing.... there is a 20 degree swing between here and the river. it is crazy how that shit works. i have been on the ground crawling around working on equipment... the suck is strong this week. can sandblast or deal with wiring without tearing it up at these temps outside.

i was out west last week...and likely next week.

way worse out there.
 
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Wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was simply saying that it is not normal for Middle GA.

"Storm of the Century" was early 90s, better known as the "Blizzard of '93" around here. The next year was the"Flood of '94" when Macon was underwater. I'm sure this will become the "Blizzard of '25", maybe we can get a"Flood of '26" to clean Macon up again.

Last notable snowfall at my place was an inch or so back in 2014 IIRC. It wasn't much and didn't last long, thinking it was melted and ice by mid afternoon. Before that it was '93 which I only vaguely since I was around 7 at the time. Couple of inches and it hung around for at least the day and into the next before it melted. Of course there have been a few dustings through the years between, but just enough to melt and form ice when it landed.

Florida is in a similar boat. It's gotten snow before, just few and far between. Some areas it might be a first time. I'm sure this one will be their winter "Storm of the Century."

I don't watch the news, but from what I'm hearing I-16, I-75, and I-475 through Macon are currently shut down. Apparently semis can't climb the hills due to ice and are blocking them. Macon is basically sitting in a bowl, so all three interstates descend into Macon from all directions. They're basically stuck in Macon, sucks for them. Not a place I'd want to be sitting all day. They've closed them until it warms up enough for it to melt and trucks to get moving again.

As long as power doesn't go out, I've got everything I need for the next few days here in the house. Unless someone calls asking for help, I don't even intend to set foot out the door today. The snow covering everything looks too nice and I don't want to mess it up. As of right now I have to report for work tomorrow morning and it'll be turning to ice and mud by then, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Yes, we're closed for this. This part of GA isn't prepared for this weather, because we practically never get it. I'd rather be closed down for a day or two than them start salting the roads and having to rescue more people that can't drive in it.
I moved to Hotlanta in '79. The first couple years we had 1-2" snows that lasted 2-3 days at most. The big one was about 82-83. I was plant/head engineer in an open air chemical plant. "Cold" in Atlanta is below 20 and that's not often. When it goes below 25, we drip our faucets. That storm in 82/83, we got the same kind of knife penetration of artic air from the mid/northwest. In three days/nights, it went to -5 (a 100yr event until), then -10 (the new 100 yr event), and the next day it only went up to the low 20s, and we had 10+ inches of snow. Everything water or latex or such in that plant, including a bunch of steam condensate return lines (none insulated) froze solid as a rock. That same evening about 6:00PM, it warmed to mid thirties. Everything had frozen solid, and everything busted loose about midnight, and I'm not even sure Atlanta knew what a snow plow was back then. New from the north, I drove across Atlanta to the plant. I called everyone in and we just stopped water flow for 2 days. In the middle of the first morning, one of my guys was working in a high vapor area where it was all explosion proof electrical equipment. When he was working on whatever, a 6" sprinkler feed line thawed enough to shoot out a 4-5ft long solid ice "plug." No one had noticed it broke at an elbow and was open. It missed the guy's head at 60mph, by 1-2ft, and flattened one of those 200amp explosion proof housings like a beer can. He realized what happened as soon as the first 1,000 gallons of water came out.

The better story is that '94 flood. It was like the LA fires, but wet. I was running an environmental emergency response/consulting/engineering company. We got the county contracts down by Hawkinsville and Eastman, GA, south of Macon, pretty much from I-75 to the coast to pick up all the caskets that had popped out of the ground when the graveyards flooded and the groundwater rose up. Seriously. It wasn't as gruesome as it sounds. The old caskets rusted or rotted (fact, no disrespect) and lost water integrity and stayed down under the seasoned compacted dirt. The new caskets from the new graves under recently disturbed dirt Popped up like a cork, but almost none broke open. Our contract was to pick them up and bring them to the local firehouse. The firemen didn't know when we started, that was a hoot, let me tell ya. I think we collected just shy of 200. The long distance award was one 18 miles from the grave plot, carried by the flood waters.

That's where I got a good education for building the Road 'Raith. BTW, we got the contracts because we were asked for a scope of work that didn't exist. I proposed handling similar to, but not as extreme as, a Military remains transfer, and we got 1/2 the work (1/2 the state). Surreal, profitable, and reinforced everything I learned about diplomacy, careful handling, respect, honor, etc. We carried them in covered pickups (can't use a van, because it's a confined space and the was a possibility of fumes/vapors. We had a police escort guard at the discovery sites who also provided official documentation. My guys all wore new protective suits for every case, The truck bed was lined with a fresh tarp each time, and we covered every casket with a fresh clean linen sheet for transport. Caskets identified on the outside as a sailor, soldier, airman, law/fire, etc., got a new flag draped over the linen. I vaguely remember some kind of official looking magnetic signs on the trucks, can't remember. Police escorted us to the firehouses. Humbles me talking about it all these later.

Caskets have a secret capped cylinder in the corner by the hinge that holds a glass capped waterproof cylinder with an identification tag (3x3"?) identifying the remains and funeral home or town. I think only two were not identified, but they may have identified them after the contract. I think we did the whole thing in about 2-1/2 months, with two calls months later, one in the woods, and one on the edge of of a farm field, both under a lot of sticks and leaves and such carried by the water.

That's when I first got involved with all the city, state and federal governments. Crazy times.

When the 'Raith is done, the little cylinder with have a TRS tag....

Sorry for the long message. I wrote it in between fighting on the phone (mostly on hold) with my insurance carriers all day.
 

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The better story is that '94 flood. It was like the LA fires, but wet. I was running an environmental emergency response/consulting/engineering company. We got the county contracts down by Hawkinsville and Eastman, GA, south of Macon, pretty much from I-75 to the coast to pick up all the caskets that had popped out of the ground when the graveyards flooded and the groundwater rose up.
Well it's 30 years late, but let me say thanks for what you did then. I was about to turn 9 when that storm hit. We lived in Bibb Co. just south of Macon city limits and outside the flood zone. I don't recall in detail, but do have memories of the news coverage and recovery phases of it. Rose Hill Cemetary right there on the Ocmulgee got hit hard, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of your recoveries originated there. Also wouldn't surprise me if there are still some missing and never recovered in the swamp back behind the AFB.
 

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Well it's 30 years late, but let me say thanks for what you did then. I was about to turn 9 when that storm hit. We lived in Bibb Co. just south of Macon city limits and outside the flood zone. I don't recall in detail, but do have memories of the news coverage and recovery phases of it. Rose Hill Cemetary right there on the Ocmulgee got hit hard, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of your recoveries originated there. Also wouldn't surprise me if there are still some missing and never recovered in the swamp back behind the AFB.
Brings up another vague memory, I think they had the national guard walking and searching just about everywhere for everything, lost people, kids, whatever. I want to say about 1/3 of our notices came from Fort McPherson.
 

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And just when I thought snowmageddon couldn’t get any worse…

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I’m old and feeble, so sometimes when I come home from the grocery, I put the soda and the milk up on the handrail from the driveway so I don’t have to run up and down the stairs. I usually leave the soda out there. Some of you may call it pop.

Pop it is!

i’ve gotten to know Lincoln, and he started barking blue murder about 11 last night. It’s not like he barks at you guys, it’s a really good watch dog bark. I sent him downstairs from the bedroom ahead of me, and I looked all around, and I couldn’t find anything after about 15 minutes, so we went to bed.

When we went out this morning, one of my Walmart great value 2 L fake 7-Up bottles had burst. Wiped out the soldier next to him too. I’m pretty sure that’s what he was barking about.

Riddle me this, why did the one explode, no liquid, just ice, and the other one 2” away wasn’t even fully frozen?

Anyway, I’m out $1.02. Four years ago they were $.67.
 
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Brings up another vague memory, I think they had the national guard walking and searching just about everywhere for everything, lost people, kids, whatever. I want to say about 1/3 of our notices came from Fort McPherson.
That's where the suspension struts come from, right?
 
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