Weather silliness

[KBCraig]

From the just-plain-silly department:

Louisiana interstates closed because it might freeze.

[CNHT]

From the just-plain-silly department:

Louisiana interstates closed because it might freeze.

+1 for you KB...how to waste sand and manpower.

[eques]

Well, hey, it's best if they close everything down, because then nobody will get hurt, right?

Except for the people who maybe need to drive to the hospital or something... (not the ambulances--those probably have access anyway).

So, if somebody drives on the interstate when it's "closed," do they give you a ticket if you're caught driving on it?

[KBCraig]

So, if somebody drives on the interstate when it's "closed," do they give you a ticket if you're caught driving on it?

Yep. It would be for ignoring traffic signs and/or evading barricades.

[error]

People in the Deep South really don't know how to deal with ice. It's just something that virtually never happens.

[cathleeninnh]

I haven't lived here long enough to make real comparisons. This is our third winter here. But I lived in Texas for 38 years and South Carolina for 11. The ice storms there were much worse than the one we are experiencing today and the few we have had the last couple of years. Today, here in southern NH, there is no more than half an inch of ice on limbs. That is enough to break some power lines and close schools.

In Texas and other parts of the south, rain is more often downpours. Rain here is more often steady. The rare occasions that the temperature conditions in the south create ice storms, also create icicles on power lines up to 10 or more inches. That is disastrous.

The people don't know how to deal with it. Houses aren't constructed the same. Pipes in the attic sometimes. It is a mess, but it isn't because people are wussies.

Cathleen

[KBCraig]

People in the Deep South really don't know how to deal with ice. It's just something that virtually never happens.

Substitute "snow" for "ice", and you'd be correct.

But ice happens regularly here, much more often than snow, and no one can drive on it. I don't care how long you've lived up north, you can't navigate on a half inch of ice when it's 25-30 degrees.