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  • #31
    Quoth Argabarga View Post
    Are the Detroit Lions losing on a Thursday afternoon?
    Not this year.
    "I often look at every second idiot and think, 'He needs more power.'" --Varric Tethras, Dragon Age II

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    • #32
      Quoth Jester View Post
      I will never, ever have snow tires or chains, because I will never, ever, EVER live in a place where such things are even vaguely necessary. Currently in the Florida Keys, with my next planned address in the Phoenix metro area. I don't do cold. And thank you to all for reminding me of several reasons why.
      Dude! It snowed in Phoenix last year. Global climate change is happening. I'm at 3500 feet and its so cold that the water bowls I put out for the strays are frozen in the morning.

      Currently, I'm wearing 2 sweatshirts and a jacket just to go out to smoke. My bf wears a big fluffy jacket to work in central Phoenix. Its cold here. Much as I'd like to have you here, my advice is to stay in the Florida Keys.

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      • #33
        Quoth Argabarga View Post
        I went down to the crafts store and bought a pack of Crayola sidewalk chalk (I didn't HAVE to get the kind with the included glitter bits, but I did) and being that this place is only three blocks from us, everytime I drive past and notice a car in that spot, I'll mark the tires. If they're still marked in a hour, so long chum.
        Ah yes, the same method used by the Bokuto Police force. http://i.imgur.com/HkmXOr7.gif

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        • #34
          Where I am in Vermont people have snow tires and some people have studded tires (myself included). In my state the only law is no studded tires after April.

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          • #35
            In Wisconsin, studded tires and chains are illegal; you can't find anyplace that sells them. In Washington state, studded tires or chains are required when crossing the Cascade mountains.

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            • #36
              A friend of mine moved to Texas briefly, and then ended up moving back here to PA. While he was down there, they got hit by a snowstorm. It wasn't much -- I think he said it was maybe an inch if even that -- but snow in Texas isn't common, and I guess the residents, as well as the transportation department aren't very well equipped to deal with it. They ended up closing the roads, which my friend wasn't aware of, until he got pulled over by a state trooper.

              My friend still had his PA license, and the cop took one look at it and said, "Oh, you're from Pennsylvania! I guess this isn't shit to you!" My friend just smiled and shook his head, and the cop told him to go straight home.
              Sometimes life is altered.
              Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
              Uneasy with confrontation.
              Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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              • #37
                Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
                Dude! It snowed in Phoenix last year. Global climate change is happening. I'm at 3500 feet and its so cold that the water bowls I put out for the strays are frozen in the morning.

                Currently, I'm wearing 2 sweatshirts and a jacket just to go out to smoke. My bf wears a big fluffy jacket to work in central Phoenix. Its cold here.
                Yes, it occasionally snows in Phoenix. Yes, it can get cold in Phoenix. This is not new. My friend had icicles coming off her backyard trampoline a few years ago. I experienced temps in the 20s when I lived there previously.

                But--and this is an important but--did it get to the point with that snow that anyone in the Phoenix area actually needed snow tires, studded tires, or chains for their tires? No, of course not. Because "snowing in Phoenix" doesn't mean anything like "snowing in Wisconsin," "snowing in Pennsylvania," or especially, given recent events, "snowing in Buffalo." And it never will.

                Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
                Much as I'd like to have you here, my advice is to stay in the Florida Keys.
                I accept the fact that Phoenix will not only get much hotter than the Keys, but also much colder. This is also not new, and not anything I've been unaware of. The Keys are by definition more moderate in climate, at both ends of the spectrum. Remember, Key West's entire history runs less than 60 degrees of difference: the record low here is 41F, and the record high is 98F. In Phoenix, I have memory of both 28F and 122F, and I know it can get even colder than that there, though I don't know the record low there.

                Weather is actually not one of the reasons I'm moving back to Phoenix. It IS a reason I won't move anywhere that is cold, but Phoenix hardly falls into the kind of cold category I'm talking about here. But again, while I have several reasons for moving back to Phoenix, weather is not one of them. And of the several reasons, the most important one for anyone else to know is the simplest one:

                I'm going home.

                "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                Still A Customer."

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                • #38
                  Quoth Gilhelmi View Post
                  I have heard the stories of an elderly couple who went into a snow bank and was not found for 4 days (or a week, it was a long time ago). They were alive but just barely, and they were very lucky someone noticed the radio antenna sticking out of the snow. It is not possible to open a door blocked by snow. If it is still snowing, you can be buried quickly.

                  I can not imagine the madness of someone risking not being found till spring. I AM "PANTS ON HEAD CRAZY" (just for fun though), and I am calling these people insane.
                  Here in the northern part of Minnesota, we have a person almost every year who winds up in a snow bank, gets covered in snow, and isn't found until spring. Not in a car, though - I've never heard of that. It's always some drunk fellow who wandered out of a bar, thinking he could walk home. The one last year was found after only a few days, when the owner of the neighbor's house, whose steps he fell asleep under, shoveled around their front steps.
                  "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
                  -Mira Furlan

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                  • #39
                    Quoth Jester View Post
                    I'm going home.
                    Ooh, Rocky Horror time! *sits back in anticipation*
                    "It is traditional when asking for help or advice to listen to the answers you receive" - RealUnimportant

                    Rev that Engine Louder, I Can't Hear How Small Your Dick Is - Jay 2K Winger

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                    • #40
                      Quoth greek_jester View Post
                      Ooh, Rocky Horror time! *sits back in anticipation*
                      Okaaaaaaay......I don't get the connection.

                      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                      Still A Customer."

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                      • #41
                        May I offer two little pieces of advice from an old friend of mine.She was 14 when she started driving-and that was a tank(!!)over the Surrey Downs in WWII and managed to enjoy many years of trouble free motoring...

                        1.Treat everyone else on the road as if they're a potential idiot.Most of the time,you could be right-and if you're not,no harm.

                        2.Better five minutes late in this world than fifty years early in the next...
                        The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.

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                        • #42
                          Quoth greek_jester View Post
                          Ooh, Rocky Horror time! *sits back in anticipation*
                          Quoth Jester View Post
                          Okaaaaaaay......I don't get the connection.
                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Xn-DWHuuM The song being referred.

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                          • #43
                            Oh, okay. There are actually a couple of songs with similar titles, including the Ozzy Osborne one ("Mama I'm Coming Home) and the more recent pop one ("I'm Coming Home," I think it's called), not to mention numerous others with similar themes, including but not at all limited to Sheryl Crow's "Home" and Aerosmith's "Home Sweet Home."

                            "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                            Still A Customer."

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                            • #44
                              Quoth greek_jester View Post
                              Ooh, Rocky Horror time! *sits back in antici.............................















                              ...pation*
                              Fixed that for you.
                              PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

                              There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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                              • #45
                                I wonder. In winter, do you ever look at either the vehicles you tow or the accidents you pass by on the street and sing to yourself a song like "Working in a winter blunderland?"
                                Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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