Interesting. I was just going by what was reported on local news. I tried to measure, but there was so much drifting, I had no idea what was accurate.

Its hard to calculate exactly due to snow drifts, but I live on the Platte/Clay county border 10 minutes north of downtown and I received 9 inches of snow. In my opinion the storm was greatly exaggerated, but I did watch a ton of news and clicked on a ton of weather related websites, so they accomplished their ratings objectives, thereby confirming their hype machine for the next round of apocalyptic storms. :clap:

For sure, that requires a level of dumbassery that has never been witnessed on Chiefsplanet.

I'm not sure that I'd go THAT far. :)

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I was out on the back roads today and saw drifts up to the windows of my truck. I couldn't see my driveway this morning till I cleared it out. There where a few roads that I usually drive that weren't plowed and I was risking getting stuck in a snow drift to use them.

Here in North Kansas City, I can already see pavement on the side streets, so it does seem overhyped for what ended up being an afternoon and night spent off the streets. OTOH, I know a lot of work was done on the roads, there are mountains of snow on the median outside my place, and it certainly doesn't look overhyped for places like Chicago, mid-Missouri, etc.

I guess it's like anything else in this world of minute-to-minute updates and speculation... once the media's had a few days with it, it's hard for anything to live up to their hype.

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Actually, that takes a vagina and some snow.

Yeah, right after I posted that, I remembered that we once had a member get stuck behind a washing machine while trying to retrieve a phone.

We've also had someone shoot his refrigerator in the middle of the night.

And someone run into a house with their car.

Yeah....I'm starting to think that parking a car on it's nose is probably business as usual for CP. Maybe even a bit below standards.

We just received 16 inches of snow first ever in a hundred years. Purdue University, also first ever, closed the school two days in a row. Before the snow really hit, there was a massive sleet that formed a thick ice layer. That caused a huge effort to shove the snow. It took our family a whole 2-3 hours to clear the driveway, often by breaking the ice at the bottom first before shoveling.

Yes please.

Well, was going to make the trek to work, but my own street sabotaged me. Most of the roads look passable, but I live uphill on a cul-de-sac, and needless to say, my road isn't what you would call "high priority". People can't make it up the hill, so they're leaving their cars either catty-cornered or just flat in the middle of the road, providing quite the effective road block. Yeah, snowed in another day.

Not where I live. We probably got close to 2 feet of snow.

I got lucky that my neighbor had some guy cleaning out his drive way with his John Deere tractor with a blade so he was nice enough to do mine when I asked him. My slow ass it would have taken me 3 hours to shovel all that snow.

we lost power for 3 hours. House temp inside got down to 50 degrees. Wow, was I ever so glad to have the power come back on

that is seriously messed up ... i've never seen anything like that before.

did anyone die in those cars getting stuck like that?

“That was the most over rated weather event in the last 20 years. I HATE the news for working us all up into a frenzy. The media wanted this storm to be so bad. I can tell you there have been much worse storms.”
Bob Fescoe, Wednesday morning on Twitter


“Blizzard conditions. I-70 shut down to StL/1st time since it was built in 58. KCI shut down. No buses. KCMO St of Emergency…and it's overrated?”
Kris Ketz, responding to Fescoe’s tweet, Twitter

As far as I know, no... I've driven down that way on LSD (hehe) and there's not much right there. There's a train line that runs close to it, so hopefully they were close to a station, but it's not like it's lined with gas stations and hotels. And how the hell do they go about cleaning it up? The plows can't get through, and it's not like you can just stop by and pick up your car... I guess the city will have to tow most or all of them.



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I should have known better. Sorry I overreacted. Funny, I tend to stand up for anyone but myself. :)

You guys want snow? Come here to Flagstaff, AZ. Last January we got 6 feet, that's right, 6 FEET of snow in one storm. Of course, Flagstaff is in the mountains so there you go lol. What KC calls a winter storm, we call a regular storm. That storm sucked. We had tickets to go to the Bulls vs. Suns game (I'm a huge Bulls fan) so we went down a day early. Too early. Came back and BOOM it came.

Fescoe never responded to my Charlie Weiss pizza shop tweet

GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!

I've been home for two days trying to get a water line thawed before it busted. And I did it! All is well! The world is a great place! I'm happy!

That is why you leave your water running when it is below freezing...

We got somewhere around .1" of ice and 16-18" of snow. It took me 2.5 hours to shovel out 2/3 of my driveway, which is just barely enough to get our cars out. This is by far the worst weather I've ever seen in Missouri. Nothing else in my lifetime has come close, save for an ice storm in '94.

The ice storm in 2002 was far worse than this was IMO. I lived in southern KC at that time.

I remember that one. Horrible. Lost power for days and spent it at my moms huddled around the fireplace eating lunch meat sandwiches out of a cooler...lol

Where's the adventure in that?

Apples and oranges.

We had both a gas and wood furnace at home, so we stayed warm, and the gas stove let us cook, but we had no power for several days. We went through tons of D batteries watching ABC on a little 5" B&W portable.

Boiling water to take a bath ****ing sucked.

I was there for it. I was the only one in neighborhood to stay thru it without power for almost 10 days. Still living there.

LMAO

No dude, it's a jeep. Just tell them it broke down, no one is going to question you. :D

I was only out for 5 days. Not horrible, but some people I knew were out over 2 weeks.

I had a Forrest in my back yard basically at the time, and the ice was so heavy that nearly half of the trees had fallen down. Sucky part was hauling the damn trees to our burning pile. I hated that winter.

Can I ask how this happened?

Was traffic really bad on that street and then it got snowed in, or did like 12" of snow drop within 1 minute and trap all the cars?

Has anyone driven on or around or have knowledge of I-44 eastbound from Joplin to Spirngfield? My dump-ass collegiate institution decided to have classes while every other school is still closed.

Yo, brah.

It's college. They aren't going to fire you or anything if you don't show up. Don't go.

No, but I do have professors that like to fail you for missing 2+ classes and I've averaged a total of missing 3 sessions a semester so I'm pretty much pressured into getting back. I like saving my days off for when I'm too hung over to string sentences together.

shitty profs. If ya know the shit, ya know the shit. **** attendance.

It's not really The Day After Tomorrow. LMAO

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...it is crazy shit though. I've never seen anything like it, especially not a few miles outside of downtown freakin' Chicago. They said people who got stuck around 4-5pm were there until 2-3am, and people in the condos nearby were bringing them water and food.

My guess would be some minor accident stopped traffic, and once that happened their fate was sealed.

I drove there on the way home. I heard on the radio that it's shut down to the turnpike and beyond because of people still stranded out there in OK. Sucks took me 45 minutes to get from milemarker 14 to 249.

Mssu has school tomorrow?

Crowder don't heh

HEy RednFiesty Wichita is not havign school Thursday. Teachers report for an "awesome" inservice day but no students have to attend

Southern is out. Missouri State is out. Drury? Well commuters and kids who went back home can risk life and limb to be back on time.

Surely you have gridlock out there in California. Ask someone from LA what rush hour is like.

Oh yeah, a jack-knifed bus didn't help matters.

I also live in an apartment complex. Before I had to leave today, a path was shoveled down our walk. The parking lot was plowed, but it was plowed around the vehicles parked there. I had a 3-foot-wide swath of 2-foot-deep snow between my rear wheels and the plowed drive. And I don't own a snow shovel.

Luckily, one of the maintenance guys was shoveling the stoops. I asked him if I could borrow his shovel. He followed me out to my car and watched me dig one-third of the way; then took over when I stopped to pant and dug the rest himself. I tipped him, and later called the office and put in a compliment for him.

okay my bad East bound, I dealt with westbound on I 44

Cool, my first 1000 post thread.

Crazy shit!

http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/201...abandoned.html

Way to knock em out of the park, mr. sosa

Holy crap it's cold this morning. 9 below.

Fuggers in LS actually plowed my road in a reasonable amount of time. Too bad I had to dig out the entrance and a path to my mail box since there was a 5 foot high pile of snow in front of them. :#

Few people have reached this pinnacle of success in life, enjoy the moment.

All day Tuesday, before the storm hit, they said Lake Shore Drive would get hammered because of the wind coming in from the northeast and warned people not to drive on it. Very difficult to have sympathy for stupid people.

I like how the county scraped the road to the caverns down to blacktop but still havent hit my street. Really pissed me off to see em scrape pavement and not hang a right on the rural route and keep on towards the cave. one who sucks the penis mother****ers.

So Fantastic Caverns entrance is clear but they won't hit the rural routes.... Who still goes to the Cavern in a blizzard? Sorry to hear that MO.

13 hwy north is a skating rink but FCR is clear to the cave & from what i could tell all the way to 160.:#

It's the city scrapin it? or hired outs...

county/modot scrapes everything.

the wife got out and scooped 35 yards of 4 foot drifts out to the road. i took her to work.

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Yep, no mail yesterday.

After clearing the driveway with the snowblower, I ran it down the sidewalk and then shoveled the front porch. The side walk was drifted over almost 3 feet deep.

For good measure, I also cleared a path for her between both of our neighbors yards. :thumb:

Someone wanting to enjoy the 60 degree environment?

5 cms yesterday, 20 last night, another 4-8 comming both Sat and Sun

We got about 20" of the crap. Roads are still pretty much crap, including I-44, which I seldom travel. There was an accident on it this morning, not too far from here.

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Well, good thing I'm not going west. That and I've got 4WD.

I have to say I'm impressed by the way this storm was handled. There was plenty of warning, so everybody had ample opportunity to prepare. My office cut everybody early enough on Tuesday that I made it home before the worst hit, and wisely stayed closed yesterday. There is obviously a shit ton of snow everywhere, but I'm in downtown Chicago right now and the streets and sidewalks are clear, and the roads were (for the most part) clear in my suburb last night. It seems the government responded to this mess efficiently and as well as could be expected. From what I've heard, there was only one-weather related fatality up here, and it was some reerun who was wandering around by the shore of Lake Michigan at the height of the storm (certain Darwin nominee right there).

To all the people who busted their asses dealing with this crap so the rest of us could basically just get a free vacation day, here's to you. :toast: I hope you all got a ton of overtime pay and spend it on something nice for yourselves.

I guess this was the dummy who got blown into the lake by high speed winds?

Yes.

Only other death I heard about was a guy in the burbs who had a heart attack while shoveling snow yesterday.

Lake Shore Drive Chicago

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It took me 4 hours over the course of two days to shovel out my drive.

Yeah, this picture has been posted several times. I assume it will become the single enduring image linked with this storm.

I guess the one glaring failure of Chicago during this mess was not closing Lake Shore Drive. However, it should be noted that every car that got stuck in this picture was driven by somebody who made a conscious decision to drive on this street well after the storm had hit. The city did not charge anybody for towing or storage of these vehicles (I assume the negative response to that would have been overwhelming), but AFAIC they damn well should have. Everybody who got caught in this picture was an irresponsible jackass. The poor workers who spent countless hours (on top of everything else they had to do) digging out their cars should get a free shot at each and every one of them.

4" of snow (and counting) and the whole town is closed.

Gotta love the south.

Round 3 next week?

****in bring it.

20"+ or GTFO

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ROFLROFLROFLROFL

**** it. when this is over we get soup and tornados.