NWI INGO General Post Part 19 - LegOs, Glocks and iPhones!

[CTC B4Z]

Is it still coming down hard and how many inches currently

 

[darkkevin]

Is it still coming down hard and how many inches currently

Pretty well settled down, blowing more than anything

 

[tv1217]

Jedi quit whacking off on Gunbunnies' driveway that's weird man

 

[darkkevin]

The worst of it was probably 5-7pm. Hard to say, but maybe 3-4” total, lots of drifting

 

[Ballstater98]

Thanks! I’ve got options along the path, but it never hurts to have one more.

Basically, if you can make it to the VFW 2511 area, you can make it here. And that goes for everyone.

 

[1775usmarine]

This global warming sucks

 

[Farmerjon]

No use for county plows to be out right now. Wear out equipment and drivers while the wind blows it right back on the road behind them. Dad owned his own service station and nights like this through the 50's through the beginning 80's he would be out all night with the wrecker. He got to spend almost 20 winters in Florida which is what he told me one night like tonight as we were pulling cars out of ditches or drying out distributor caps to get cars started, "when I retire I am going to Florida and out of this cold".

 

[tv1217]

I was going about 50 most of the way from Gary Works down the toll road to 49 to 8 to my house. YOLOOOO

 

[actaeon277]

It would be totally safe to let the drivers just keep going until they pass out or run someone over.

Maybe a supervisor somewhere could have looked at the forecast and figured out they might need trucks overnight.

I have bosses that do the same thing.
Work everyone a double to fix something, but when it isn't finished, everyone is at their 16 hour limit, and leaves.

 

[marvin02]

No use for county plows to be out right now. Wear out equipment and drivers while the wind blows it right back on the road behind them

The roads still need to be passable for emergency vehicles and not everyone works a day job. There are people who can't just stay home because it snows.

 

[marvin02]

Some perspective, weather wise, from the Chicago Tribune:

What happened to our mild winter? February. Now it’s one for the record books.

What happened to our mild winter? February. Now it’s one for the record books.

February continues to remind Chicago that it is a winter month to be respected — and one that is moving up in the record books. What started off as one of the mildest winter seasons on record…

www.chicagotribune.com

This month isn't just a return to a "normal" winter, it is historically one of the worst since records have been kept. I have had right at 24 inches of snow fall at my home. I feel bad for those who regularly have to work outside.

 

[marvin02]

Updated winter storm warning runs to 3 pm today, it was through 9 am.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/gary/46402/weather-warnings/332883

 

[Ballstater98]

 

[Hawkeye]

In my recollection, late January through February is usually the worst winter weather around here. Snow and frigid weather throughout and changing to cold and freezing rain from late February through March. We've had some bad ice storms in late Feb and March. Along with the occasional March blizzard...

 

[CTC B4Z]

Made it in non-issue

 

[melensdad]

Sooo, jedi is Piglet?

Stop insulting our swine friends, they provide us with bacon!

 

[melensdad]

Who wants to chip in on a dump truck and bobcat? Take everybodys snow directly to Jedis

Just bring a trailer over, I've got the bobcat


But blowing it into the neighbors yard is more fun than hauling and dumping.

 

[Lushamania]

Valparaiso and Duneland school districts are full-on closed, buildings and all. Of course, the kids still get to to do e-learning. I’m glad I wasn’t a student with all of this fancy at-home learning technology; it’d have been a real drag on snow days like this!

I managed to shovel my sidewalk of what was easily 3”-4” of snow, start up my car, get showered, and get dressed until I got a text from my boss saying don’t come in to work on account of the weather.

 

[Snapdragon]

My neighbor across the cul de sac is out snowblowing everyone's driveways again. We easily got 7-8" last night. I have a nice big snowblower that I haven't used in about three years because it's too big for me to handle now (and we haven't had any snow). I gassed it up and got it started yesterday. I offered to let him use it, but he said no, he was good. I baked him a blackberry cobbler a couple of weeks ago, but it's time for me to up my game.

 

[gunbunnies]

it's groundhog day 2 out there this morning... If I had finished up my trailer I probably would be in the southern Arizona desert right now...