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Peregrine
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Initially Posted - 01/11/2011 :  17:17:48  Show Profile  Visit Peregrine's Homepage
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2"><font color="navy">During the "Local on the 8's" the first screen was <b>"Small craft advisory"!</b>
It's 29 degrees, going down to 21, blowing 15-20 and snowing!
Small craft advisory?
I'm just hoping my "tent" over Peregrine is holding up during the third snow storm in the last month.</font id="navy"></font id="size2"></font id="Comic Sans MS">

John Gisondi
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/11/2011 :  18:16:31  Show Profile
Nuts--and I was about to go out on my kayak.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/12/2011 :  05:16:59  Show Profile
Driving to work today in snow. Third day in a row. I think im the only one non municipal that has chains.
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 01/12/2011 :  07:02:38  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
We've had 116" total snowfall this year, 38" on the ground, 47" since January 1. We are expecting 10-12" additional snowfall through the weekend. Nobody uses chains here but I recall a winter storm when in basic training in the 60's at Ft Cambel, KY when an inch of snow completely shut down the installation and all the basic trainees were out scraping snow off the sidewalks with entrenching tools. I can empathize with you folks in the south - limited snow removal equipment, inexperienced winter drivers, etc make driving a real hazard. Here in Northern Michigan,even with the large amounts of snow we get, the roads are much safer.

Small craft warnings are taking on a winter significance here though. Kite skiing on the lakes is becoming popular.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 01/12/2011 :  09:05:27  Show Profile
I'll second that re: the lack of equipment and inexperienced drivers. People here go nuts when it even threatens 1-3 inches of snow, mostly because we get ice first, then snow; or we get a little snow and it melts a little then freezes overnight and we have black ice. I can drive in snow just fine, but it is the black ice that makes driving treacherous. Schools are still out here today. Although the main roads and many back roads may be clear, we have a lot of hills around Nashville that the school buses must travel.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/12/2011 :  16:39:47  Show Profile
Here in CT, we've had so much snow this season, there was no chance to watch the ice-boaters.
I regularly visit Bantam Lake in Litchfield and Morris CT every January to watch the excitement of ice boaters doing between 50-70 mph on the ice in 20kt winds.
Once the snow comes in, the ice boating season is over, then its time for ice fishing.
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AtEase
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Response Posted - 01/13/2011 :  09:46:14  Show Profile
I've just about given up on the WX Channel...since they were bought out, too much news, not enough WX.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/13/2011 :  10:42:20  Show Profile
"Inexperienced drivers in snow" - heck, in this city they haven't learned how to drive in rain!
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