EDIT: Just learned that my town got the record for Florida: 10", 2.5" more than Pensacola next door.
Hopefully this is a sign that hurricanes will be record setting for the next decade and that this is absolutely the best time to move out of Florida. Let a corporation buy your house for all cash with the expectation to rent or AirBnB it. Their loss hurts no one.
We have a Habitat for Humanity house/mortgage. Structure is new and well above code, far enough inland to not worry much about hurricane winds and flooding. At least we’re not likely to take it in the teeth except in the most extreme event, and it would have to hit hard, and just west of us.
Know what I’ve been thinking about? Tornadoes. Grew up in Oklahoma, I know what that shit is about. Last summer my wife left for the bank and it turned black, within minutes, solar lights on at 10AM. Got to thinking, “We may be set for hurricanes, but no house is proof against the tornadoes that come with them.”
Even worse, I’m about to pay the house off. Nice, right? What if I can’t insure it in my old age? Just turned the corner on my earning potential, maybe we can’t coast until death? In any case, I want to leave it to my (now) small children.
LOL, and I commented on here about maybe renting the place out when I retire. Got run over with landlord hate. “Alright you fuckers. Go buy a damned house then. Won’t be renting mine out at a good rate. Less fair-housing on the market, good deal, right?”
To save you some time: It’s 21° C.
That’s cold.
Got a friend that sent us pictures from Crestview. Whole area was shut down.
My camp is halfway between Crestview and Milton in Holt. I’d would have killed to get out there and see it before the melt, too scared to drive, my RWD truck wouldn’t make it earlier today. I’ll try tomorrow and see what I see.
If you’re too scared to drive then you’re smarter than the average driver.
I’ve spun a 360 in the rain with a 2WD truck. Nope, not daring those rotten dirt roads! Then you got the 4WD dumbshits that think physics don’t apply. Don’t start me.
Oh damn. Do people even own snow shovels or scrapers?
LOL, hard no. I have scrapers, somewhere. Think one is at camp to brush leaves off stuff. Have a snow shovel! Forgot about that, bought it for shoveling ash out the fire pit.
We got paralyzed for a day, mostly melted off, ice on the streets tomorrow. Been too lazy to wipe it off our cars.
Snow>beach
That being said you live in Florida and you’re being robbed of your sun which ain’t cool.
How are the drivers handling it? I know when snow goes places it typically doesn’t go lots of drivers don’t change any behaviors which leads to many many cars in ditches and piled up.
Far as I can tell no one is on the road. No one. We’re obviously not geared for 7.5" of snow when the record was 3" in 1895.
Hiked in the storm yesterday, going out again now that it’s sunny.
Rare restraint from the Floridians. I’m surprised nobody is out with a lifted truck, rope and sled. We usually see that every time is snows below the typical elevations around here.
We’re more the, “kayak in the hurricane flooded parking lots” sorts down here.
Doesn’t sound like the worst way to spend an afternoon all things considered.
I think part of the problem in the south is people who aren’t used to it and think 4WD/AWD is a magic bullet and otherwise drive like normal, but another problem is people from up north who are used to driving in snow but mainly snow that is properly treated and facing snow in an area where the treatment plan is “wait two days for it to melt” is not the same.
The problem with AWD is that people know it makes it easy to accelerate and turn in slippery conditions but they fail to recognize that AWD does nothing to help you stop.
Its never the speed that kills you, its the sudden stop.
Oh I am very aware. We once had like an inch of hail build up on the streets around here. This is a city that hasn’t seen snow or ice on the roads since like 1897 mind you. Anyway when that small sheet of slushy ice plopped down it basically gridlocked the city with accidents because nobody slowed down or anything. People really don’t take changing conditions into account very often.
It’s melting today, we’re royally screwed tomorrow. These people will see black ice and not have a clue. Everything is going to be ice tomorrow.
How long until you actually get to stay above freezing?
Hiked down to the creek today, melting fast. The roads, even in our hood, seem mostly fine. There’ll be icy patches though, and these people have rarely, if ever, seen that.
Also, it was 14°F last night. 19°F is the lowest I had seen in almost 20 years of living down here.
Wonder all those snow birds feel now?
