Off Topic 2012

[Watson]

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That's why you live in the midwest... don't have to worry about hurricanes or earthquakes...there's always tornadoes, but usually they won't effect a huge radius of people like hurricanes or earthquakes... some do go really far and do a ton of damage, but most don't go that far and only effect a small part of an area. For instance, I don't know if you all remember the tornado that hit in Parkersburg, IA, but it only tore through part of the town and I even saw one picture where a house on one side of the street was absolutely torn apart and across the street the house there was completely unharmed.

because the midwest is such a pretty place to live




With that said, you Yankees stay safe. My word of advice: Poptarts. Poptarts save lives during hurricanes. They don't have shelf lives, they have half lives. And if you're desperate for hot food, plug the poptart machine into the generator

[Jr.]

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Just to add, the snow in the South is different. It's heavy, wet, and usually covers ice, which makes it very dangerous to drive on.

I lived in Denver for 3 years and the snow there is nothing. You can brush it off of your car with your hand and it's not hard to drive in. The snow I experienced in NC was almost always a half snow/half ice mix.

[AUChase]

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So it doesn't stay in the single digits for a month at a time, that doesn't mean we don't see four seasons in the South.

We have a true Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter ... - a **** ton of snow.

It still gets cold for month's at a time in the winter. Actually, last year's winter was the warmest I remember in a LONG LONG TIME. It constantly gets cold enough for it to snow, but the way the weather and fronts usually turn, most precipitation doesn't make it's way South during the Winter. That's really the only major difference.

[OSUFan_88]

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Sounds no different than the snow here in NE Ohio.

But yeah, pretty sure that's because of the Lake Effect.

[Watson]

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I'll keep 4 actual seasons, thank ya very much!

Again, You can have the season. **** the seasons. We have the best season year-round.

[AUChase]

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I think it's worth mentioning that the weather is a bit different in both Florida and Louisiana than it is with the rest of the Southern States.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Just to add, the snow in the South is different. It's heavy, wet, and usually covers ice, which makes it very dangerous to drive on.

I lived in Denver for 3 years and the snow there is nothing. You can brush it off of your car with your hand and it's not hard to drive in. The snow I experienced in NC was almost always a half snow/half ice mix.

Wet snow happens everywhere.....We get it up here from time to time along with black ice.

[Chrisksaint]

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I miss just having 2 seasons, really hot and just nice.

I've found in Tally it's hot, really hot, kinda nice, then really cold(for me at least).

[OSUFan_88]

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What do southerners classify as cold?

[Jr.]

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What do southerners classify as cold?

Under 40 degrees.. for me at least

[Chrisksaint]

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What do southerners classify as cold?

For me personally, anything less then 50 degrees. Nights in the winter here are deadly, mid-high 20s it's terrible cause you're not really dressed for that walking out a club or bar.

I'm the guy that'd rather be sweating then freezing my *** off outside

[Gotmadskillzson]

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What do southerners classify as cold?

50 degrees.......they break out the hat, scarf, gloves and coat. Turn the heater on and be like oh crap it is FREEZING out there.

[OSUFan_88]

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Damn.

Well, different strokes, I guess. And for the record before anyone asks, 95 and up is when I consider it hot.

[Chrisksaint]

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I think it's worth mentioning that the weather is a bit different in both Florida and Louisiana than it is with the rest of the Southern States.

Funny cause i've always though that too having lived in both.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Not going to lie, I don't even put on a jacket unless it is 40 degrees. Mid to low 30s I would put on a coat. 20s I put on a hat and gloves. I remember as a child growing up every time one of my southern relatives would come up to Chicago to visit, it would be 53 degrees outside and they would put on a heavy coat, gloves and a winter hat.

I was looking at them like what you all doing as I walked outside with no coat on. They were like boy you going to catch your death out there, it's freezing up here. No it's not.......people outside playing basketball......girls outside jumping rope...women walking down the street in daisy dukes and skirts.

It was the same way when I stationed in the south in some of those southern states. People use to bug out when it got in the 50s like they were about to die.