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Dallas Denny 62 CH.com Old Timer Offline Semper Fi !!!! Posts: 295 Island Bayou Mushroom Farm Gender:	White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Dec 24^th, 2009 at 3:16pm Fairly heavy snow with 20-25 mph winds in the metroplex right now with forecast for an accumulation of 2-3 inches by this evening!! Been here over 40 years and this is a really rare event!! Wishing everyone a PF and Merry Christmas!! Dallas Denny
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #1 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 3:54pm 2-3 inches. Fairly heavy. Hmmmm..... Southerners do a LOT of things very, very well. But dealing with snow is not one of them.
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Dallas Denny 62 CH.com Old Timer Offline Semper Fi !!!! Posts: 295 Island Bayou Mushroom Farm Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #2 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 4:07pm Yup...lol. My saving grace is I grew up in Colorado so used to driving in this kinda weather...but...it's really a crap shoot gettin out there with all the folks that aren't!!
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #3 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 8:25pm I was in Memphis once about 20 years ago when they had one inch of snow. I-240 was literally LITTERED with accidents. I'd never seen anything like it. Maybe it's all the bias ply tires.
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #4 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 9:36pm OMG Brew........I'm trying to imagine San Diego freeways with one inch of snow, they can't even drive in the rain!!! Enjoy your white Christmas Denny! Joe
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Callico CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Author of "Stranded at Romson's Lodge Posts: 4916 Aurora IL Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #5 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 9:55pm I'm glad Mike got done with Toys for Tots and got home! He grew up with the stuff up here, but as I learned living in SC, you might be able to frive in it, but you can't dodge them all! Jerry
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BarbaraD CH.com Alumnus Offline Hugs to ya Posts: 8333 Douglasville, TX Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #6 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 5:36am Yep and then Denny sent it down to the farm. Yesterday morning when I got up it was 59 degrees and last night when I went to bed it was snowing... But this IS Texas... LOL! Always heard if you don't like Texas weather just wait five minutes...
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Redd CH.com Sponsor Offline Posts: 8457 Stevens Point USA Wisconsin Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #7 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 9:07am Snowing in TX and Raining in Central WI. Something seems backwards here.....
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #8 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 7:16pm Quote: Southerners do a LOT of things very, very well. But dealing with snow is not one of them. It's not their fault of course but watching them go down the road sideways is both scary and a tad entertaining Charlie
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deltadarlin CH.com Alumnus Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 3823 Downsville LA Gender:	Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!! Reply #9 - Dec 26^th, 2009 at 9:27am I guess Memphis has changed a lot since I left many many years ago (been gone over 30 years). Snow wasn't that unusual of a phenomenon and most of us could drive in it without any problem. Now, moving down here is another story altogether. Snow/ice freaks people out.
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Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!!
Reply #10 - Dec 26^th, 2009 at 9:55am

20 yrs ago, we were still living in Southern CA. We got 6" in a freak snowstorm. As Gil "sucked it up" in order to get to work, he headed down the hill to the freeway, he encountered our neighbors..........ALL our neighbors....... seems NOONE had any problem getting DOWN the hill, but stopping there proved a challenge!
Everyone managed to take out part of SOMEONE's car, cept Gil.......4WD.....he shuttled the gang back to our lil neighborhood and we all called work and simply spent the day at home, enjoying the phenomenon!

Personally, I don't mind driving in snow.......it's when it freezes to a slick hard surface, then more snow covers it..NOTHING can bite into that ice!

Stay safe and enjoy!

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Re: White Christmas in Big "D"!!!
Reply #11 - Dec 26^th, 2009 at 2:35pm

I have discovered that no one knows how to drive in the snow in the Asheville area of NC either....getting caught in the storm on the 18th that dropped anywhere from 15-24" of snow depending on where you were in the mountains, and not a single person I experienced knew a damn thing about how to get unstuck or avoid getting stuck in the first place.

I can only imagine what folks in Dallas would think of the white stuff while driving....

Glad I wasn't on the roads there...someone mighta got hurt LOL

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