Ice Storm 1
Dec16
O SHIT ICE IS FALLING IN DFW WE WILL ALL DIEEEEEEEEE!
Yes, this comic is based on what we just survived. Lived through.
edit: OHAY I HAVE A NEW BOOK FER SALE.
edit agin: ALSO ON KINDLE! And you can read a preview of the novel there.
I love watching the southern states scramble when winter surprises them 🙂
I know, right? Hell, even where I am in KY they can’t handle winter. Turns out their definition of a “hard winter” is one where it’s cold enough for the snow to stick. Less than an inch and it lasted less than a week. Actually had work close down. Thought it was the funniest thing I’ve seen since I got here.
They’d s**t green if they saw what my home looks like. I live in Vermont. Unless there’s well over a foot, it’s not even stopping me from getting out of the driveway.
Got a quarter inch of rain, two nights, here in Centreal Florida… Temperatues in the 80’s daily, like 87!
Nights, Dropped to 67, this AM was actually great, at 47!!!
Hey, Was my birthday, born in St. Paul, MN, which is another great thing, that I love Mosin Nagant M91, 91/30, rifles, and
I spent years in Arctic weather, in Europe as NATO troop! Am only missing true Winter when not working on trucks, or, watching fools
try to drive in traffic, here!
Loving FTF comics, sometimes quoted on GunBoards Forums!!!
Adore Heidi character! Only be with a woman who has an ATTITUDE if you want to ‘live’!
Alex Boxer series was FANTASTIC!!! You are growing her fan base!!!
Ushanka is a good start. Next would be winter afghanka. Though instead of valenkis a good hiking boots with thick socks would be better.
Not hiking boots. Sorrells. Or ‘Micky Mouse’ boots, if it’s particularly cold. An M-65 Field Jacket (Foul Weather Jacket, for us squidly-types) with liner will serve in place of an afghanka, in a pinch.
Sorrells and M-65s are damned near global at this point.
I remember when Ft. Hood got shut down because of a “snow storm”. I’m a New Yorker. Nothing even stuck.
Heck, one winter when I lived in Virginia, I actually saw Fairfax County cancel school because of CLOUDS!
My first winter in Colorado, we got 22 inches of snow overnight. I was *certain* that there’d be no school the next day. Mom kiked us out to the bus stop anyway… Imagine my chagrin when the school bus showed up – with a snow plow on front! o.O
That’s ok, in a few months we’ll be laughing when ya’ll are dropping like flies from a 90 degree “heat wave” Ha.
Heh. We get those, too. Every summer. Nothing new for us mid-atlantic folk. 😀
I’ve heard D.C. is pretty awful in the summer, like Houston it’s built on a swamp except it’s got a whole lot more snakes.
The snakes are easily avoided because they all gather in the capitol.
When I was little we lived in a house that backed up to a big creek, my mama was hell on cottonmouths with a garden hoe but I guess that wouldn’t work in Washington.
I don’t know… hoe’s have brought down many a D.C. politician…
Hoes are like kryptonite to Pols… Most especially to the D.C. variety.
Are they (the panic buyers of guns in the face of an ice storm) planning to shoot the ice, I wonder?
And if so…why?
Down here “Shoot it Shoot It Now!” is pretty much the answer to every thing. 😉
But taking off and nuking the site from orbit is the only way to be sure.
Well, that would certainly get the thermometer back in the more usual range… At least temporarily. And rather locally.
I’m not sure there’d still be a thermometer to measure temperature with.
Ya know My tan could use a little work…
Not Ice lelnet, but Frosty evil twin Slushy. That carrot nose will put an eye out.
You wanna know why us northerners don’t grok guns? They aren’t very useful against snow.
I do have the urge to open a discount snow tools store. Something like CTYM but with Sno-Brums displayed behind the counter. I wouldn’t be surprised if assault spreaders holding more than seven pounds of rock salt were illegal to sell, though…
(Get it? Assault? huehuehue)
zomg….I actually grok this….you roc!
Speak for yourself. Every Northerner *I* know groks guns most excellently. Nothing like sitting in front of a nice warm fire, wrapped in that bear pelt you made happen all by yourself…
yeah some of us northerners DO grok guns..here in the freest state in the northeast some of us even…GRANITEGROK guns!
http://granitegrok.com/
Ugh, I had to drive up into the Great White Frozen North of DFW last weekend for a wedding. Was a big cold bowl of suck trying to get around.
They probably came to stock up on jerky.
I grew up in a rural New England town. We had dirt roads, not a lot, but enough that we were clearly far from metropolitan. Heavy snow storms weren’t uncommon in the winter. One particularly rough year we had over four feet of accumulation in the span of a week. The town however had a seasoned crew of plowmen who would have the roads taken care of within 10-12 hours of even the most hellish blizzard.
Yet whenever there was a forecast for anything above three inches of snow, half the town would go insane and mob the supermarket. I know, I worked there in high school. Bottled water, canned goods, etc. I never quite got the panic, since I knew that everyone would be driving around again in less than a day.
I’m on the east side of the metroplex all I did to prepare for the great white was stock up on beer make a big pot of stew.
The biggest problem with ice storms down here is it only happens about every four or five years so the trees aren’t used to the weight of the ice and they shed limbs and take down power-lines all over the place.
We had a similar reaction to Superstorm Sandy. I live in Manhattan and at the northernmost tip you’re quite elevated above the water. While our neighbors were stocking up on canned goods, bread and bottled water, the wife and I made sure we had the real essentials: beer, mixers, some cheeses and cured meats, crackers, jalapeno poppers and baking supplies.
I hear Ya’ll have possums up there now, they’re pretty good eating in a pinch.
There have *always* been ‘possums up here. Also tree rats. Which are better eatin,’ if a bit small.
I had something similar drive me nuts when I lived in southeastern Michigan. The first one or two snowfalls every winter, even if it was just a dusting, everybody would drive as if the whole state had become an ice rink. C’mon, people, you live in Michigan, it’s winter, snow is not something shocking. Of course, after the first couple of cautious days, everybody would remember what snow was and go back to normal driving.
Dat professional page for your book.
“Everything on this page is ©2013 James L. Grant. All rights reserved. All fish hammered.”
Good lord, I thought the locals here in Appalachia were skittish, because every forecast of flurries causes a run on milk and bread at the grocery stores. My wife tells me it’s because of an epic storm almost twenty years ago. A forecast of flurries was followed by enough snow that no food got into grocery stores for over a week. While they have snowplows, brine and salt trucks around here, winter sports like XC skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling are largely unknown. They didn’t have anything to fall back upon.
But this is crazy. Did Dallas residents think they were going to need to hunt for food before the grocery supply chain got restocked?
So… Seriously? People had a run on firearms because of some cold weather? Y’all aren’t getting enough O-2 to the brain, are ya? Shoulda been a run on ceramic heaters and blankets.
Oh, and I betcha nine months from now, there’ll be a run on diapers… 😀
1. Invest in toilet paper.
2. Figure out way to pointlessly cause a run on toilet paper.
3. ….
4. Profit!
And dammit, I can’t find my ushanka after the move! Grrr! Had the nicest fishfur covering inside, and the browflaps.
You may think you’re kidding, but there actually was a run on toilet paper in Hawaii a few years ago. Some radio guy said the threatened Matson Lines shipping strike would cause a shortage and people went nuts.
By the way, some of the music posted is cool, but those guys suck! Darth Maul and the Vaders would be better.
I love when Omar and Mick go all Rooskie!
I’m thinkin he’s got a stray Cossack or two in his family tree.
Well, there were Turkish Cossacks…
l.d.50 was mudvayne’s only good album, the end of all things to come was neutered radio friendly crap and i refuse to listen to anything newer, sellouts.
Around here the problem is that most drivers think they _can_ handle snow. It’s fun to watch the resulting amateur (and involuntary) stunt driving.
I especially like the SUVs and AWD vehicles in the ditches. Makes me snigger just a bit. Especially so in the days when I was driving the old Camaro… That old beast was remarkably sure-footed on bad roads.
Same with my 5.0 Mustang hatchback. Those wide tires seemed to like snow.
It’s funny how everybody seems to think RWD can’t handle snow at all and AWD can handle anything like it’s dry pavement.
I’m still doing a double take that it is 80 degrees today in Porn Valley (just outside LA).
I got a kick out of how Mick goes from zero to playing along in two panels, complete with his own hat.
Texans get freaked out about ice & snow, so they make a run on firearms but not
snow chains?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA *gasp* HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA!
They don’t sell snow chains here. Anywhere.
Even if they did sell em why would any body spend good money on something you’d only use once every 4 or 5 years, hell I’d lose the damn things by then.
I’d buy them. Chains are compact in your trunk, and take a few minutes to put on/take off. If I could have chains the 4 days annually that I need them, here in North Texas, I’d buy ’em. Alas, my only recourse is to grab them off the internet, and the shipping is brutal.
Maybe you could get Wally World, Three Boys, Advance Zone, or Auto Quest to order some and ship-to-store.
Plus, chains are good in a fight. Yet you don’t need to explain them to the nosy folks. 😀
Can you make arrangement with some Con attendant from other state to buy chains for you, so you would have them next time?
BTW, common mistake when putting on the chains is not tightening them enough, it’s best to drive a few meters, get out and check if they may be loose. I encountered lost chains on several occasions.
Worse is being behind someone when they lose their chains… violently.
Give lots of following room… For more than stopping distance issues!
Is it me, or does anybody else think the new practice of naming every little winter storm is one of the stupidest things ever?
Not just you. I believe the idea is to make people more concerned about winter storms. I think the actual effect is to make people less concerned about tropical storms and hurricanes, which are the only weather events that have traditionally been named. The problem is that only the worst winter storms come anywhere close to the effects of even a weak hurricane. Yes, fine, lots of ice and snow can wreak havoc on unprepared or underprepared areas. Hurricanes wreak havoc even on well-prepared areas; the most deadly and destructive weather events in history have been hurricanes.
Let’s put it this way: toss a good winter storm at a southern state. Now toss a decent hurricane (say, Category 3) at a northern state. Which one does more damage? Hint: Irene was a Category 1. Sandy was an unusually large Category 2. What’s the last winter storm that came even close to Irene’s >$15 billion in damage?
NWS and a bunch of others have basically opted out of that bullshit. It’s the Weather Channel as is pushing it – They see a means of turning named storms into ratings into $$.
Fear sells.