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Down here in the suburbs of Atlanta, it's been sleeting since 3:00pm yesterday. I've taken a few pictures and posted since I have nothing better to do.


This is the stairway going from my back deck to the yard and driveway. Each step is coated in an inch thick layer of ice.


My backyard. That's not snow, that's thick layers of ice, and where can still see grass is light layers of ice.


My driveway, which won't be driven on anytime this weekend, it's coated in an inch thick layer of ice.


This is the creek that goes through my backyard. Again, that's not snow, that's ice.

I moved this to the photos Forum alex, I hope that's OK.

Regards,

James

No problem at all.

Anonymous wrote:No problem at all.

Sorry, forgot to login.

Alpha...you're in Atlanta, huh? Ever get up to East Tenn? I work half way between Knoxville and Chattanooga. Ever get up this way, stop in to see me at my school.

By the way, would love to have a ThinkPad owner's get-together somewhere in the S.E. U.S. this summer....any one else interested? We could bring out Laptops, have pot-luck picnic somewhere and spend a day at it...could even rent a conference room at a hotel and have sessions on different areas of Thinkpad interestes/problems/resolutions. Could also bring our "old" goodies and set-up a "for sale" table.

By the way, it's the same icy situation here today. Lucky for us, no power-outages yet (very typical around here with this type of weather...even if it is TVA country). If the power goes out, don't know what I'll do because I have Cable Internet, and my cable modem won't work, even if I were running on battery...well, then again, I could hook up my cell phone to my Thinkpad...LOL

I'm all for that, maybe if we could get some other people interested, we could decide where to have the meeting.

I had to powerslide my car up the driveway

It's all a question of perspective. On (rare) occassion, I have had snow halfway up the first story of a house. A foot and a half is a lot here. Six - eight inches is common in the winter. I have a foot of snow in the front yard right now. I don't have winter genes, either ... JD Hurst

Things are better down here than earlier today. The photos really don't show much. To keep simple, I slipped when walking on the grass. As for my yard, that's not snow, that's smooth ice, and where you see the grass, that's where the ice is thin enough to be transparent. Mere inconvenience to some of you northerners, but to Georgia, where wintertime generaly does not even have snow, this is a pretty big thing. Had this happened during the week, the entire city would be pretty much disabled.

I'm told this is common where I am now:



Nothing like waking up to a huge amorphous blob trying to crawl in through your window...

Kenn wrote:I'm told this is common where I am now:

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Nothing like waking up to a huge amorphous blob trying to crawl in through your window...

LOL, good point

We've had a lot of snow here in DK aswell.

Well it's not technically "freezing" here, but I'm freaking cold. Why must every building in this school be so cold? No matter where I go there's an AC vent waiting on me

Right now, it's burning up inside this school I'm at, but feels great outside, it's a nice 59 degrees outside.

I actually wouldn't mind that icy weather I took photos of except the ice didn't start falling until afternoon on a Friday and everything melted by Monday morning. I lost my weekend but got to go to school Monday. What the f**k. Why can't this stuff ever happen on a Monday or a Thursday?

Again... silver E36 M3... Thinkpad, if you ever mod it to stage 3+ levels (forced induction, etc) I'll pay for both of us to go on the Gumball.

AlphaKilo470 wrote:I lost my weekend but got to go to school Monday. What the f**k. Why can't this stuff ever happen on a Monday or a Thursday?

Yeah that seems to be what happens to me EVERY TIME I make plans to do something..

And you guys think us crazy canucks live with snow all year...LOL....We've only got about 3 inches here(Belleville,Ontario),betweeen T.O and Kingston...we haven't had even a foot all year..!!!

Greg

We got hit this winter as well. The 2nd photo was the view looking out the windows in the extreme left of the first photo.

You mus be from cleveland or ashtabula, I'm from the akron area, it was nasty, but not that bad

much closer to Dayton than Cleveland.

Our winters hit a bone chilling 22 degrees celsius ...