Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

I believe him. I'm familiar with cold snowy winters. Lived in Chicago for over 40 years, went to school in MN and spent a lot of time in WI.

We moved to TN this year... our kids have been out of school since before Christmas due to "snow and cold." There is no snow, or ice anywhere. I drove up into the "mountains" yesterday, no snow up there either.

This is what a snow day looks like in Tennessee.

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I lived in the Chicago area for roughly 10 yrs to go to college and work for several years thereafter (in Schaumburg). That place was a "MACHINE" when it came to snow. A few tiny snowflakes and they were out with multiple plows, salt spreaders, brush sweepers (for the sidewalks), etc. etc. In the four odd years I went to Univ, they only stopped classes once, for snow... for two consecutive days. Only once!
 
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Mom’s younger sister and I despised each other. He son enlisted in the Navy right after I went AF. She constantly sang the praises of Jimmy and how his career was headed for the heavens. We both happened to be home on leave around the ten year mark and I went to visit him (not his fault his mom was a bitch). We were both E6 at the time. Ten in the morning, he had her fetching beer, “Ma, bring me a fucking beer.”

Ten years later he retired an E6 alcoholic. My mom said she didn’t talk about him so much. Still one of my favorite cousins.
 
Nobody thinks your wiener is that clean
I spent most of my life in Idaho and Alaska. I went to The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg for my Masters. It sort of snowed while I was there and I didn't think much of it, went on to school like normal in my Dodge 2500 Diesel 4x4. In the 5 or 6 mile trip to school, literally 20 fender benders and maybe 60 cars in the ditch. Got to school and not a soul. I decided to camp out in my office until the white stuff left rather than risk getting T-boned on the way home.

To be real fair to the southern types...the absolute slickest roads I have ever been on were in TX. Maybe 2" of clear ice. Roofs and awnings caved-in, trees broken, power lines down all over and so fucking slick it was difficult to walk even with my boot chains.
Not me but a pretty serious girlfriend I had a long time ago was in college at UNC and saw the same thing. We grew up in northern IL so a light dusting was nothing for her to drive through. But it was the apocalypse for everyone else in the Raleigh-Durham area. She said she actually didn’t see anyone on the highway, which is better than all of the cars flipped over and on fire, and had to flag down a janitor in the building she was working in to get inside. He let her in but his eyes were as wide as they could get and he was absolutely amazed she “braved the weather” and survived
 
I believe him. I'm familiar with cold snowy winters. Lived in Chicago for over 40 years, went to school in MN and spent a lot of time in WI.

We moved to TN this year... our kids have been out of school since before Christmas due to "snow and cold." There is no snow, or ice anywhere. I drove up into the "mountains" yesterday, no snow up there either.

This is what a snow day looks like in Tennessee.

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Welcome to the great state of TN. LOL
 
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Welcome to the great state of TN. LOL

If, for some reason (and I hope there never is one), I would need to bail on FL, I am considering the Knoxville area of TN. Either that or Chattanooga (which I think is on ET - I know Knoxville is). Any major city west of that I think is on CT. I had enough of CT when I lived in the Chicago area.

The only problem being, that region deals with a bit too much bad weather. Too much Tornado potential. I mean, it's not necessarily "Tornado Alley," but they can offer some decent competition in the Spring Thaw/Storm season. Not that I'm "tornado free" in FL, but.... That, and I might have to shovel a little snow on occasion.

I will fight for Florida.
 
If, for some reason (and I hope there never is one), I would need to bail on FL, I am considering the Knoxville area of TN. Either that or Chattanooga (which I think is on ET - I know Knoxville is). Any major city west of that I think is on CT. I had enough of CT when I lived in the Chicago area.

The only problem being, that region deals with a bit too much bad weather. Too much Tornado potential. I mean, it's not necessarily "Tornado Alley," but they can offer some decent competition in the Spring Thaw/Storm season. Not that I'm "tornado free" in FL, but.... That, and I might have to shovel a little snow on occasion.

I will fight for Florida.
We want you to keep thinking Knoxville is tornado area. We have earthquakes too.


And locusts!
 
If, for some reason (and I hope there never is one), I would need to bail on FL, I am considering the Knoxville area of TN. Either that or Chattanooga (which I think is on ET - I know Knoxville is). Any major city west of that I think is on CT. I had enough of CT when I lived in the Chicago area.

The only problem being, that region deals with a bit too much bad weather. Too much Tornado potential. I mean, it's not necessarily "Tornado Alley," but they can offer some decent competition in the Spring Thaw/Storm season. Not that I'm "tornado free" in FL, but.... That, and I might have to shovel a little snow on occasion.

I will fight for Florida.
CT starts at the western edge of Chattanooga/Hamilton Co, parents lived in CT and Dad worked on ET, weird but they stayed on ET and didn't bother them. Crossville/Crab Orchard is the start of CT along the I-40 corridor, so. I live in-between Chattanooga & Knoxville, and go to Knoxville as it's a bit closer, and I'm more familiar with the area as I went to UT-K in the mid 70's. I don't like Chattanooga's traffic pattern of lots of one way streets, and it sits in a hole (think Orlando as I lived there as well). Chattanooga can get some nasty weather coming from the gulf/AL/MS, and Knoxville may get the same weather if it follows I-75, but a lot of the times the bad weather goes over into NC. Knoxville can get some weather that comes over and down the Plateau (Crossville & I-40), so it really depends on where the weather is coming from.

IMO, FL is nice to visit this time of year, but that's it. LOL
 
All this cold stuff--U want to know cold?
Lived On Lake Michigan. -20F with 20 MPH wind = -42 F... That is coldest ever have I been. Exposed flesh can feeze in 10" so said the folks on the news channel.
Anywhere north of Indianapolis-ish and east-ish of the Mississippi can be a motherfucker in winter. I grew up in northern IL(not near Chicagostan) and one of the few snow days I remember at school was for wind chills of -50. But, we didn’t let that deter us from playing outside and enjoying our day off

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Winter of 2013/2014 I was working in MN and staying at the rv park at Mystic Lake Casino. Temp was -26 and wind chills near -65. Those couple nights I went and stayed at the hotel as the floor was so cold it was painful to walk on. My furnace couldn’t keep up with the temps even with a radiant heater running at the same time. Screw that.
 
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Reminds me of "Ms. Martin". She was the substitute English teacher in high school that, whenever she walked on campus, EVERY boy found out within about 15-20 minutes and passed the word on what class she was subbing for. Fucking classic. All the girls at school hated her because no boys would pay them any attention whatsoever when she was on campus 🤣🤣🤣
 
Reminds me of "Ms. Martin". She was the substitute English teacher in high school that, whenever she walked on campus, EVERY boy found out within about 15-20 minutes and passed the word on what class she was subbing for. Fucking classic. All the girls at school hated her because no boys would pay them any attention whatsoever when she was on campus 🤣🤣🤣
 
Reminds me of "Ms. Martin". She was the substitute English teacher in high school that, whenever she walked on campus, EVERY boy found out within about 15-20 minutes and passed the word on what class she was subbing for. Fucking classic. All the girls at school hated her because no boys would pay them any attention whatsoever when she was on campus 🤣🤣🤣
I had an English professor like that in college. She was so fucking hot I am surprised any guy was able to concentrate long enough to pass the class. Instead of hiding in the back of the room, every guy was early for class and wanted a front row seat. She was a player too and would make some suggestive comments in class. If you got it work it.