re: Louisiana Ice Storm Thread *Winter Storm Warning*

So..... is my lemon tree gonna die?

Another old timer reminiscent question: Does anyone remember in early January 1988, the Shreveport area got between four to six inches of sleet accumulation? No snow or freezing rain, just sleeted for about 24 hours straight and it stayed on the ground for three or four days. We never lost power but the streets were a disaster zone. It was beautiful to look at, like a pristine snow, but you couldn’t even take one step without falling.

dumb question, probably already answered---12z on Monday is when this freezing rain is supposed to start trickling into Baton Rouge, right?

and 12z is Monday morning, if google reads correctly?

Short pants

Hearing a few school districts might be closing early tomorrow and closed all Friday

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Another old timer reminiscent question: Does anyone remember in early January 1988, the Shreveport area got between four to six inches of sleet accumulation? No snow or freezing rain, just sleeted for about 24 hours straight and it stayed on the ground for three or four days. We never lost power but the streets were a disaster zone. It was beautiful to look at, like a pristine snow, but you couldn’t even take one step without falling.

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I remember. We were out of school for over a week due to the sleet.

Some old timer must have pulled everyone’s leg with that one in the 60s and 70s and everyone believed him and it stuck.

“Yeah when I was a boy we had almost two feet of snow. You should have seen us trying to walk to school in that.”

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It was probably 15ish years ago when me and a friend went to Jackson, TN to see his family for an early Christmas get together. It was cold all three days we were there, around 11° one night. I needed to buy my Pops something for Christmas, and my friend needed to get some Craftsman tool he got from his dad replaced. So, we went to Sears at the mall. It was so damn cold that our dumb asses decided to leave the truck running with the heat on and just lock the doors. Well, we went in and I bought a belt sander for my Pops, and be handled what he needed to do. We came out of the store, only for him to realize he took the wrong damn key off the keyring! Fortunately, his truck had the sliding back glass. We started in on it, our fingers numb, and noses running. It took about 30 minutes, but we got the damn thing prised open. I, being the smaller of the two of us, had to go in the window head first and stretch to unlock the door. I got it, nearly broke my neck, but I got it.

That was one of the dumber things I've been part of, and I'm not proud of it. Still, we went duck hunting the next morning, though.

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I can top this! When we were younger, my husband's company offered a transfer to South Dakota.

We had never been in cold like that before so along came the first snow and it was beautiful. Around the 3rd or 4th fricking snowstorm that winter, we had a blizzard. My husband insisted on going to work, even though they told us to stay home. He got all the way to work and drove our Ford Focus wagon into a ditch, and it was submerged in snow. He managed to get out and somehow made it to the office in whiteout conditions.-- Think Little House on the Prairie -- but way worse.
We had just moved there, so we really had no gear- snow boots etc, he was wearing dress shoes and business wear. I doubt he had a parka. To this day, I don't know how he did not freeze to death. The temp that day was 8 degrees. Luckily, a bunch of hard-headed guys had also driven in, so they went out and dug the car out of the snow, and then used a jeep to pull it out.

He told me he'd never drive in that type of weather again. To get home, they all followed each other home very closely, until the last one was home. We lasted 3 years before I threatened to divorce him if he did not take me back to warmer weather. We are still married 23 years later.

The only good thing about that experience is that I can drive in the snow.

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Peej

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I just know that the BR temps will be COLD

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