Public schools closed today just shows how much of a joke this is again. Roads have been perfectly navigable for over a day at this point. Catering to the lowest common denominator is annoying.

But hey, made my morning commute super easy!

1/25/2016 9:02:38 AM

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"where are roads not clear, i didn't see a single road that still had ice"

You realize there are more roads than you can see from your mom's basement window, right? And thousands of people still do not have power.

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"Roads have been perfectly navigable for over a day at this point. Catering to the lowest common denominator is annoying"

While your first statement is false, your second is almost always true. But not in this case. I guess it must be all the shittily driving parents, but when school is not in, my commute is at least 50% improved. They could cancel school for butterflies and I would be ecstatic.

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM. Reason : .]

1/25/2016 9:21:08 AM

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"Side roads by me are not fine."

+1

Also watching dtownral swinging and missing again was hilarious.

1/25/2016 9:27:10 AM

I'm pretty sure schools are closed today because some people in Wake County are still without power, not because the roads were icy this morning...

1/25/2016 9:29:53 AM

WCPSS already stated why they closed schools. The explanation included icy road conditions. No need to speculate here. The facts are out there for you to use.

1/25/2016 9:39:08 AM

so many people have a crush on me in this thread, everyone is so salty that i was right about the forecast

1/25/2016 9:54:00 AM

roads were fine, put my parking lot/development was all fucking ice. i busted ass walking to my car

1/25/2016 9:55:26 AM

1/25/2016 9:58:23 AM

no problems for me

1/25/2016 10:04:33 AM

Our neighbor is a teacher. She said that today was closed, optional teacher workday, but then they emailed saying don't come in immediately as parking lots and sidewalks are an ice rink still. This morning they sent an email saying they were now closed altogether as they ran out of ice melting materials! This is the first snow so far. Lulz.

1/25/2016 10:08:28 AM

My company said no one should come to work before 9 so they could treat and clear the parking lots, which they did amazingly well. No problems getting to work either.

1/25/2016 10:55:59 AM

I came out of out of my office's parking deck today and stepped out onto the sidewalk only to realize that the ice hadn't melted at all, didn't crack at all, and I had zero traction. Probably slid a good two feet and was very proud of myself for staying upright cause it was a close call. Hustled over to the grass ASAP.

1/25/2016 11:01:58 AM

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"Roads have been perfectly navigable for over a day"

No way a bus could get up the hills in my neighborhood first thing this morning, kids are still sledding down the ice sheet. My wife's school is deep in a neighborhood too that has all shaded roads and hills, I doubt that neighborhood is safe early in the morning as well.

Unless there is significant meltage today, school will be closed tomorrow as well.

1/25/2016 11:02:29 AM

I did an unintentional 180 in my car the other day. Was dope

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 11:13 AM. Reason : I got like 80 points for it]

1/25/2016 11:13:08 AM

^^Same here.

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 11:23 AM. Reason : And I took pictures.]

1/25/2016 11:22:03 AM

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"so many people have a crush on me in this thread, everyone is so salty that i was right about the forecast"

If you need to keep repeating that or something similar to the same degree, go ahead. But you're embarrassing yourself.

1/25/2016 11:23:53 AM

Back roads in durham and chapel hill are terrible. It took me an hour to get to a clients house that lives out in the boonies

1/25/2016 11:26:06 AM

ice flying off the roof of somebody's car smashed my windshield on the way to work today

1/25/2016 11:26:58 AM

I tried to do that to someone yesterday.

Not really...but I mashed my breaks to make it fly off the back. It just slid forward onto my windshield, and I had to pull over to manually remove the sheet of ice.

Did your windshield crack?

1/25/2016 11:35:09 AM

If only the roads had been as salty as we were.

1/25/2016 11:35:29 AM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

1/25/2016 11:36:00 AM

1/25/2016 12:22:02 PM

ohfuck

1/25/2016 12:22:34 PM

RTP still has some shifty roads. ITB is clear though, wake schools should be open.

1/25/2016 12:44:29 PM

When did dtownral start sharing his account with Earl?

1/25/2016 12:46:59 PM

HE WAS RIGHT GUYS. HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT GUYS. HE'S A GENIUS!!!

1/25/2016 12:52:13 PM

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"but I mashed my breaks to make it fly off the back."

Don't you have a ~140 IQ? You should know better...

1/25/2016 1:05:35 PM

for real

it's "brakes"

1/25/2016 1:56:44 PM

just strap the snow down, pretend you're transporting it

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM. Reason : throw a little orange flag on it]

1/25/2016 2:00:07 PM

People that are too lazy to remove the large sheet of ice from their roof piss me off to no end. Maybe you think it looks cool or you like to be reminded that we had some snow, but that shit is fucking dangerous. There have been documented injuries, wrecks, and damage done by that. Clean your shit off and quit being an irresponsible, careless, asshole.

1/25/2016 2:02:34 PM

Anyone know how I40 west is between Chapel Hill and Winston-Salem? I'm headed that way tomorrow.

1/25/2016 3:54:07 PM

It's fine. Highways are pretty dry. Problems are going to come on extreme back roads

1/25/2016 3:58:52 PM

^^ I'm sure it's near-perfect by this point

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 4:00 PM. Reason : can always look at the traffic cams if you want to see it with your own eyes]

1/25/2016 4:00:08 PM

leave a ton of room between you and other cars on I-40 so you don't catch a chunk of ice, but otherwise its fine

[Edited on January 25, 2016 at 4:00 PM. Reason : at least it was as far as mebane]

1/25/2016 4:00:31 PM

Dang.. Y'all bitches really cam eback together when the weather hit.

1/25/2016 4:26:16 PM

Y'all some pussies. I make it a point to drive whenever the man tells me I cant. Fuck obama

1/25/2016 4:42:56 PM

LOL, moron, I will never know the difference between breaks/brakes.

In the future, I hope you can bare with me.

1/25/2016 4:48:07 PM

Thank you kind wolfwebbers for your responses.


Except krallum. Fuck krallum.

1/25/2016 5:01:46 PM

^^ ha i meant about braking to make it fly off the back... momentum would make it want to slide forward when you brake (as you observed). You'd want to accelerate to make ice fall off behind your car.

1/25/2016 5:24:44 PM

LOL Thanks for explaining that.

Braking was the only way I could figure out how to jar it and loosen it up.


And you didn't have to draw a drink napkin diagram, so I'm clearly still approaching a genius level IQ.

1/25/2016 5:43:03 PM

http://www.wral.com/ice-flies-off-car-smashes-woman-s-windshield/15275759/

1/26/2016 3:28:45 PM

Ok

Feb7th-9th hype starts now

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"See colder pattern returning by late next week, storm threat 2/7-2/9, cold pattern in general hangs through mid Feb at least if not longer."

1/27/2016 12:46:39 PM

I'm mostly okay with that timeframe. Some solid get-out-of-work potential there.

1/27/2016 12:50:18 PM

Id be down for having the monday after the superbowl off haha

1/27/2016 12:52:22 PM

Other source

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" The strong cold front arrives on the evening of the February 3 and the cold air gets fairly re-established over the entire central and eastern portions of the country. There are hints of a possible Eastern US winter storm FEB 7-8-9 but right now it is nothing more than some hints of a favorable pattern setting up. "

1/27/2016 12:57:47 PM

Almost got clobbered this morning by a giant piece of ice on I-40 this morning. I've even increased my following distance because of it but the car was diagonal to me.

1/27/2016 1:02:31 PM

guess you saw ice on that road

1/27/2016 1:03:16 PM

#sources

1/27/2016 1:44:51 PM

^^^where are you seeing that? Because I don't see any cold days in the 10 day forecast except for the 5th.

1/27/2016 2:34:03 PM

[Edited on January 27, 2016 at 2:53 PM. Reason : Ddd]

1/27/2016 2:45:29 PM