Topic: Colder than...

[Ravok]

I honestly think the biggest problem is, aggressive driving and a general lack of common sense and manners.

 If people slowed down and actually made an attempt to follow the Traffic regs, Our insurance would go down, and allot of lives would be saved.

[Clark Kent]

I don't think speed has alot to do with it.  People can drive fast and still be safe and unaggressive.  A little recognition of the fact that they're speeding around in 2000+ pounds of vehicle connected to the ground with only four points of a few square inches of rubber will go a long way.  Courtesy, common sense, can they fix the problem?  To some degree, but what we really need are conscientous people out on the road.

[Jack Morris]

Frigging Victoria (near the gulf coast, people) gets a ft. of snow and we are way north of there and what does Austin get? Just a colder than hades period with no ice or snow! 

Maybe I'll get lucky and fuel prices will soar again...

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385]

I was living in eastern Tennessee back in '93 during the "Storm of the Century". The night before they were calling for 3-4 inches of snow. Within 24 hours we had 38 inches of snow with 8' drifts. The nearby town had a total of 657 residents, that was everyone that was in the town's zip code. I lived 7.5 miles from town and the property I lived on had a common border with the Cherokee National Forest. It wasnt nothing to wake up to a black bear, deer, or wild turkeys running around in my yard.

When the blizzard hit, it snapped all but two telephone poles between town and where I lived. I had no power for 15 days. When the power went out, my furnace went too. I had to walk 1/4 mile through the snow to my uncles house. He didnt have an indoor bathroom...he didnt even have an outhouse. He "went" in the "woods". During the 15 days I ran out of smokes. My uncle had quit 17 years earlier, so I smoked the last ones he had bought...17 years earlier.