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re: To northerners criticizing the way we handle ice and snow
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:22 pm to DaleDenton
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:22 pm to DaleDenton
okay? 
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 12:24 am to ThaKaptin
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Talk the population density shite to the folks in NOLA. If Katrina had been a category 1 90% of the country wouldnt even remember name today.
You do realize that the five boroughs alone have a greater population than the entire state of Louisiana right? In fact they have nearly double the population (8.3m vs 4.6). And of course the area affected by Sandy stretched far beyond the five boroughs.
I've lived through hurricanes in Florida and I lived through Sandy. Sandy was plenty bad. imagine a 15 foot surge sweeping into a downtown Miami but with 4 times the population of Dade county living in it. That was NYC during Sandy.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 12:30 am to Kentucker
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Seriously. You'd be surprised at how lacking AC is in some parts of the Deep North.
I went to Wisconsin this summer, and I think that was the first time I had been in a normal regular building(church) that didn't have a/c. I was surprised.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 12:49 am to RollTide1987
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I challenge any northerner to come down to Georgia or to Alabama and attempt to drive over the inch thick ice sheets that covered the roads yesterday.
Folks experienced with the conditions probably wouldn't have tried to drive without a suitable vehicle with suitable tires.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:21 am to 10888bge
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Texans can't drive for shite.
Does everyone say this about where they are from. I swear in Memphis they hand out licenses in cracker jack boxes, and New Orleans, is not much better, if any.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Folks experienced with the conditions probably wouldn't have tried to drive without a suitable vehicle with suitable tires.
Well the vast majority of people here don't own a suitable vehicle with suitable tires... And most people didn't have any choice but to try to drive.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:24 am to Tiger Live2
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I went to Wisconsin this summer, and I think that was the first time I had been in a normal regular building(church) that didn't have a/c. I was surprised.
Not sure there's a building in town with A/C. One of the hotels is rumored to have it.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:35 am to VAvolfan
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I grew up in Virginia
And all everyone is saying, is in the south they get very experience driving in this, and doesn't have the equipment to be as prepared for snow as yall are up north. VA also is only 1 of 2 or 3 states with decent experience to hurricanes and snow. I lived in Richmond for 12 years, and up here now. Trust me, I rather be up here driving, than down south In this crap.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:37 am to RogerTheShrubber
I'm assuming that's because all buildings in Alaska are igloos?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:38 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Not sure there's a building in town with A/C. One of the hotels is rumored to have it.
Your in AK right? I can certainly understand it there, but for someone that considers Richmond the north, I can't even imagine that. Hell, even knowing they built houses better suited for the heat, and allowing a breeze, I couldn't imagine living in NOLA without a/c
Posted on 1/30/14 at 1:45 am to BowlJackson
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Birmingham is not agricultural though, it's industrial.
Never done more than drive through Birmingham, but I thought that was common history and knowledge. Wasn't Birmingham the industrial center of the South for a VERY VERY long time?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 9:29 am to Bamad
Tuscaloosa got 3" of snow, but we are going to claim 15", so 
Posted on 1/30/14 at 9:35 am to GIbson05
This one of the dumbest threads ever.
Comparing snow storms to football trophies
Comparing snow storms to football trophies
Posted on 1/30/14 at 9:38 am to 10888bge
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Texans can't drive for shite.
When my brother lived in Colorado, he said the easiest way to kill a Texan was to rent them a 4wd vehicle and send them off to Breckenridge.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:19 am to Dlab2013
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I was up there for 4 months last winter flood adjusting, and still working on claims from up there daily. Sandy affected more people than Katrina did. Those people got hammered by tidal flows.
Well, that's because there are more people in New York than there are in the entire gulf region that Katrina struck. Still doesn't change the fact. That hurricane would have made almost no impact if it struck coastal Louisiana, kinda like this winter storm wouldn't have done much if it hit the northeast.
How well do you think the Carolinas would react if they got by a 80 foot tall tsunami? Not very well. Does that mean they're stupid?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:21 am to Tiger Live2
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Does everyone say this about where they are from. I swear in Memphis they hand out licenses in cracker jack boxes, and New Orleans, is not much better, if any.
Actually there was a study a couple weeks back that showed Louisiana drivers are the worst in the country. Texans are hilariously and impossibly aggressive drivers though.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:25 am to wadewilson
I have kind of noticed that about TX drivers in LA. When it comes to cities, I still swear Memphians are worse drivers than New Orleanians, but it is very close. They do have the advantage of much better roads though. LA by far has the worst roads I have ever seen In the U.S.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:29 am to GIbson05
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Tuscaloosa got 3" of snow, but we are going to claim 15", so
I saw earlier we might get 12" of snow and 4" of ice in NWA next week.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:42 am to AesopsGators
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You do realize that the five boroughs alone have a greater population than the entire state of Louisiana right? In fact they have nearly double the population (8.3m vs 4.6). And of course the area affected by Sandy stretched far beyond the five boroughs. I've lived through hurricanes in Florida and I lived through Sandy. Sandy was plenty bad. imagine a 15 foot surge sweeping into a downtown Miami but with 4 times the population of Dade county living in it. That was NYC during Sandy.
I'm not sure what the point of this statement was. However, YOU do realize the difference of what made Katrina a nightmare right? Probably not, so I'll summarize. The levees broke and it flooded the entire region. It wasn't JUST the hurricane itself.
Katrina and it's aftermath is nowhere near comparable to Sandy. It's on a different level. One is considered one of the greatest natural disaster in modern history for a reason.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 11:45 am to DoubleDown
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The levees broke and it flooded the entire region. It wasn't JUST the hurricane itself.
^This. Katrina would have been relatively forgotten by now if the levees had held up.
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