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Misc 2018 Banter & Venting Thread

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Any musicians here? I bought a Tony Rice guitar lesson book and about to dig in. Learnin' me some bluegrass licks baby..
 
whamby said:
Any musicians here? I bought a Tony Rice guitar lesson book and about to dig in. Learnin' me some bluegrass licks baby..
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I got an Estabon about 10 years ago
 
Looks like I'm moving to Greenville or charlotte from bham in next 3 weeks. I would assume charlotte gets more snow right??
 
thinking about going to Vegas for my 30th birthday in July.... its gonna be so hot though...:confused:

Why is my birthday in July :p
 
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go now and pretend it's your birthday... in July, go to Alaska.
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lol its funny I went up north last year to heat waves(other than the snow in NYC every trip has had heat) so I mean at least here it wont be unexpected lol
 
I lived in San Francisco as a kid.. we had 2 weeks in August in the 80s, the rest of the summer was in the 60s.. rarely got to use the pool. Weird Climate there...
 
whamby said:
I lived in San Francisco as a kid.. we had 2 weeks in August in the 80s, the rest of the summer was in the 60s.. rarely got to use the pool. Weird Climate there...
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yeah its definitely a different climate, that was how my summer plans started for sure
 
Brent I have a question. Are TX summers worse than AL summers ? I mean i Imagine its not quite as humid there.
 
I can also answer that.. I lived in Houston and Austin growing up(as well as San Fran for 1 year)... Houston is as humid and worse than Alabama summers, except for maybe southern Ala. Austin is a bit drier, but scorching hot and miserable.. I'd say yes for sure.
 
Does anyone ever read those rankings that list the best and worst states. In every ranking Ive seen the southern states are always dead last. Education, Health Care, etc. Iowa, MN, ND and the northeast always do well.
 
I love it here in East Tennessee.. wish we got a bit more snow on a yearly basis, but otherwise it's great. It would take a 6 figure salary to get me to move back to Texas. That's all I'll say about that. :)
 
whamby said:
I love it here in East Tennessee.. wish we got a bit more snow on a yearly basis, but otherwise it's great. It would take a 6 figure salary to get me to move back to Texas. That's all I'll say about that. :)
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I love East TN also. Its by far my favorite area of the southeast. I honestly think I would rather live in TX than FL. FL just seems way more humid and the people in TX seem nicer. Im jealous that you lived in SF because I would absolutely love to live on the west coast. Just strictly speaking in terms of weather that is my ideal place to live. Definitely dont have to deal with 90 degrees and 70 dp crap in SF in July.
 
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Bham 99 said:
Looks like I'm moving to Greenville or charlotte from bham in next 3 weeks. I would assume charlotte gets more snow right??
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Actually again, it’s location around there. If you live in northern part of Mecklenburg county, up by lake Norman, you get a lot more snow than the Airport area, 95% of the time. Go read some of the winter storm threads from AMWX in the Southeast thread, it’s talked about a lot , even with this year’s events and especially some of the 2016/17 events
 
Tarheel1 said:
Actually again, it’s location around there. If you live in northern part of Mecklenburg county, up by lake Norman, you get a lot more snow than the Airport area, 95% of the time. Go read some of the winter storm threads from AMWX in the Southeast thread, it’s talked about a lot , even with this year’s events and especially some of the 2016/17 events
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very true. There was a storm last year where 10-15 minutes away from me was getting hammered with giant feathery flakes while I watched a raging sleet storm at home (just NE of uptown). Went to work the next morning (south Charlotte, close to Pineville) and there was barely even evidence of sleet. Charlotte and wintry weather is a fickle beast.
 
Tarheel1 said:
Actually again, it’s location around there. If you live in northern part of Mecklenburg county, up by lake Norman, you get a lot more snow than the Airport area, 95% of the time. Go read some of the winter storm threads from AMWX in the Southeast thread, it’s talked about a lot , even with this year’s events and especially some of the 2016/17 events
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My signature describes this exactly, North Charlotte suburbs and the I-40 region do the best when it comes to storms down here.

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I'm really hoping D.C stays snowless until at least after Thursday afternoon. My worst fear is that it ends up being way colder there than it's currently forecast.

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SoutheastRidge said:
Brent I have a question. Are TX summers worse than AL summers ? I mean i Imagine its not quite as humid there.
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its a mixed bag, the humidity isn't as bad up here inland, but my biggest problem with Texas summers is they last far too long. Dallas can hit 100 as early as April and late as October, and 90s into November last year... its just too much... it never feels like we have a proper fall, which at least in Alabama we did. I don't mind the heat so much in the actual summer as it needs to end at some point and some years it feels like its never going to

Texas has been good to me on a personal level but yeah I completely despise the weather here so often lol
 
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I dont get why people get obsessed over whether DC gets snow or not. You never see anyone get obsessed over whether Cinci or Indy get snow. Whats the deal ?
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I dont get why people get obsessed over whether DC gets snow or not. You never see anyone get obsessed over whether Cinci or Indy get snow. Whats the deal ?
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It's easy. DC often gets snow that we are modeled to get at some point. It makes some feel good when they get shafted in a similar fashion. The same applies to folks south of NC who like to complain about NC getting snow.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I dont get why people get obsessed over whether DC gets snow or not. You never see anyone get obsessed over whether Cinci or Indy get snow. Whats the deal ?
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I gues the same reason your obsessed with latitude and longitude. Stuff like Seattle and New York are at the same latitude, why does NY get so much more snow? Is it normal to hit 75 in ATL in Feb? You know, that kind of great stuff
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I dont get why people get obsessed over whether DC gets snow or not. You never see anyone get obsessed over whether Cinci or Indy get snow. Whats the deal ?
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1,000 likes! Who the heck cares about DC snow unless you're traveling there or have family/friend there? On a SE forum much less. People must have a heck of a lot of free time on their hands or are bored to death?
 
ForsythSnow said:
I personally want to end winter having more snow than them, that's all.
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Per records even if we include the unfinished 2017-8 for which ATL is still ahead: KDCA has had more SN/IP than KATL in 97% of the seasons since 1884-5. Besides 2017-8, the only ones for which KATL had more were 2001-2, 1997-8, and 1972-3. So, I admittedly can understand the interest in seeing if KATL holds on with its higher amount this winter since historically that is a rare occurrence of only one in 33 or so seasons. I mean it could easily not happen again for many decades. Note that two of the 4 were very strong El Nino winters.
 
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DC vs Raleigh since 1886-7: 84% of winters have had more SN/IP in DC
DC vs Atlanta since 1883-4: 97% of winters have had more SN/IP in DC
DC vs SAV since 1883-4: 99% of winters have had more SN/IP in DC

These are assuming 2017-8 ends up with more at ATL and RDU than DC.

So, it isn't rare for RDU to beat DC since it happens once every 6 or so winters vs the 1 every 33 at ATL and less than one in hundred at SAV.
 
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