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Misc General Banter Thread

Having grown up in Birmingham, seeing anyone above US 278 in Alabama complaining about a lack of winter weather is WILD to me.
 
Yeah, a Mid-Atlantic poster by the name of Jeb at AmericanWx back in the day (late 2000s / early 2010s) used to go for long walks in the snow, and called them Jeb Walks. The slang caught on and people, including myself, use it to this day, even though I suspect many don't know what it means at this point, LOL! Jeb may still post at AmericanWx in the MA subforum, but I am not sure.

I think I became quite familiar with it from following the two Mid-Atlantic Snowmageddon storms of 2010 over at AmericanWx. I followed the Mid-Atlantic's thread pretty closely; it was insane to read even though MBY in NC got shafted from those.
 
Yeah, a Mid-Atlantic poster by the name of Jeb at AmericanWx back in the day (late 2000s / early 2010s) used to go for long walks in the snow, and called them Jeb Walks. The slang caught on and people, including myself, use it to this day, even though I suspect many don't know what it means at this point, LOL! Jeb may still post at AmericanWx in the MA subforum, but I am not sure.

I think I became quite familiar with it from following the two Mid-Atlantic Snowmageddon storms of 2010 over at AmericanWx. I followed the Mid-Atlantic's thread pretty closely; it was insane to read even though MBY in NC got shafted from those.
That was f’ing crazy. I was 6 years old when it happened and oh my god my dad and I built an igloo in our backyard! We had like 5 feet of snow on the ground. Silly me thought that was a normal Baltimore winter.

Jeb still posts in there. He was wishing us luck for last week’s storm (got 7” of snow and 3.5” of sleet)
 
You called it
At least for our neck of the woods! Seeing the models converge on our area as the meso-low jackpot in the last 24-48 hrs really had me going. I knew something good was going to happen but I had to still see it to believe it!

I've been waiting for the true foot since 1988. Even the Feb 2014 storm wasn't counting with the wet snow and immediate melt after the ULL pulled out.
 
At least for our neck of the woods! Seeing the models converge on our area as the meso-low jackpot in the last 24-48 hrs really had me going. I knew something good was going to happen but I had to still see it to believe it!

I've been waiting for the true foot since 1988. Even the Feb 2014 storm wasn't counting with the wet snow and immediate melt after the ULL pulled out.
Many restless nights and pain and heartbreak led to this, the big one powered by AI
 
Yeah, a Mid-Atlantic poster by the name of Jeb at AmericanWx back in the day (late 2000s / early 2010s) used to go for long walks in the snow, and called them Jeb Walks. The slang caught on and people, including myself, use it to this day, even though I suspect many don't know what it means at this point, LOL! Jeb may still post at AmericanWx in the MA subforum, but I am not sure.

I think I became quite familiar with it from following the two Mid-Atlantic Snowmageddon storms of 2010 over at AmericanWx. I followed the Mid-Atlantic's thread pretty closely; it was insane to read even though MBY in NC got shafted from those.
I got 50 inches in February alone in Northern Loudoun County. Probably never to be duplicated.
 
Yeah having major FOMO. Realize this was never “our storm” but getting blanked was shocking and unexpected.
Yeah expectations weren’t high like the Carolinas obviously but I was pretty confident our areas would see 2” with a chance to over perform to 4”. When you rely on banding so many miss out. Hopefully the next one is a more widespread event.
 
Every storm has their winners and losers. Last weekend I was hoping to get Big Snow, then the trends happened a few days prior (thanks AI models) and ended up with ICE... and a brand new generator which I've yet to start up. :) ... thanks Sleet!

Finally hit the jackpot the following weekend and it's never when you really expect it.. they just.. happen. Yours will comes.. the chase is the best part of the ride.
 
And the extra weight makes it like a tank

We'll take it out tomorrow afternoon most likely. It's an Equinox RS with all wheel drive so the curb weight is a hair over 4900lbs. The previous Volkswagen ID4 was FWD and did just fine in our big snow last January.
 
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