zogger
Tree Freak
Winter in the south!
Here is a pic taken from my side porch early Christmas morning two years ago
Before we moved here (NW georgia kinda sorta a little close to chattanooga tennesse), we lived a couple counties over due east at higher elevation, about a hmmm 600 feet or so higher, one winter we had 11 snowfalls. This is the similar latitude to north mississippi.
If you look on a map of the US, follow the appalachians down, see how they hang a louie and go right across georgia/alabama etc. There's decent enough skiing all the way down to the north carolina mountains.
Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anyplace in this zone/latitude, right to the bottom of the range, gets a "real" winter with a heating season,(I have seen it below 0 before here, and single digits and teens are common) and it gets cold enough all the way down to north florida to want "some" heat on some days in the winter. No, it isn't like maine and across all the border states, but yep! We heat. Heck, I wouldn't be here on the firewood site if we didn't. Like I said, I burn 4 cords plus a season, and it ain't for giggles...
So we have real winter in this latitude, but not so much heavy snow all the time so they salt the roads all over like up north, just some of the bridges and overpasses, so our used vehicles are *nice* down here, they aren't all rusted to crap. Very civilized, any snow or worse ice, we get a lot of that, we stay home! Well, half and half. The dorkheads go out and slide into a ditch, one or the other, about equal really.
rant mode on
Almost all schools/government/places like that close on snow days. This is a good idea. Some businesses do, the smart ones anyway. The dumb ones with retard bosses insist their employees get to work without snow tires, chains, or much in the way of snow driving practice. That has always been annoying to me, insisting your employees risk a crash for at most one or two days work. The crap melts off fast. And it doesn't matter if anyone "you" is just the bestus gosh darn winter driver ever, you still risk a chance of having someone else slide into you. The news is always ull of hundreds/thousands of fenderbender incidences (or worse) stories every winter storm here. They (various governors "they) should insist on corporations admitting to physical reality and just mandate a shutdown (just like a mandatory coastal evacuation) until the roads melt. They don't have the infrastructure to plow everywhere and salt, etc, just doesn't exist. I really..hmm..really, can't remember the last time I saw joe blow with a pickup and a plow. Doesn't exist. And even 4wd with fat mud meats on them (what is here, again, just reality)..sucks on ice bigtime. No telling how much insurance price is reflected in this idiotic insistance on "trying" to make it to work...emergency services yes, everyone else should stay home..and we get your typical panic buying at the stores, too..instead of stocking well up in advance (like we do). I work at home, so I pretty much stay home anyway....I like it. Pay sucks, ringe "benefits" are great!
/rant off
Biggest blizzard/snowstorm ever here was the storm of the century, march '93. That was pretty darn good for a regular winter snowstorm! I had a single wide I was renting out in the national forest in the mountains with a heatilator fireplace at the time, yep, burned wood, had mayber a full cord or better "stocked up",(cut with my old electric craftsman with the powersharp on it...) propane furnace wouldn't work without juice, and no juice for near a week and had no genny at the time...I loved it! I had more dang fun than should be allowed! I know it was ultimate bad news here and there for some people, like any big storm, but just from what I went through, nice. I like getting "snowed in".
1993 Storm of the Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So there ya go! Yes, the "south" has a real heating season. Nope, not near as wintry as "up north", but, it exists. And it can be "mixed" we get ice/blizzard/rain/lightning thunderstorms! that's pretty common.
We typically heat from like around halloween to at least april. That's a mild winter, although it REALLY varies. This year, first fire in september! And two years I remember getting tomatoes on christmas day from the garden! So you never know, just depends.
Here is a pic taken from my side porch early Christmas morning two years ago
Before we moved here (NW georgia kinda sorta a little close to chattanooga tennesse), we lived a couple counties over due east at higher elevation, about a hmmm 600 feet or so higher, one winter we had 11 snowfalls. This is the similar latitude to north mississippi.
If you look on a map of the US, follow the appalachians down, see how they hang a louie and go right across georgia/alabama etc. There's decent enough skiing all the way down to the north carolina mountains.
Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anyplace in this zone/latitude, right to the bottom of the range, gets a "real" winter with a heating season,(I have seen it below 0 before here, and single digits and teens are common) and it gets cold enough all the way down to north florida to want "some" heat on some days in the winter. No, it isn't like maine and across all the border states, but yep! We heat. Heck, I wouldn't be here on the firewood site if we didn't. Like I said, I burn 4 cords plus a season, and it ain't for giggles...
So we have real winter in this latitude, but not so much heavy snow all the time so they salt the roads all over like up north, just some of the bridges and overpasses, so our used vehicles are *nice* down here, they aren't all rusted to crap. Very civilized, any snow or worse ice, we get a lot of that, we stay home! Well, half and half. The dorkheads go out and slide into a ditch, one or the other, about equal really.
rant mode on
Almost all schools/government/places like that close on snow days. This is a good idea. Some businesses do, the smart ones anyway. The dumb ones with retard bosses insist their employees get to work without snow tires, chains, or much in the way of snow driving practice. That has always been annoying to me, insisting your employees risk a crash for at most one or two days work. The crap melts off fast. And it doesn't matter if anyone "you" is just the bestus gosh darn winter driver ever, you still risk a chance of having someone else slide into you. The news is always ull of hundreds/thousands of fenderbender incidences (or worse) stories every winter storm here. They (various governors "they) should insist on corporations admitting to physical reality and just mandate a shutdown (just like a mandatory coastal evacuation) until the roads melt. They don't have the infrastructure to plow everywhere and salt, etc, just doesn't exist. I really..hmm..really, can't remember the last time I saw joe blow with a pickup and a plow. Doesn't exist. And even 4wd with fat mud meats on them (what is here, again, just reality)..sucks on ice bigtime. No telling how much insurance price is reflected in this idiotic insistance on "trying" to make it to work...emergency services yes, everyone else should stay home..and we get your typical panic buying at the stores, too..instead of stocking well up in advance (like we do). I work at home, so I pretty much stay home anyway....I like it. Pay sucks, ringe "benefits" are great!
/rant off
Biggest blizzard/snowstorm ever here was the storm of the century, march '93. That was pretty darn good for a regular winter snowstorm! I had a single wide I was renting out in the national forest in the mountains with a heatilator fireplace at the time, yep, burned wood, had mayber a full cord or better "stocked up",(cut with my old electric craftsman with the powersharp on it...) propane furnace wouldn't work without juice, and no juice for near a week and had no genny at the time...I loved it! I had more dang fun than should be allowed! I know it was ultimate bad news here and there for some people, like any big storm, but just from what I went through, nice. I like getting "snowed in".
1993 Storm of the Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So there ya go! Yes, the "south" has a real heating season. Nope, not near as wintry as "up north", but, it exists. And it can be "mixed" we get ice/blizzard/rain/lightning thunderstorms! that's pretty common.
We typically heat from like around halloween to at least april. That's a mild winter, although it REALLY varies. This year, first fire in september! And two years I remember getting tomatoes on christmas day from the garden! So you never know, just depends.
