No Snow For Over 5 Years...
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Camper6
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- Location
- Northwestern Ontario Canada
I used to buy a magazine called Arizona Highways which always seem to have photos of the desert after a snow storm had melted and all the plants coming into bloom.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Traveler
Senior Member
- Location
- San Diego County
The climate of Southern California has always been subject to wild fluctuations. At the end of the last ice age, 15,000 years ago, Southern Cal was an oasis of greenery. As the climate began to rapidly change, the fauna: camels, horses, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant sloths, and the short-faced cave bear, all disappeared. Today we can see their remains at the George Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits), in Los Angeles.
terry123
Well-known Member
- Location
- Houston, Tx.
Enjoyed the snow we had here in Houston but glad we don't have to deal with it every year! We are not equipped to handle it and we sure don't know how to drive in it.
Camper6
Well-known Member
- Location
- Northwestern Ontario Canada
It's a myth that Northerners know how to drive it it. No one knows how to drive in it.
Every year after the first snow we have all kinds of accidents. It's ridiculous because all it requires is a slower speed, like maybe 20 miles an hour less than the posted limit.
Instead all kinds of vehicles sliding off the road into the ditch and colliding at intersections.
It's no longer bare pavement folks.
Smiling Jane
Senior Member
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- Albuquerque NM
I lived in Nashville for a number of years. It was bad there because we nearly always started with a big rain, then the temps dropped and everything turned into a solid sheet of ice.
Unless you're one of those people who make a sport of racing on frozen lakes, you can't drive on solid ice. Nashville is pretty hilly, which makes things worse. I remember one intersection where two roads met at the top of a steep hill where there was a 4-way stop. I sat there and watched vehicles sliding back down on all sides, where they ran into people who were trying to get where they had been.
Unless you're one of those people who make a sport of racing on frozen lakes, you can't drive on solid ice. Nashville is pretty hilly, which makes things worse. I remember one intersection where two roads met at the top of a steep hill where there was a 4-way stop. I sat there and watched vehicles sliding back down on all sides, where they ran into people who were trying to get where they had been.
HiDesertHal
Senior Member
I'll bet that was a sight to see..those drivers not being able to do anything about their sliding!
HDH
Camper6
Well-known Member
- Location
- Northwestern Ontario Canada
We get conditions near a bridge which forms what we call 'black' ice.
No control and the worst thing to do is put on the brakes hard because you lose complete control.
No control and the worst thing to do is put on the brakes hard because you lose complete control.
AZ Jim
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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- SURPRISE, ARIZONA
Here in Arizona we have varied elevations. We have our deserts and our mountains. Those pictures in AH are from our mountains. Our highest elevation is 12,400 ft. about 11 miles north of Flagstaff.
HiDesertHal
Senior Member
Hey Traveler, (Traveler was the name of Robert E. Lee's horse)
You seem to be a well-educated gentleman! And you've been a member for only 8 days!
Nice to meet you, and welcome to the "home"!
Here's a picture of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator I built. It was good for a little over one million volts.
HiDesertHal
You seem to be a well-educated gentleman! And you've been a member for only 8 days!
Nice to meet you, and welcome to the "home"!
Here's a picture of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator I built. It was good for a little over one million volts.
HiDesertHal
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Camper6
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- Northwestern Ontario Canada
That's impressive.
Giantsfan1954
Senior Member
Most of them being the 4-wheel drives.
They seem to believe they're invincible
They seem to believe they're invincible
Butterfly
SF VIP
- Location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Here in New Mexico's high desert, we get some snow every year, but not a whole lot.