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  2. 2.

    Tara the anti-social social worker

    Get out your stopwatch for the first “this proves there’s no global warming” trollism. Three…two…one…

  4. 4.

    Michael D.

    “his proves there’s no global warming”

    As someone who completely understands global warming, others who say this proves it’s a myth are idiots. Global warming has nothing to do with occassional snow in Atlanta. BUT, global warming can cause totally freezing temperatures in places where it shouldn’t happen. Anyone who doesn’t understand that is someone who doesn’t know the science. Ignore them.

  5. 5.

    Ted

    A slightly sub-freezing temperature and a bit of snow would be an improvement. The weather here is beginning to resemble Mars.

  7. 7.

    Michael D.

    KC: The drought in Atlanta is so bad that this, although welcome, won’t do anything significant, unfortunately. I still have a bucket on the back deck and in the shower, believe it or not.

  8. 8.

    Dreggas

    for those that don’t know the ratios 1 inch of rains equals approximately 1 foot of snow, that means that dusting they are getting (dusting as compared to snow in Upstate NY) is probably like a light rain shower.

  9. 9.

    Dreggas

    Oh and I love watching things like this as I do have a morbid sense of humor. I often wonder what it would be like to take the rush hour traffic on the 405 here in so-cal in mid january during a rain storm and transplant it to the Northway in NY during a snow storm, just to watch the demolition derby. These people can’t drive in rain and need chains for the slightest drop if snow in the mountains!

    We never had chains, we had snow (or all weather) tires.

  10. 10.

    El Cid

    Global warming is not real, a scare made up by Al Gore because he rides on planes, and it is also a completely natural cycle and not man-made and may end up benefiting us.

    Those infrared photons carrying our heat out into space are choosing leaving the Earth more slowly because they are trying to help America defeat the worldwide Jihad. Somehow. I’m sure of it.

  11. 11.

    Silver Owl

    If those are plants by the chair on your balcony you may want to bring them inside or cover them up.

    It is a pretty snow.

  12. 12.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Can’t say that the Bushies aren’t on top of things though. Here’s a quote from a statement in November by US Department of the Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne:

    …It’s no longer theory. There is a drought in the South. It is also important to recognize that the solution can and will come from the governors…

    I recall concerns over Atlanta’s water supply last summer.

    Seems to me that one of the main complaints is over the amount of water being released from Lanier and Lake Altoona by the Army Corps of Engineers. Guess the govs will have to come up with a solution that doesn’t involve the ACE changing their ways.

  14. 14.

    Michael D.

    Dreggas: That’s not bigotry. I think Hillary was just stupid. We’ve all made jokes we wish we didn’t. That was just completely stupid of her. But I don’t think she is a bigot. Just a little stupid sometimes, like all of us.

  17. 17.

    F. Frederson

    ahhh the slums of 2015. they fell down faster than those old slums made of brick.

    I was going to say something, but I’m living in a place that’s not much better, and the built environment of most of the country is pretty fugly.

    At least people here can drive in the snow.

  18. 18.

    Dreggas

    Michael D. Says:

    Dreggas: That’s not bigotry. I think Hillary was just stupid. We’ve all made jokes we wish we didn’t. That was just completely stupid of her. But I don’t think she is a bigot. Just a little stupid sometimes, like all of us.

    Dude, mistake or not, you tell a joke like that, it’s bigoted at worst, stereotypical at best. But I guess IOKIYAHRC. Not that I am the most PC person on the planet but that was completely tacky and tasteless.

  21. 21.

    myiq2xu

    I live within 2 hours drive of Yosemite. When I was a kid we could see El Cap and Halfdome but it’s too smoggy to see the foothills anymore.

    Halfdome was created when a giant glacier sheared off half of a solid granite mountain. This glacier was about a mile high.

    Mikey is worried about a little frozen rain.

  23. 23.

    Zuzu

    Dude, mistake or not, you tell a joke like that, it’s bigoted at worst, stereotypical at best. But I guess IOKIYAHRC. Not that I am the most PC person on the planet but that was completely tacky and tasteless.

    To give her credit, she did apologize right away.

  24. 24.

    Krista

    OT but did you guys catch Esteban Colberto’s interview with Lou Dobbs?

    I laughed ’till I had tears coming out of my eyes. Writers? We don’t need no steenkin’ writers! That was one of the best Colbert bits yet!

  25. 25.

    sal

    That’s not snow.
    I’m looking out my window at three feet of snow, nothing strange.

    Northern Michigan

  26. 26.

    Krista

    Michael, I’m certainly hoping that YOU’RE used to snow. I seem to recall a particular snowstorm up home where businesses had to dig tunnels through the snowdrifts and write their business name at the top of the entrance to the tunnel in spray-paint, so that people could find them.

    62 inches of snow fell in 48 hours. It was insane.

  27. 27.

    myiq2xu

    62 inches of snow fell in 48 hours. It was insane.

    Where I live in Central California, there was a period in 1991 where the temperature stayed below freezing for two or three whole days!

    We still refer to it as “The Big Freeze”

    When I went out earlier today (about 11am local) it was a chilly 51 degrees.

  29. 29.

    guyermo

    good thing it’s saturday otherwise schools would have had to close due to that blizzard. Thankfully, Michael’s a Canadian and knows what a REAL winter’s like. For those, like John, who don’t experience it regularly, here’s the forecast for Duluth, MN

  30. 30.

    Cuzco

    myiq2xu: Where I live in Central California, there was a period in 1991 where the temperature stayed below freezing for two or three whole days!

    Good god! That’s inhuman! Did you see any mastodons?

  32. 32.

    Helena Montana

    That pic looks like Herndon, VA to me. Or any urban sprawl townhome complex in the United States. Depressing.

  34. 34.

    jack fate

    for those that don’t know the ratios 1 inch of rains equals approximately 1 foot of snow, that means that dusting they are getting (dusting as compared to snow in Upstate NY) is probably like a light rain shower

    Ain’t that the truth. The “big” paper where I live (outside of Buffalo, NY), the ever craptacular Buffalo News, did a story once describing how one small town in Erie County, NY (Colden NY, I think) owned more salt and snow removal equipment than the entire state highway department for the state of North Carolina. You people get stuck in snow that we wear sneakers in. heh. . .

    That being said, be careful out there. The only thing worse than icy roads are people who do not know how to drive on them.

  35. 35.

    Chuck Butcher

    It just snowed 5″ in two hours in Baker City, OR. Since the ground has been white since a week before Thanksgiving it wasn’t much of a surprise. It is kind of a long commute to build a snowman.

    I don’t mind it much, my work truck is a utilty bed 78 3/4T 4×4 Chevy that’s full of tools and weighs in at a svelt 8,000 pounds. My wife’s vehicle, 04 SSR is fairly helpless in the stuff, 2 wheel drive and no studs.

    Yes, I do know how to drive in the stuff.

  36. 36.

    bago

    Uhh, you realize the hexagonal structure of snow will leave you with x*SQRT(2)*2 + X, per hexagonal crystal it forms. where X is the length of the H20 bond, right. In other words the 12 X inflationary aspect is physically impossible and highly likely to compress under gravitational factors. Research how glaciers work sometime.

  37. 37.

    bago

    Ice floats because the 6x crystalline form occupies more space that the same molecular count in liquid form. Hence: Ice floats. So seriously, get your science right.

  38. 38.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Get used to it. The latest projections for alterations due to global warming induced by man-made chemicals introduced into the atmosphere include wild swings in weather events. You may occasionally get snow, but it is more likely over the next century that the entire southeast is going to see increasing desertification. By the way, how is that pray for rain on the capital steps thing going for your governor? Nothing like finally dealing with issues with a clear policy and scientific approach in mind.

  39. 39.

    bago

    Perhaps growing up in Alaska inculculated me to the thermal expansion properties of matter, but still, that this ignorance is spreading in the age of google and wikipedia is fucking shameful. Matter research is the fundamental basis of all science. What is matter. Existentialism for beginners.

  41. 41.

    myiq2xu

    Matter research is the fundamental basis of all science. What is matter. Existentialism for beginners.

    Bullwinkle went to “Whattsamatta U”

  42. 42.

    Birdzilla

    And the ATLANTA URINAL,CONSTITPATION will blame this on global warming just like any of those liberal left-wing news rags DAMN NOT EVEN WORTH LINING A BIRDSCAGE WITH THE BIRD WOULD REVOLT

  43. 43.

    Faux News

    That pic looks like Herndon, VA to me. Or any urban sprawl townhome complex in the United States. Depressing.

    I was thinking Germantown, MD. Ah what’s the difference anyway…

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