These colors dont run (except in hot water): The Southern Thread

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ITS SNOWING!!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

ummm...little rock!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

damn!

It's been cloudy and raining here in Austin. I think that's the best we'll get.

Who else is in little rock?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Expecting in hot water?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's a Southern thing, Ned.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in Little Rock.

I'd hate to be at Kroger right now.

It's nice to see some snow, being that this winter has been so mild and boring.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

My electricity went out this morning for no reason. This is par for the course in the NO these days. Also, fuck snow.

― adam (adam), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, when did you go back to NOLA?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've been glad of the mild winter because of the heating bills, but that means next summer it'll be Bugville around here.

NOAA says 30 tonight; weather.com says 34 — a little bit of snow would be nice, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's a Southern thing

short for "expectorate"?

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thankful for the low heating bills, but I'm afraid that the A/C's not going to make it through summer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

See this city?

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg

IT'S A CITY OF PANIC.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Except! Damn smug californians. I WAS EXCITED

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a crash and a breakdown on the way home and it had only been snowing for 20 minutes.
PANIC!!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

i miss you, southern states.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Did you live down here?

I'm watching family feud and to the question 'something a robot can do better than your spouse can' a middle aged woman replied 'make love!' wtf??

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

born in texas; raised in kentucky; family in alabama, louisiana, etc.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I always liked how gygax would know to check in with his MS relations whenever I posted about a tornado being outside my back door.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Stence is a traitor. (Isnt'a Tracer Hand from TX?)

still cold and rainy here. :( You know 80 degrees in winter king of wig me out but I really don't like cold weather so more 70s please.

and ditto on the bugs. Summer will be tons of fun.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

"NO REALLY, ROCK. I THINK THAT YOU SHOULD FLEE TO POPLAR BLUFF."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

My dad used to call me at college to tell me that my out-of-state county was under a tornado watch.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

those are strong words, missy misery. tracer's from tn, btw.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, when did you go back to NOLA?

December, as soon as my semester-in-exile at the U of MD was over. I came home to a sinkful of the nastiest dishes you could possibly imagine. People, do yr dishes before you evacuate! For serious! Also my landlord, despite my paying of rent for the previous 3 months, hadn't done shit with my apartment--including the FRIDGE FULL OF FOOD ROTTING FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. Nasty. Hauling it to the trashpile was truly gross--my hands were slipping on foodmoldslime.

Part of the roof came off but that was the extent of my damage. Kate's (g/f's) place got destroyed--whole roof gone, rain dumped in, rainbows of mold everywhere.

The 24-hr Circle K is only open til 5pm and the grocery store closes at 8. Every bar is full of scary redneck contractor dudes. EVERYONE COME TO MARDI GRAS.

― adam (adam), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't believe that we're talking about an American city like this.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

i could have swore i god i saw one of those ivory-billed woodpeckers pecking at a hickory (?) tree in my side yard today. but then i consulted an audubon bird identification guide online and discovered it was merely a pileated or redheaded woodpecker. for a second though, i shit my pants and thought i was going to be talking to NPR tonight.

― ath (ath), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, i'm in fayetteville.

― ath (ath), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love all your funny little accents.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

well I swanny

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

group pic of all ilx arkansans plz

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

GA reprazent.

It hasn't snowed all season. I do miss it. :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm returning to south carolina on monday... bible belt eeeeeeeek!

also, snow driving i am used to. it's fine. but in sc they get mad ice storma and that shit is damn scary.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

dude where do you live now?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

rochester, ny

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's supposed to snow in DC tonight! but whenever it is forecasted it fails to appear. it only snows in DC by surprise.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYONE COME TO MARDI GRAS.

i would love to. Tried to get my bf to go for NYE but no luck.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 11 February 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that storm was a big fizzle, at least this far south.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 February 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

seriously. i feel my geographic loyalties being challenged every time this happens

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

what? fake winters?

I don't mind the no winter thing but the fact that flies still come into the kitchen when I open my back door bothers me. Summer will be beyond miserable this year. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

more the 'hey its going to snow! expect X inches!' and then it doesnt even reach the ground. disappointment. still, i had fun driving home on friday with all my windows down, pavement blasting and snow flying about the car. i also had fun waking my australian cat up, opening a window, putting her down on the sil and watching her 'wtf!?!?!' expression. so, it was ok.

if i had my way it would be winter 12 months of the year. and, yes, summer is going to suck.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

My lizard escaped through the back door yesterday, causing nearly an hour of panicked searching. My boyfriend finally found him on the back neighbor's porch. Wonder if he would've went for it if there was snow on the ground.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

south carolina, nothing fina

― my name is latebloomer, please take my hand (latebloomer), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

well, do you have snow??

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

The only place I saw snow on the ground this weekend was in my backyard. Which makes sense, since pretty much everything during a storm winds up in my backyard.

Wow. I didn't realize that my picture up there would update itself. THE JPG HAS BECOME INTELLIGENT.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

that amazed me too

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

the 'city of panic' caption is even funnier now

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

hey, is that my work building down there?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

75 degrees today. Paralyzing ice storm forecasted in less than 48 hours.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's nice out. I think I'll leave it out.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, we have a Southern thread now? Charlotte, North carolina represent.

Two days ago it snowed. Today I wore a t-shirt and listened to loud music with the windows rolled down. What the fuck is up?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

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UPDATE: it's been snowing so much that an hour ago, when i was driving to campus, coming down a fairly gentle hill slope, i couldn't brake or turn off into a ditch and ended up rear-ending an elderly couple. elderly wife went to the hospital in an ambulance and elderly guy stood in the snow smoking cigarettes and scowling at me. he said she was complaining about her neck. so hopefully she'll be alright and i didn't just paralyze an old woman and i can just focus on repairing the bumper on my 2 month old HONDA FIT (the one in the picture up there).

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

!!! holy crap! I'm sorry.

old man should chill. southerners ain't meant to be driving on no snow.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

oh no! poor old woman! poor cute car! hopefully, little old lady is fine (old ladies tend to be hypochondriacs, no?) and so is your bumper.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

hopefully, little old lady is fine (old ladies tend to be hypochondriacs, no?)

yeah, little old ladies do tend to be hypochondriacs.
and, y'know, brittle.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i explained to the cop that i was from san diego and not used to driving in these conditions, and he said not to worry about it and he won't give me a ticket, because elderly people are already closest to death, and if i had given a toddler whiplash instead, there might have been repercussions. and then he laughed and said "just kidding!" but then he just stared at me for, like, a really long time. it was pretty weird.

BE SAFE OUT THERE SOUTHERNERZ

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I cannot count the times I've driven into snowbanks, or spun out at intersections. Okay, maybe I can. It's scary shit. I just want to scream, "Drive slow, homey!" to every moron who whizzes by me on the roads in TN. You only see that with some SUV drivers in Buffalo. It's sweet justice, however, when you see them in a ditch a mile down the road.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

fuck all snow

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

what part of town are you in, ath? that sux about your wreck!

there was a big snow/ice storm when i lived there in late 95 or very early 96. i didn't drive for a week. it hit zero degrees every night for a week straight! or close to that anyway. it was painful. much drunk snow walking that week. and good thing you can walk everywhere you need to go in that town.

ai lien and i were just there this past weekend too and it flurried saturday. no danger of getting stranded fortunately.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it was flurrying saturday morning just as we finished eating breakfast emelia's on dickson and then drove to fort smith.

i wouldn't really call it a wreck, since all that's going to have to be done is a bumper replacement on both my car and the other party's 1991 dodge dynasty. i'm just east of the campus, takes me maybe 3 minutes to drive there. historic district wut wut

but yeah, i always thought (naively) it was the ice you gotta WORRY worry about, not just snow. now i know. anyway, glad i secured myself a nice little research assistantship on monday so i can afford my new insurance premiums now.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

dudes: "wreck" vs. "accident"

is this just a southern thing? or is it said elsewhere too? i've always said "car accident" but now "wreck" has entered my lexicon.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

There was an icestorm here during Christmas, 2000. It took me eight hours to get back from Memphis to Little Rock. I was driving within a line of cars at about 2 mph. Every once in a while, in my rear view mirror, I'd see a pair of headlights behind me start moving around before going off into the ditch. The rest of us just had to keep moving on, like we were in the Bataan Death March, for if we braked, we'd be in the ditch, too.

Sorry about your bumper, famous athlete.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Pleasant, that may be the very same storm that had me stranded for the night at a rest stop just west of Malvern along with several hundred others. People just came to a stop on the interstate (or off) and that was it. One of the worst nights I've ever had.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

And around 10 the next morning when it warmed up enough to get out of there, the interstate was still so frozen that it took me 4 hours to get from Malvern to LR. White knuckle all the way. Bumper to bumper. Sliding and fishtailing. Ugh. Never again.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

The rest of us just had to keep moving on, like we were in the Bataan Death March, for if we braked, we'd be in the ditch, too.

actually, the cross-street where the accident happened is part of the official Trail of Tears route. i'll probably follow it again next week to get to the collision repair shop, crying all the way.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

ha! and your description, tre, brings to mind the dark crystal when the old ones are headed for the palace and one would go poof. the rest just had to sigh and keep going.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I really started to worry when the Asplundah trucks started slipping off.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Any bad weather last night? Nashville proper got nuthin', but out on the plateau, etc., they had a bit of snow. So much for the grocery store raids.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

snowing now..lightly

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

CITY OF PANIC !!!

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Nuthin'. Ten minutes of sleet turning to rain, cloud cover insulated the area and it actually warmed up to above freezing all night.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

snowed off and on this morning in durham, but it had all changed to rain by this afternoon. now we just have to hope it doesn't all freeze overnight...

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

our highs are in the 60s! Artic freeze front, NOT! Weathermen be smoking that stuff.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

We had 2 inches of snow when I woke up this morning. Apparently, there were 30 accidents on the interstate by 7:30am.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

argh, now they are saying artic freeze is coming tonight. lows in the 20s. boo. no percipitation though.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

The big ice storm down here was in '94. We were without power for a week. The Kiddo and I actually kinda enjoyed it.

It's cold as kraut outside right now. No precip,though.

― Hey Jude (Hey Jude), Saturday, 3 February 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

74 F and breezy

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

grrr, fuck a Tornado Alley.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I know! We've been getting emails all day at work telling us to review our safety and evacuation procedures. Sitting in the basement of the library sucks.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

My girlfriend was supposed to fly to Tupelo today (via Memphis) for work, but it doesn't look like that's happening.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! Are flights canceled?

I haven't heard any sirens yet, so hopefully this'll all blow over here.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well, there are thunderstorms here in Chicago, too, so that's part of it.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

The line of storms has passed Memphis and is just now leaving Tupelo. There was a corridor of relatively clear weather over us in both sets of storms today -- blind luck.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

come on, feel the noize, nashville.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

It was crazy here for the last few days, but I guess it's finally passed.

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg
(City of Panic)

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

It was eerily sunny before, and has just become really grey outside.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

ugh winter plz come back. I do not want 7 months of mugginess.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

SRSLY. One forecast has Sunday getting up to 89. That's KRAZEE for March 25th.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

flowers, veg, and herbs are in the ground!

― Ai Lien, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

weather is so beautiful. i am typing this from sitting on my porch! i think the weather is my favorite thing about the south. i so badly want to move somewhere else, but dunno how i can do without days like this.

― modestmickey, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

it's FINALLY raining!

my cat's BFF is a possum.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, do they really get along?

Also, are you going to get cool parking permits now?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

my cat hates all other cats and dogs and birds and, well, the entire animal kingdom except opposums. it makes me nervous.

last i heard, we weren't getting parking permits. the city council decided we should 'wait and see' if any problems arise at all. more than parking, my concern is littering. everytime riverfest or some huge altell event happens, we have to pick up some bullshit trash.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Nashville springs are the best. Everything smells like flowers and clean laundry. Well, maybe it's like this elsewhere in the South, but this is the only place below the Mason-Dixon that I've lived.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

what the hell is going on at pulaski tech? campus closed down. someone making threats about another virginia tech there today. poor north little rock.

― sunny successor, Thursday, 3 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid that kind of thing encourages lots of copycats. Did anything happen?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

SMALL UPDATE: A police source says NLR cops have gotten back in touch with the anonymous caller who made the original report. (UPDATE: This report turns out to be incorrect.) I hope this boils down to a night of heavy drinking and big tavern talk. But you can't be too careful.

UPDATE II: Sgt. Terry Kuykendall of NLR police says he's not been informed that they've re-established communications with the caller and says they are still urgently seeking another contact. He said police were told where the conversation was reportedly overheard (the caller said two white males were heard talking, with one saying there'd be violence at Pulaski Tech today worse than Virginia Tech), but that location is not being released. Officers checked Wednesday night but found no one there. He said based on the "emotion and sincerity" in the anonymous caller's voice, officers felt his report needed to be taken seriously. Officers immediately went to Pulaski Tech after the 11:30 p.m. call and patrolled through the night looking for open doors and other things out of place. After consulting with the school this morning, the school decided not to open for safety of students.

UPDATE III: Pulaski Tech will reopen Friday, putting more than 8,000 students back in class. No news of note beyond that. The anonymous caller never called back. The call is believed to have been made from a pay phone on or near Broadway in North Little Rock, but beyond that, the case hadn't advanced by Thursday afternoon.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

ITS SNOWING!!
-- sunny successor (katharine), Friday, February 10, 2006 6:46 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Trying to wrangle up some snowball fighters, fort builders, sled cavalry, etc but Lexingtonians are lazy today.

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

I'm pretty sure there was a newer the south thread but I couldn't find it.

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

search for "southern thread" gets 'em all -- rock & roll n brew, rock & roll n brew: Southern Thread IV

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 8 March 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

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