Worst winters ever?
 

What are the worst winters you guys have ever seen in Kansas City? How bout the most snow and coldest temperatures? Are the winters long there?

I lived in KC on the coldest day ever in KC. It was finals week. Dec 19 I think. -23? Look it up. Can’t remember year.

Their main issue is ice

Not sure. I can tell you about the mildest winter I've ever experienced. I'm in the midst of it. I think the coldest daytime low so far out here has been like 64 or so. I know it's not technically winter yet by even for Phoenix, it's been unseasonably mild. I know by the end of next week we are expecting daytime highs of......wait for it......shudder........


60

Was that the day of the Chiefs/Dolphins game?

89'

Then, no

I remember in 1996 it was 27 below up here. You guys remember that cold spell?

Since I've lived here I think the worst was 2011 or 2012. Can't quite remember exactly. I know there was a shit-load of snow though.

winter starts in 7 days! l

i remember a winter in 89 where it got -10 or so - and me and my roommates engine blocks were frozen.....car wouldnt start due to cold.

That's too cold for me, and exactly why I struggle through 65 degree winters now.

I wish we’d get some cold weather. It sucks working in it in my career but this mild weather is killing my side job.

Heh

Yep

Oh, sorry.

Ah-HEM!

This will be the coldest, worst winter ever because global warming/climate change/Trump/God hates the gays/US deployment to X/Hollywood Rape/the moral decline in civilization in western society...

For the entire winter season, I'm not sure because I don't remember what the rest of it was like. But the ice storm we had in 2002 was the worst. We were without power for 11 days because the line from the pole to my house was taken out by a tree. There were so many without power that we were waaaaay down the priority list to get service restored.

We ended up staying at my FIL's duplex for the majority of it, which sucked majorly. He kept it so ****ing hot in there. I seem to remember a tear running down my face when power was finally restored.

Thousands of years ago, there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts; and women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept, and felt the tears freeze on their cheeks... In that darkness the White Walkers came for the first time. They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds.

I remember that, was that in Raytown or Independence?

96 in North Dakota was a fun one. I was in college and we basically were stuck in the dorms for a 3 days. The National Guard was activated to clear out the snow in some areas and then there was pretty good spring flooding.

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The best winter day was the night I came out of work late and the entire passenger side of my car was covered in an ice sheet. Being an Eagle scout, I pee'd on the lock to open the door. Had to rev the engine to great the tires free from the ice. Then it was clunk, clunk, clunk, all the way home, looking out my side window to see my way home. I think it was like 4 degrees by that time.

Why is that the best winter? It's the moment I decided to move to Phoenix. I was out of there the next week. No job, no home, no nothing. I'd had enough of that shit.

That’s awesome. Most betas can’t recall the exact day they became a pussy.

You aren't doing a great job Packfan...

LMAO. I pee'd on my door lock man. That's some Bear Grylls type shit.

If you are a druid and celebrate the solstice, yes.

For the rest of us that worship meteorology, winter is loosely defined as starting in November or early December in the KC area. The start date varies based upon location around the world.

Honestly, I don't remember the year - 95-96? - But it was October....I worked late the night before and didn't have to go back in till like 5 PM. I got up at around noon and I couldn't figure out why the hell it was so bright in the house. Our house (at that time) had six or seven skylights and it was like BOOM!

I finally looked out the window and there was 8 or 9 inches of snow - in October. If I remember correctly, Old OP caught the brunt of it - trees down everywhere, power out. it was a mess for 5-6 days.

I never remember weather. My wife will say, "Remember that bad winter we had three years ago?" and I'll say, "I have no idea what you're talking about." I'll remember unique events, but not entire winters.

That said, we got 32" of snow once, which was a really big snow. I remember being up on a ladder trying to knock some of it off my roof, because there were some buildings that collapsed under the weight. I lost my former barber shop in that snow.

In a different winter, we had some stretch of several days where the high temperature didn't reach zero. We had to put a heating pad on one of our water lines, because it froze up despite being inside the house. We eventually learned that it's next to a vent pipe, and the air in the vent pipe was so cold that it froze the water line that didn't even touch it. Very weird.

March 2003. We got 46" of snow at my house in 48 hours.

About 8-10 years ago, major ice storm during a long cold winter. Power lines down all over the southern part of the state. After 11 days without power, temperatures in the single digits,sleeping every night with my two beagles, one on each side, I decided to break down and buy a $750 generator.
Got it running, extension cords running to everything and fired it up. Glorious heat, television, internet. I was a happy man.
Three hours later the electricity came back on.

Dude I'm about to do the very same thing.

Phoenix is full.

How do generators work in terms of powering things up? Do they somehow hook into your breaker box, or do you run extension cords from plug-ins in the generator itself? And how much stuff can you power? I'm a complete novice at generators, but I keep thinking that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have one.

The year Derrick Thomas died.





Buckle up my friends.

Up here, the winter of 2013-2014 was the worst. We had two kinds of weather - sub zero or snowing. It was brutal and relentless and just went on and on and on. I think it was the end of February or maybe the beginning of March before we had a day where the temperature rose about freezing. Mountains of snow with nowhere left to put it, and it just kept coming.

I deal better with extreme cold weather than extreme hot weather, and get through the shitty cold days by remembering how much I hate the shitty hot days. But that line of reasoning stopped working during this frozen ****ing hell.

1976, 1983 or 4

I think he was referring to peeing on his car door

Nonsense, there are a limited number of openings.
We're taking applications, they must be accompanied by a recent photograph.

When was the last white christmas? I feel like there was a near blizzard on the 24th somewhere in the last 5-8 years.

that ice storm back in like maybe 95 or so, most of the city lost power for like a week or 2. that sucked

I was living in the CSU dorms at the time. I remember being able to nearly touch the top of the street lights from climbing the piles left from the futile efforts to plow the parking lots.

Over here on the Cali coast it got to a very low 32* recently and it was freezing out ��

It's not Kansas though.

If you rarely need one then a portable generator, with outlets one it is what you want to get. Pull it out of the garage, start it, plug your extension cords in and run them into the house. The size depends on how much of your house you want to power. The one I bought was 7500 watts. Not big enough to power everything by any means.

The worst storms I remember were the ice storm in January '95 that knocked out our power for the better part of a week and the blizzard in 2011 that dropped 17 inches or so of snow in CoMo and shut the city down for about four days.

In the first instance, we watched ABC on a six-inch black and white TV that was powered with D batteries and kept warm from radiant heat from the wood stove, since the blowers couldn't circulate the heat. In the second case, I spent about four or five hours shoveling the driveway.

Overall, though, I can't remember any winters that were consistently brutal for some reason. The last two have been diet Fall.

Were you worried about the roof collapsing?

It crossed my mind because at some places on the roof, drifts were at least six feet, but my house was built in 1995 and I guessed/hoped that they build them to withstand that. It was good, wet Spring snow too, not the stuff we get this time of year.

I was less worried about my 100+ year old house than my 10+ year old garage. I assumed that new construction would be less strong.

As far as I can tell, though, the 32 inches at my house was the second-most it had seen, with the most being 45 inches in 1913. That was before I lived there.

Sorry Rain Man. I'm only impressed by 'Pioneer' license plates.

Damn. I would have been terrified of that happening, but if it was coming down at that pace you probably couldn't clear it off as fast as it was coming down.

2003 ice storm was a pretty bad one for me.

You weren't there in 1913! The trolley tracks in front of my house were shut down and the horses could barely get out of the stable.

I feel so bad for you sorry ****s. :P

the Blizzard of 1966

http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index....ard_of_66.html

four-day storm blasted Central New York -- dumping 42.3 inches of snow on Syracuse and a staggering 102 inches on lakefront Oswego County -- residents and weather experts alike still speak of it in reverent tones.

I was 7 and had a snow WEEK. Not a snow day a snow week. Built the most awesome snow forts in history.

This was 2009 (I think) in Omaha... KC got some snow on top of snow on top of snow, but nothing like this.

I'm moving somewhere that has a beach **** Arizona

LMAO

We implants must stick together, brother. Particularly Chiefs fans.

"John has a long mustache."

Good, stay the **** out.

I didn't even consider clearing the roof. The driveway was bad enough. One of the "secrets" about Colorado winters is that we get the vast majority of our snow in March and April. The next day, it's invariably 50 and clear blue skies. You actually witness sublimation. Now, when it snows a foot or more in December or January? That shit is on the ground until April. That happened once and with melt/freeze everyday, my road had a foot of solid ice on it until March. They finally brought in a grader thing to break it up. Not kidding.

One of these ****ers:

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I'll have to ask my father-in-law about that. He's from Syracuse too.

Is this the San Diego thought again?

Because bro, that studio apartment (with a roommate) on that bartender's salary sure is gonna be sweet!!!!

Bartender is jus the side job bruh

1992 I was in like 3rd grade I think. They ran out of snow days so they were like “**** it bitches come to school.”

Now the busses sure as **** weren’t coming down the roads so my parents had to get my ass to the highway. Goddamn snow got so bad our suburban got stuck. Then the pickup got stuck so I had to ride with my sister in the tractor to the highway to catch the bus.

I don’t know any of the measurables but it was ****.

I think that was the same year it went from 80 to 0 on Halloween and absolutely destroyed every Chinese elm tree in town.

Ice storm back in the early 70's had to move out of house into a furnished model home for a week. Suffered big time...

I lost my prized red tailed shark from the incident.

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If you need a side job, get a better first job.

If you need a side job in KC, you’d need 3 side jobs in San Diego.

Best of luck!

God damn globing warming can't make up its mind!

And we have a winner.

10 degrees, like -15 with wind chill, 13 or 14 years old with frozen toes and watched that debacle. Worst winter ever.

Works as a bartender, can'y get laid, wants to move to beach... Can your parents afford to live in a coastal city


Oh most don't have basements......

I remember one year where it got up to 100 every day in July. That same December never got above 0. The pipes froze up 3 times. Our rental house only had a wall unit for heat so we were running kerosene heater all the time. Only warm spot was the waterbed.

I don't "need" a side job. I do it because I get bored sitting around on weekends.

Weighs over 300 pounds, sucks at trolling, and has a wife that was mistakenly spotted as big foot.

Your right, I'd be looking on Tender too if that was my life.
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I am surprised that you haven't made the moves on your customers. Oh, wait, Maybe you have.https://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws...69701835_n.jpg


I hear Clay does well for himself at the wine bar...
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I love winter. Nothing grows. Dobt have to mow or worry about weeds. My electric bill is $250 less a month. Its fantastic

Remember that game like it was yesterday. Went to bed at like 6:30 as soon as game was over.

Because......

Coop you post a lot of gay. Just sayin

Only when Billay gives me reason, and what is a lot???

You ever meet a bartender who couldn't get laid? And that gut looks like eDave 15 years ago.

Ice storms in late 2000’s hit SW MO particularly hard.

Winter of 2013-2014 Polar Vortex. It didn't warm up until May. Had snow on the ground until April. But most of it came March and April. I had a low temp of -27F. Wind chills of -40F.

I went to alabama for a programming class and the guy who ran it was from Minn. He said he had to get to a warmer climate. A cow of his escaped and froze solid. Told me ny was tropical compared to there.