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getaclue said:
Yes, kids were out building small snowmen, and throwing snowballs. Wonderful right? Not so much. Nothing on any Florida highway, or road was geared for accumulated snow, including the drivers. Within an hour, all roads and highways were choked with wrecks, and/or cars that had skidded out of control, and got stuck, etc. It took over 4 hours for them to even make a dent in getting traffic moving. What saved the day was that by then, the snow was melting. It was only the fact that the snow melted, that saved our entire transit system.

THAT was the year my parents decided to move back to Florida. Because of my dad's job, we traveled a lot, and until then all my life we had only lived in tropical places in the winter. I was already suffering bad allergies, and all the winter type ailments (colds, and flu) that I had not been exposed to for all those years. It's like they converged on me all at once. When my mother, and brother woke me up that morning, so I could see the snow, I went to the phone, and booked a flight to Puerto Rico. I had friends there that I could spend the rest of the winter with. I came back in the Spring. By being able to go through the seasons here, and acclimate, by the time winter came, I did fine.
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I think it was in about 1989 when I-75 was iced over from about Ocala to north of Atlanta. We drove it and stayed on it fine. After some years in MI & MO we new to drive like we didn't have brakes and made safely to our destination in MO for a wedding.
 
It wasn't just Ocala upward. Central Florida got hit good too. Tampa and surrounding cities got a good bit of it. It's not that some people didn't know how to drive in ice/snow. It's that there were more that didn't know how to drive in ice/snow, and they cause so many accidents, clogging up the cities, that the ones that knew how to drive in it, couldn't get past all the accidents. Like I said, our city and the surrounding areas were at a standstill for hours.
 
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Peep_Show said:
Cold this morning. I've been off the CBD all week for pre-surgery and I can really feel the winter now. Tomorrow is the big slice-n-splice day! They've slated me as first onto the table, so arrival time is 6:00 a.m. The upside to that ungodly hour is that I'll be back home by noon.
Wish me luck! With the new nickel/titanium knee I'll be all shiny on the inside. :)
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I hope it all does well!

My turn for knee replacement should be in a bit more than a year for now.
 

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