Weather advice

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Supposed to drive from Chicago to Milwaukee today. Can somebody advise about weather conditions? Going to head back around 3 or so. It's not bad here, just wondering about Milwaukee

[mu_hilltopper]

Not good.  Milwaukee area getting hit with 1-2" per hour of snow.  Should end around noon, though.

Being a Sunday, I imagine the freeways are getting plowed well.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Thanks...with three little kids I've gotten paranoid!

[hairy worthen]

Supposed to drive from Chicago to Milwaukee today. Can somebody advise about weather conditions? Going to head back around 3 or so. It's not bad here, just wondering about Milwaukee

I was just out.  The roads are really bad, as bad as I have seen in awhile. The plows haven't been out much yet, but probably will be out in force later. Even the freeways out west of milw are horrible right now

[hairy worthen]

Thanks...with three little kids I've gotten paranoid!

Drive safe, slow!

[mu_hilltopper]

Yeah .. I might have given you some false confidence .. watching the news .. it's ugly out there.  Freeway travel will be likely at 20-30mph  system wide.  Gonna take you double time.

[brewcity77]

I took I-43 in to work this morning, it wasn't bad as long as you drove slow. Of course, that didn't stop everyone in an SUV thinking they could drive 50 mph. Not many cars off on the side of the road, but I'm sure there will be. If you are driving up, just take it slow and expect delays. Last time we had a storm like this, there were 4 major pile-ups that resulted in one (non-seatbelted) fatality and over 160 cars involved. This probably won't be as bad since people have had a month to start adjusting to conditions, but it won't be pretty because it's going to keep coming down at a rate the plows may not be able to keep up with. Main streets should be okay, interstate will be well-traveled, just be careful and make sure you have something to occupy the kids because you'll probably be going throw slow conditions.

And why is it every year when the first snowfall comes, everyone forgets how to drive on the streets that they were handling just fine only 8-9 months earlier?

[4everwarriors]

Rican, take Amtrak. Its bulls hit out there.

[mu_hilltopper]

I don't think "people forget how to drive" .. then somehow learn later in the winter. 

They're bad the entire season.

Did anyone see the video of the huge pileup last week?  It was astonishing how .. (it appeared) as if people were simply not looking forward.  I mean, the video was relatively clear, so vision wasn't that big a problem.  Not sure how you couldn't conclude that people just weren't glancing further down the highway to see 20, 30, 40 cars scattered in their path.

[Jay Bee]

Supposed to drive from Chicago to Milwaukee today. Can somebody advise about weather conditions? Going to head back around 3 or so. It's not bad here, just wondering about Milwaukee

http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM"

Dang it. I always forget how to embed video on this site. Anyway, this dude had the full report today PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM

[wadesworld]

http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM"

Dang it. I always forget how to embed video on this site. Anyway, this dude had the full report today PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM

Dude, where do you get this crap?

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM"

Dang it. I always forget how to embed video on this site. Anyway, this dude had the full report today PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM

Dude, I just pissed myself laughing.  I watched this on the iPad in bed, woke up my wife...I have tears in my eyes I'm laughing so hard.

Thanks...that was funny as hell....buy plenty of pepsi in Wisconsin.  Car tires will be spinning around....have your shovels ready.  Holy @#$#@ this is funny. 

O M G


https://www.youtube.com/v/TPX7J2ZoRtM

[keefe]

That's Frankie MacDonald. He is an autistic guy living in Halifax, NS. He has a cult following in Seattle.


https://www.facebook.com/dogsandwolves

[ChicosBailBonds]

That's Frankie MacDonald. He is an autistic guy living in Halifax, NS. He has a cult following in Seattle.


https://www.facebook.com/dogsandwolves

Yeah, I just watched a few of his others.  I still couldn't stop laughing.  You have to appreciate that our weather reporting down here is a complete joke.  It was like 65 degrees today and people were losing their minds, but that is about the extent of it so for someone to go on like this...love the passion.  I figured he was autistic or maybe Asperger's (which may be a form of autism...can't remember).  At any rate, he's got another fan down here now.

[Jay Bee]

Yeah, I just watched a few of his others.  I still couldn't stop laughing.  You have to appreciate that our weather reporting down here is a complete joke.  It was like 65 degrees today and people were losing their minds, but that is about the extent of it so for someone to go on like this...love the passion.  I figured he was autistic or maybe Asperger's (which may be a form of autism...can't remember).  At any rate, he's got another fan down here now.

Sigh. Asperger's is an autism spectrum disorder. It had a separate classification DSM until earlier this year when DSM-5 removed it (now included in 'autism'). With Asperger's, there are no clinically significant delays in cognitive development... "high functioning autism" some will refer to it as.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Sigh. Asperger's is an autism spectrum disorder. It had a separate classification DSM until earlier this year when DSM-5 removed it (now included in 'autism'). With Asperger's, there are no clinically significant delays in cognitive development... "high functioning autism" some will refer to it as.

Not sure why the "sigh" was needed, I clearly said I wasn't sure and couldn't remember.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM"

Dang it. I always forget how to embed video on this site. Anyway, this dude had the full report today PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPX7J2ZoRtM

Hilarious

[keefe]

Hilarious

I'm curious, Nightmare. did you load up on Pepsi and shovels or just sit this one out?

[tower912]

Missed the last 15 minutes of the game as tree branches and wires started snapping and taking each other out under the strain of 1/4 - 1/2 inch of ice.   Ick.   Give me a foot of snow before you give me 1/4 inch of ice.   People call 911 because the wire in the tree 35 feet off of the ground is contacting the tree branch, sparking, and scaring them.   Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do until the wire hits the ground, and then all I can do is isolate it and, on rare occasions, shut it down entirely.    Actually got interviewed by one of the local affiliates looking for someone to look wise and official.   Told everybody to slow down, because physics always wins, and park off of the street so that cars and especially fire trucks don't pinball into your car.   15 minute speech, 5 seconds on the news.    Transformer blew and wires hit the ground going into a retirement community.   This meant the octogenarians got scared and called 911 because they were anxious.     So, my weather advice is don't travel if you don't have to, don't be a moron if you do have to travel, and, if you have lived in the upper Midwest your entire life, act like it.    This is not stormageddon.   It is winter. 

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

I'm curious, Nightmare. did you load up on Pepsi and shovels or just sit this one out?

I sat it out. Better safe than sorry...especially when it comes to visiting the in laws.

[4everwarriors]

If you want Man, I'll give you a heads up on the weather goin' forward so you can conveniently avoid the in-laws.