Snowy Commute in New Orleans - Video - 2 min
12-11-08, 08:21 PM
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Snowy Commute in New Orleans - Video - 2 min
Not every day we see snow on the palm trees down here. This is the 5th snowfall in NOLA since I was born 50 years ago. So you colder latitude folk please cut me a little slack for being excited about it.
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1990.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1990.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
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12-11-08, 08:45 PM
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Thanks Joey! It's weird to see snow and palm trees in the same place! Good for you. No snow here ever!
12-11-08, 08:55 PM
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Yes, two hours of editing very well spent. I wish I could edit sound tracks like that into my training videos that I produce at work. Sure would make telecom more interesting! Thanks for sharing that well-done video.
12-11-08, 09:14 PM
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Awesome video.. the music keeps your interest.
12-11-08, 09:29 PM
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LOL & so weird in so many ways.
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12-11-08, 09:42 PM
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Riding on the sidewalk, big fat tires? You certainly DON'T see snow very often, =)
12-11-08, 09:59 PM
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Big fat tires are my preferred method and any way to get where I am going is game.
The other week I was on my FG with 23mm tires riding to work and encountered a street that was one solid sheet of ice. Off to the plowed sidewalk I went. Silly me for thinking the snow was melted.
The other week I was on my FG with 23mm tires riding to work and encountered a street that was one solid sheet of ice. Off to the plowed sidewalk I went. Silly me for thinking the snow was melted.
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Not every day we see snow on the palm trees down here. This is the 5th snowfall in NOLA since I was born 50 years ago. So you colder latitude folk please cut me a little slack for being excited about it.
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1989.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1989.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
12-12-08, 01:50 AM
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Awsome vid, thanks!
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12-12-08, 07:29 AM
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As for the fat tires, I can run them at 5 psi. Even then my rear tire was breaking free upon acceleration. But no crashes! As you might imagine, I do not own studded tires.
12-12-08, 07:41 AM
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Not every day we see snow on the palm trees down here. This is the 5th snowfall in NOLA since I was born 50 years ago. So you colder latitude folk please cut me a little slack for being excited about it.
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1989.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
Last snow - Dec 2004. Before that - Jan 1989.
It all melted in about 3 hours.
NOLA SNOW vid
We got snow here in San Diego in the mid 60s once. Have had hail here there though, bit rough on the tropical plants.
Sidewalk riding... Joey... what's up with that?
12-12-08, 08:04 AM
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Yes, joey could you explain the sidewalk riding again? 
After all riding in an area with no snow removal where it snows around twice a century is a rare chance to get ran over by motorists inexperienced in driving in the snow.... and you missed it!
After all riding in an area with no snow removal where it snows around twice a century is a rare chance to get ran over by motorists inexperienced in driving in the snow.... and you missed it!
12-12-08, 08:17 AM
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Surreal. Just, surreal. 
Great vid, Joey. 
Great vid, Joey.
12-12-08, 08:23 AM
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And again... cool vid.
12-12-08, 08:23 AM
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That's a hoot!
We got some of that in TN, but only after it rained all day. Crappy ice under pretty snow. But both will be gone very soon.
We got some of that in TN, but only after it rained all day. Crappy ice under pretty snow. But both will be gone very soon.
12-12-08, 10:05 AM
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You actually made the local news cast last night,not you personally they said you got about an inch and that they closed schools.
they said you got about an inch and that they closed schools.
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My wife works in a 10 story office building. I wish she had a video camera as all of the adults emptied out into the parking lot and ran around like kids.
Also, as I was biking through "the hood" a man stuck his head out of his front door and yelled at me "What the F' is all this white S'?"
12-12-08, 10:40 AM
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Thanks, bro, that made me laugh.
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Cut the NOLA drivers a bit of slack for not knowing how to drive on snow...
Every winter here it takes drivers about a week to figure it out.
Every winter here it takes drivers about a week to figure it out.
