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Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 841
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:47 pm: |    |
I've never seem something like this before...
As I stand here looking out the window, here is a caravan of snow removal vehicles easily more than 1 mile long turning from Russell onto Gratiot. They all headed into downtown.
The caravan has been rolling for about 10 minutes, and I still dont see the end. It stetches up gratiot from inside 375 up gratiot and all the way as far as I can see up Russell. This is really quite a sight! |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 337
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:48 pm: | |
Plymouthres,
I'm in Florence. My family is from Paducah though. Grandfather worked at the Illinois Central shops. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4178
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:51 pm: | |
Interesting, Dstar. Is there a DPW garage up on Russell/vicinity?
Probably one entire shift going out, and aiming to clear the downtown streets and sidewalks before Monday.
Or they're being called out to Ann Arbor to fill in during that city's apparent DPW strike. |
Detroitstar
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Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 842
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:57 pm: | |
Yea, as I strain to see as much of downtown as possible, it appears that here is 1 plow, 1 front end loader, and 2 haul trucks in that sequence through the whole parade. Looks like a coordinated effort to make the morning commute more accessible in the CBD. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1146
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:58 pm: | |
MAckinaw, I was thinking the latter. You must have a clear city center for a Monday Morning!
I guess Ann Arbor doesn't know the meaning of that though. They have such an excellent economy and downtown and treats it like nothing. |
Plymouthres
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Username: Plymouthres
Post Number: 346
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 9:02 pm: | |
Dfd-
Don't you mean Florence, y'all? (big old watertower!•••
Illinois Central shops as in railroad, I presume? |
Sbradke
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Username: Sbradke
Post Number: 37
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 9:35 pm: | |
I can't believe the schools are closed. Come on - the snow stopped by 3 p.m. There's no reason the major streets and bus routes can't be clear by 5:30 tomorrow morning. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 3371
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 9:36 pm: | |
I know, my wife is a teacher for over 20 years now, she is shocked her district is closed. |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 338
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 10:39 pm: | |
Yes, Florence Ya'll.
The IC shops opened around 1926 they built and overhauled locomotives. By around 1980 they were pretty much empty.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/m ap.adp?searchtype=address&coun try=US&addtohistory=&searchtab =home&formtype=address&popflag =0&latitude=&longitude=&name=& phone=&level=&cat=&address=&ci ty=&state=&zipcode=42001
They are on Kentucky Ave between 16th and Walter Jetton.
How do we show a long web address as a link? |
Mikeg
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Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 1324
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 10:52 pm: | |
quote:How do we show a long web address as a link?
Easy, as an example, just type the following, but with no spaces:
\newurl {http://www.mapquest.com,Mapque st}
You should get this:
Mapquest |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1147
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 11:15 pm: | |
Looks like it's snowing again on the westside (LUCKY!), this time a lake effect snow shower. |
Fareastsider
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Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 729
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 1:36 am: | |
Mackinaw no that is not GP its much further north almost at the northern point of Lake Saint Clair by Anchorville. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4182
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 1:48 am: | |
Yeah the more I looked at the shoreline the more I doubted what I had said. Beautiful sight either way. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11135
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 9:52 am: | |
That caravan of city trucks dumps their catch at the empty lot kitty-korner from Roma Cafe...and run by my bedroom window all night long.
They would be rhythmically idling me to a wonderful deep hypnotic sleep save for that g-d front-end loader that has to run in REVERSE. Gotta love that piercing BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!
Yet another gift from OSHA...I'd trade a few flattened stupid people for a good few more hour's sleep! |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 339
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 2:48 pm: | |
I tried that and got this
The formatting code newurl requires 2 argument(s); you provided only 1 argument(s).
? |
Mikeg
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Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 3:44 pm: | |
DFD,
It sounds like you forgot to include the comma that separates the URL address (the first argument) and the text that you want to display as the hyperlink (the second argument).
Example (with two embedded spaces to enable me to show you the formatting, omit the spaces when you type your link):
\ newurl{http:// detroityes.com,click here}
click here |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 4071
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 5:31 pm: | |
From the FAQ, Hyperlinks:quote:\newurl{URL, text description} Link to URL in new window with text description http://tinyurl.com/ is also a big help with long web addresses.
(Message edited by Jimaz on December 17, 2007) |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4190
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 12:28 am: | |
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews /display_story.php?wfo=dtx&sto ryid=11659&source=0
There's a partial list of recent snow storms to show illustrate that storms like the recent one aren't completely infrequent, but also not as rare as some of you with limited memory make it out to be.
Notably absent from that list are the December 2000 storms, which must not have cracked 8" at DTW, but there was one week where the city had 10-12 inches on a monday and then 6 more on Thursday. It in the second week of the month, but that Christmas was very white, and the days leading up to Christmas were extremely cold (with one day barely reaching above 0 for a high). |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 340
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 9:17 am: | |
click here
I did it! I guess I won't throw the computer through the windshield of my Subaru. |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 341
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 9:19 am: | |
Thanks for the help.
So anyway, is there any melting of the snow? |
Plymouthres
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Username: Plymouthres
Post Number: 353
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 9:37 am: | |
Dfd-
My son lives in Paducah proper, right down by the courthouse. He's a great kid and I'm very proud of him. He is quite successful there and the only thing I don't like about him being there is the distance.
Paducah is kind of a unique town, filled with history and many touristy type things. My wife and I spent a few days there once and were mesmerized by the amount of shipping going on on the river! I tell you, I saw just about every type of tug, barge and ship that I have ever seen there, second only to our tour of the Port of Savannah in 2006.
We ate at Cohen's downtown and the rest of the restaurants and stores that we visited were really cool, too.
We are looking forward to a return trip, possibly this summer. I will check out the link you provided then. Is there a repair "roundhouse" or something similar there? If so, it would really be cool to take a tour!
To answer your question about the snow, no, it hasn't melted yet, although they are calling for a high of 42 this Saturday! I'm guessing it may start the melt by then!
Thanks for the education on the Illinois Central! One of the reasons that I always check this site out! |
Defendbrooklyn
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Username: Defendbrooklyn
Post Number: 584
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:07 am: | |
From an earlier post...
I also heard thunder around 3am in Ferndale |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 3490
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:13 am: | |
Thundersnow is groovy. I heard it too. |
The_ed
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Username: The_ed
Post Number: 1658
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:15 am: | |
I heard thunder, too! Was there lightning as well?? |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11143
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:35 am: | |
I'd like to check the history of thunder in winter storms.
If 'they' were supercharging the atmosphere in order to manipulate the weather...there would be greater lingering potential between the clouds and ground.
Isn't it usually the case that the moisture in the air during snowstorms is just not enough to support lightning? Surely there aren't thunderclaps without them.
The thing I saw certainly looked like a huge fireball instead of a lightning strike, roughly a few blocks west and south of Van Dyke and Lafayette, 2:45 a.m.
I really DID think a scrapper got scrapped! |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2155
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 12:43 pm: | |
Snow depth:
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/sno w_model/images/full/National/n sm_depth/200712/nsm_depth_2007 121805_National.jpg |
Plymouthres
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Username: Plymouthres
Post Number: 360
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 12:55 pm: | |
Oh Gannon! Not "them" again...........! |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 343
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 2:38 pm: | |
Plymouthres,
I've been making the occasional trips to Paducah since I was a kid (1960s). It is an interesting city. I think it has suffered similarly to Detroit but on a small scale. It's hey day was probably the 40s and 50s. There were many factories along the river where the Executive Inn is now. They stretched north along the river. Some remain empty but some were repaired and used by other companies. If you worked at the IC shops you had it made, with pay, retirement, private hospital on Broadway (between 15th and 16th I think). I believe the round house was dismantled.
Next trip, go to Starne's BBQ at N 28th St and Ross Ave! That little restaurant has remained as it was back in the day. Same color, counter, recipe etc.
Didn't mean to get off the subject of the storm. Sorry.
Be careful up there.
IC Hospital |
Plymouthres
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Username: Plymouthres
Post Number: 367
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 5:21 pm: | |
Dfd-
Awesome link!! I'll be checking that out more later. What a great read.
We will get to Starne's next trip, for sure. Thanks so much for the suggestion.
I forgot to mention the Riverwalk and the murals! Quite a story and those floodgates are something to behold.
Sorry to all for the threadjack! |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 347
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 9:48 pm: | |
How's the weather? |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1170
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 10:08 pm: | |
Cloudy and 32F downtown. No foreseeable Snow or Ice storm in the future. If anything, we will be seeing fall like weather on the first and second day of weather with drizzle and fog. |
Dfd
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Username: Dfd
Post Number: 351
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 10:01 am: | |
Merry Christmas everyone! |
Yaktown
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Post Number: 286
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 11:57 pm: | |
Bumping this thread due to the New Year's Eve/Day forecast. Snowfall predictions anywhere from 6-12 inches. Grab your shovels! |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1260
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:04 am: | |
OMG! It's Rain mixed with Snow in the city! I hate the friggin weather! |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4686
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:12 am: | |
The news media need to always talk blizzards. It's New Year's midnight, and it's only raining here.
Last year at this time, the newspapers and other media were rehashing old stock footage about the People Mover and about how soon it could be before Detroit had rapid transit...
Whatever solid precip we get will be gone the first few days the high temps get above freezing. |
Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 4687
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:19 am: | |
Oh, and about a thousand gunshots have gone off in the past ten minutes and it's now as noisy as it was ten minutes ago...
The radar shows slightly increasing temps (i.e., rain--no snow) here.
(Message edited by Livernoisyard on January 01, 2008) |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1263
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:39 am: | |
They're not overdoing this at all. It just sucks to live in Detroit in these weather events. Someone out near Ann Arbor in Saline has 3.2 inches within 2 hours so far. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4255
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:54 am: | |
It's gonna cool off here in the city and along the lake soon. We'll get plenty of snow in the end...we don't want to break our backs shoveling this sort of wet snow, do we? Save the big amounts for Ann Arbor. It's gonna be 50 degrees this weekend. Our weather is a strange combination of Denver and Long Island NY lately. Rapid shifts in air mass, and snowpacks that don't stick around for long.
The gunshots and fireworks weren't as bad as some recent years at over at Mack/Warren/Marseilles. Mostly it was the neighbors here on the GP side being obnoxious. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4688
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
Whoopy! Snowing at a rate of 1.6 in/hr in winter with temps just above freezing...
Much of that precip will sublime or melt by the time many resume working after being off the past two weeks. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1264
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 8:20 am: | |
4 inches downtown last I check. Looks like all she wrote too. I hate being in Detroit during this type of weather. Just NW of here, they got a foot or more. |
Detroitrise
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Post Number: 1265
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 8:29 am: | |
Eastpointe barely got an inch. |
Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 4692
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 8:47 am: | |
The yard shed next door has less than an inch of snow on it. Maybe the wind blew the rest off.
Doesn't seem windy, yet. It looks deeper on the grass. However, we know that's mostly empty space. And probably melting/sublimating from the earth's heat being released. |
Bigb23
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Post Number: 172
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 9:23 am: | |
At the halfway mark between Lake Orion and Romeo, I'm looking at maybe 12"-14".
Glad it's on a holiday and not a workday. I have a 50 mile round trip on rural roads to and from work. |
Danny
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Post Number: 6922
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 9:26 am: | |
YAY WINTER STORM! to ring in the New Year. |
Mackinaw
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Post Number: 4256
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:20 am: | |
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/di splay_event.php?file=snow20080 1010938
Truly impressive stratification of weather around here. There is only 1 inch or so here in grosse pointe...but they're reporting 4 inches downtown...7-8 in western Wayne...10-12 in Ann Arbor, and nearly a foot and a half in northern OC.
They weren't kidding when they told you life was easier on the East side. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1270
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:22 am: | |
WTF, I didn't want the easier life! This stuff would make me leave the D right away. I'm going to Grand Rapids! |
Mackinaw
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Post Number: 4257
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:42 am: | |
This is normally how it works in a stormy, not so cold winter. If cold air had been in place and a storm took that track, a heavy band of snow could have hit the city itself. It will balance out a bit at some point with colder storms later in the year.
It never even made it below freezing! You can't expect the snow to pile up in that.
I was moving slush when I went out to shovel the porch. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1273
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:46 am: | |
I know that. That's why it initially began as rain (until one intense band came through and wet bulbed the snow).
Then again, I've seen all snow fall at 41 degrees here.
The city always misses out on the good weather (pun intended). The last time the city got the most snow was in the blizzard of '05 (12-14 inches).
(Message edited by DetroitRise on January 01, 2008) |
Mikeg
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Post Number: 1371
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 11:42 am: | |
I measured 7 inches of fresh snowfall here in Shelby Twp. near 22 Mile Rd. and Van Dyke. |
Drankin21
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Post Number: 143
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:30 pm: | |
I have 11 inches in my front yard at 25 and Schoenherr |
Pffft
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Post Number: 1436
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:39 pm: | |
With 40 degree temperatures coming Friday and the weekend, it's all gonna go away (hopefully slowly) ... |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6030
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 4:04 pm: | |
We only have about 1 inch on 11 Mile & Little Mack in St. Clair Shores. |
Dustin89
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Post Number: 169
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 4:55 pm: | |
In the Brandon/Clarkston/Ortonville area here 15 inches is probably accurate, and more is coming down right now. I have my fingers crossed for a snow day tomorrow. |
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