time to post traffic cams itt?

2/12/2014 1:29:33 PM

office closed today and tomorrow, w00t

2/12/2014 1:30:53 PM

I went to move my car from my parking spot on centennial to my apartment at 1, and there was a mass exodus of people, I had to make a few different turns. The snow is very wet and sticky, not really any kind of snow window from beginning to bad. My car is rear wheel drive and def not good in snow, so i knew i had to get it reparked. Thankfully i live at north shore adn have a garage. I slid once hopping over to another road, but otherwise was fine. Doubt I could say that had i waited an hour or two

2/12/2014 1:31:14 PM

2/12/2014 1:31:18 PM

The changover should happen in a few hours.



This is the dual polarization radar imagery from the NWS Raleigh radar. The bright yellow band is sleet to freezing rain. The red north of the band is all snow.

2/12/2014 1:33:34 PM

2/12/2014 1:33:42 PM

I stayed home. Wrap it up downtownailures.

2/12/2014 1:39:45 PM

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"I gave fair warning this morning 2 pages ago. I guess I got to the thread too late"

WE DIDN'T LISTEN!

2/12/2014 1:40:40 PM

took me about an hour to get from RTP -> Brier Creek. people are _idiots_ on the road.

feel for the folks who have to go longer distances ha

2/12/2014 1:43:55 PM

haha, why did you idiots stay at work? i left at 12:00 and had no traffic and just some mostly-empty white roads in Raleigh.

2/12/2014 1:44:12 PM

Same, I left at the first flake

2/12/2014 1:48:03 PM

on WRAL right now the gridlocks are NUTS

On a side note, the said Duke Basketball was planning on arriving in Chapel Hill at 7:30 tonight. There might not be a game tonight.

2/12/2014 1:48:37 PM

^Yea all the CHTransit buses are like not on route, but they still haven't cancelled the damn game. WTF?

2/12/2014 1:49:28 PM

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"haha, why did you idiots stay at work?"

yea i was supposed to leave earlier but work-things came up. oh well happy i made it home

2/12/2014 1:50:43 PM

they said as long as building has lights, and teams and officials can get to arena, they will have a game

2/12/2014 1:51:00 PM

holy shit! just looked at google map of raleigh with traffic and all of raleigh is red. wrecks everywhere.

2/12/2014 1:52:33 PM

yeah we were ready to go at the first sign but the boss came down saying it wouldn't be that bad and that we wouldn't close till 3:00

2/12/2014 1:53:51 PM

I hope you bleached your asshole real nice for the boss, since he's fucking you right now he fucked you.

[Edited on February 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM. Reason : *]

2/12/2014 1:54:51 PM

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""haha, why did you idiots stay at work?""

I know you meant that generally but in my case I'm staying in because of the snow (Power Company)

2/12/2014 1:56:09 PM

WRAL mocking people stuck in traffic. People that probably were listening to that 1-2 inch forecast.

2/12/2014 1:57:45 PM

Everyone that gives the excuse "they didn't let us out until ___" needs to realize that sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands. I wouldv'e just told them I'm leaving and they could deal with it

2/12/2014 1:58:49 PM

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"WRAL mocking people stuck in traffic. People that probably were listening to that 1-2 inch forecast."

As they should. There was ample warning time.

2/12/2014 2:00:29 PM

I think it is still fair to say that until last night WRAL was really downplaying the severity though

2/12/2014 2:01:57 PM

Snow totals for you guys so far?

2/12/2014 2:05:09 PM

look at raleigh on google maps and turn the traffic layer on

the number of accidents is amazing

2/12/2014 2:05:30 PM

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"I think it is still fair to say that until last night WRAL was really downplaying the severity though"

ding ding ding.

2/12/2014 2:06:48 PM

^^^^TV meterologists in general do that. I'm not in Raleigh, so I haven't been keeping up with what they have consistently posted for a forecast. But from what I have seen collectively, the totals were much more than that with significant sleet/freezing rain on top of that.

[Edited on February 12, 2014 at 2:07 PM. Reason : ]

2/12/2014 2:07:02 PM

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"Quote : "I think it is still fair to say that until last night WRAL was really downplaying the severity though" ding ding ding."

they were even specifically saying "if you wait for it to start, it will be too late with this storm"

2/12/2014 2:10:40 PM

i'm about to start a tumblr calling out people who waited too long to leave work

2/12/2014 2:12:38 PM

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"I went to move my car from my parking spot on centennial to my apartment at 1, and there was a mass exodus of people, I had to make a few different turns. The snow is very wet and sticky, not really any kind of snow window from beginning to bad. My car is rear wheel drive and def not good in snow, so i knew i had to get it reparked. Thankfully i live at north shore adn have a garage. I slid once hopping over to another road, but otherwise was fine."

You don't walk to work?

2/12/2014 2:13:10 PM

I go to the gym in the morning and just drive straight to work from there

2/12/2014 2:14:57 PM

lol these memes are killing me on page 41

[Edited on February 12, 2014 at 2:17 PM. Reason : .]

2/12/2014 2:16:56 PM

lol at some people itt telling others that they should just leave work when they want to.

2/12/2014 2:17:03 PM

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"lol at some people itt telling others that they should just leave work when they want to."

you have to consider the source

2/12/2014 2:17:22 PM

When it snows I just tell the bossman to suck my dick an bounce. You're a moron to do otherwise.

2/12/2014 2:19:23 PM

Traffic update here at Regency Pkwy. Things are still really slow but you can start to see a little bit of flow to things hopefully after another hour or two I can make the 5~10 min normal drive in about an hour.

2/12/2014 2:19:40 PM

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"I think it is still fair to say that until last night WRAL was really downplaying the severity though"

What were their final forecasts?

2/12/2014 2:20:06 PM

haha i brought my office home with me. computers monitors everything last night. +1 for having a kickass boss

[Edited on February 12, 2014 at 2:20 PM. Reason : .]

2/12/2014 2:20:17 PM

I work from home doing software stuff, so I feel bad for you guys in traffic.

2/12/2014 2:21:14 PM

plenty of the people stuck in traffic have jobs that would have allowed them to leave when they want, and if they did then maybe the people who weren't allowed to leave would be able to make it home.

2/12/2014 2:22:20 PM

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"lenty of the people stuck in traffic have jobs that would have allowed them to leave when they want"

Did you run a straw poll out there?

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"if they did then maybe the people who weren't allowed to leave would be able to make it home."

the roads were gonna be fucked regardless...that's a dumb hypothesis

2/12/2014 2:25:15 PM

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"What were their final forecasts?"

is there really such a thing?

these things are pretty fluid and can change at the flip of a coin

I'd say there were plenty of warnings

2/12/2014 2:27:10 PM

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"What were their final forecasts?"

I'm in their 1-2 area. We have probably 5 inches and still shitting snow on us.

2/12/2014 2:27:18 PM

Never see snow like this after moving back from New England

2/12/2014 2:27:49 PM

2/12/2014 2:30:18 PM

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"is there really such a thing?"

Yeah before the last storm they posted something and called it final [aka last one before the snow starts] snow accumulation forecast.

2/12/2014 2:31:39 PM

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"the roads were gonna be fucked regardless...that's a dumb hypothesis"

you can drive slow on a fucked road, you cant drive slow in gridlock

2/12/2014 2:31:55 PM

2/12/2014 2:33:44 PM

I wish I had picked another night to buy 6 Book of Mormon tickets

DPAC is insisting the show will happen tonight.

2/12/2014 2:34:19 PM

fucked = slippery + gridlocked

[Edited on February 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM. Reason : ^^^]

2/12/2014 2:34:37 PM