Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Featured Replies

We should rename next year's thread "2019 Texas Winter Thread" so we're not subjected to another 400+ posts of Al_4_ISU incessantly reminding us Iowa is cold. 

  • Replies 845
  • Views 71.5k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Iowa! Llano Estacado , but colder!

FIFY

18 minutes ago, Chet Steadman said:

We should rename next year's thread "2019 Texas Winter Thread" so we're not subjected to another 400+ posts of Al_4_ISU incessantly reminding us Iowa is cold. 

Parliament's going to call you a pussy.

We should rename next year's thread "2019 Texas Winter Thread" so we're not subjected to another 400+ posts of Al_4_ISU incessantly reminding us Iowa is cold. 

Dont click on this thread then? You already know what the bumped posts are about. Another bomb cyclone with blizzard dumping feet of snow..meanwhile Texas is in the 90s all week.

 

 

 

Anyways.

 

Country actually isnt so bad...gravel roads>town roads

 

First casualty I've seen this storma81e0af42caabe192f3964478d10f084.jpgda1e0050fac4bdc8801fec5668572f6f.jpg

 

 

Dont mind my terrorist fighting HD sunglasses

When you have a late or early season ice storm, I prefer gravel roads to paved, because the rough texture gives you something that resembles grip, at least in comparison to pavement.

12 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

FIFY

Accurate.  The first time I drove through the Panhandle I was surprised by how much it looked like home.  Nothing but windmills, livestock, fences, and row crops.

When you have a late or early season ice storm, I prefer gravel roads to paved, because the rough texture gives you something that resembles grip, at least in comparison to pavement.

Same...our rural bus routes go smooth up until you hit the town stops then slows down drastically

 

 

Thank god we dont see many ice storms

1 hour ago, Chet Steadman said:

We should rename next year's thread "2019 Texas Winter Thread" so we're not subjected to another 400+ posts of Al_4_ISU incessantly reminding us Iowa is cold. 

I think I will.  Nothing wrong with these guys discussing normal weather for the Northern half of the U.S., but since this is a Texas board, the winter weather for us is a lot more relevant.  I do click on this thread because silly me, I think that occasionally we'll get some stuff that's important to us, but I usually just see 5-6 guys now talking about how cold, snowy and icy it is - where it always gets cold, snowy and icy.  Good for you all.

But it's not relevant to about 75% of our regular posters, so I think it's a good idea to separate them.  Next year, I will if no one else does.

42 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Accurate.  The first time I drove through the Panhandle I was surprised by how much it looked like home.  Nothing but windmills, livestock, fences, and row crops.

Everything from Cisco and West is the same until you get to the Rockies.  A lot more canyons than I imagine in Iowa, but flat, windmills, livestock, circular/row crops and again, flat. 

1 minute ago, Trey3216 said:

Everything from Cisco and West is the same until you get to the Rockies.  A lot more canyons than I imagine in Iowa, but flat, windmills, livestock, circular/row crops and again, flat. 

Yeah, the only part of Iowa that has anything resembling canyons is the far northeastern corner, which really isn't really part of the Plains landscape, and resembles the Ozarks more than anything.  Very different from the southwestern canyon landscape.

52 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Accurate.  The first time I drove through the Panhandle I was surprised by how much it looked like home.  Nothing but windmills, livestock, fences, and row crops.

It always creeps me out especially in areas where there are not canyons or even any discernible features. I feel like I'm always about to look on the horizon and see a band of Comanches heading right for me.

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

It always creeps me out especially in areas where there are not canyons or even any discernible features. I feel like I'm always about to look on the horizon and see a band of Comanches heading right for me.

Whereas I find a certain sense of comfort in empty expanses.  Go with what you know, I guess.

  • Author

How hard is to not click on this thread if you are wearing shorts and flip flops and know you are likely to do the same for the next 6 months?

5 hours ago, Hate said:

How hard is to not click on this thread if you are wearing shorts and flip flops and know you are likely to do the same for the next 6 months?

nice humblebrag you jerk

The Texas winter thread would be 5 pages of bitching about 40 degree weather and a page or two for the one freeze per year. 

Lots of “two hours ago it was 60 and now it’s 42!!!!” Plants pets pipes!!!

12 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The Texas winter thread would be 5 pages of bitching about 40 degree weather and a page or two for the one freeze per year. 

Lots of “two hours ago it was 60 and now it’s 42!!!!” Plants pets pipes!!!

As it should be... why not?  It's Texas.  Whatever winter people above the 40th parallel are having is totally irrelevant to the weather down here.

  • 2 weeks later...

8-10” of snow tomorrow.

It was 85 on Sunday.

We really have the most fucked up weather on the planet.

ha. You dodged the last bomb cyclone so cheers.

 

Im thinking I probably summerized the snowblower 2 months too early, put it away 3 days ago

ha. You dodged the last bomb cyclone so cheers.
 
Im thinking I probably summerized the snowblower 2 months too early, put it away 3 days ago


I’m not getting the blower out. It’s supposed to be 60+ by Monday.

I think you guys are fine. This storm is confined to a 60 mile band straddling the Iowa/Minnesota border. Nothing about this makes sense. Not even a little. Except it’s happened 3 of the last 6 years.

Fuck, we’ve been planting corn since Saturday.

My blower is drained and stored. Last bit of snow off my backyard last weekend.

Shitty Iowa weather talk not going away


Shitty Iowa weather not going away

Dog:  I've had enough of this shit, let me in, please. 

Snowed off and on Saturday 

Now a balmy 46 and windy 

Fuck I hate this weather in SD

19 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

8 am
133c3b7d273737188cb5b6864ee0fb83.jpg

12 pm
e2ffa88270a5f3cc7a6d978f39db0cbd.jpg

Nice landscaping of two giant testicles in your back yard.

clearly ovaries.  but that's a crazy picture, 4 hours apart.

  • 2 weeks later...

Thundersnow has been a thing for awhile. We usually get some in March.

  • 2 weeks later...
2 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Isn't Duluth the 4th most populous city in MN?

Edmonton is the 5th most populous city in Canada.  It doesn't have to make any sense to still be true.

Isn't Duluth the 4th most populous city in MN?


3rd largest metro.

75% of the state’s population is Minneapolis metro though.
7 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

 


3rd largest metro.

75% of the state’s population is Minneapolis metro though.

 

Lol. Your states have a metro area. 

Why the fuck would anyone live in Duluth?

Friend of my wife's was bummed out a few years back, a friend of hers said "move to Duluth!"  She did.

She's seeing a shrink and taking meds now.

Well, duh.

5 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Duluth is cool down by the lake.

I wouldn't live there tho.

Yeah, you get to enjoy it for the 5 days of summer. Then you can ice skate on it the other 11.85% of the year.
Duluth is the 5th coldest multi-count (i.e. anything that can pass as a town or more) inhabited spot in the U.S., including Alaska, and lies within 200 miles of the next 3 up the ladder.

It sucks, too.  I get why it's there, and it's needed, but as a place to live if you're not involved in commerce/shipping?  I'd rather live in North Central Syria.

2 hours ago, phdhorn said:

Yeah, you get to enjoy it for the 5 days of summer. Then you can ice skate on it the other 11.85% of the year.
Duluth is the 5th coldest multi-count (i.e. anything that can pass as a town or more) inhabited spot in the U.S., including Alaska, and lies within 200 miles of the next 3 up the ladder.

It sucks, too.  I get why it's there, and it's needed, but as a place to live if you're not involved in commerce/shipping?  I'd rather live in North Central Syria.

One day last August when I couldn't fucking stand the heat anymore, I wasted a full afternoon at work looking at Duluth houses on Zillow. Definitely a buyer's market. /csb

First time I ever of Duluth was in Mighty Ducks /csb

 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations