Pyramid Bass Pro Memphis - Snowfall

[wdp]

Saw one of the local news outlets in Memphis posted this on Facebook recently. Shows the Bass Pro at The Pyramid during all the snow on Friday. Pretty cool shot. Supposedly we got around 7” of snow……… don’t laugh all you Yankees! 🤣 That’s a lot for us down here in the South. We don’t know how to drive in this stuff. 🥴

[Jar11591]

This is actually the 10th largest pyramid in the world. True story. 

[TnRiver46]

My buddy lives just outside of Memphis and he said they got  8” so I’d say that’s accurate ! We didn’t get quite that much out this way 

[wdp]

@TnRiver46 yep, I’m close too, live in MS just south of Memphis. I would say we def got 7-8”. Thankfully, most of it has melted & roads are good. 
 

@Jar11591 learn something new everyday. Did not know that fact about the Memphis pyramid. 

[Functional]

I always made fun of southerners and how they cant drive in the snow until I moved down here. My first winter in the south we got 5 inches (a LOT for the area I'm at) in one night. They just plain dont have the equipment or road prep like northern states do. It was actually easier to drive in the fresh snow (my job requires I go in during those events) but the next evening when some of it melted and everything became a sheet of ice for 4 days was crazy. 

 

So now wiser, I take it all back lol. 

[Smirak]

I used to

live in Mew Hampshire. They don’t know

how to drive in the snow either.  Rey common misconception 😂😂

 

I remember the “big snow” back in like 14 that shut down Atlanta. I had actually flown to NH that weekend for the job interview that I ultimately took. I was living in Atlanta at the time. I remember them saying “yall don’t know how to drive in Atlanta, do you”. Well, let’s see…mayor of Atlanta let nearly 300k kids out of school AT ONE TIME. I heard that something like 75k tractor trailers transit the I75/I85/I20 corridor in Atlanta daily. Combine all that with one wreck, and you have people abandoning their cars on the side of the road…

[wdp]

9 hours ago, Functional said:

I always made fun of southerners and how they cant drive in the snow until I moved down here. My first winter in the south we got 5 inches (a LOT for the area I'm at) in one night. They just plain dont have the equipment or road prep like northern states do. It was actually easier to drive in the fresh snow (my job requires I go in during those events) but the next evening when some of it melted and everything became a sheet of ice for 4 days was crazy. 

 

So now wiser, I take it all back lol. 

You nailed it. They can’t clear the roads before it melts and refreezes to ice. Then next day is impossible to drive. Our only hope is that sun comes out & warms/dries roads up enough to prevent the ice. Which happened this time, thankfully. 

[TnRiver46]

19 hours ago, Functional said:

I always made of southerners

 

So now wiser, I take it all back lol. 

Y’all just can’t help it. Everyday all I hear is how much better things are where everyone is from 😂 

[TOXIC]

Maybe that snow will reduce the vehicle break-ins in the parking lot. 😖

[casts_by_fly]

21 hours ago, Functional said:

I always made fun of southerners and how they cant drive in the snow until I moved down here. My first winter in the south we got 5 inches (a LOT for the area I'm at) in one night. They just plain dont have the equipment or road prep like northern states do. It was actually easier to drive in the fresh snow (my job requires I go in during those events) but the next evening when some of it melted and everything became a sheet of ice for 4 days was crazy. 

 

So now wiser, I take it all back lol. 

 

18 hours ago, Smirak said:

I used to

live in Mew Hampshire. They don’t know

how to drive in the snow either.  Rey common misconception 😂😂

 

I remember the “big snow” back in like 14 that shut down Atlanta. I had actually flown to NH that weekend for the job interview that I ultimately took. I was living in Atlanta at the time. I remember them saying “yall don’t know how to drive in Atlanta, do you”. Well, let’s see…mayor of Atlanta let nearly 300k kids out of school AT ONE TIME. I heard that something like 75k tractor trailers transit the I75/I85/I20 corridor in Atlanta daily. Combine all that with one wreck, and you have people abandoning their cars on the side of the road…

 

Its not just southerners and NH people.  Here in NJ there are tons of people that have no clue.  I suspect a combination of imports from other states and 'city' locals.  Out here in the countryside its better, but when I have to drive into the office its sketchy at times.  Friends from out of state who live here have never driven on snow before coming here.  Breadth of experience in driving in snow is definitely an asset.

 

I still get a kick out of jumping on the gas in a parking lot in a rear drive pickup with nothing in the bed.  That's my standard way of checking how slippery it is...

[Smirak]

I’m pretty sure my little town in NH had more snow treating/removal equipment than the entire state of Alabama 😂😂

[Functional]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Y’all just can’t help it. Everyday all I hear is how much better things are where everyone is from 😂 

Well talk when yall can get a good italian deli and bagel shop down here 😂, jersey mikes and subway don't count.

 

@casts_by_fly that's my litmus test also lol, that and testing how hardi could hit the brakesbefore it gives. My younger days i spent in snow covered parking lots screwing around. Really helped honestly.

[TnRiver46]

23 minutes ago, Functional said:

Well talk when yall can get a good italian deli and bagel shop down here 😂, jersey mikes and subway don't count.

 

From what I’m told daily, everything is better in California so I’d start looking there 😂 

[wdp]

🤣 Boy this thread got off topic in a hurry. 
 

@Functional I like Jersey Mikes. And that Italian sub there is quite tasty to this ole untrained southern tongue of mine. 😂 But then, I’ve never had the pleasure of trying anything from something like a true New York style deli. 

[Smirak]

Before we give all the love to New York style deli sammiches, let us not forget about a good ole Italian beef from Chicago. I literally ate my weight in them a year or so back when I was visiting for a couple weeks…

[TnRiver46]

14 hours ago, wdp said:

🤣 Boy this thread got off topic in a hurry. 
 

@Functional I like Jersey Mikes. And that Italian sub there is quite tasty to this ole untrained southern tongue of mine. 😂 But then, I’ve never had the pleasure of trying anything from something like a true New York style deli. 

I had a pastrami on rye at a Jewish deli in NYC. It was tasty but there is nowhere that will let you pee in that city so I was intentionally dehydrated, then I ate that . Thought I was in the middle of the Sahara desert 

[spartyon8]

10 hours ago, Smirak said:

Before we give all the love to New York style deli sammiches, let us not forget about a good ole Italian beef from Chicago. I literally ate my weight in them a year or so back when I was visiting for a couple weeks…

Growing up in the Chicago burbs, I really miss food. I have daily cravings for Portillos, gyros, shoot just a basic hotdog. Things foodwise just aren't the same here in NC. I like the bbq here but everything else doesn't compare. My wife thought I was crazy when we met but all that changed after her first visit to Chicago. Now, she craves it more rhan I do sometimes!

 

Topic wise, I stand by the whole southerners can't drive thing and don't even start complaining about the humidity to me. Most don't understand that late July/August is super humid and temps are sometimes 100* (90s are normal) in the midwest.  All in all, I wouldn't ever move back to Illinois, Wisconsin maybe. 

[Smirak]

@spartyon8

 

Portillos was my haunt bruh…

[Functional]

@TnRiver46 Katz Deli? No where better in NYC than Katz for pastrami/corned beef sandwich. So famous they will actually ship their meats out now. From what I saw over Christmas everyone pees in the alleyways now....

 

@wdp for the options we have here I like Jersey Mikes. Doesnt compare to a NY deli but for a "fast food" deli its my usual go to here.

 

@Smirak Never been to Chicago but I've heard good things about their food as well. I dont think I could get on board with their deep dish pizza though. Aside from a sicilian pie the Chicago deep dish is the complete opposite of a ny style slice. 

[spartyon8]

1 hour ago, Functional said:

@TnRiver46 Katz Deli? No where better in NYC than Katz for pastrami/corned beef sandwich. So famous they will actually ship their meats out now. From what I saw over Christmas everyone pees in the alleyways now....

 

@wdp for the options we have here I like Jersey Mikes. Doesnt compare to a NY deli but for a "fast food" deli its my usual go to here.

 

@Smirak Never been to Chicago but I've heard good things about their food as well. I dont think I could get on board with their deep dish pizza though. Aside from a sicilian pie the Chicago deep dish is the complete opposite of a ny style slice. 

Deep dish is a tourist fad. Don't get me wrong, it's delicious (I am a Giordanno guy), but true Chicago pizza is thin and crispy. I prefer mine to be cut into squares. 

[wdp]

Alright, since we’re going full blown deli sandwich talk now. I ate at Mother’s in New Orleans a few yrs ago. We decided we had to go there after watching an episode of Man vs Food or some other show on Food Network. They have a roast beef sandwich called The Ferdi where they take all the drippings from slow cooking the roast beef & it’s got all those little pieces of meat & seasoning & tons of flavor, called the debris (pronounced day-bree). So the sammy is loaded with the meat & fixings on a po boy along with generous amounts of those day-bree drippings. Oh my gosh! What a wonderful sandwich!!!

 

 

[TnRiver46]

@Functional, unfortunately I have no idea, it was a long time ago 

 

Chicago? I had an Italian beef back in 1998 and it was heavenly 

[gim]

4 hours ago, spartyon8 said:

Portillos

 

There is one about 3.5 miles from my house.  Good stuff