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Subject: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:02 AM Ow. Ow ow ow ow. Friends, if you live within five states of me and got "whammed" by that snow-hurricane...do yourself a favor. Stay the Foolishly I did not. At work now (after a 90-minute drive, with a throbbing back and congestion, due to rigorous shoveling to get my car out from under 2 feet of snow) and highly unhappy. Stay home, pop in a relaxing CD, light a fire in the grate, sip some cognac and watch the snowscape. Stock a birdfeeder if you can, it's entertainment and good karma. Don't go out there. St00pid people have beat you to it, and a lot of them have cars. ;P ~Fionn http://www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:18 AM Birds fed... The snow stopped yesterday morning here in the Shenendoah Valley in Virginia. We got between 8 and 10 inches so I figured that I'd crank up the Kubuto tractor and get the 3/10's miles drive way (straight down) cleared in case we *had* to get out anytime soon... Well, 5 hours later, after almost rolling the danged tractor off the side of the driveway and having to use chains and come-alongs to save it I finished just in time to take it down to ol' man Mr. Cliffords and plow him out... This morning? Everything hurts plus I have one heck of a head cold... But, I'm plowed out and I didn't kill myself or the tractor... But, Part B, here I open this wonderful website this mornin' with a piccure of an angelic lady playin' a harp and all is well... I bookmarked it and will spend more time there later... BTW, it that is you playin' the harp, Fionn, you shouldn't have to shovel no snow... No mam, you just call me and me an' the Kubutu take care of if fir ya', ya hear??? Heck, Iz a bluesman and I'm used to bodily pain and the tractor? Well, it's a dnaged tratcor... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:25 AM We got around 20cm here in Saint JOhn yesterday .... used my new snowblower for the first time this morning and got into work ... which happens to a 5 minute drive from home. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST,bbc at work Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:26 AM Boy, I got off easy this time! Four inches in the front & about 2 inches on my sheltered driveway. Didn't even need to shovel. Friends an hour south had about 11". NYC had record of more than 26"--more than Albany has had, so far, this whole winter! Quite amazing. best, bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Rapparee Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:25 PM Ah, out here in the mountains we had blue skies and sunshine all weekend and more predicted for this week. Boring. Just like last week. What snow we've had is mostly melted, at least here in the Portneuf River Valley. Nearby places have a couple feet or more. But it is SOOOOO danged hard to deal with nothing but clear, blue skies day after day after day after day.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Epona Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:31 PM The mom got 8 to 12 inches depending on where she measured! But, that's PA weather for you... E |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:39 PM We in the UK (well, this London bit) had about an inch of rain falling steadily over the whole day yesterday. Meant I had to wait until today to finish my planting, but it also meant I didn't have to get the hose out. The ground is moist, but not wet and claggy, which just shows how dry it's been here. My pond has still got a good 3" to go before it even looks near full. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:42 PM It got a little cold here last night. The dogs' water dish wasn't frozen this morning like yesterday. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:02 PM you shouldn't have to shovel no snow... Feh. :) Irish females are used to manual labor. Especially those of real country-fried stock (extra points if you got the Celtic genes by way of Appalachia.) Took me and three housemates shovelling in shifts to uncover the cars and unblock the driveway. We managed to make short work of it; which means it was brief and unpleasant, instead of prolonged and unpleasant. BTW, it that is you playin' the harp, Fionn That's me, & I wish that 32-string harp was really mine as well; while visiting my luthier's stall, that instrument was just in for alterations. The craftsman took that still shot. (He made my 24-string as well. Excellent bang for one's buck, as far as hand-made instruments go.) Glad someone else is feeding the birdies as well, it's horrific for the wee seed-eaters to find food in this weather! Starving musicians are starving musicians, with or without feathers. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Jeri Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:08 PM It's hard to tell how much fell here because it blew around a lot. I know I shoveled 3 times, about 3" each time, but that might have been migratory snow. The birds that have been ignoring my feeder are back - maybe because the ground's covered. I don't want to believe they kicked me to the curb for someone else's seeds. (There's a blues song in there somewhere.) There's nothing quite as delicate and charming as bird tracks in the snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Azizi Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:24 PM remind me never to start a thread entitled Where did the snow go... I guess Pittsburgh, Penn is in the midwest, cause we only got a little bit of snow from the Nor'easter [less than an inch or so]. When I can easily drive down my hill like I did today, you know that it's not much snow to speak of, but from now on, I think that I'mma keep my mouth shut... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:34 PM Here in southern Alberta, we have had a dry, warm winter, and look longingly at the snow that fell in New York. Unless we get significant snowfall soon, water shortages and poor crops are expected. Grass fires already are a problem around Calgary. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: JohnInKansas Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:38 PM And here we're so dry that grass/brush fires just burned 30 sq miles off, about 50 miles NW of my home town during the past week. Still on watch for re-starts. (Note: average distance between towns is generally about 15-20 miles in the area.) Scattered smaller fires elsewhere in the general area. Last reports were that no homes were lost, although there were a few outbuidings damaged. Some few, mostly in the fire crews, injured from smoke and heat, but apparently none too seriously. Similar conditions "down south" in Texas an Oklahoma have been giving them problems for a few weeks, and there were a few homes lost down there a couple of weeks ago. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Jeri Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:45 PM Azizi, this is your fault then? I don't think I'm complaining. I didn't have to be anywhere, and there's something very cozy about being snowed in, still having power and heat and food, and watching the white fluffy cold out the window. I used to love watching movies about Alaska or the Arctic and the frozen tundra while wrapped in a blankie, drinking hot chocolate. Last night, it was 'Ice Age' which ironically isn't very cold, but I liked it anyway. It's been a winter for wimps so far. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Metchosin Date: 13 Feb 06 - 01:49 PM We really haven't had a winter at all on Vancouver Island in southern BC. The flowering cherry has come into blossom and so have the salmonberries. Of course all that could change in a moment. We have been known to get over a foot of snow well into March. If you're able to enjoy it people, do so. Might as well go with the flow, Mother Nature always wins in the end. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:20 PM there's something very cozy about being snowed in, still having power and heat and food, and watching the white fluffy cold out the window. This of course, makes ALL the difference. lol 'Tis a lot easier to appreciate the fine aesthetics of a heavy snowfall, when it isn't taking the micky out of your flesh/car/what have you. :) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:36 PM We were in Belfast ME at the weekend and, in view of the incipient storm, decided to get out of Dodge early yesterday morning. We just beat the storm back to Scarborough and, like Jeri, with no reason to go out enjoyed watching the snow pile up. I reckon we got about 8" here and it still looks very pretty. Kendall had to clear the snow off of the window box/bird feeder to allow the cardinals to get lunch yesterday - got to keep an eye on the poor little things. My daughter in Newark UK tells me that they had rain there for most of the day but that drought has been forecast in their area this summer.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Donuel Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:42 PM Since Pavarotti sang, its all been down hill... except for skating which is flat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Donuel Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:49 PM This storm broke my snow blower, The impeller blades won't spin any more. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:00 PM There's nothing quite as delicate and charming as bird tracks in the snow. With perhaps one exception: A seething, flat-eared cat, muttering curses at the birds from behind a sliding glass door. :) (OK, OK. Maybe the feeding stations weren't placed and stocked with 100% karmically pure intentions. :::snicker:::) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM Glad you all did so well. Here, in what I have been calling the Banana Belt of New Brunswick (not any more), the drifts between the houses and around my truck were close to 5 feet deep. In the rest of the driveways, the snow was between two and three feet deep... out to the street where the plow went by three times. But, it's purdy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST,gnu Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:27 PM Oops.... that was me at Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM. gnu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 13 Feb 06 - 03:58 PM So far we have had maybe--MAYBE--two inches of snow this winter. The temperature got to 19 below zero C one night. Times is tough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bat Goddess Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:02 PM Curmudgeon and I are a coupla miles from Jeri -- we got maybe 4 or 5 inches. Windy, so some places have 2 inches or less and some spots are a little deeper. I think Jeri & I spent most of yesterday morning on the phone with each other, then mid afternoon I braved the driveway and trudged up the hill to my neighbor's place. I had scheduled today off from work long before the forecast. Driveway got plowed this morning and we did some kitchen rearranging this afternoon in anticipation of the new fridge being delivered tomorrow morning. Figures. We go all winter with no snow to speak of (except the December day I landed in the ditch) and what does it do but snow two days before the refrigerator guys need to get the new one in here and the old one out -- we have a 300 foot driveway that goes uphill to the road. And it meets the road just below the crest of the hill. Ah well -- the Sears guys are professionals, aren't they? Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:05 PM in what I have been calling the Banana Belt of New Brunswick ...the New Brunswick in NJ, or the one in Canada? :P Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:45 PM As a customs guy at Logan once asked me while looking at my Canadian passport ... "where in the U.S. is New Brunswick?". sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:08 PM The Province of New Brunswick, Canada. The Picture Province... underdeveloped and overexposed. Just a joke... it really is The Picture Province.... so beautiful and varied. I am priviledged to live here. But, today, a banana would be nice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Little Hawk Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM Call Chongo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM :::snicker::: Although to be fair, there's a cluster of Brunswicks, "North", "East", and "New", in my immediate region of NJ. It is indeed enough to make you wonder what direction is up, much less what country you're in. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Tinker Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:07 PM Well, a little north of you Windsinger up in Montclair we got around two feet, but the wind left the northside of the house with about 3 inches so at least that stretch of driveway was easy going. Lots of wind over night but not bad as stros go. Tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:41 PM New Brunswick Canada .."the picture province" ... the best natural lighting in all of Canada for photography. Six ... who is in for the night after ploughing all my neighbour's driveways out with his new snow blower. I guess it's not new anymore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:42 PM Your snow blower would rust out here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:55 PM Actually I thought it was going to rust out here, Peace ... this was the first snow storm of the season. We have been basking in pretty mild weather up until now. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:57 PM Yo, Donuel, If yer snow blower is a box-store variety it's prolly just a belt or belt tension... Of course, knowing that don't get the snow uotta yer drive way but it shouldn't be expensive to get it up and snow blowing again... Yo, Fionn, The P-Vine is also Irish down to her red hair and blue eyes so I have witnessed the determination of the Irish... Do you dry your laundry on a clothes line??? First thing I had to put up when we moved down here in the valley was a clothes line... And, wow, you Irish have way too many clothes lines rules fir me... I mean, evenm the socks have to hang with their mates... No hanging a black sock witha blue one... No sir... 'er mam... LIke, let me ask you this one... If a blue and black sock hang together with the same clothes pin will they still dry??? Nevrmind... Yo, Jeri, 5 inches and you take the day off??? Danged, my next move is to N.C.... Fir sure.. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:13 PM Do you dry your laundry on a clothes line??? Usd to--back when my nuclear fam lived WAY in the country, didn't own a reliable dryer, and nobody particularly cared either way. But when most of the clan moved to a McMansion, they had to sign an "appearance clause." (Read: Snotty Neighborhoods Think Clotheslines Are Unsightly.) In my photo heap, somewhere, is an aireal snapshot that was taken of our old house on an ordinary day, about 20 years ago. IIRC, some entrepeneur photographer who knew a chopper pilot was peddling similar pics to all the houses in that area. In the still, the clothesline was strung across the back yard, and a couple of my grandmother's handmade quilts are drying on it. (Still get a little tight-chested whenever I unearth that photo.) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:19 PM "We have been basking in pretty mild weather up until now." I do know what you mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:07 PM We've had some rain finally, but not enough to stick around in the soil long. The fires were a real problem last month, and they will be again if we don't get more rain pretty soon. We saw a nice snowfall in this yard back when we had a bid on the house but hadn't gotten it yet. We weren't comfortable stopping over and playing in the snow that wasn't ours, though the house wasn't empty and the neighbors (we now know) wouldn't have minded. Haven't had a decent snow since. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:04 PM up in Montclair we got around two feet Two feet? :::boggle::: In the entire town? How on earth do y'all walk when it's not your turn to use them? What kind of time-share program is going on there? :::runninglikehell::: :D Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Naemanson Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:09 AM I love to read these threads about snow. All those years of shoveling are behind me. The winds sings and rattles in the coconut palms and the ocean piles up white on the reef. That ocean swell is the only white that Mom Nature gives us in Guam. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:54 AM "got 8 to 12 inches depending on where she measured" ...had a girlfriend like that once... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: ranger1 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:26 AM Well, I'll be honest, I was hoping for a lot more than the bit we got here in Portland, Maine. I like big snow storms and I'm currently not working, so no place I had to be. Besides, it would be really nice to be able to use my snowshoes this year. And as someone mentioned above, low snowfall in winter means low water tables in summer. Bobert, you have a Kubota? I am soooooo jealous! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: SINSULL Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:33 AM Seamus and I went for a walk in the storm and finished up with a snowball fight. Great fun! And the strom blew the snow away from my doors so I wasn't blocked in this time. Besides, it looks pretty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:34 AM Snow sucks. I don't care what the rest of you say, snow has no redeeming value in my book. The good news is that the temperature will be around 60 today and tomorrow so most of this crap will melt away and we can go on about our business. Snow sucks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bill D Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:48 AM Ah! relativism rears its head! (gee, Ron...maybe they need a folk DJ in Guam... ☺) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: ranger1 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:50 AM Snow is also very pretty in the light of the full moon (ducking as Ron throws snowball at overly cheerful, snow-loving little ranger). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: bobad Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:00 AM "Snow sucks. I don't care what the rest of you say, snow has no redeeming value in my book." One benefit, that I can see, to snow in a place like New York city is that it gives everyone the chance to slow down a bit from that ceaseless dance of Brownian motion that is the pulse of the big city. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:17 AM I was hoping for a lot more than the bit we got here in Portland, Maine. ...but surely enough folks in New England own Arctic Cats, bobsleds and such as a matter of course, that it's easier to shrug off a blizzard, right? B'f lived in New Hampshire for a few years. Swore NO amount of snow would shut his town down; the natives just laughed and put on a heavier jacket. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:21 AM Still no sign of any. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:23 AM "One benefit, that I can see, to snow in a place like New York city is that it gives everyone the chance to slow down a bit from that ceaseless dance of Brownian motion that is the pulse of the big city" You say that like there is something wrong with the pulse of the city. We kind of enjoy that ceaseless dance and thrive on the pulse of the big city. Not everyone needs to slow down! Yes Ranger1, it does look pretty in the light of a full moon. That is why cameras were invented. I would love to look at a picture of one when I sit outside in a lounge chair nursing a cool frosty with the warm sun beating down. Actually, winter is one of my four favorite seasons. Snow is fine - for about a week. After that it becomes a public nuisance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:23 AM After all that... forecasts say +2C on Thursday... +4C Saturday, with rain. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! |
