BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'

Subject: RE: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:54 AM

Fuck you.

5 inches here and still coming. Karen stayed at work doing some overtime until the morning rush is over and the roads get a bit clearer after rush hour. It's a 45 mile drive for her back here from Columbus and these are the times that worry me most.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:24 AM

"I can not contain my excitement as there is nothing more pyschologically peacful than a blanket of fresh snow first thing in the morning."

You don't own a shovel, do you ? You don't have to be at work promptly, even when there's a foot down, the plow just put three feet in the end of your drive, she's blowinn drifts that challenge a 4X4, and visibility is less than ten feet in the whiteouts, do you ?

You don't have KeeKee Birds down there, do you? The flock in my back yard would be singing their song this morning, "Kee Kee KEEE-RIIST IT"S KEE KEE COLD !!!!", if their little beaks weren't frozen shut.

My brother has a dream: to win the lottery, put his snow blower on a trailer and head south until someone asks, "What's that thing ?"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:10 AM

Another Yankee, hrmmmmmmmmfffffff! ;-)

Cincinnati, like most of Kentucky, is often on the line between freezing and rain. We don't just have snow, we have ICE! It's not like driving on powder. And then the slush freezes every night to make several inches of ice. Ice is very hard for the scrapers to remove, so the roads often have a washboard effect, not to mention hidden icy spots.

But we do have our share of crazy drivers who drive entirely too fast. On days like this, the police tell people in fender benders to just exchange information and go to the nearest police station to fill out an accident report.

Here in small towns, the city schools are often open while the county schools can close for a week. The snow on city streets will melt from traffic while the county roads will stay icy until the weather turns warmer.

Mary in Bardstown (5 inches here)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:55 AM

Three to six inches in the Cincinnati area. Unlike those of use who have spent the last 28 years in the snow belts of the Great Lakes, they don't know how to cope with it and place pretty much panics (unlike Washington, DC, which simply closes up shop with a half an inch).

Awfully pretty, though. Hides the litter, too.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:42 AM

There follows, copy-and-paste of e-mail sent to my children yesterday:

Made it up to Killington today to try the new skis (last year's K2 "Piste Off" in 180 cm). The new skis work better than my old thigh muscles, but what can you do? I feel like I was kidnapped by miscreants who kept me in a freezer and only took me out to beat on the fronts of my thighs with clubs.

I don't know how Killington manages to predict when it will be unseasonably cold so that they can plan their cheap-skiing-for-Vermonters days, but they manage. There is more snow than I've ever seen on a December 4, however...well, more than any since the winter of '89-'90, when it rained all January.

If I have any more fun, I'm gonna die right here in front of everybody.

P.

Subject: BS: 'Snow atlast , snow atlast......'
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:34 AM

" ......great God Almighty ,snow atlast"
( with apologies to Martin Luther King whose speeches, I'm sure ,are also dutifully censored for aetheistic correctness ;- )

Anyway , it's finally here in Northern Virginia and it's a thing of beauty to behold as we Virgians have been in a snow drought
for quite a long spell. This accounts for the complete driving chaos that always follows , but Mother Nature gonna do what Mother Nature gonna and motorists better just get a handle on it.

I can not contain my excitement as there is nothing more pyschologically peacful than a blanket of fresh snow first thing in the morning.
" I love the scent of fresh snowfall in the morning.
Smells like ........"Peace". ;-)

Now if only it would blizzard in the Middle East.

Nothing a Polar Shift couldn't manage. ;-)