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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!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:45 AM I'd trade snowstorms again for hurricanes anytime. Frozen water is much easier to deal with than thawed water. (violins playing) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 11:01 AM snow sucks because eventually it all starts melting and turns into dirty slush. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 11:07 AM ranger1 ... you live in Portland ... why would you want a Kubota?? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 11:09 AM "I'd trade snowstorms again for hurricanes anytime" Naturally, but that is like saying that I would rather have the flu instead of chicken pox. Who wants either? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 11:28 AM You say that like there is something wrong with the pulse of the city...Not everyone needs to slow down! Well... :) You gotta bear in mind, Mudcat is a folk/blues site. The genre of music tends to attract a very laid-back breed of devotee; in fact, some lot of us are downright country-fried. Not to say we're stick-in-the-muds, just not 100% in favor of Da City's frenetic pace. (Hellfire; I live and work in the shadow of it. And I can feel the spillover tension from here.) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 12:17 PM "The genre of music tends to attract a very laid-back breed of devotee; in fact, some lot of us are downright country-fried. " Typical stereotyping. There has always been an urban vs. rural element to the folk revival. Urbanites discovering their rural roots and assimilating assumed characteristics of the style. Most of it is bunk. The hard work of country living is probably something that would wear out most "city folk". Tension exists everywhere. If you really examine his work, you will find that even Thoreau kept an active schedule on the pond. People love to put down the frentic pace of the city, but in reality it is just a matter of choice. No one is right or wrong. Frankly, I'm not much of a city person either. I prefer the suburbs - sort of an in-between the best of both worlds. The only problem is, I have a 100 foot driveway to shovel. Again, snow sucks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 12:54 PM Typical stereotyping. Um...not really. This is not speculation, it is firsthand knowledge; I've lived and worked in both spheres. My remarks are based off of real interactions with real people. No, country work isn't easy. There's just generally less shoving and cursing. As for the "pace" clash, it works both ways. It is something, say, rural Appalachians in particular get mocked for by impatient Northerners---particularly urbanized ones, who continually (in some cases wilfully) mistake that culture's comparative mellowness for stupidity or laziness. The urbanites may not be in the "wrong," as you say. But of the two cultural backgrounds, I'll give you three guesses which one I hear routinely bad-mouth the other more frequently. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM "This is not speculation, it is firsthand knowledge" Which translates as "your opinion", not fact. "But of the two cultural backgrounds, I'll give you three guesses which one I hear routinely bad-mouth the other more frequently" I don't know about you, but I always here "country" people bad-mouthing big city life. I do not hear it the other way around, in fact most "city" people seem to respect the country for the pleasures. It may be me, but I have never heard "Northerners" mock "southern" culture. Now, as for those lazy West Coast people... that is another story. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:16 PM Which translates as "your opinion", not fact. Excuse me. My word may not be the equivalent of Moses bearing tablets form Mount Sinai; but I did not hallucinate the encounters to which I refer. I can recite specifics in more depth to further illustrate my point; but frankly, you've already begun to take this thread of conversation down a very tiresome path. I don't owe you the pissing match you dseem to want. I created this thread for light conversation, so that folks could commiserate on a situation that (probably) affected a lot of the folks on the 'Cat. Frankly, until you arrived it's been quite nice. But I suppose nothing lasts forever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:25 PM Relax! You are taking it way out of context. I'm just having a little fun over a side topic and you are taking it too personally! And you say that tension is city problem? Sorry!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:36 PM I'd like to add - I publicly apologize to Windsinger and anyone else who may have taken offense to my comments. They were not meant to incite anyone, merely my opinion on what I see as unfair stereotyping - although I am sure it was purely unintentional. I guess this snow has affected my common sense. I still hate snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:00 PM Alba and Amos, I really think you had the right of it on this thread. Ron, I accept the apology. I do have strong opinions, but don't tend to go on the offense with them unless it sounds like they're being disparaged without cause. I can agree to disagree on a lot of subjects, as long as respect is present. (One reason I don't go onto certain Mudcat threads. You know; the ones with subject-headings that might as well read "Trolls Welcome! Come as you are! Bring your flamethrower!" :::shudder:::) Getting back on topic, they finally plowed my street. Sort of. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:07 PM Thank you Windsinger. Life is too short, and I did not intend to be rude or antagonistic. I do respect your opinion and I am sure that you have experiences that formed them. I guess my tounge was planted too firmly in my cheek. I still blame it on the snow. Glad to hear the plow made it to your street. My town feels that running the plow once down the street and then putting thousands of pounds of salt down does the trick. My car is now a peculiar shade of gray. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:47 PM Well... For sort of read several halfhearted passes with the plow-blade and no salt, resulting in a densely packed sheet of ice with light powder on top, along which our Olympic team could happily practice the luge to their heart's content and which MIGHT disappear sometime around May, and that's us. The cat won't even venture outside for fear of disappearing into drifts five times bigger than he is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:48 PM It just snowed. Dropped about 10 mm on us. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 04:29 PM Gee .... hope you can get out for some basic provisions there Peace. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 05:01 PM 10 mm? :::smolder::: Don't talk to me anymore, Peace. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: ranger1 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:32 PM On the subject of Kubotas, they're really cool and you can move large, heavy objects with them. And they're bright orange, so you can't lose 'em in the snow. And just because I live in the city doesn't mean I work there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:34 PM Gosh, did I say !)? Meant to say 2. It dumped 2 mm on us. You can all stop worrying now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:35 PM I know ... would like one to move some heavy rocks into my garden ... BTW Ranger ... Portland is a nice town, I love visiting there. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:40 PM Gosh, did I say !)? That should have read "Gosh, did I say 10"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:41 PM Well, gol danged... First snowball fight of '06 and I got to it too late... (But, BObert, wasn't it you who satred a thread entitled "Iz Satrtin' to Hate Snow" a cou[ple years back???...) Yeah, okay, I mighta stared that thread but that was after it snowing every danged day for like 3 weeks, I couldn't get out and had run outta beer and cat litter... Now, then's is two things that I'll never run out of again if they so much call fir a dusting of snow... Heck no!!! Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'z changed my thinking about snow over the years and, might of fact, still changing... When I was a kid I'd pray fir snow so I wouldn't have to got to school.. Of course, kids don't actually get paid to go to school so... ... when I became a bigger kid and had to work for a living, I'd pray that it didn't snow so I wouldn't miss the hours (pay) but... ...now that I'm semi-retired and work when I want to, hey, a nice 8 t0 10 inches of the white fluff stuff now and then is nice... long as I have beer and cat litter, that is... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:10 PM Bobart ... "beer and cat litter" ok ... I can understand the beer, but the cat litter?? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:16 PM You obviously don't have cats, sIx.... Summer is one thing but in the winter, especially when there's 10 inches of snow on the ground, make Mr. Catbox a popular hangout fir the cat/s umtil it get too full and then it's yer danged shoe, ot worser... ...even a lot of beer don't fix that particular misunderstanding... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:28 PM I do have cats Bobert ... thanks for the reminder .. I'll put that on my snow survival list. I do have a greyhound, Otis that hates the snow ... I have to literally drag him out the door to his 'toilette' ... stubborn as mule he can be. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 15 Feb 06 - 07:21 AM Contemplating whether it's time to start shoveling off the patio roof, lest it collapse under the weight of the white stuff... Yuck. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST Date: 15 Feb 06 - 03:52 PM Fortunately we have had a few sunny days since Sunday, it seems to be melting on its own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 17 Feb 06 - 12:03 PM Blech. Snow is now mostly gone, under the onslaught of much filthy, filthy rain. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST,number 6 Date: 17 Feb 06 - 12:25 PM The snow here is now turning into filthy, filthy slush ... with very high winds blowing in off of the Fundy. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 18 Feb 06 - 12:08 PM ACK!!! Spoke too soon. About 20 minutes ago, a few flakes started falling. Within 10 minutes it was so thick I could barely see out the window. Crap. Not again... Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 18 Feb 06 - 12:55 PM Better than watching roof shingles falling to the ground!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:11 PM Screw winter. That friggin' wind blew so hard my house almost got under weigh. It unravelled a crowbar and blew two rooster feathers right through a grindstone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:26 PM Kendall ... I was talking to a friend today who drove up through Maine last night ... her car was blown off the road jusr outside of Portland .. she's ok thank god and no damage to the car. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:30 AM I was driving my 33 foot motor home in that gale of wind. She required considerable weather helm to stay in the channel. Who said that only sailors get "blown offshore"? I'm glad I wasn't near the ocean, it could have happened to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:57 AM Here is San Diego, we have our own weather miseries. It rained last night, and my car window was open. The dawn is quite cool and damp, but on the plus side everything looks clean. This morning it is only 55º F outside;brrr!!!-- of course the sun isn't up yet, so we might have a decent day at around 65 F or so. But right now I almost want to turn the heat on!! It's jes' orful, I tell ya! How I hate winter! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 09:10 AM Amos - you can be aggravating at times! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 09:14 AM Poor wretch! I'll make you a shawl. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:41 AM Kendall and Jacqui, you need to shut the door behind you! A little of your cold weather leaked out and reached us here in North Texas! I nearly slipped on the icy porch while out feeding the dogs this morning (they have their own heater out in the garage, because they're not the kind of dogs who would sit still for wearing doggie clothes). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:48 AM My apologies. In Spring and Summer and early Fall, I would rather live on the Maine coast than anywhere. When the first ice forms on the puddles, I would be off for New Zealand, or the Caribbean or somat until the weather came to its senses again. But it is not to be, until perhaps retirement is...if it will even still be possible! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:18 AM Maine is a beautiful state and Mainers are the finest of people you can find in the U.S. sorry for the thread drift but I just had to throw that post in. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:39 AM I'll go along with that 6. I have met some first class people since moving here in 2004. Amos - you're welcome here anytime you want to come. Actually, as long as we wrap up well and make sure the house is warm the winter ain't so bad, although I'm still adjusting to temperatures that can go for days below freezing. The more prevalent blue skies and sunshine make up for that and there are a lot less of the grey days that tend to signify an English winter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 19 Feb 06 - 12:00 PM Ahhhyup, they ahh thaht sIx. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM Well hell, if we didn't have black flies and cold winters, this state would be over populated like many of the others. 1 million people in 33,000 square miles is tolerable distribution. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:31 PM I think it goes up to a million in trippah season, Skippah. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 19 Feb 06 - 02:50 PM OK, you asked for it.. (Kendall, they don't mention the black flies, but the quip for your state is still pretty good...) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir ------------------- STATE MOTTOS: Alabama: Yes, we have electricity Arizona: But It's a Dry Heat Arkansas: Litterasy Ain't Everthing California: As Seen on TV Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and With Less Character Delaware: We Really Do Like the Chemicals in our Water Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids Georgia: We Put the "Fun" in Fundamentalist Extremism Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death to Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money) Idaho: Potatoes and NeoNazis ... What More Could You Ask For? Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S" Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn Kansas: Where Science Don't Mean Shit Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names Louisiana: We're Not All Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster Maryland: A Thinking Man's Delaware Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets) Michigan: First Line of Defense From the Canadians Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes Mississippi: Come Feel Better About Your Own State Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars at Work Montana: Land of the Big Sky, the Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, and Very Little Else Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest Nevada: Whores and Poker! New Hampshire: Go Away and Leave Us Alone New Jersey: You Want a ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here! New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets New York: You Have the Right to Remain Silent, You Have the Right to an Attorney... North Carolina: Tobacco is a Vegetable North Dakota: We Really are One of the 50 States! Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan Oklahoma: Like the Play, only No Singing Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island South Carolina: Remember the Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota Tennessee: Educashun State Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les (Yes, I speak English) Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus Vermont: Yep Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs and Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix? Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds and Slackers! Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor? West Virginia: One Big Happy Family-Really! Wisconsin: Come Cut Our Cheese Wyoming: Where men are men and |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 06:30 PM Yep - that sums up Maine in the winter. Lobsterrrrrr...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 02 Mar 06 - 03:57 PM :::black cloud of foul language::: It begins. Again. This morning it was what some weirdos obscurely call "snizzle" (fo' shizzle). That is, a sprinkling of very fine ice, almost like dust. Now it's just ice and freezing rain. And by sundown (not to mention my evening commute) it'll be snow showers! JOyYeEeeee! Fortunately, I have four wheel drive. (Which basically means some aggressive tailgating f$%@!-wit is gonna slam into ME, instead of vice versa.) Enough. If those crocuses don't bloody sprout and put an end to this madness soon, I'm goin' in after 'em with an automatic and some high explosives. That'll wake 'em up. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:07 PM It was -25 in Allagash Maine two nights ago. Time to put on the flannel shirts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:28 PM I woke up to snow this morning, three or four inches here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Second snowstorm in two weeks - certainly is beautiful, but I'm glad I don't have to drive today. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:31 PM Flannel shirts and a sweater for these last few days ... but I must say it has warmed up a balmy -5c in Saint John today. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:34 PM 100 up above there ... sorry Leadfingers. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:22 PM You own a sweater? Are you rich? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM No ... not rich. Bought it cheap at Mardens in Calais. That place is bargain heaven across the border for us New Brunswickers. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 03 Mar 06 - 07:26 AM Yup... Canuck dollar up again yesterday. Highest in 14 years. Batten down the hatches you Yanks. You are about to be invaded by busloads of shoppers. "See ya!" Stacey will soon be taking Canadian dollahs at pahh... SEE YA in Bangor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 03 Mar 06 - 08:14 AM Tell me, if your house catches fire will you call the fire dept. in Calais? If you are robbed or mugged, will you call the Cops in Calais? Would you impoverish your own local services to save a few bucks in another country? That doesn't add up Mate. |
