Northern weather

[aterry11]

As a kid in Nebraska your weather is old hat.. so for once I get to be like Robert and say Tag your it. Stay warm stay safe and most of all stay smart. Never understood that saying as a kid in the winter but sure get it now.. And now I got toys that will get around.

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strange but I wished we had that much here could squirrel enough away to have a great Chicago

[gregj410]

When is life that simple?

It became that simple yesterday at about 5 pm when my tractor wouldn't start. I then discovered this morning that we only have one snow shovel. Darn!

Hey Greg, didn't that complicate life? It would for me. In fact, my Ariens is so heavy ( we had a 50-something neighbor drop dead in his driveway pushing his snowblower along) to encourage along it's appointed rounds, I don't usually get gasoline for it and take my time with a shovel, when I am able. (I've bought an electric one.) If I am not able to clear the driveway, at least, and we have to get to medical care, then life has gotten even more complicated, which has happened more than once to us.
Murph@71+
(Bette Davis was right.)

Your making my case Murph. Dont you think that shoveling or pushing a snowblower could bring on a medical issue? Maybe you live off of a main road that's being cleared through the storm. I live on a lane 1/4 mile long maintained by the residents and I am normally the one that clears it with my now broken tractor. The next road at the end of my lane is a back road that is treacherous at best in these conditions. My point is I can clear my driveway all day long, but no ambulance is going to get through 2' of snow to get to my house.

[healey36]

...so for once I get to be like Robert and say Tag your it.

I hear ya...there's nothing like flying into Denver in the middle of summer and seeing those twelve foot high snow fences running along the highway. Reinforces the notion that I made a meteorlogically good choice staying put in the Mid-Atlantic region.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Please allow me to say "ha ha ha"

There is a shark with your name waiting for you.

[healey36]

Hey, they finally showed up...this is good:



This is better:



Probably won't see them again until tomorrow.

Healey

[robert.]

Please allow me to say "ha ha ha"

There is a shark with your name waiting for you.

Yes there is. Served blackend with chili lime sauce and plantains

[healey36]

Please allow me to say "ha ha ha"

There is a shark with your name waiting for you.

Yes there is. Served blackend with chili lime sauce and plantains

You probably have to speak Spanish to order that...sigh.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There is a shark with your name waiting for you.

Yes there is. Served blackend with chili lime sauce and plantains

You probably have to speak Spanish to order that...sigh.

Or shark...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[sarge]

Here are two views out the bay-window on the NW side of our house, the side that faces PA, and one out the back of the house, facing east. It's still piling up, presently, at 4:30pm, two hours after the shots were taken. You can see that snow had already piled as high as the first, lower rail on our new fence by then. It's coming down real hard and non-stop.
Murph, beginning to get a bit alarmed.

Ah, relax my friend. You still have a mailbox with most of the post showing. Here's mine.



The haze is the blowing snow; I can see any number of five-foot drifts without any real effort expended.

You'll be fine, but don't piss me off by going out and doing yourself a mischief, mate!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, Sarge, on the theory that it isn't good to piss-off (or piss on ) a gentleman who is a friend, I'll stay inside looking out that window, occasionally, and smiling, remembering your concern. Thank you.

My younger neighbor came over and snow-plowed our entire sidewalk and driveway, out of the goodness and kindness of his heart, which is something he took upon himself a couple years ago, inexplicably, other than the apparent fact that he is a good neighbor and a very good man.
Murph

[sarge]

Good man.

I know how hard it is to resist the temptations that testosterone intensifies, like wanting to wave one's shovel in the teeth of the storm and bellow, "You shall not beat me!"

Next you know you wake up in a nice warm ambulance, and realise you just made top-billing on the old Sergeant's feces roster.

Stay safe!

And that goes for the rest of you lot too, or else you'll be required to spend the season in that state that is one great Nursing Home with the rest of the non-fit aged-out comb-over cowards- ahem.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I was out with the snow blower for better than 2.5 hours doing my driveway, one of the other pipe stems of my drive way and then 2 of the neighbor's....... Snow blower was barely able to handle it.

Another 4" have come down and it continues. Do it all again tomorrow.

[E7]

And that goes for the rest of you lot too, or else you'll be required to spend the season in that state that is one great Nursing Home with the rest of the non-fit aged-out comb-over cowards- ahem.

If you're referring to the southern most portion of the east coast, a friend of mine calls it "Oldster Hell" A term I rather like!

[robert.]

Don't think that I'm just sitting by the pool worry free. I left my wife and kid back home on Pa. Also k have a 67 year old mother that needs her driveway cleared.