Posted on 02/11/2005 4:17:23 AM PST by mlmr
Snow is fun! On the cape a couple of weeks ago we had 30+ inches. My 2500hd Chevy was useless! We were stuck in the house for about 30 hours, you had it easy this time around.
I heard from friends that you folks were buried. Up here fortunatly, the road crews know how to make snow disappear fast.
Are you near Windham? We have a brother in law there
Yes I am. Is this the right-thinking Freeper-style brother in law or is this the leftist loser brother in law?
I thought all of Maine was "the Sticks". Kind of like Vermont, New Hampshire and Canada back forty where they threw old appliances, busted down vehicles and other flotsam in the gullies.
Thirty years ago when I first moved here...yes.
Now it is leftist trust-funders playland.
-47 degrees, and was also considered Cold Weather Survival Training qualled.
We build us tough and rough here.
Got stuck in the driveway 3 times last evening as I was trying to get the Monte Carlo into the garage! The snow was compacting under the tires and lifting the car up off the ground.
So I wasn't the only one!!
C'mon! We want measurements and pictures.
Thiiiiiis high!
Seee me ontop of the snow bank?
No?
It's tooooo high!
Aw, ya went to work! Sorry to hear your work ethic is so strong. As you can see, there are alot of us here who'd have stayed home. Act o' God, and all that.
Getting snowed in can be fun, if you have everything you need at home and the power stays on. It's happened to me once this winter and I didn't get out of the drive the entire weekend.
I would have loved to stay home with the children. Between the money shortage and the fact I have no vacation hours left, (sick kids all last week, and sick me) and that hospitals never sleep...I go.
I woke up to 40º weather here in Miami
I guess you'r going to have to take off your bathing suit and find warmer clothes.
If they had shut up we would have been better prepared. I don't know how they expect us to believe a hundred year forcast of climate change when they can't even get the next 4 hours right.
Faith sir, haven't you heard of faith?
You're nuts to live like that.
Where else would I find such excitment in my life?
What is a powerwagon? Is it like a jitney?
Quick! We must sign the Kyoto Protocol posthaste!
Just another reason why I live in Texas! About the only thing we have to shovel here is Bull Sh*t--LOL!
Snow is more attractive though.
Oh well, guess I will just snuggle with the wife today...hehehe
I guess you know how to suffer. Grinning!!
You could have 5 foot snow on the ground and then clear; temps bottom out at minus 50-60 degrees and stay there for a month. That was january here on the yukon. Then you don't even start vehicles or even worry about going to work; just feed the fire and hope everything doesn't break down.
We also went thru a 7.9 earthquake once and had the ground open up 6 foot deep 3 foot wide in our front yard and it was in november to boot; no water,electric,heat, or travel for over a week. The worst was having a 200,000 acre forest fire less than a mile from the house; burning embers floating down and hotshots setting up firehoses/sprayers to soak our cabin as fire burnt past.
Lordy, Lordy! Have you thought of a nice little New Jersy suburb?
Front and rear diff locks.
20 inches of clearance at the diffs.
Drives through 3 feet of snow with ease.
With these particular tires gets stuck in 4 inches of wet snow though.
With tire chains will plow through 4 feet of any snow.
Won't fit in the garage. This is my first winter with a garage. It is as if I have been assigned a personal slave each morning. PAMPERED.
Front and rear diff locks.
20 inches of clearance at the diffs.
Drives through 3 feet of snow with ease.
With these particular tires gets stuck in 4 inches of wet snow though.
With tire chains will plow through 4 feet of any snow.
Won't fit in the garage. This is my first winter with a garage. It is as if I have been assigned a personal slave each morning. PAMPERED.
It was like that in Western NY from December to April. We used snowmobiles to get to our cars at the end of the streets miles away.
I have some friends in western NY. I still cannot understand why they just dont move somewhere else where the taxes are lower, the snow is less and Clinton does not represent.
Just take the day off, relax and have some of that great Maine Chowder. Mmmm. sounds good to me.
Would have if I could have.
Just create some yellow snow:) It's about 65F here and raining. The L.A. river needs Teddy Kennedy now, instead of the inexperienced swimmers.
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