Posted on 02/29/2008 4:08:56 AM PST by OCCASparky
December 8 - It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our tea and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!
December 9 - We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the whole world? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.
December 12 - The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.
December 14 - Snow lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way.
December 15 - 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.
December 16 - Ice storm this morning. Fell on my butt on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt sooooo bad. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.
December 17 - Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20 - Electricity's back on, but had another 14" of the horrid stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. Stupid snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.
December 22 - Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white stuff fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to stop and help my wife. By the time I got back out there again I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think the jerk is lying.
December 23 - Only 2" of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What? Is she nuts!!!?? Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying.
December 24 - 6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the idiot who drives that snowplow I'll drag him through the snow by his hair and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for that rotten snowplow.
December 25 - Merry -GROAN- Christmas! 20 more inches of the white slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's lost her mind. If I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.
December 26 - Still snowed in. Why on earth did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.
December 27 - Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze, plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him, he only charged me 1,400 to replace all my pipes.
December 28 - Warmed up to above -20. Still snowed in. THE WOMAN I MARRIED is driving me crazy!!!
December 29 - 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?
December 30 - Roof caved in. I beat up the snowplow driver! He is now suing me for a million dollars for the beating I gave him !!! The wife went home to her mother. 9" predicted.
December 31 - I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.
January 8 - Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. But wonder why I am tied to the bed?
Statement as of 4:06 AM EST on February 29, 2008 ... Heavy Snow Warning in effect from 3 am Saturday to midnight EST Saturday night... The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a Heavy Snow Warning... which is in effect from 3 am Saturday to midnight EST Saturday night. The Winter Storm Watch is no longer in effect. Snow will develop across the mid-coast of Maine after midnight. The snow will continue through Saturday... heavy at times... before tapering off to snow showers during the afternoon. The snow could mix with or even change to rain during the day on Saturday. Total snow accumulations will range from 7 to 10 inches.
... Heavy Snow Warning in effect from 3 am Saturday to midnight
EST Saturday night...
The National Weather Service in gray has issued a Heavy Snow
Warning... which is in effect from 3 am Saturday to midnight EST
Saturday night. The Winter Storm Watch is no longer in effect.
Snow will develop across foothills eastern lakes region of New
Hampshire... the foothills of western Maine... and interior central
Maine after midnight. The snow will continue through Saturday...
and could be heavy at times ... before tapering off to snow
showers Saturday evening.
Total snow accumulations will range from 8 to 12 inches.
Buy a snowblower!
“...Al Gore in a thong bikini...”
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO...THAT CANNOT BE SAID IN PUBLIC. Mind picture dysfunction...Brain rot. Cannot function.....
Hey OCCASparky,
It’s me, GI JANE. Wassup? Well, I had to shovel about 1 1/2 feet of “global warming” off my drive way the other day...more is on the way, and Gore’s fat ass is no where around to help.
“Only so many places you can put 10 FEET of snow...”
I know EXACTLY what you mean. Luckily, mine throws real good. My partner’s wife blew the engine on his about a month ago and the guy has been shoveling by hand...except he isn’t as young as he used to be. He’ll be a real happy camper this morning in anticipation of tomorrow!
Snow? What snow??
Here on the coast of VA, we haven’t had enough snow to hide the grass in the yard. And what we did get only stuck to the ground once.
Braggart!
Well then, come on up. Bring a spoon. I have a leach field vent somewhere in the front yard (it’s normally 4 feet high). I think I saw it last between X-Mas and New Year’s.
Yeah, but just think of all the water you’ll be supplying for us in CT. Not that we need any. It’s been raining (thank God) not snowing most of the winter.
:O)
Oh, and I guess you haven't heard yet about the one coming in Sunday night after the storm you're talking about, eh?
My wife bought me a "Wovel"...
Most useless thing ever invented. Used it once then threw it in the snowbank so I wouldn't have to see it again until spring.
I’m surprised at you all. Everyone KNOWS that Global Warming causes widespread cold and snow up to your ears. THE DEBATE IS OVER!!!! It’s OVER It’s OVER It’s O-O-O-OVER!!!! It’s a PROVEN SCIENTIFIC FACT that you can’t repudiate, because we will have to send you to the Gulag for reprogramming, and that’s in Siberia, where the Global Warming is so bad the snow would be up over the angels’ ears, if there were any such thing as a more deified spiritual form than Al Gore. I mean, how can you even THINK of questioning the man? Why, he got D’s in science in college, and you know they only give those to the people who are so smart they make the professor look bad.
Born and raised in upstate NY. (Way back, when the whole state was conservative.) Was snowed in twice. Got tired of shoveling the weather. No plans to ever go back.
It was 80 degrees for the last few days here and forecasted to be the same into the middle of next week.
Sorry, but more snow’s what you’d expect from global warming, at least until it gets so much warmer that the increased precipitation (the result of increased evaporation from increased warmth) falls as rain.
Yeah...just a few more inches today on top of the 12+ from the other day.
4 more today
3 more tonight
Add in some freezing rain to that too....
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