Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!
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Since we are using this thread as a playground I'll post here...We Northeasterners are under a winter storm warning so if I disappear for a few days, yall will know we lost power in the armpit state of New England 
Since we are using this thread as a playground I'll post here...We Northeasterners are under a winter storm warning so if I disappear for a few days, yall will know we lost power in the armpit state of New England
Hope you got all the batts charged up good.
I have no doubt that bov has them charged up, the last time she went without power she made it days!!
I find it so funny listening to you guys on the east coast and the news. 3 inches is nothing... we get that during dinner here. I've been living here for 12 years now and we have never had the school shut once! The first time we woke to a bad snow storm, I told my husband (who is born and raised in florida) he better call and see if school is open. He did and they laughed at him. School is even open when it gets into the negative 30's. I'm not sure why or how as the cars do not start and most people don't bother sending their kids... but it is still open.
I'm not making fun of you guys, I was born and raised in upstate NY, so I get, but after 12 years of our weather, it is funny watching my East Coast channels on DirecTV and seeing every thing shut down for a flurry!
I do hope you guys in the path of bad weather stay warm and safe and I am keeping my fingers crossed that your power does not go out!
I find it so funny listening to you guys on the east coast and the news. 3 inches is nothing... we get that during dinner here. I've been living here for 12 years now and we have never had the school shut once! The first time we woke to a bad snow storm, I told my husband (who is born and raised in florida) he better call and see if school is open. He did and they laughed at him. School is even open when it gets into the negative 30's. I'm not sure why or how as the cars do not start and most people don't bother sending their kids... but it is still open.
I'm not making fun of you guys, I was born and raised in upstate NY, so I get, but after 12 years of our weather, it is funny watching my East Coast channels on DirecTV and seeing every thing shut down for a flurry!
I do hope you guys in the path of bad weather stay warm and safe and I am keeping my fingers crossed that your power does not go out!
A few inches is nothing but it's when it's coming with freezing rain, sleet and the fact that the road workers around here don't like overtime, it sucks bad. Oh, and don't get me started on the drivers around here. 
And did I mention the electric will go out if someone so much as farts?
And did I mention the electric will go out if someone so much as farts?
A few inches is nothing but it's when it's coming with freezing rain, sleet and the fact that the road workers around here don't like overtime, it sucks bad. Oh, and don't get me started on the drivers around here.
In my humble opinion that in a nut shell is why we do better in bad weather. We get freezing rain, sleet, black ice all the way down the highway. Not only are most people in this area prepared for bad weather but so are the people responsible for clearing the roads, keeping the electric going etc. Every winter everyone here throws on studded winter tires. I would say 9 out of every 10 houses has at least one generator. Most people have a stocked pantry that will get them through a month in the event that they can't make it to a store. In short, most of the population here is made up of people with real survivalist mentalities. Most a little extreme in my opinion.
Moo I knew you'd be laughing at us! Hell I laugh at the flash flooding from 1 inch of rain here. In Florida's summer rainy season we'd get an inch in 30 minutes...every day. But the soil is so sandy that it perks right thru.
The problems are like Mod said...the utility companies up here are all on the take and don't keep the trees cut out of the power lines or call in emergency teams fast enough. CP&L is under investigation (just a waste of tax dollars in my opinion) for their slow response during Irene and the Oct snowstorm. We were out of power 8 days in the Oct storm...and we were some of the lucky ones!
The problems are like Mod said...the utility companies up here are all on the take and don't keep the trees cut out of the power lines or call in emergency teams fast enough. CP&L is under investigation (just a waste of tax dollars in my opinion) for their slow response during Irene and the Oct snowstorm. We were out of power 8 days in the Oct storm...and we were some of the lucky ones!
Our utility company is a co-op, so all the customers are "owners". We do have power issues. Simply put there is not enough!! But that just results in what are usually short outages and it seems in recent times it is less of a problem. And as I said most every body has a generator. But our bills come winter time are SKY HIGH. Summer bills (we do not have AC) are around $122. Come winter time the bills start going up, and by the height of winter the bill is at $850 dollars. You need a part time job to pay your bill.
I'm not laughing at you guys, I lived on the east coast for more then half my life. Born and raised in NY, about a year in NH and a decade in South Florida.
One thing I noticed since I left your part of the world and came here... people are more helpful. Once while driving in a bad storm in NH, we skidded of the road in a pretty out of the way area and got stuck in a ditch. A few moments later a "good samaritan" with a tow hitch happened by. Asked if he could help, got us hitched up and then asked for $100!!! We told him we did not have any money, so he unhtched us and drove away. The next guy luckily only wanted $50 and at least he told us up front instead of making us freeze our booties off for nothing. Here if someone goes off the road 3 cars will stop to help and only expect a hand shake. This is just a better place to be when the weather gets bad.
I'm not laughing at you guys, I lived on the east coast for more then half my life. Born and raised in NY, about a year in NH and a decade in South Florida.
One thing I noticed since I left your part of the world and came here... people are more helpful. Once while driving in a bad storm in NH, we skidded of the road in a pretty out of the way area and got stuck in a ditch. A few moments later a "good samaritan" with a tow hitch happened by. Asked if he could help, got us hitched up and then asked for $100!!! We told him we did not have any money, so he unhtched us and drove away. The next guy luckily only wanted $50 and at least he told us up front instead of making us freeze our booties off for nothing. Here if someone goes off the road 3 cars will stop to help and only expect a hand shake. This is just a better place to be when the weather gets bad.
Moo that's sad...someone always chasing the dollar. I kept myself busy the week after our Oct. storm by helping neighbors clear the broken branches and stacking them at the curb for the city chipper trucks. Most of our neighborhood are folks in their golden years like my MIL and it really pisses me off to see others trying to take advantage of them!
When I lived in Maine, the people were helpful. It's like a whole other world up there
When I lived in Maine, the people were helpful. It's like a whole other world up there
Maine is my favorite state in New England. I can't say that I lived there, but I did crash there for a while!
I lived there for 5 years. My ex worked at the nuke plant in Wiscasset. The plant has been decommissioned now, that's when we moved to Florida and took a job at the nuke plant in Crystal River, FL. I loved it up there...and the snow never made anyone skip a beat.
Maybe people are nicer now a days. This is going back at least 16 years ago.
I also might have given NH a bad rap. We lived in NH at the time, but we were VERY close to the border of Mass. I was staying in a little apartment on Hampton Beach and my Mom's house was in Portsmouth, so we could have been driving in Mass.
I also might have given NH a bad rap. We lived in NH at the time, but we were VERY close to the border of Mass. I was staying in a little apartment on Hampton Beach and my Mom's house was in Portsmouth, so we could have been driving in Mass.
Yup, it was colder than a witches tit here yesterday with wicked winds gusting up around 50mph.
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