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nerak

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But I can't stop reading the forums! Totally hooked I tell ya! Or maybe it's just that I'm not looking forward to it taking me 2 hours to travel 15 miles home, due to all the people freaking out about some snow and yet driving (badly) to the store to pick up their 3rd gallon of milk and enough smokes to last 3 weeks.
 

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I would gladly give up my baby, the Koa VV for seven feet of snow. (The worst we've ever had up here at one time was 7 feet 9 inches.) Last winter we had a snow drought and the entire front range almost burnt to the ground. By this time we should have had around 100 to 130 inches but have yet to hit the 20 inch mark total since October.

My well is going dry, as are others on the mountain, which causes me to make a daily decision... do a load of laundry or take a shower. Needless to sat on dance nights no laundry is done.

Kinda puts a crimp on inviting ladies up here so if they don't own their own house I don't date 'em. Hey, don't judge me, long hot showers aren't just for getting clean.

Of course I really won't have to worry about a dry well this spring... the raging forest fires will make sure there are no faucets to turn on.

Everyone in the path of the blizzard just stock up on canned foods, water, batteries and hunker down. Being stuck in your house for a couple of weeks isn't the end of the world and can even be kinda fun.

If you're going to shovel keep in mind that this storm is carrying a lot of moisture and the snow will be very heavy. Pretty much a heart attack waiting to happen. (Hint: There's never been a time in the history of mankind that the sun hasn't melted snow. Work smart... not hard.)

Good luck.


Jack
 

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I'm not sure if I count as S. Mi. -- I'm in Lansing area. But 6 inches of snow is very meh :) Didn't even stop my 2wd compact from getting over a plowed pile of snow behind my driveway and going to work. And, as it turns out, Reo Grand works great in a blizzard, so yay! Reminds me of the pain of snow extinguishing my stinkies last winter (and 24 winters before that)

Lol...for me, anything south of Saginaw/ bay City is south! We got about 5-7 inches here in the last few days...no big deal.I just came in from doing a bit of shoveling, it's beautiful outside!.
 

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So far so good. I'm at work (Logan Airport) but hope to get out of here by 3 this afternoon. It's snowing right now, but it's really only heavy flurries. Wind is picking up, but Logan is a big open space on the waterfront, so that's not out of the norm. The worst of the storm is supposed to happen tonight, say from 7PM through early morning Saturday. Forcasting up to 3 feet of snow and 70 mph wind gusts, HooHar! I live 15 miles north of Boston, and we should be one of the heaviest hit areas. I'll post later as things get more fun!
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Be careful, keep us posted on your well being, please!
 

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Thank you Kay! Glad he was able to contact you. I can't believe he didn't know! It should be all over the news channels.

Good thing he had you to tell him!!! Let us know if you hear anything from him again please!

Will do, Karen, and I'll tell him about the thread you started.As a matter of fact, I'll call him and leave it on his answering machine....
oops...old school....voice mail:laugh:
 

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Will do, Karen, and I'll tell him about the thread you started.As a matter of fact, I'll call him and leave it on his answering machine....
oops...old school....voice mail:laugh:

Congratulations Kay!!! You hit 5000 post with this one!!! Dang you post a lot! LOL!
 

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I would gladly give up my baby, the Koa VV for seven feet of snow. (The worst we've ever had up here at one time was 7 feet 9 inches.) Last winter we had a snow drought and the entire front range almost burnt to the ground. By this time we should have had around 100 to 130 inches but have yet to hit the 20 inch mark total since October.

My well is going dry, as are others on the mountain, which causes me to make a daily decision... do a load of laundry or take a shower. Needless to sat on dance nights no laundry is done.

Kinda puts a crimp on inviting ladies up here so if they don't own their own house I don't date 'em. Hey, don't judge me, long hot showers aren't just for getting clean.

Of course I really won't have to worry about a dry well this spring... the raging forest fires will make sure there are no faucets to turn on.

Everyone in the path of the blizzard just stock up on canned foods, water, batteries and hunker down. Being stuck in your house for a couple of weeks isn't the end of the world and can even be kinda fun.

If you're going to shovel keep in mind that this storm is carrying a lot of moisture and the snow will be very heavy. Pretty much a heart attack waiting to happen. (Hint: There's never been a time in the history of mankind that the sun hasn't melted snow. Work smart... not hard.)

Good luck.


Jack

P.S. and a handheld can opener:DYou might wanna get a camp stove and a percolater, if you drink coffee.
 

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P.S. and a handheld can opener:DYou might wanna get a camp stove and a percolater, if you drink coffee.

That's why God invented pull top soup and stew cans. He also invented wood stoves to heat the house, cook food, melt pans of snow for water and ambiance for those romantic hours... or days.

OH, DAMN... I gotta order another drum of little Blue pills! Wait, we're not getting snow, I can drive down the hill and get resupplied every week all by myself. (They let me use their forklift.)


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That's why God invented pull top soup and stew cans. He also invented wood stoves to heat the house, cook food, melt pans of snow for water and ambiance for those romantic hours... or days.

OH, DAMN... I gotta order another drum of little Blue pills! Wait, we're not getting snow, I can drive down the hill and get resupplied every week all by myself. (They let me use their forklift.)


Jack


I used to bake home made bread in wood cook stoves:pso there...and haul buckets of water for the tin tub in front of the stove...

I can rough it when it's necessary...why do think i'm a tough oldbroad?:D
 
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