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[NHBandit]

State of Emergency,

What are they going to do when something BIG happens?

It's possible I'm exaggerating about that part. I do that sometimes... But.. schools are cancelled because the small towns don't have plows and these windy back roads in the mountains can be treacherous with no guard rails. People were also hitting the stores pretty hard yesterday in anticipation. Maybe it's from living my whole life in the North East but I already have enough stuff to get me by for a couple weeks in stock at all times. 5 years ago we had an ice storm that knocked out power for 14 days with temps well below freezing. We saw it as an indoor camping trip.

 

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[worldtalker]

It's possible I'm exaggerating about that part. I do that sometimes... But.. schools are cancelled because the small towns don't have plows and these windy back roads in the mountains can be treacherous with no guard rails. People were also hitting the stores pretty hard yesterday in anticipation. Maybe it's from living my whole life in the North East but I already have enough stuff to get me by for a couple weeks in stock at all times. 5 years ago we had an ice storm that knocked out power for 14 days with temps well below freezing. We saw it as an indoor camping trip.

I know firsthand of them Mountain roads dude,look off at a 100 foot drop on a curve,you get used to it though.

 

[Limitool]

State of Emergency here in East Tennessee. Schools are closed. Store shelves are empty. And I'm stuck here at home until I find my broom....

Same here in Middle Tennessee Bandit.... it's HORRIBLE. I got up this morning and the water on top of my pool cover was actually ICED OVER!!!! My Granddaughter asked if she could ice skate. I said no "I don't want to end up on Red's "STUPID PEOPLE" thread". And Bandit.... looks like you got 10 times the snow we did here. And Red please post a picture of the snowman when complete as Bandit and I haven't seen one all winter yet. Be safe shoveling Red and all you folks up North... don't over do it and take your time.

 

[BosnMate]

Woke up this morning, looked out at a heavy damp (read that dam wet) fog, and noticed the verdant green lawn needs mowing, and it's too wet to get on it. Bummer. I've shoveled snow. Lived ONE winter at Lake Tahoe, in the shadow of Echo Summit. The storms hang up on the summit of the mountains, and we would get 5 feet of snow over night. Same thing happened to the Donnor Party in 1846 up at the north end of the lake. The snow was so deep I couldn't shovel the driveway because I couldn't throw it high enough, Just had a little pocket by the road to park in. Had to shovel the roof several times that winter, couldn't see out the front window on the fourth of July, back yard wasn't so bad, about 4 foot on the level on the fourth, but it had drifted on the front side. One time shoveling the roof, I actually had to throw snow up off the front side of the house. And just a few miles away, on the east side of the lake, nothing, not enough snow to talk about. Some people go to college and learn everything out of books, some learn things the hard way. Seems I learned the hard way most of my life.

 

[Red James Cash]

I slept late,I knew I wasnt going any place fast,coffees almost done,time to get the shovel.Have about 10 inches more since yesterday.at least its powder and not the heavy crap.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Lake Tahoe is sure pretty to visit though, been camping there and at Crater Lake as well.

Been to Yosemite several times camping years back. Drove through Yosemite one year the 1st day they opened highway 120 through the passes over the Sierra Nevada mountains into Nevada after a bad winter, drifts were 30 feet high along the road..... Was only about 2 feet of telephone and electrical poles sticking up above the snow banks on sides of road.

Really beautiful country as is Sequoia and Kings Canon N. P. ......:thumbup:








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We will NOT go quietly into the night!

 

[worldtalker]

It's possible I'm exaggerating about that part. I do that sometimes... But.. schools are cancelled because the small towns don't have plows and these windy back roads in the mountains can be treacherous with no guard rails. People were also hitting the stores pretty hard yesterday in anticipation. Maybe it's from living my whole life in the North East but I already have enough stuff to get me by for a couple weeks in stock at all times. 5 years ago we had an ice storm that knocked out power for 14 days with temps well below freezing. We saw it as an indoor camping trip.

A Northern Boy like you a walk in the park dude!!

You ain't no dummy.

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

My in-laws in Madison, WI sent me this picture...

 

[Red James Cash]

The one and only time I went to florida it was in February.I was in Jacksonville.It was about 50 - 55 degrees.I had a tee shirt on,the residents had coats and hats on

 

[Limitool]

The one and only time I went to florida it was in February.I was in Jacksonville.It was about 50 - 55 degrees.I had a tee shirt on,the residents had coats and hats on

Red when I moved from MI. to TN. to start at the Saturn plant many folks from all over the country were arriving also. One day in Feb. it was about 25-30 degrees outside with no wind. I'm walking into plant in a tee shirt, Levi's, and tennis shoes. The guy next to me has stocking hat, gloves, snowmobile suit and matching boots and scarf. He asks where I'm from and I say MI. and I say "how about you partner" and he says southern CA. Amazing the meaning of cold gets based on where your from.

 

[smokeythecat]

I actually went to work right after the storm ended this am. There's this 1/8th mile hill I have to get up to get out of my valley. The Impala was the little engine that finally made it (a miracle), but that anti skid technology just stinks when a "flying leap" will do and what is wanted.

 

[NHBandit]

My Northern friends can relate to this..

 

[Red James Cash]

I just got back,had to go in for a few minutes to pull some food from the freezers.Unreal the idiots on the road thats still covered in snow.I got tailgated almost all the way there by an idiot that wanted to go as fast as dry pavement speed.I kept hitting my brakes enough for the brake lights to come on hoping the dumb biotch would spin out and teach her a lesson.

 

[smokeythecat]

Careful with those dumb people! They could eventually get on the other thread and get eaten by a lion!

 

[Red James Cash]

Careful with those dumb people! They could eventually get on the other thread and get eaten by a lion!

They would be better offNo car no work for me.

 

[BosnMate]

My in-laws in Madison, WI sent me this picture...

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So true, here in southwest Oregon, we have just about the coldest 40 degree weather I've ever been in. In Nevada I'd bust ice for the cows to get a drink,
wearing a goose down vest and cowboy hat in single digit weather, in damp/wet Oregon 40 degrees sinks into the bone through heavy a heavy Carhart jacket.

 

[Dave44]

So true, here in southwest Oregon, we have just about the coldest 40 degree weather I've ever been in. In Nevada I'd bust ice for the cows to get a drink,
wearing a goose down vest and cowboy hat in single digit weather, in damp/wet Oregon 40 degrees sinks into the bone through heavy a heavy Carhart jacket.

I did exactly that, and way into the negative #s. But I was a lot younger, and The cold didn't matter then.. I may have not been smart enough to feel it?

 

[Red James Cash]

But I was a lot younger, and The cold didn't matter then.. I may have not been smart enough to feel it?

That was your"I'm invincible" stage in life Dave.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Lake Tahoe is sure pretty to visit though, been camping there and at Crater Lake as well.

Been to Yosemite several times camping years back. Drove through Yosemite one year the 1st day they opened highway 120 through the passes over the Sierra Nevada mountains into Nevada after a bad winter, drifts were 30 feet high along the road..... Was only about 2 feet of telephone and electrical poles sticking up above the snow banks on sides of road.

back in 75 2 friends and I went out west on a backpacking trip.

Really beautiful country as is Sequoia and Kings Canon N. P. ......:thumbup:








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We will NOT go quietly into the night!

back in 75 2 friends and I went out west on a backpacking trip. Slept on top of halfdome, That was cool. I did love sequoia as well.

 

[Dave44]

Beautiful Trees. There are quite a few in Hawaii now, Amazing forest.( not old enough to be the giants but getting bigger!)