Obviously the result of neglecting Climate Change! Trump's fault!!
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Obviously the result of neglecting Climate Change! Trump's fault!!
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Yes, current models showing rain. Very cold, but rain. I'm glad...my mud is starting to dry out....
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My favorite thing about snow here. Look out your window and see it snowed. Stay in for two days and it's gone. Nobody knows how to drive in the snow because they don't have to.
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I know how to drive in snow, but I stay home because nobody else knows how to drive in it.
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I was hoping for us to get a bunch of snow on Thursday to avoid going to Roanoke. This is my fault bringing out the Sheaffer weather factor.
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Yeah, but so many of them also don't know how to drive in the rain.
And there seem to be a lot of them now that don't seem to know how to drive at all. I suspect this isn't entirely a regional phenomenon.
This threat is funny….. and much of it is true.
I was in the process of purchasing a one million dollar piece of equipment from a company in Buffalo NY and needed to do an in process inspection inspection in the winter. When we went to dinner in the evening, about 5ft of snow had been pushed to the side and travel was easy. When we came out of the restaurant we couldn’t see the car because it was completely buried Under another 6 ft of new snow. Our hosts just laughed, when back into the restaurant and came out with a few guys that helped dig the car out so we could get on the road which still had about a foot of snow on it.
When we lived in Hudson Ohio - between Akron and Cleveland - I would get up and see blue skies and sunshine. As I drove the 25 miles to Richmond Heights for work I would go thru a blizzard with 6- 18 inches of new snow and there would be rain when I got there. One weekend I got pissed and bought a Chevy short bed step side Pickup with full time 4 wheel drive and bIg tires wheels. The only problems was that it got 10 Mpg durning the gas shortage and my wife loved driving it. She liked parking it in snow banks at the local store and watching the local prissy women stare it it because she got one of the good parking places.
OK one more - we had three snowblowers when we lived in NH. One shovel type for the walks and deck, one medium sized for cleaning up the residue from the guy that plowed the driveway, and one monster for the deep snow when the plow guy couldn’t get to us or when the piles next to the driveway exceeded 6 ft.
I was in the process of purchasing a one million dollar piece of equipment from a company in Buffalo NY and needed to do an in process inspection inspection in the winter. When we went to dinner in the evening, about 5ft of snow had been pushed to the side and travel was easy. When we came out of the restaurant we couldn’t see the car because it was completely buried Under another 6 ft of new snow. Our hosts just laughed, when back into the restaurant and came out with a few guys that helped dig the car out so we could get on the road which still had about a foot of snow on it.
When we lived in Hudson Ohio - between Akron and Cleveland - I would get up and see blue skies and sunshine. As I drove the 25 miles to Richmond Heights for work I would go thru a blizzard with 6- 18 inches of new snow and there would be rain when I got there. One weekend I got pissed and bought a Chevy short bed step side Pickup with full time 4 wheel drive and bIg tires wheels. The only problems was that it got 10 Mpg durning the gas shortage and my wife loved driving it. She liked parking it in snow banks at the local store and watching the local prissy women stare it it because she got one of the good parking places.
OK one more - we had three snowblowers when we lived in NH. One shovel type for the walks and deck, one medium sized for cleaning up the residue from the guy that plowed the driveway, and one monster for the deep snow when the plow guy couldn’t get to us or when the piles next to the driveway exceeded 6 ft.
I don’t know what yanyeesplaining itt means but if your against edumacation I am sorry and hope you have a Merry Christmas.
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I'm not sure, either, but there are undertones in a couple of the posts that are like "poor Southerners don't know how bad it really gets, I had walk uphill both ways in 10 ft of snow above the Arctic circle when I lived in XXXXX".
I just shrug it all off.
If it’s less than 50’, I feel like I am about to die….. unless I’m on a boat speckled trout fishing or offshore tuna fishing, then somehow I forget!
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I went to the PO around 2:30 today and it was raining with a little snow mixed in for good measure.
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I remember doing that in 6th grade -- in the dark -- but below the Arctic circle, and carrying a saxophone. 😂 That was the year our primary school got over capacity and the 6th grade got bused back and forth from there to a different school -- unless you did sports or music after school (I did both). My school day trip changed from three short blocks each way to a mile (up hill!) each way.
(Okay, in full disclosure, I took the bus in the morning and walked back after school, lugging the horn. And after a certain point of uphill work, it was pretty much level. But it was a bit over a mile. Of course, in those days we didn't think much of that sort of thing.)I don't hold the winter hysteria against southerners (some of whom actually live in mountains and DO know what winter can really be like). I do hold it against the news and weather anchors on national networks, who definitely ought to know better. ⛄❄️🌨️🏔️🎿⛷️ <-- We do have all those emojis for a reason.
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Don't forget plastic diapers.
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i wanna pee off the deck and see if it freezes, the pee that is
Yeah, looks like we've got some low to mid teens coming up. No big deal for folks from cold weather states, but unless you're in the mtns here you're prob not comfortable with it.
Of course local folks generally handle the heat and humidity with a lot less complaint too.
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I've said in another post here the older I get the less tolerant I am to extremes. But if I had to take one, the heat over the cold for sure. I know real winter, I don't want four, five months of it, but a week or two is fine.
Just another excuse for Gov. Pooper to declare a "state of emergency" with all the resulting powers from that declaration.
He sure does love him some SOE declarations, I guess it's another way to launder money from the Fed Gov (Biden) and into his future senate campaign.
SOE for weather
I don't remember these when I was young and the weather was bad.
He sure does love him some SOE declarations, I guess it's another way to launder money from the Fed Gov (Biden) and into his future senate campaign.
SOE for weather
I don't remember these when I was young and the weather was bad.
One of the first things I did when our mountain place was done as pee of the deck. You are not a man if that doesn‘t give you a little joy,
Think how much less you sweat your ass off on a hike or workout when it’s cold. I love winter hikes/rucks.
Mid-December 2007 or 2008. 30° and rain. On the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge on I-84. 135' above the water.
I know what a hockey puck feels like after being t-boned by a Freightliner. First and only time I've been on the receiving end of the Jaws of life.
15 cars, the tractor trailer and the 6 wheeler oil truck I was driving. Interstate was closed for 2 hours.
Good times.
Heck, we had temps of 2 or 3 below zero here in the Triangle back in 1993/94 and I don't remember any big deal made of it, but I was a lot more oblivious to things like that back then. Carefree ignorance isn't all bad I guess.
If you've lived through a couple of winters in Duluth MN, you might well feel that way -- think of SF hills with that 10' of snow and wind uplifting from off of Lake Superior.
Our first winter there, courtesy of the USAF, we lived in a mobile home build by Magnolia (i.e. in Mississippi). There was a certain irony in this as my father (and we) had just been transferred up there to Duluth from Biloxi (Keesler AFB) after going through/surviving that wonderful mid-August visit by hurricane Camille.
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Ha. Grew up in Chardon, first house in Mentor, worked in Highland Heights, Eastlake, Kirtland, Lyndhurst, etc. The effing show belt baby.
Having spent half my life in the Midwest & half in NC, I’ll take NC’s winter temps over MO’s every time. That said, the dry, powdery snow you get when it’s bitterly cold is ever so much easier to deal with.
Some of y’all remember me pinballing my truck between the barriers on the frozen top deck of a 3 deck bridge in January of last year. So yeah, when the roads get bad, I stay off em. Beauty of retirement- I don’t have to leave the house if I don’t want to.
Here’s how schizophrenic our weather is- single digit highs on Friday & in the 50’s less than a week later.
Some of y’all remember me pinballing my truck between the barriers on the frozen top deck of a 3 deck bridge in January of last year. So yeah, when the roads get bad, I stay off em. Beauty of retirement- I don’t have to leave the house if I don’t want to.
Here’s how schizophrenic our weather is- single digit highs on Friday & in the 50’s less than a week later.
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Not me. For cold weather I can just put on more clothes, and the newer fabrics and insulators are great. Then I can go outside for as long as I want and actually do stuff. I don't have any kind of air conditioned suit I can put on in July or August and work outside. At that point, it's work for maybe 20-30 minutes at a time. Last summer we re-floored our rear deck and it just about killed us. Outside for 20 minutes, inside for 30 or more; and iterate. Right now, we're doing the same with the front deck and aren't limited by the temperature. So -- at least for me -- the heat/humidity limits my activities much more than cold temperatures, and snow and ice, do. And higher temperatures will influence effects of various medications that old people tend to be on much more than low temps will. So for me, bring on the cold. That's when I can get a lot more done.
You might be right about the undertones but that street goes two ways.
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Not me. For cold weather I can just put on more clothes, and the newer fabrics and insulators are great. Then I can go outside for as long as I want and actually do stuff. I don't have any kind of air conditioned suit I can put on in July or August and work outside. At that point, it's work for maybe 20-30 minutes at a time. Last summer we re-floored our rear deck and it just about killed us. Outside for 20 minutes, inside for 30 or more; and iterate. Right now, we're doing the same with the front deck and aren't limited by the temperature. So -- at least for me -- the heat/humidity limits my activities much more than cold temperatures, and snow and ice, do. And higher temperatures will influence effects of various medications that old people tend to be on much more than low temps will. So for me, bring on the cold. That's when I can get a lot more done.
Something happened when I had my surgery last year, like my thermostat broke or something, and I became cold-sensitive, which has been worsened with chemo. The oncologist said that could happen. I can work all day in the summer (well, I am forced to take a wife-enforced break midday), and although I don't care for the higher humidity, I can tolerate it better.
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One of the things I brought down here with us when we moved was my Eddie Bauer Expedition Parka (from the days when Eddie Bauer was Eddie Bauer and not whatever unspeakable mess it's become). I'd got it my first year of teaching in Chicago, in part because I had to teach on two campuses and spend some time waiting for El trains on the exposed platforms. A double European goose down parka with attached hood (i.e., one full parka inside another. It had snaps so you could add a bottom bag for sleeping while you were tied to a rock face or whatever. But I didn't get that. I used that parka every one of the 14 winters I spent in Chicago.
It didn't take me long to see that I would NEVER be using that parka anywhere down here -- even if camping in the mountains in winter. 😂😂 I took it to one of the local charity stores, but I don't know if anyone ever made use of it. Maybe some budding mountaineer stumbled across it and thought it was a gift from the gods. That was decades before the internet -- or I would have sold it on Ebay to some other Nanook of the North.
It didn't take me long to see that I would NEVER be using that parka anywhere down here -- even if camping in the mountains in winter. 😂😂 I took it to one of the local charity stores, but I don't know if anyone ever made use of it. Maybe some budding mountaineer stumbled across it and thought it was a gift from the gods. That was decades before the internet -- or I would have sold it on Ebay to some other Nanook of the North.
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I still have mine (parka). Never know if I'll be sent north to attend a funeral or something.One of the things I brought down here with us when we moved was my Eddie Bauer Expedition Parka (from the days when Eddie Bauer was Eddie Bauer and not whatever unspeakable mess it's become). I'd got it my first year of teaching in Chicago, in part because I had to teach on two campuses and spend some time waiting for El trains on the exposed platforms. A double European goose down parka with attached hood (i.e., one full parka inside another. It had snaps so you could add a bottom bag for sleeping while you were tied to a rock face or whatever. But I didn't get that. I used that parka every one of the 14 winters I spent in Chicago.
It didn't take me long to see that I would NEVER be using that parka anywhere down here -- even if camping in the mountains in winter. 😂😂 I took it to one of the local charity stores, but I don't know if anyone ever made use of it. Maybe some budding mountaineer stumbled across it and thought it was a gift from the gods. That was decades before the internet -- or I would have sold it on Ebay to some other Nanook of the North.
Did you teach at Loyola? My wife did the two campus thing back in 97-98.
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One of the things I brought down here with us when we moved was my Eddie Bauer Expedition Parka (from the days when Eddie Bauer was Eddie Bauer and not whatever unspeakable mess it's become). I'd got it my first year of teaching in Chicago, in part because I had to teach on two campuses and spend some time waiting for El trains on the exposed platforms. A double European goose down parka with attached hood (i.e., one full parka inside another. It had snaps so you could add a bottom bag for sleeping while you were tied to a rock face or whatever. But I didn't get that. I used that parka every one of the 14 winters I spent in Chicago.
It didn't take me long to see that I would NEVER be using that parka anywhere down here -- even if camping in the mountains in winter. 😂😂 I took it to one of the local charity stores, but I don't know if anyone ever made use of it. Maybe some budding mountaineer stumbled across it and thought it was a gift from the gods. That was decades before the internet -- or I would have sold it on Ebay to some other Nanook of the North.
Eddie Bauer used to make quality cold weather gear. Not any more, now it's all mainstream.
I had a pair of Chippewa -40 boots that were issued to me when we did mountain warfare training. Those were awesome, lamb shearling lined, a capped toe and heel for snowshoes and ski bindings. But FAR too much boot for any NC weather, so I sold them. I still have some cold weather gear from the mil I have not used, at all, in NC.
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Eddie Bauer had moved into pop clothing in the late early 80s before we left Chicago. It was alarming and depressing. But not as much as the change in Abercrombie and Fitch that followed.
When I bought that Parka in the Eddie Bauer store on State Street in Chicago (with my first University paycheck), I also stopped in the A&F store a couple of blocks away. It was, as I recall, on the 2nd floor of one of the large downtown buildings. I swear that you could almost hear the dramatic organ music welling up as you walked through the door. It was like "A hush fell over the crowd." A large beautiful wooden canoe hung from the ceiling over the big main show room. A rack of expensive guns lined the wall -- including double rifles suitable for African dangerous game. Everything you could want (or they could get for you) to outfit a major North American or African hunting expedition -- if you could just afford it. You had to stand in awe of it all. A really special place.
Now ... well ... they still claim to provide "Authentic American clothing since 1892". 😂😂😂
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