Topic: It's coming..........

[John Florida]

It's snowing out my window right now.

*sadface*

 Light the fireplace,it always made me feel better.

Warm you up on those bitter 50 degree Florida winter nights, does it? 

  No it doesn'y but it is one of the reasons I want out of Florida.

[rustybayonet]

Get ready - in case your forgot - here's what two feet of snow looks like;



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[trapeze]

Where I live two feet isn't that big a deal. A bigger deal is so much snow that you can walk to the top of your roof.

Yet another reason that I store a lot of extra food...can't go to the grocery store when the roads are blocked with five to six feet of snow.

[whimsicalmamapig]

where I live, we don't close schools until the wind-chill hits -40.

[oldcoastie6468]

My tractor tire chains didn't come in today. Dammit! 

[LadyVirginia]

When I was a kid living in NC schools would close with 1/4" because there wasn't any removal equipment.  It would melt at our house by noon but sometimes school would be closed for several days because the county roads were still covered.   

We once got 6-8 inches.  Oh, man school closed for a week.  Snowed Monday, melted by Wednesday.  And it wasn't cold so it was fun to be outside. 

I loved that attitude--it snows life stops. 

[Libertas]

Had to be well over a foot or the sub-zero temps busting pipes to get us a day off back in my day...but when they came, we'd be out in it trying to invent new ways to hurl ourselves down hills and off jumps...building forts and destroying them in mock warfare...whatever we could think of...go home wet soggy messes!

[John Florida]

Had to be well over a foot or the sub-zero temps busting pipes to get us a day off back in my day...but when they came, we'd be out in it trying to invent new ways to hurl ourselves down hills and off jumps...building forts and destroying them in mock warfare...whatever we could think of...go home wet soggy messes!

   Today your parents would end up in jail for that. Forts?warfare?  Yup  jail it is.

[Libertas]

Had to be well over a foot or the sub-zero temps busting pipes to get us a day off back in my day...but when they came, we'd be out in it trying to invent new ways to hurl ourselves down hills and off jumps...building forts and destroying them in mock warfare...whatever we could think of...go home wet soggy messes!

   Today your parents would end up in jail for that. Forts?warfare?  Yup  jail it is.

Yeah, and foster homes and abuse for us kids...no thanks...I'd rather be under an overpass!

[oldcoastie6468]

The weather's supposed to suck big time here today, just in time for the Veterans Day observance. Cloudy & in the low 40s now, falling temps all day, windy, rain changing to snow.
 
But I'll go anyway; all of our vets will never be forgotten in this house, nor in those of our kids and our grandkids. It is my duty to go to celebrate all veterans.

But there's a bright spot - no frigging JJJ this year; he used to show up to give a BS speech, but now he can talk to the bars in his cell. May Satan burn his soul.

[LadyVirginia]

We're honoring vets tomorrow with a big dinner.  Not everyone can be home tonight so it's tomorrow.  I just decided that a family gathering with good food and sharing memories or thoughts on those who served would be a good idea. I've already put a bottle in the fridge so we can toast them all.

[Tania513]

Being a lifelong New Englander, I don't mind it. Nothing is better than being on a covered porch, drinking hot cocoa, and watch the snow falling from the sky!!!

[oldcoastie6468]

Being a lifelong New Englander, I don't mind it. Nothing is better than being on a covered porch, drinking hot cocoa, and watch the snow falling from the sky!!!

With apologies to Romemary Clooney, "C'mon a' my house, come on, come on. I'm gonna give you candy snow!"

Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House

[John Florida]

  I can remember in the mid nineties living in the North west Hills in Conn. and a blizzard knocking out the power in the whole town.


    Well the kids come running in for dad and mom cause they were scared and me going out in the garage and firing up the generator and turning on the spots and the TV.

  Before you know it the phone started ringing and we ended up with 26 visitors for the next couple days(which was fine with me because there were you kids involved).I did have an admittance charge which was gas bring what you got in case I need it.


  We lived and had a hell of a party.

[Pandora]

Supposed to be 27 degrees tomorrow night with a chance of a "snow mix" here in sunny NC.

Plenty of propane for the generator, steaks in the freezer and tupperware loaded with firewood on the front porch.  We're ready.

[Tania513]

Supposed to be 27 degrees tomorrow night with a chance of a "snow mix" here in sunny NC.

Plenty of propane for the generator, steaks in the freezer and tupperware loaded with firewood on the front porch.  We're ready.

ummmm, how did you get a log in a Tupperware container?

[Pandora]

I am a very good packer.   

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No, they're the big, plastic tupperware bins, ya sil.

[Tania513]

I am a very good packer.   

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No, they're the big, plastic tupperware bins, ya sil.

oic, like an oversized tote

[Pandora]

'Zackly.   

[Libertas]

Being a lifelong New Englander, I don't mind it. Nothing is better than being on a covered porch, drinking hot cocoa, and watch the snow falling from the sky!!!

Change the porch to a garage and cocoa to burbon or rum or (you get the pic!) and throw in a stogie and I am right there!

(As long as I don't have to drive in it...)   

And hey, throw in a bucket for your butt to rest on and a pole in your hand and you got ice fishin'! 

(No pole jokes!)