Posted on 06/14/2021 12:41:50 PM PDT by blam
I was up in a Alaska for a bit. Talking with a guy that left Oregon with his wife and two kids and lived in a tent for a year living off of the canned goods she had made and brought up.
He said most new people leave after the second winter.
“The second winter??”
“Yeah. The first winter they figure that must have been a really bad one and/or they figure they will get used to it. When the second winter is just as bad or worse they leave!”
They've been showing up for thirty years now.
Fires are of more worry than cold.
Also yer gritty carpenter can work, and work well, in all kind of temperature these days.
Oh yes, your undesireables do get their shots in.
But they effin better make 'em count.
Yeah we had around -40 in Pa when we lived there. The joke there was ‘I let my dog out to pee and when it did it froze to the ground until Spring’.
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon...
So the herd is going to get thinned?
BTW, what is the average square footage of these \tract houses'? What are these buyers paying per square foot of living space?
They all watched too much Yellowstone..
“Wait until they get a blizzard in May and the trees have to bud a second time in July. I experienced this in southeast Montana in 1983.”
Or several feet of snow on Labor Day Weekend.
That happened to a college age friend and his younger Bro, who worked in northern Idaho for 2 summers with the forestry service. He and his bro were dynamite workers and good with all types of machinery.
The two of them were approached by their forestry ranger boss to stay past labor day and dismantle the campgrounds where the summer crews worked and stayed.
They were promised double time to stay and dismantle and stow the camp away for the next summer. The Ranger said that it would be about two weeks work. Their SW college didn’t start the fall semester until the local harvests were over. So they started their new job on Saturday before labor day. The rest of the workers had left on Friday after pay day.
Everything went well on their first Sat/Sun. Then, they woke up to 2’ of snow with more coming down. They got a radio call from their boss,telling them they had about 30 minutes to pack their gear to catch him in a Power Wagon or spend the winter in Idaho.
They had never been in snow and after about 5 minutes of snow time.
They were ready to meet the Power Wagon and leave. They came home by power wagon, bus, train and their parents meeting them.
They never went back to Idaho except between late June and Mid August.
“Wait until they get a blizzard in May and the trees have to bud a second time in July. I experienced this in southeast Montana in 1983.”
Or several feet of snow on Labor Day Weekend.
That happened to a college age friend and his younger Bro, who worked in northern Idaho for 2 summers with the forestry service. He and his bro were dynamite workers and good with all types of machinery.
The two of them were approached by their forestry ranger boss to stay past labor day and dismantle/store the tents/campgrounds where the summer crews worked and stayed.
They were promised double time to stay and dismantle and stow the camp away for the next summer. The Ranger said that it would be about two weeks work. Their SW college didn’t start the fall semester until the local harvests were over. So they started their new job on Saturday before labor day. The rest of the workers had left on Friday after pay day.
Everything went well on their first Sat/Sun. Then, they woke up to 2’ of snow with more coming down. They got a radio call from their boss,telling them they had about 30 minutes to pack their gear to catch him in a Power Wagon or spend the winter in Idaho.
They had never been in snow and after about 5 minutes of snow time.
They were ready to meet the Power Wagon and leave. They came home by power wagon, bus, train and their parents meeting them.
They never went back to Idaho except between late June and Mid August on vacation.
Devils Tower Wyoming
Why do elite liberals love the ski areas?
About 3+ decades ago, my wife was thinking about retirement and she loved the snow bunny ski runs. I had moved up to the advance lifts trails.
Even then, the elite liberals had flocked into the good skiing areas in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico and of course California.
My wife’s boss, a down to earth doctor, explained to us that the people living in those ski areas were snooty elites like his sister. She was in banking here and south America and lived in ski areas in both areas. She kept an small home in the Bay area as her bank headquarters was here, and so her parents had a place to live rent free. She told my wife that we would not be happy living in one of those elite areas even then.
We confirmed that with other seasonal snow bunnies.
Hope they have some Mexican squatters there when they arrive.
I was there for 26 years. More than once there was not ANY good weather between the May thaw and the October freeze. Other years made up for it. EVERY year the mosquitos were awful. I am convinced that God made mosquitos to punish Man for original sin.
Not to mention sharks with fricken' lasers!
We say that about the folks moving to the Phoenix area. Will be 118 tomorrow. Also Florida just after the first real hurricane makes landfall. Every place is subject to some sort of disaster. I’d worry more about tornadoes in areas like that. With the shortages rebuilding will be a nightmare.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment, And despite the changing fortunes of time, There is always a big future in dental floss.
Bingo
What an idiotic plot.....but folks lap it up
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