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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Been there, spammed that.
Good luck Rosie... We haven't gotten anything yet, roads should be just like they were earlier.
It looks slick here! I let the puppies out and they were dancing on the ice on the steps. Vey amusing.
down tuh 37 with heavy rain here now...
should be a wunnerful drive tuh werk in the mornin'...
It's drizzling. But it wasn't too bad...except the visibility problems. I HATE driving at night in the wet. Especially as there's always one guy in a truck who sticks his nose up your bumper so his lights blind you and WON'T GET BACK no matter what you do.
But I'm back.
So.... what's in the package?
25 here and a nice glaze on the roads.
I don't think the weenies know much of anything but I'm charging up the cell phone just in case.
My Dad flipped a car once, but I only saw the aftermath, when it had been towed to the shop. ;-) Took a turn too fast on an icy road and almost ended up in a pond, which would, of course, have been bad. He got lucky...just got a scratch.
Long time ago...I think I was only six or seven, so it was one of his first winters in Vermont.
Once while driving to work back when I still lived up north, I hit a patch of black ice, spun out, and went into a snowbank off the side of the road. A car that happened along a few minutes later gave me a ride back to town, where I called my Dad to come and get me. When we drove back to the scene, there was a police car and a tow truck there, but not for my car. It seems another driver came around the corner, saw my car, decided "It must be slippery!" and hit his brakes a little to hard. He lost control and his pickup went off the opposite side of the road from my car, over a 10-foot drop, and rolled onto its side. He was ok, just shaken up. The police and tow truck were there for his accident, but we got the tow truck driver to pull my car out of the snowbank before trying anything with the other guy's pickup.
My car was fine, my Dad drove it home while I drove his truck on to work. The nice policeman didn't issue any tickets, since the ice was so treacherous... he told us that when he first arrived on the scene and stepped out of his car, he slipped and nearly fell on his... rear. :-)
Heh...yeah, I came close to braking pretty hard right by where the car was off the road here.
OK, we appear to be getting percipitation, but I dunno quite what it is. Something noisy.
Heh...I do believe you're right this time!
I'm off, have a good night!
Hey everybody! I'm officially a "nasty, sick person" according to some others around here.
I'm feeling pretty good about that, for some nasty, sick reason. :-)
[sip]
Eek...just got my first winter power bill. Ouch. Guess winter is really here now.
Proud of ourselves, aren't we? ;o)
Yah...arguments don't work well when your *first* reaction is to call people idiots, without considering that likely they're more or less on the same side as you.
My 2 cents. ;-)
~sip~
I am easily amused. Or so it would seem. :-)
I'm sorry, we blew it here. We know that.
Thankfully Republicans didn't lose anywhere else...
Heh...yeah, I see a lot of that, too.
I get annoyed with the folks that start Vermont threads just to bash the place, too, though I know that's not in the same league. Truth is, MUCH of the state isn't at all liberal. Libertarian, maybe, but not liberal. And at one point recently we had the highest per capita as far as young folks serving in the military goes, and that may still be so. But to hear some talk, everyone there is a commie hippie who burns flags in their spare time. And I still love the place, durn it. It's hard not to take insults personally.
Again, I know it's nowhere near on the same scale, but I do kinda know how it feels.
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