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NORTHEAST BLIZZARD - Live Thread - January 22-23 2005

Posted on 01/22/2005 4:04:20 AM PST by SamAdams76

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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

The eighteen inches is blown up against my car. I managed to shovel a little path to the street before getting overwhelmed with exhaustion :O)


961 posted on 01/23/2005 7:51:06 PM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg
I can just imagine what my mother's poor, put-upon Honda looks like, at the moment.

Sheesh!

:0)

962 posted on 01/23/2005 7:57:23 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Anxiously awaiting the coming of the Tupacalypse.)
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To: acapesket
Lucky Dog! Speaking of Dogs, mine won't even go out to relieve herself! It's so cold out that the snow is crying!

When.....I....lived....in.....that....cooooooooold we had an outside dog with a heated dog house. But when it got that cooooooold even she came inside. Not because she needed to but because I did not want to go out to replace the ice in her water bowl with water.

963 posted on 01/23/2005 8:13:39 PM PST by BJungNan (Cut government spending 3 percent, get the same job done.)
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To: x

Donner party cookbook.

Ewwww! :)


964 posted on 01/23/2005 8:31:54 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: x

Donner party cookbook.

Ewwww! :)


965 posted on 01/23/2005 8:31:57 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: oceanview

Just heard on a wrapup that Chatham had 32 inches and Sagamore Beach got 34 inches. So the weathermen were spot on.


966 posted on 01/23/2005 9:17:52 PM PST by ProudVet77 (Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
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To: All

Thousands Marooned by Blizzard at Airports (Up to 31 inches of snow fell north of Boston)

967 posted on 01/24/2005 12:29:59 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Where abouts are you, I'm in Macomb Twp.

Livingston County...between Fenton and Hartland.

I took my truck for a little spin on the back roads late Saturday night, and blasted through the 2-3' snow drifts.

Fun stuff!

968 posted on 01/24/2005 5:46:20 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: SamAdams76
God Bless you Sam Adams, that was one long driveway, even with a snow blower, Helped to have two strong young lads at your side.

Roast Turkey sounds good. There is a turkey farm on the Holliston, Hopkinton Line, that has great Turkey to either cook yourself or buy ready roasted. They also make great Pies, and muffins.

No Snow here in Georgia, no driveways to dig out of. It is a blessing and it is a curse. Two days ago, I was driving along a major highway in the early morning, at 70 mph, and a deer charged out of no where and hit the side of my car over the back passenger door. His head broke the window, and my car exploded with broken glass and deer hair. Fortunately I was alright, except covered in deer hair and broken glass and the deer was not able to come inside my car. The back door will have to be replaced.

So the moral of this story is Sam Adams, at least you are safe inside your snow covered house with your cars in the garage and roasted Turkey on the table :-)

969 posted on 01/24/2005 6:31:42 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: brooklin

Residents dig out as a blizzard dumps some two feet of snow in the area, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005, in Boston. Whiteout conditions grounded airplanes and sent fleets of plow and salt trucks trundling through snow-clogged roadways before the storm began to ebb at midday.(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

970 posted on 01/24/2005 6:35:02 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Philip Roberts, of Boston, covers up against the wind-driven snow while walking in Boston, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005. Whiteout conditions grounded airplanes and sent fleets of plow and salt trucks trundling through snow-clogged roadways before the storm began to ebb at midday.(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

971 posted on 01/24/2005 6:37:56 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: dakine

Chicken Little! Chicken Little! The sky is falling!.


972 posted on 01/24/2005 10:27:49 AM PST by henderson field
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To: mariabush
I would keep a drip going just in case. I live in the South and when it gets down in the teen's even with the heat on we have had the pipes under the house freeze. NOT FUN.

It all depends on how you prepared your house is.

My neighbors house was built on top of the ground with plumbing under the surface of the structure. His pipes would freeze 3-4 times each winter.It would have helped if he had wrapped them better.

My house was built for cold weather,with pipes buried in the ground so the pipes don't freeze as long as we use water occasionally...ie: shower and flush in the am, give the dogs fresh water, make dinner etc.

Our septic system did freeze one year because we had been away for 2 days, and the boys had been snowmobiling over the pipe that led from the house to the weeping bed. I can laugh now, but we had a work crew here for 16 hours, and about $2000.00 later we could flush the toilet with out flooding the back yard. LOL , this was in -40 degree weather, + wind chill.

973 posted on 01/24/2005 11:32:24 AM PST by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: sissyjane
> Now if I can just think of a way of keeping the beer cold.<

Ummm....wouldn't the snow outside help???

Unless you leave it out too long, and it freezes.

Then all 'Beer' breaks out!! Sprays everywhere.

After the ice storm of '98, the beer companies offered to do a strait exchange for anyone who's beer had been frozen. :-)

974 posted on 01/24/2005 11:40:29 AM PST by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: fanfan
I am so glad to know about your pipe's. We live in an 100 yo house and before we moved in the pipes froze and we had to have all of the plumbing replaced. We put pipe insulation on everything but the drains, but I still leave a 60w light on under the kitchen pipes and leave a little drip if it is going to be freezing for over 1 day. Once burned makes you leery.
975 posted on 01/24/2005 11:52:12 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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To: mariabush
Once burned makes you leery.

You are right about that.

976 posted on 01/24/2005 11:57:23 AM PST by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: AmericanMade1776

At the house here, I think that we may have gotten 5-6" on the level. Too much wind to have much level though.


977 posted on 01/24/2005 2:20:00 PM PST by brooklin (What was that?)
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To: ProudVet77

it must be a nightmare there, I can't even imagine it, that's twice as much as we got on long island.


978 posted on 01/24/2005 3:01:45 PM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview

It went down to 35 here in Naples Florida, Had to turn the heat on. Had to bring some of the plants out by the pool inside. Put a sweater on this morning going to work. It's been rough but I'll get over it.


979 posted on 01/25/2005 9:53:36 AM PST by TonyWojo
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To: SamAdams76

Neat photos; SamAdams. Thanks!

Brought back a memory; the home we moved from. Top photo, only. Add a deck to the second floor, remove shutters and basketball hoop, change the garage doors a little bit - and it sure looks familiar to me!

We have a great aerial photo of that home. Some guy in a small plane went around and snapped pics. There were acres of treas, and a lake in the pic. Later, he knocked on doors and asked if folks wanted to buy the photo of their home. We did. It was great. Kudos to him for a neat idea.

Thanks again, SamAdams76, for a fond memory.

Hope you all survived well in that nasty blizzard!


980 posted on 01/25/2005 6:09:30 PM PST by JLO (Minnesota Nice)
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