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 Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:34 am Subject: frustrated displaced suffering southerner |
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This is awful!! In the 11 years I've lived up north I have never seen this kind of snow or been this cold..We've got blizzard conditions, the roads are a mess, it's 8 degrees, and I'm freakin' stuck in the house!!
We have an avalanche in the driveway..I should try and clean it up so my husband can pull into the driveway when he gets home, but I can't shovel very well, I don't know how to run the snowblower, and it's too friggin' cold. I can't go running, and the treadmill isn't cutting it for me..I need to move!!!
I can't even watch NFL network, because the satelite reception is going in and out, I'm about to go up on the roof and clean the damn thing off!!
So am I just an overly dramatic southerner, or is the weather really this bad?  How's the weather for you guys?
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You aren't exaggerating. It is freezing cold here! This afternoon the winds are going to pick up to over 40 m/p/h and the windchill is going to drop below -30 below zero! At least no snow (yet).
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You can have some of our snow!! Some A-hole is outside doing donuts in the middle of the road. My little boy wants to go outside, but I think it's too cold.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:15 am Subject: |
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My kids want to go outside also, but I don't think so with the temps well below zero!
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It is FREEZING!! I keep thinking that it will warm up, but I can't even get the house warm. I have to keep the water dripping in the kitchen so that the pipes don't freeze - the freeze when the temp goes down to about 20 - I have no basement just a crawl space and the fool that built this house put the pipes right up against the brick wall, so I can't wrap them. I have had this problem for 30+ years in the winter. It is the house that jack built - a Korean War pre-fab. none of the windows are shim and when the wind blows so does the curtains! Even with the plastic, and duck tape. You can see your breath in here!
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Know how you feel Fins! For the past several weeks, we have had tons of ice and snow. The ice storm had not even melted, and this week was snow. I have been stuck in the house on and off for 10 days, been driving me nuts!!..KAren
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:26 am Subject: |
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As a New Englander, if you dress in layers your boy will be OK outside. Hat is mandatory! We played outside as children in the freezing cold all the time. You get those rosy cheeks, and feel good. As an adult, I walked to work from the subway(about a mile) in below 0 wind chills. If your dress warm enough, believe it or not, your ok. Also once you start shoveling you won't feel the cold so much. Now, I have no idea if its because I have always lived in New England, probably it is, but you can do it!!! Good luck finsfan!
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OMG, I didn't know you had to let the water trickle!! I just talked to my husband (he thinks I'm over reacting, by the way) and he told me we'd have to run the water tonight. Thankfully our house is pretty modern, built in the late 70's, and when we moved in 6 years ago the furnace was brand new.
I think I am going to let Andrew go outside for a little bit, I'm tired of hearing "MOM! MOM! MOM!". It's actually up to 16 degrees now! You know, I've never made a snow man in my life?
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:23 pm Subject: |
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LOL. Finsfan I am just like you, I am very overprotected. I'm like the mother in "The Christmas Story", my boys are the one's who can NOT move when they go outside because I put too much layers on them. LOL
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I'm not overprotected. LOL. I meant I am very overprotective of my boys.
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Hey, send that snow my way!! We had our first snow and we only got 3 inches and its gone already. I miss the snows up north.
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Gosh, it won't stop...I went outside with a roof rake (?) to clean off the satelite dish, and guess where the snow ended up? Yep, right on my head. The snow is past my dang knees.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:20 pm Subject: |
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But were you able to clean off the satellite dish and get the signals coming in? LOL
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I'm right with you in those conditions, fins, just not to the extent that you have it! We have darn near blizzard conditions - just not quite high enough wind speed to be classified as such. Roads are drifting shut, and accidents are all over the place. Windchills at -10 to -20. The boys and I went grocery shopping this morning for ourselves and my parents, so my parents wouldn't have to go out in this mess.
We saw a BAD accident while we were out, though. Some yahoo pulled right out in front of an oncoming truck, causing the driver of the truck to slam on his brakes and swerve, shearing off a heavy wooden mailbox post, then go into a ditch nose-first, which then caused the truck to flip over twice. And the idiot that caused the wreck by pulling out? He looked back, with a shocked expression on his face, then drove off.  We stopped and I helped the poor guy get out of his truck and contact his wife and the police. Friends of his showed up to help, so I left. And when I called the state police to report that I had witnessed the accident (in case it would help the guy that rolled his truck), they didn't care. Said a report wasn't needed, it was all taken care of. I hate living in a no-fault insurance state. This poor guy's insurance will have to pay for what some other jerk caused to happen. Brand new truck, about $30,000 worth - totalled.
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Steelers, I did indeed get the signal in..I'm snug as a bug now; I've downed almost an entire pot of coffee, I'm watching classic sports, my house is spic and span, and my husband is picking up a big fat greasy pizza for dinner. What's better than that?
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