frustrated displaced suffering southerner

Grandma said that they can't get the car out of the garage and my grandpa is going stir crazy not being able to drive.

I know how that feels..Today was really the first day since Friday night I've felt relatively safe driving. The roads are still a friggin' mess, but at least they aren't quite so icy, and no white-outs today.

I have never been this cold! Yesterday I had to pick my daughter up at work and I could not find a hat to put on so I have a bright green hoody my down coat is red I had on sun glasses and if the cops had stopped my they would have thought I was the uni bomber! My daughter took one lood at me and laughed so hard that she wet her pants! But at least I was warm!

We lost the water in the 2nd floor of the building at work today! Only for the morning, but I guess the pipes froze. I would have thought they would have frozen over the weekend, not after there'd been heat in the building for a day or so!

We had about four inches yesterday and it's pretty cold. I don't know how the roads are though. I have to venture out later. Sue, be careful when defrosting your pipes. This happened in my mom's house when we were growing up. We got bottled water, heated it up on the stove, and dumped some in the bathtub. That is how we bathed for a couple of days. Our furnace is in our basement here which is a big help in keeping the pipes unfrozen. Tammy, I will gladly send you this snow.

A prayer:

To the person that permanently borrowed my shovels - I hope they work well for you. I hope God keeps your back free of pain when you shovel. May the Lord protect you and keep you warm, and keep people from slipping on your sidewalk.

In the future, feel free to ask me for my shovels instead of just stealing them. If you needed them that bad, I would have given them to you. They are just shovels.

OMG Jeff, someone stole your shovels? That's messed up!
They have the roads pretty well cleared off here now. They were awful this morning on my way to work.

STILL NO HOT WATER IN THE SHOWER! AND THE LITTLE SPACE HEATER THAT I BOUGHT YESTERDAY DOES NOT WORK1 I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE! I appologize to all for this trip that I am taking you on - it is all my fault that this is a twilight zone week!

LMAO!! I'm doggone proud of myself for starting this thread in the first place, may it go down in DebtCC history. My personal goal is to make it longer than the miracle management thread..

It helps me a lot to see you guys are right there with me..

I cried because I have no shoes, then I met a man with no feet

We'll make this thread go on all year...In the Ohio-MI region anyway we stupid weather all the time. It's crap.

Well, I am sure that you have all heard the old saying stand on the croner of E.9th and Euclid in cleveland long enough on any given day and you will go through all four seasons at once. The only problem is the older I get the colder it seems nd I just can't get my feet warm enough.

Welcome to Michigan...don't like the weather? Stay a few minutes, it'll change! :lol:

OOOOOHHHH! We got a heat wave..It's 18!

I got you beat, Fins......On Monday...We're going to get up to around 29 degrees! It's going to be HOT! :) :lol:

Right now.....it's -11. But sunny.

OMG..It's gonna be in the 20s this weekend!! Yippee, I may not wear a coat!!

I WANT SNOW!!! Please tell the snow goons to move south for about 5 days. :lol:

LOL, Tammy...I think it's done here, maybe it'll move your way.

My Aunt and Uncle live in Tennessee and they say the roads are way beyond bad when it snows where they are.

What part do they live in?

Tammy, they live in Maryville. It's beautiful there! I remember it being not too far from Knoxville.

It's fifteen degrees outside and sunny. I'm going skinny dipping LOL! I used to live in Knoxville as a kid. I don't remember snow though but I was pretty young. Irish, are you in Ohio too?

Oh yes I am I just heard that it is 18 degrees her now - I think that I will get the shorts out! But the sun is shining and that elevates moods. Oh - ow their calling for snow over night!

fins, Knoxville is 6hrs from me. They do get more ice and snow we do in the part we live in.

Well, all I have to say is, that's what you get for moving up there with all them yankees. But then again, most of them yankees are down here in the south, where it's not to warm to us, but when it hits 16 degrees with wind chill of 5-10 degrees below. Keep all that snow, it's missed us 2 times, and I guess the 3rd time will be a charm. Oh well, nothing you can do about it, so why complain about it.

Wow..I didn't move up here by choice. Circumstances made me. I never moved back because I met my husband and made my life here.

Sorry if you take offense to my "complaining". I think venting would be a better word for it..That's what the Pub is here for, I can lay my thoughts on my forum friends for fun and see what they think. Also, I may be a Reb, but some of my closest friends now are Yanks, and I will never think anything derogatory about them...After all, the war ended a long time ago, and we DID lose it.

welcome to the forums.

Finsfan, this born and raised Yankee is happy you chose to head up north. I thought that war ended a few ceturies back myself as well. I also thought the Pub was here for others to discuss non-debt related issues. Such as venting and complaining. I guess I learn something new everyday.

Thanks Steelers!! :lol:

You know, when I first moved here I had a pretty heavy accent and people teased me about it..That was ok, though, because I am the minority here. After 11 years I have pretty much lost it, except for when I get all tangled up irritated, then it creeps back in. Other than that, though, all them Yankees have been pretty nice to me!

"WE'RE HAVIN A HEAT WAVE, A TROPICAL HEAT WAVE..." I just got in from picking the kids up and I passed a temp sign that actually said the temp was 23!! And I also thought that the Pub was for venting. Get it "PUB"? What elso do you do over a pint of Guinness?

well, since I'm drinking a Mike's hard lemonade right now it's a doggone good thing I'm in the Pub!!

Forgive me, but I have more complaining to do! :lol: It's flippin' snowing again! Heavy crap, too! I thought it was supposed to be gone. I think this nasty snow is my own private hell... :cry:

Have another drink, fins.

Don't worry Fins - I don't drink - I just drive - so have one more and watch the snow. I will navigate. I am so sick of this weather!! And did anyone else hear about the time changing on March 11 this year? They want to see what happens if they change it a month earlier! Is that the stupidest thing you have ever heard! We will still have at least six weeks of crappy weather - there is always a blizzard right around St. Patrick's day.

Are you serious?? Are they really going to change the time then? What the hell for?

I heard about Daylight Savings Time moving up too...they kept it pretty quiet until now. It's confusing enough when the clocks are changed - now we have to remember that it's earlier in the year! Something about energy savings, etc.

I'm FINALLY taking the kids sledding this weekend! It's finally something above 0 where I feel safer taking them out. It's 11 here today, supposed to head up to 20 - HEAT WAVE!

And, I got a new van! It's not fancy, or especially pretty, but it's solid, reliable, and heavy as heck - look out, here I come! :lol:

Now girls stop your complaining about the early time change this year LOL! Sorry, I couldn't help myself. My husband told me about it last week but it still doesn't bring spring earlier around here.

Here's what changing the time a month early is going to do for me....

It's going to pi$$ me off one month early that I have to remember to set my clock forward 1 hour and lose that hour of sleep...lol

And I'm going to whine about the cold weather until the temp is at least 75 degrees outside. And in the middle of July when it's in the 80's to 90's, I'm STILL going to complain about it....It's what I DO.

Ahem. Jess, it was pointed out to me in a post yesterday that if there's nothing you can do about it you shouldn't complain. LMFAO!!!!

I know, that's why I'm complaining.

lol, you rock.

Please. Everybody play nice.

Fins, I am a southerner also LOL but I love ya anyways. You can complain if you want to. I have. Its a heat wave here today 28 degrees. School was cancelled three days and delayed 2 last week. I have about froze. 5 below every night. I have had pneumonia and had to move in that crap to boot. So we can complain to our hearts content. LOL KYSIDE38

Jessi - I'm with you on that! When the temp starts to rise to 90 or so and the humidity is hot and sticky I will be complaining too! But that is what I do also! I guess there is no pleasing me! The only good thing about the time change is that the clock in my van will be right! I never change it (I don't know how) it makes the kids crazy! And I aim to please! They never really know what the exact time is.

lol, love ya too, Kyside!! I'm glad you're back, sweetie. :lol:

Sometimes, nice is boring, you give you must be able to take it.

Steelers, I hear you. I love a good argument.

My philosophy is to treat people like they treat me...Even Steven. I can be the warmest, most giving person in the world to my friends who treat ME like a friend, or I can be sarcastic and mean in defense when I'm attacked. I rarely, if ever, offensively attack someone, it's usually a rebuttal for me.

Anyway..It's 26 here today, almost tropical! :lol:

It's nasty snowing again, though. I'm stir crazy..I have to go to the store and get some Harry Potter valentines for my boy. I think I will treat myself to Starbucks while I'm out there, a nice hot Mocha.

Can one of go to the creditors collecton agencys section please? I don't know why but this person named chuckles is being very nasty to Texas. It seems chuchkles is posting negative things every time Texas posts anything. Thanks.

This is a public forum, so long as chuckles isn't threatening or being crude, nothing will be deleted. Freedom of speech.

It just comes with the territory. Most of us have been hounded like that at one time or another on this forum. But in a much worse, threatening manner than Chuckles is doing.

Fins I hate to be the one to bust the bubble but another winter storm on the way for Monday. They are saying here we could get up to 9 inches of snow and ice. Another week. YUCK!!!! I am starting to get the winter blues. LOL KYSIDE38

I just heard about this winter storm on the news. It's supposed to start sometime Monday afternoon and last thru Tuesday.

shemar - Steelers is right. Chuckles is being antagonistic, hoping for a response from texas. If texas doesn't respond, then Chuckles will lose steam and eventually give up. There's nothing we can do about it unless Chuckles becomes threatening or makes obscene posts.