Guys,
I've got my 6300 watt generator gased up with 10 gal extra gas. I have plenty of food and diet coke. I'm ready. Alot of people don't remember the Blizzard of 78. I do. Two feet of snow and the east-west roads had snow 10 ft deep in places. People died back then, froze to death. Here's hoping everyone hunkers down safely the next couple days. Jim PS My son in Mississippi doesn't understand why I live in this cold climate. He thinks I should move to the South. I told him the first time I call him crying (literally crying) and he has to travel 1000 miles to bring me food, water,gas,money, generator etc. like I did for him during Katrina, I'll move.
Jim,
That sounds pretty serious. Sounds like you have that extra role
of T.P. in case you run out. I think I would have more gas for that
genny. Good Luck
Ron
like Jim, being in Detroit will probly be the same as Ind, i checked out my gen the other day also, filled the gen tank, got the 6 gal filled, all the old cars and new ones, so i have probly 80 gals of gas or so, plus all the logs for the fireplace, should be pretty well set, but the way my luck goes, that could all change, jerry
Looks like a nasty one. Good luck and hang in there.
Jim you could move to central AL, very nice climate, hot and humid in the summer, cool and mild in the winter. Then all you will have to worry about is the occasional tornado....as an old WI resident moved south I can tell you the tax base is very retiree friendly as well!
GROUND HOG DAY, MY BIRTHDAY AND IT LOOKS LIKE I WILL BE SNOWED IN AND EATING A CUPCAKE ALL BY MY SELF!!
I could use a more friendly tax base. I have concidered moving but just as soon as I think I know where I want to go something happens to change my mind. My kids had me talked into moving to Mississippi once. We spent a week looking around for land. While I was there I parked my 57 under one of my sons trees during our stay. A colony of black ants made their home inside my car. I had to fumigate the car when I got home. Also there were the beautiful bugs that flew around mating with one another. There were so many of the beautiful little creatures it almost stopped up my radiator. My son said it only lasted a month though. I had no idea a bug could hold that much inside of it's stomach. My son lives near a small park there in Columbia and we went into the park to see my grand-daughter ride her electric go cart. The first thing I did was step on a ant hill. My son yelled at me to get away from it, seems they have fire ants that will eat you alive if you bother them. The park was full of these ant hills. Also while taking a pickup load of supplies to my son during Katrina I had two cars try to box me in and stop me about 6 miles north of Columbia. I got around the lead car by jumping a divider that seperated traffic lanes and outran them to Columbia. I didn't do bad for driving with one hand and using the other to hold a 38 special. Here in Warsaw we have a crime rate comparable with the Mormon Tabernacle. I'll probably die in a snow storm here with my arm held high and my middle finger extended in protest. Jim
here in Texas it was a -23 wind chill factor this morning...I know not what you guys are dealing with up north but that's still cold for a southern state. Jim...Texas is a cheap place to live, no state income tax (for those who are still working)...real estate is reasonable,not too humid and the bugs are bearable. just a few things..we do have tornadoes, yes it actually does rain mud sometimes,-23 today and in 3 or 4 months it could be 110 or 115 (I've seen it as high as 118), the wind always blows, we do have rattlers, scorpions, tarantulas, and the worst....brown recluse spiders.My opinion...I was brought up in New England, moved to so. Cal for 16 years, then moved to Colorado for 23 years, finally Texas. Where do I prefer? hands down Colorado...I really miss it.The climate in Co. is much easier to deal with than Texas and there are practically no bugs! I doubt I was bit by mosquitos more than 5 or 6 times in 23 years there!
Ha Ha Jim you make me homesick for my own place here in Idaho. We went down south and the grass was so lusch my wife couldn't resist sitting on it. She got a case of chiggers that seemed to last for months. I had never heard of them before. I think it takes a hardy bud to survive the northern winters.
Rich,
I gotta tell you this one about Texas. I stopped in Buger, Tx around the 1st of May and got gas at their airport, this was about 1998. The wind was absolutly pounding us to death. I pulled up at the pumps and there was a guy out in front of the FBO watering a little patch of grass about 3 ft. X 6 ft. I'd noticed when we came in there wasn't anything green within an hours flight of Buger. I asked the guy what the hell he was doing watering a little patch of grass like that. He said " we haven't had any measurable rainfall since last December. I want to keep something green to look at. You'll notice the resovior is almost empty now, don't know what the town's going to do when that's gone."
I used to fly down to Alliance airport to see the Nascar races every year when my son lived in Ft. Worth. You have got to have the friendliest people on earth in Texas.
Glen,
Don't kid yourself, we die young up here. Usually pneumonia.
We have the same blizzard beating on us, if its to snowy to drive to work tomorrow I'll have to jump on the snowmobile and have some fun. To bad for the wife, I pulled the engine apart in hers, needs a piston. Can't complain about our weather, I like the change in seasons. No wildfires, earthquakes,sunamis, mudslides, pretty much predictable. Lets be carefull out there, Jim you had me laughing like a madman with that snowbank comment. Mark
Quote from: wildhog on 2011-02-01 15:37
GROUND HOG DAY, MY BIRTHDAY AND IT LOOKS LIKE I WILL BE SNOWED IN AND EATING A CUPCAKE ALL BY MY SELF!!
wildhog day and groundhog day! Happy birthday Tom. Hope you enjoyed that cupcake. Hope you didn't start any fires with all those candles blazing. :bdayparty: :boobies2: :boobies2: :occasion13:
Jim..could that have been Borger, Tx? N.E. of Amarillo
Rich,
That is correct. But let me tell you why I called it Buger. I was about 5 miles out and I yelled on unicom for Borie-ger, Tx. to get winds because we were getting hammered. I kept yelling and finally a guy came back to me and said " tripple 4 Juliet November, are you trying to get hold of Buger, ( as in something coming from your nose) this is buger unicom". I told him I couldn't believe he pronounced it that way. He re-affirmed they called it Buger. Now, maybe the guy running the FBO at Borger is the only one that pronounces it that way, but that's where I got the name from. Jim P.S Stayed in Amerillo on the way out to California. Weather kept us in a motel there for two days. Had a good time running around Amerillo though. I think I saw three caucasions while I was there. LOL PSS The reason we had to turn around in New Mexico and go back to Amarillo to begin with was I ran into a sand storm. We don't have too many sand storms in Indiana.
Jim...lol...you gotta start paying more than 10 bucks for a room...sounds like you were on the ne end of town.
were there lots of hookers in the area? Rich
Jim you are doing the right thing, being ready and haveing the smarts to stay home and set it out. It was -18 here this morning, but we didn't have any snow with it just cold,when the wind picks up it really gets cold, and thats why I love my heated shop. In the morning when I'm watching CNN showing all the goofballs trying to go somewhere I'll be thinking of you tucked in at your camp ready for the worst. Take care, Alvin
Time to spair? Go by air!
Sure have done a bunch of that over the years too. Hurry up and wait.
Rich,
I just don't believe you. I looked for a hooker for 3 hrs the first night and couldn't find one. Besides, the room was $13.95 per night. LOL All joking aside, we rented a car and found a whole bunch of Flea Markets to go to. Also, some good restrants. We were in a nice motel close to the airport. The only non-caucasions to amount to anything were at these Flea Markets. I shouldn't have said anything about non-caucasions. I've never had any trouble all my life getting along with any non-caucasion except the 5 guys that wanted to take my truck in Columbia, Ms during Katrina. And they weren't wearing sombraros anyway. Jim
Glen,
After the California trip I went to Fla for IFR training. Got my ticket (no more waiting for weather to clear) spent a fortune updating my airplane and after 14 hrs of actual I ended up icing up and almost losing my airplane coming back from Texas one night during a snow storm. After hearing the controller yell " do you want to declare an emergency" about 10 times I realized the IFR rating made me invincable but somehow the airplane hadn't become invincable. LOL Jim
Time to spare? Go by air!
A good buddy of mine, TEXAN by birth, always used to say only thing that stood between Texas and the North Pole was a barbed wire fence in North Dakota and it was knocked down most of the time. Hope you're all surviving the Blizzard. On this fine groundhog day we're enjoying a bright almost cloudless sunny day with temps in the mid 40s did drop down to mid 20s o'night but what the hell I was snuggled in bed. Forecast calling for daytime temps of mid low 50s next week.
Blizzard is over. Sunny skys today. About 8-10 inches of snow. Secondary roads are passable, Primary roads clear with patches of snow. I think the weather forecasters that were yelling the end of the world were new-hires from the South. We faired well here in Lake City. Hope everyone else ended up just as confused as I did about this blizzard. Jim
We got about 18-20" The wind blew it into some nasty drifts, I just got home from fixing furnaces all day. Mark