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The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread
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Figgy1
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The Target ones are better, MUCH BETTER
ajrwdwgirl
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Nursing school is officially over!Passed with a 3.5+
State test should be late next month.
Booked 2 nights at WDW next week for my bday. Our anniversary cruise is 4 days after we get back.
Reading stories and getting spooked about getting covid at WDW and missing the cruise.
Obviously it’s possible, but we are very careful. We’re staying in a cabin vs. a hotel. We’re only doing 1 park day, and it will be mostly Epcot for food & wine (outdoors) plus a hop to HS to see Julie at Tune-In, and the since it’s open really late, possibly MK at night.
We’ll wear KN95 masks indoors & on indoor attractions/queues but probably won’t even go on too many. Targeting: Ratatouille, CoP, and whatever is available as a walk-on at MK at night.
Had no issues in New Orleans with a similar strategy. But considering canceling WDW to protect the cruise. Thoughts?
Congrats to Brian on completing nursing school!!!!!!! I'm sure that is a great relief to both of you. I hope he enjoys his career as a nurse. What area of nursing is he looking to get a job in?
Tough question about cancelling WDW to stay safe for your cruise. I know that you have been looking forward to this cruise a lot so I wouldn't want to see either of you not be able to go. Truth is you could get Covid anywhere although you'll be around a lot more people at WDW so chances might be higher. Any chance you could swing the WDW after the cruise and celebrate your birthday just a little late? I guess the only advice I have is prioritize what is most important to you and what other exposures might be possible if you cancel WDW to stay safe for the cruise.
MinnieM123
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@Tony the Tigger -- I kinda agree with the above, but do what you're most comfortable doing. I'd just hate to see you miss your cruise -- if you contacted a virus at WDW first, you know?
MinnieM123
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Well, black ice in particular, is a huge hazard (not that regular ice on the road isn't). Personally, I don't drive if there is any ice -- I always wait a few days after a storm before I get back in the car. I'll drive on plowed snow roads, but that's all.
As for studded tires, it is a toss-up as to what states allow them, and I was surprised that my state still does. Oh -- chains can still be used as well, if its during a big snowstorm, for example. (My father would use chains intermittently, in the winter weather. As a kid, I used to like the sound of the chains, as the cars drove by.)
I know, I'm weird. 
Goofyernmost
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I can't say that your love for cold isn't weird, but since I am older I still remember chains on tires too. I know that some times one has to take a chance and drive on ice covered roads (sometimes with 50 people sitting in the seats right behind me). There are times that we have to take a chance. What I am saying is don't get over confident that all season, snow tires, studded tires or even chains will make it a piece of cake and simple to drive in that type of weather, however, your chance of making it safely will be a lot higher if one just understands that all those tires and all those 4 wheel drive vehicles will not prevent ice from being the winner. Just don't tell yourself that any given item will make you completely safe. When you see a 4 wheel drive go flying by you during those conditions it is a good bet that just a little way ahead of you it will be in the ditch or median.Well, black ice in particular, is a huge hazard (not that regular ice on the road isn't). Personally, I don't drive if there is any ice -- I always wait a few days after a storm before I get back in the car. I'll drive on plowed snow roads, but that's all.
As for studded tires, it is a toss-up as to what states allow them, and I was surprised that my state still does. Oh -- chains can still be used as well, if its during a big snowstorm, for example. (My father would use chains intermittently, in the winter weather. As a kid, I used to like the sound of the chains, as the cars drove by.)
Black ice is dangerous mostly because you can't see it until your car starts to react to it. That said, however, ice is ice no matter if you can see it or not. Snow or water on top of ice is a high level of damn I'm in deep trouble as well.
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StarWarsGirl
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Apparently not! When we were down in December, I was really meticulous about us putting things back. My aunt has her spices alphabetized and nearly chewed my head off when I put one back wrong, so I was like, okay, we're not putting anything away wrong! (She was more fine when I put a spoon away in the wrong drawer... lol).
My grandma, I've figured out, is very much like my dad. They're driven by a need to be useful. Unfortunately, neither of them can take direction, and neither will ask what needs to be done. They just jump in and start doing something, which means they're often nuisances or they do something that doesn't need to be done. My dad will do that with me where he'll tell me to go help my mom with dinner. Well, I know from living with my mom for 27 years that you do not invade her kitchen while she's cooking. She has a plan in her head and when she wants help, she'll ask. So I tell him no, I'm not invading her space, and when she needs help, she'll ask, which gets him mad at me. Or then he'll go try to "help" which then annoys my mother.
MinnieM123
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OMG -- it was around 2003 or so, and we were driving our 1997 Ford Escort up the Maine Turnpike, when a big snowstorm hit. We drove slowly in the right lane, and I can't tell you how many SUVs, etc. had ditched off the side of the road, into the banks!! Recall seeing many state trooper cars, flashing lights, and tow trucks all over the place, trying to pull out people's cars from the ditches.
Meanwhile, we just plugged along slowly in our little fart car (I think even the tires were practically bald
), but -- we stayed on the road for miles! About 3 more exits up the turnpike, the Maine Troopers finally shut it down, and we exited off to some little town. I had a slice of pie from a little mom & pop store there. Pie was yummy. I remember that pie.
Figgy1
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H2O is shutting down
One less magical thing at Disney. At least it's not Disney's fault https://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/wa...products-supplier-h2o-to-cease-operations.htm
One less magical thing at Disney. At least it's not Disney's fault https://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/wa...products-supplier-h2o-to-cease-operations.htm
StarWarsGirl
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donaldtoo
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Just out of curiosity, from towns on the borders, I googled the distance of that border to border storm line that I posted…approx. 550 miles, as the crow flies.
East Texas doesn’t need it as badly as Central Texas and West Texas do, but, that was some much-needed decent rainfall…!!!
East Texas doesn’t need it as badly as Central Texas and West Texas do, but, that was some much-needed decent rainfall…!!!
donaldtoo
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Songbird76
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My MIL drives me nuts with that. Though she hasn't come here for a long time now. We stopped holding birthday parties for the kids because they didn't enjoy it and it was super stressful for me. And my MIL isn't a "go with the flow" kind of person. Over here, on someone's birthday, people show up throughout the day and they give the person their gift as they are welcomed in. They sit down and the birthday person offers them coffee and some sort of baked good. They chat with other party-goers, and then they go home. That's standard operating procedure here. But I'm used to a set time....the party starts at 3 and goes until 6. We'll cut the cake at this time, and then we'll open presents. And since most of the people who came to our kids' birthdays were foreigners, we didn't worry about doing it the Dutch way, which I hate....it's too formal and stiff, and you spend the whole time going back and forth to the kitchen to get people drinks and baked goods so you don't actually get to talk to your own guests. So I would just set everything on the table and say "Help yourselves!" My MIL would just sit there and wait to be served, even though we would say we weren't doing that. We'd get her a cup of coffee, but she'd sit and wait to be offered cake, which we hadn't cut yet because we still had to sing Happy Birthday, etc. They don't do that here, and she kind of refused to let us do it the way we wanted to do it. But whenever she'd come to our house, she'd rearrange my pantry and cupboards. She drinks coffee, we don't. I bake a lot, she doesn't bake at all. So she'd move my flour and sugar to the pantry in the hall and move the coffee to the cupboard in the kitchen. She moved my peanutbutter....I had to call her to ask her where she put it. They don't use peanutbutter. When we moved in, we had put all our plates and glasses in this one cupboard, and she moved them all because she thought they should be in a different cupboard. We had to go move them all back where we wanted them. She'll turn up the burner on food you're cooking when you're not looking....you turn around and suddenly your sauce is burning. Or she'll dump some water out of your pan, so then you smell something funny and find your potatoes have no more water in the pan and are burnt to the bottom of the pan. When you ask, she'll say "Well you had too much water in there. It will take too long to boil." But now you have to start over, where if she'd left it alone, it would be almost done. It just drives me batty.