Figgy1
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Nothing to like about that!
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MinnieM123
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My only concern would be the high winds. Snow is fine.
Figgy1
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It's going to be a combination of cold, wind and snow, be safe. Can you put in for a day off Friday?
MinnieM123
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Thursday is when the storm hits all day. Friday will be a more intensive clean up day. Again, in a hospital, workers are expected to come in--even non-medical personnel such as myself. They'll let us go early, but as long as we get in there at some point, we get paid the full day. Taking a vacation day does not go over well with management.
Figgy1
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Sympathy like. Where my dh works as long as you have the time they don't get too upset when you take a day for weather.
Figgy1
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Orlando area weather warnings are so very cute. I get the warning for growers but a wind chill warning for 24 is so LOL. I've seen kids wear shorts to school when that's the coldest it'll get for the day. Even the weirdest shorts wearers have been wearing pants this week.
MySmallWorldof4
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MySmallWorldof4
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Well, they have to come up with terms to make people watch. It is all very dramatic nowadays. Maybe these used to be called Nor'easters or blizzards? Now they have to name all the snowstorms too like the hurricanes.
I know you like this, but I feel bad for the small business owners who will lose a lot of money due to weather like this.
Figgy1
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I should know better by now than to check the 8am weather update. We're now looking at around 6 inches of carp instead of maybe nothing just 2 hours ago. Maybe noon will be better because if not that's just enough snow combined with sub 0 windchills to close school for 2 days instead of maybe just one. I used a string of not so lovely words in no less than 5 languages before typing
BTW those are the only words I know in those languages. Just one of those things you can learn growing up in NYC metro area
BTW those are the only words I know in those languages. Just one of those things you can learn growing up in NYC metro area
Goofyernmost
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My father had nothing but Buicks as did my Grandfather. I bought whatever I could afford, but, when I came back from Vietnam I decided to reward myself and buy a brand new 1970 Buick Skylark. I kept that car through 1977. It was part of every important thing in my life. My first date with my eventual wife, My first job out of the service, Our Honeymoon, Took my wife to the hospital to have our first baby and later brought our tiny newborn home, still had it two years later when baby girl number 2 decided to join us. Rinse and repeat. It was part of many firsts. I jokingly used to suggest we have it bronzed and placed on our mantle as a tribute to our lives. But, at the time I didn't have a mantle so we let it go.
This isn't going to sound like much based on todays cars, but I managed to squeeze 120K miles on it before it got to the point that I couldn't trust it anymore. To many things were breaking. Those of you that were around during that time know that if you got 70K out of a vehicle you were blessed. Nothing major ever went wrong with it and the only time it didn't start in all the time I owned it was that day. Even then it started OK for me to get home once every thing calmed down and all were sleeping. It was later in the morning when I was attempting to go back to the hospital to see how everyone was doing that it failed me. Fortunately, a town plow happened down the road at that time. I lived at the end of the street and the plow had to back into my driveway to turn around that I got them to give me a jump start. With that the car started immediately. It was the battery that had given out. Put in a new, cheap battery and never had the problem again.
Yes, they were considered "your grandfathers car" later on, but, it was highly prestegious to own one when I did. I had three other Buicks after that as well. I guess you could say that I was that Grandfather that they were talking about in recent years.
MySmallWorldof4
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No snow for us. Just bitterly cold. I hate time to pass quickly, but I so wish it was Spring right now.I should know better by now than to check the 8am weather update. We're now looking at around 6 inches of carp instead of maybe nothing just 2 hours ago. Maybe noon will be better because if not that's just enough snow combined with sub 0 windchills to close school for 2 days instead of maybe just one. I used a string of not so lovely words in no less than 5 languages before typing
MySmallWorldof4
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That is a beautiful story about your old Buick.
Thanks for sharing it.
Songbird76
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Studded tires are illegal in Wyoming most of the time because they tear up the roads. You just need to make sure the tread is deep enough. People will go get new tires right before winter.I've never heard of such things. We're far enough South that we don't get such cold temps. I'd never heard of snow tires either until this board. We're freaking out over these lows in the single digits. We panic if there's three inches of snow. And absolutely no one knows how to drive in it.
But our buses started this morning, in spite of the single digit temps.
I love the architecture of churches here in Europe. I've never been inside St. Jan. The first time we visited, it was closed, the 2nd time was I think on Easter and there was a service. Then we just never tried again while we were in town. There are some beautiful churches though!!
They do that at the coal mines. The mines operate 24/7, so if they are expecting a big storm that will close the roads, they have a place for the miners to sleep and they have food there and they just lock everyone in until the storm passes. It doesn't happen often, but it happens.
45 minutes after high tide this morning
MOXOMUMD
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No idea. I thought the capturing of the waterflow was amazing.
Songbird76
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Please stay safe! Was it last year or maybe the year before that the UK flooded? So much damage. And on a small Island, I can imagine the devastation is worse.
MOXOMUMD
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Her house was built in 1880 so it's the pipes in the crawl space portion of her basement. Tape and insulation and leaving the faucet dripping didn't help.