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Wishing It Was Spring Already with Magic Friends

nibblesandbits

nibblesandbits

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PotteryGal said:
Not yet - but the mail hasn't arrived today, so we'll see. I will let you know.
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It might be tomorrow, since I mailed it on Monday, but we had that massive snow storm on Tues, so it might have delayed it a bit. (I know I didn't get my mail on Tuesday...snow, sleet, etc my rear!)
 
PotteryGal

PotteryGal

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nibblesandbits said:
It might be tomorrow, since I mailed it on Monday, but we had that massive snow storm on Tues, so it might have delayed it a bit. (I know I didn't get my mail on Tuesday...snow, sleet, etc my rear!)
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Makes me wonder how things worked during the Blizzard of 78. My brother is a rural mail carrier, I know how he has to drive through some crazy weather. :hammer:
 
Dukeblue1016

Dukeblue1016

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PotteryGal said:
Makes me wonder how things worked during the Blizzard of 78. My brother is a rural mail carrier, I know how he has to drive through some crazy weather. :hammer:
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My dad actually ust told me a terrifying story about the blizzard of '78...

he said he worked with a guy who got on 95 to head home and it was in a dead stop... and it didn't move for several hours and at that point there was nothing he could do... over a couple hours so much snow had accumulated you couldn't move anyway... and no one could move anyway it was just a parking lot on 95...

so anyway... obviously back then you didn't have cell phones so he couldn't do much, and when it finally got to be night he would shut his car off right before he was about to fall asleep (to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning)... then he'd sleep as long as he could until he'd wake up from the cold (like half an hour to 45 minutes at a time)... then he'd start his car; waited till warmed up, got tired; then did it again... he did it all night long until finally he woke up becaus he heard people WALKING ON TOP OF HIS CAR...

now I know up my area got like 30+ inches, but still, that's not taller than car, so i'm kinda confused... but i see no reason for my dad to lie, he said there was state police walking on top of him... and he screamed until they heard him and they dug him out...



he said it took them a full week to clear out 95 and they would get tow trucks to just tow each car, one by one, to foxboro stadium into its parking lot... so people who left their cars on 95 had to go to foxboro stadium and find it in the parking lot....



and i thought i had it bad when i had a 5 hour commute due to snow... :lookaroun
 
mpoppins76

mpoppins76

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Dukeblue1016 said:
My dad actually ust told me a terrifying story about the blizzard of '78...

he said he worked with a guy who got on 95 to head home and it was in a dead stop... and it didn't move for several hours and at that point there was nothing he could do... over a couple hours so much snow had accumulated you couldn't move anyway... and no one could move anyway it was just a parking lot on 95...

so anyway... obviously back then you didn't have cell phones so he couldn't do much, and when it finally got to be night he would shut his car off right before he was about to fall asleep (to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning)... then he'd sleep as long as he could until he'd wake up from the cold (like half an hour to 45 minutes at a time)... then he'd start his car; waited till warmed up, got tired; then did it again... he did it all night long until finally he woke up becaus he heard people WALKING ON TOP OF HIS CAR...

now I know up my area got like 30+ inches, but still, that's not taller than car, so i'm kinda confused... but i see no reason for my dad to lie, he said there was state police walking on top of him... and he screamed until they heard him and they dug him out...



he said it took them a full week to clear out 95 and they would get tow trucks to just tow each car, one by one, to foxboro stadium into its parking lot... so people who left their cars on 95 had to go to foxboro stadium and find it in the parking lot....



and i thought i had it bad when i had a 5 hour commute due to snow... :lookaroun
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:dazzle::dazzle: Yikes!!!
 
The Mom

The Mom

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Premium Member
Dukeblue1016 said:
My dad actually ust told me a terrifying story about the blizzard of '78...

he said he worked with a guy who got on 95 to head home and it was in a dead stop... and it didn't move for several hours and at that point there was nothing he could do... over a couple hours so much snow had accumulated you couldn't move anyway... and no one could move anyway it was just a parking lot on 95...

so anyway... obviously back then you didn't have cell phones so he couldn't do much, and when it finally got to be night he would shut his car off right before he was about to fall asleep (to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning)... then he'd sleep as long as he could until he'd wake up from the cold (like half an hour to 45 minutes at a time)... then he'd start his car; waited till warmed up, got tired; then did it again... he did it all night long until finally he woke up becaus he heard people WALKING ON TOP OF HIS CAR...

now I know up my area got like 30+ inches, but still, that's not taller than car, so i'm kinda confused... but i see no reason for my dad to lie, he said there was state police walking on top of him... and he screamed until they heard him and they dug him out...



he said it took them a full week to clear out 95 and they would get tow trucks to just tow each car, one by one, to foxboro stadium into its parking lot... so people who left their cars on 95 had to go to foxboro stadium and find it in the parking lot....



and i thought i had it bad when i had a 5 hour commute due to snow... :lookaroun
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It was a blizzard, rather than a snowstorm, so there was drifting snow due to the winds. Many cars were invisible because they were buried in snowdrifts.

I was working the night (11Pm-7AM) shift when the snow started; it was just starting when I went to sleep at around noon. When I awoke at around 8PM, it was very deep, so I decided to take the bus into work. (I lived about two miles from RIH, in the city) I called to let my supervisors know I would be running late, and they told me to stay home, as I-95 was shut down, and people were walking off it to the hospital. (It was the only thing that many of them could see, so they followed the lights to safety)

My husband didn't make it home for 3 days (he was at the hospital), and even then he had to walk. We lived on a fairly main street, but it still wasn't plowed for almost a week. Only snowmobiles and 4 wheel drive vehicles could get around. when the street was finally plowed, the snowbank was higher than our second story window!

The only good news was that we had had an ice storm a couple of weeks before this, and I had not had adequate supplies. This time, I was prepared, so we lived fairly well. (Lots of beer and wine, cheeses, etc) Plus, we still had power, so I could watch TV, and wasn't freezing.
 

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