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...and then they drive like idiots....waiting for the "big fall"....nervous from all the hype from the newsroom....
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Ot:i Hate Winter!
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Ahhh... Now Matt that's beautiful! I prefer winter too. I can usually dress well enough to be comfortable unless I'm outside half a day and it's below zero the whole time and I'm just sitting around. If I'm working it doesn't matter a whole lot how cold it is.
What I freakin hate is the 100 degree days when the humidity is 95%. I pretty much do not go outdoors between July 1st and end of September. My yard looks pretty good in early summer but by August it looks like a wasteland, cause even at night it's too freakin hot and humid to move the sprinkler. I can work in the yard all day when it's 20 degrees outside.
Naturally my wife is exactly the opposite - she runs the furnace at about 80 when I'm not around, and sneaks down at night to crank it up when I've gone to sleep. I should let her start paying the bills.
And in the summer all she wants to do is go outside and sweat. Cripes I hate that! Not sweating is what they make beer for! And winter.
It's about 6 degrees here midafternoon and I drove home from the grocery store with the window down. I was getting some strange looks, I have to admit. Maybe other people think it's too cold out! I dig it.
What I freakin hate is the 100 degree days when the humidity is 95%. I pretty much do not go outdoors between July 1st and end of September. My yard looks pretty good in early summer but by August it looks like a wasteland, cause even at night it's too freakin hot and humid to move the sprinkler. I can work in the yard all day when it's 20 degrees outside.
Naturally my wife is exactly the opposite - she runs the furnace at about 80 when I'm not around, and sneaks down at night to crank it up when I've gone to sleep. I should let her start paying the bills.
And in the summer all she wants to do is go outside and sweat. Cripes I hate that! Not sweating is what they make beer for! And winter.
It's about 6 degrees here midafternoon and I drove home from the grocery store with the window down. I was getting some strange looks, I have to admit. Maybe other people think it's too cold out! I dig it.
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Jeez. I Pictured you in mid 30s.. I'm 16, and a newbie. haven't heard about any classes, but I will keep my ears open. I'm just beginning to meet guys out in buda that do metal work.
~Brian
Edit to add: I don't forge so I haven't heard as much about that stuff. I would love to learn though.
~Brian
Edit to add: I don't forge so I haven't heard as much about that stuff. I would love to learn though.
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Well, my day sucked. It was a total bitch, I'm cold, wet, and worn out.
It took me an hour and a half to get out of my driveway since my 2 wheel drive pick up truck doesn't like the snow any better than me. Shoveling and rocking my way down the drive way was great, the snow has that nice crust of ice on top that you have to chop up before you can shovel it.
I finally got on the road, and it was really just driving on packed snow. 15-20mph tops, usually more like 10. About a 1/4 mile into the trip a neighbor, stepped out in front of me to admire the 2 ft of driveway they had cleared. Antilocks firing, and truck starting to go sideways I got stopped in time, and she gave me a little wave and went back to shoveling like nothing had happened. I had to go around her, she never got out of the road
Halfway there the crust of ice on top of the cab of my truck that I couldn't break free before, came loose and fell down over the windshield. It was one big peice, I couldn't see anything and it was heavy enough it flipped the windshield wipers up off the windshield. Stop in the middle of the road and wrestle the big plate of ice off my truck, clear the snow back out from under the wipers and get back on the way.
Shortly after that some moron in a 2 wheel drive dually started tailgating me. We got to a 4 lane road and were both turning left onto it. I had to turn right again 100 yards later so I pulled into the right lane (after sliding across the pile of unplowed snow in the middle) he tried to whip past me in the left lane and his rear end broke loose and he about hit me.
I got there an hour late. I was already cold and wet.
So then we loaded up the trailers and headed to the track to make deliveries. They had only made one pass with a plow around the barns (there are 20 of them in 2 rows, with 3 long driveways). So everything was flooded, and you had to drive with 2 wheels in a foot of snow and 2 wheels on pavement the whole way around. We got stuck once and had to dig out.
Finally got done 3 hours later and I was soaked from about mid shin down to my toes.
Got in my truck and started home, the roads weren't any better. Another idiot starts tailgating me, he was in a little grand prix or something. Got to a nice straight stretch of road where you couldn't see any pavement at all and he felt that was an appropriate time to pass. I started out not letting him around because I didn't want to get over that far, but he kept crowding me and finally we got to a wide enough clearing I could let him through. He took off about 50 miles an hour and was out of sight.
So now I'm home and got dry clothes. I think I might go to sleep and not wake up till spring. Maybe a little while on christmas day, but I don't know. Its supposed to down around 0 again :grumpy:
It took me an hour and a half to get out of my driveway since my 2 wheel drive pick up truck doesn't like the snow any better than me. Shoveling and rocking my way down the drive way was great, the snow has that nice crust of ice on top that you have to chop up before you can shovel it.
I finally got on the road, and it was really just driving on packed snow. 15-20mph tops, usually more like 10. About a 1/4 mile into the trip a neighbor, stepped out in front of me to admire the 2 ft of driveway they had cleared. Antilocks firing, and truck starting to go sideways I got stopped in time, and she gave me a little wave and went back to shoveling like nothing had happened. I had to go around her, she never got out of the road
Halfway there the crust of ice on top of the cab of my truck that I couldn't break free before, came loose and fell down over the windshield. It was one big peice, I couldn't see anything and it was heavy enough it flipped the windshield wipers up off the windshield. Stop in the middle of the road and wrestle the big plate of ice off my truck, clear the snow back out from under the wipers and get back on the way.
Shortly after that some moron in a 2 wheel drive dually started tailgating me. We got to a 4 lane road and were both turning left onto it. I had to turn right again 100 yards later so I pulled into the right lane (after sliding across the pile of unplowed snow in the middle) he tried to whip past me in the left lane and his rear end broke loose and he about hit me.
I got there an hour late. I was already cold and wet.
So then we loaded up the trailers and headed to the track to make deliveries. They had only made one pass with a plow around the barns (there are 20 of them in 2 rows, with 3 long driveways). So everything was flooded, and you had to drive with 2 wheels in a foot of snow and 2 wheels on pavement the whole way around. We got stuck once and had to dig out.
Finally got done 3 hours later and I was soaked from about mid shin down to my toes.
Got in my truck and started home, the roads weren't any better. Another idiot starts tailgating me, he was in a little grand prix or something. Got to a nice straight stretch of road where you couldn't see any pavement at all and he felt that was an appropriate time to pass. I started out not letting him around because I didn't want to get over that far, but he kept crowding me and finally we got to a wide enough clearing I could let him through. He took off about 50 miles an hour and was out of sight.
So now I'm home and got dry clothes. I think I might go to sleep and not wake up till spring. Maybe a little while on christmas day, but I don't know. Its supposed to down around 0 again :grumpy:
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Indian George, Fairhaven is nicer since I left? Don't make me tell Helen your picking on me. It's supposed to get down in the teens here tonight. I turned the heat up in my shop before I came in. My shop is pretty heavily insulated, so it's not a big problem. I spent the day out in the shop working on some new patterns I've been wanting to make. I mean it George, I'll tell Helen!!!
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You missed placed Yankee. Sister Agnes when you where attending fourth grade at St. Joesph's wouldn't believe you when you said that you didn't Pee'd your pants when she put you in the corner with that funning looking hat on, so what makes you think Helen will???????Tom Militano said:
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Because I'm a wonderful person, that's why!!
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Well there is that part of winter - driving in snow with crazy people. We could all do without that. But all this talk about winter makes me want to find some mountains and go look at the sky all night.
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You all need to experience the snow belt here. Got to love the lake effect snow. It can be sunshine and blue skies one minute and the next it is a white out. I remember one year with the wind coming across lake Michigan we got 36 inches of power in 48 hours.
Gotta love it right? It would be better without the $200 per month natty gas bill to heat this 100 year old house.
Gotta love it right? It would be better without the $200 per month natty gas bill to heat this 100 year old house.
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Give me a break!!! Now I really know why she put you in the corner. You where p'g on her leg and telling her it was raining. HEHEHE!!!!!Tom Militano said:
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I kind of like the winter.
OK - I got mild frost NIP on my back, arms, hands, face and toes in January but that's because I overdressed for the -20 windchill and sweated. Kept the same clothes on all day, but took off one item and went out again and froze (literally). I also got real sick at the same time with a severe liver infection of unknown origin. Anyway, my skin on my face, fingers and toes was pretty wrinkled and peeling like a sunburn until about the end of March, also had these little roundish reddened blister like 'scars' on my upper shoulders show up.
Anyway, the snow does get bad at times but the plows get rid of it in a few days, unless it's a really big dump, then it takes about a week to clear the streets. At least most of the busses and subway keep running (sort of). Its the people who don't showel the sidewalk in front of their homes for the pedestrians to get through that really annoys me. People that heve been living in the same houses for years and have NEVER bought a shovel. One guy actually "shovels" with the bottom of a broken hollow core DOOR or a piece of cardboard. So instead you have to walk in the street and hope people driving by at 40+ (speed limit is 35) on the ice don't run you down.
I'm actually glad the windows get frozen shut, that's the only thing that keeps the wind from whistling through my City-owned 40-year old poorly installed bent-frame single-pane windows. In the middle of winter, the ice gets about 1" thick across the bottom of the glass. That and duct tape, round foam cord insulation and 2" of pink sytrofoam insulation to seal the window opening until about April or May.
I like the silence and quietness the snow imparts on an otherwise noisy world. I like the sound and feel of the snow crunching underfoot. I like the (relatively) crisp clean air freezing the little hairs in my nose as I breathe and the sight of glistening tree-cicles around my apartment building. I ponder the shapes of the snowdrifts between the cars in the parking lots, and over their rooftops, the little footprints left behind by the birds, squirrels....and rats.
I wonder at the scores of morons who think they can drive safely on the iced over highway at 60 - and suddenly find out...they can't. I like how the blanket of white helps conceal piles of garbage and dead christmas trees in the neighborhood that don't get picked up by the sanitation depatment until the next melt. I laugh at the maintenence workers learning how to drive the mini snowplow, bobcat and front-end loader for the first time, again (and remember how one slid down the hill in the loader, crashed into a phone pole, wrecked 2 cars, overturned the loader, and knocked out the phone service to about 40 homes).
OK - I got mild frost NIP on my back, arms, hands, face and toes in January but that's because I overdressed for the -20 windchill and sweated. Kept the same clothes on all day, but took off one item and went out again and froze (literally). I also got real sick at the same time with a severe liver infection of unknown origin. Anyway, my skin on my face, fingers and toes was pretty wrinkled and peeling like a sunburn until about the end of March, also had these little roundish reddened blister like 'scars' on my upper shoulders show up.
Anyway, the snow does get bad at times but the plows get rid of it in a few days, unless it's a really big dump, then it takes about a week to clear the streets. At least most of the busses and subway keep running (sort of). Its the people who don't showel the sidewalk in front of their homes for the pedestrians to get through that really annoys me. People that heve been living in the same houses for years and have NEVER bought a shovel. One guy actually "shovels" with the bottom of a broken hollow core DOOR or a piece of cardboard. So instead you have to walk in the street and hope people driving by at 40+ (speed limit is 35) on the ice don't run you down.
I'm actually glad the windows get frozen shut, that's the only thing that keeps the wind from whistling through my City-owned 40-year old poorly installed bent-frame single-pane windows. In the middle of winter, the ice gets about 1" thick across the bottom of the glass. That and duct tape, round foam cord insulation and 2" of pink sytrofoam insulation to seal the window opening until about April or May.
I like the silence and quietness the snow imparts on an otherwise noisy world. I like the sound and feel of the snow crunching underfoot. I like the (relatively) crisp clean air freezing the little hairs in my nose as I breathe and the sight of glistening tree-cicles around my apartment building. I ponder the shapes of the snowdrifts between the cars in the parking lots, and over their rooftops, the little footprints left behind by the birds, squirrels....and rats.
I wonder at the scores of morons who think they can drive safely on the iced over highway at 60 - and suddenly find out...they can't. I like how the blanket of white helps conceal piles of garbage and dead christmas trees in the neighborhood that don't get picked up by the sanitation depatment until the next melt. I laugh at the maintenence workers learning how to drive the mini snowplow, bobcat and front-end loader for the first time, again (and remember how one slid down the hill in the loader, crashed into a phone pole, wrecked 2 cars, overturned the loader, and knocked out the phone service to about 40 homes).
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Awwww I bet you didn't get to go surfin ya poor bastid 
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Here in Troy, OH we got about 20 inches....then the temp dropped. As I type this on Xmas morn it is about -5 below....by my thermometer. My blades are out in the shop cryro treating themselves.
I got stuck at the hospital on Wed nite and had to stay due to the lack of staff and fact that I could not get up my street. When I finally was able to leave I had to park at a somewhat local pizza joint and walk home. This was the only time I ever wish I had snowshoes. Luckily, I have all that Army ECWS stuff, pants, parka, and Matterhorn boots.
I had to go back to work Thurs nite and humped back thru all that stuff because the street department was busy plowing all the affluent neighborhoods so the elite could get out in their SUV's and finish Xmas shopping.
Finally some dude down the street brought his companies front loader and plowed the street....thank God for neighbors.
Sure was nice to get home....and not be there at work.
We actually had people coming in at the height of the storm for really STUPID crap...."uh....I hurt my knee three weeks ago and I cant sleep" And they called the ambulance to come get them.
I got stuck at the hospital on Wed nite and had to stay due to the lack of staff and fact that I could not get up my street. When I finally was able to leave I had to park at a somewhat local pizza joint and walk home. This was the only time I ever wish I had snowshoes. Luckily, I have all that Army ECWS stuff, pants, parka, and Matterhorn boots.
I had to go back to work Thurs nite and humped back thru all that stuff because the street department was busy plowing all the affluent neighborhoods so the elite could get out in their SUV's and finish Xmas shopping.
Finally some dude down the street brought his companies front loader and plowed the street....thank God for neighbors.
Sure was nice to get home....and not be there at work.
We actually had people coming in at the height of the storm for really STUPID crap...."uh....I hurt my knee three weeks ago and I cant sleep" And they called the ambulance to come get them.