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10-08-2017, 12:27 PM
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#4301
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: DFW
Posts: 7,586
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Hopefully this hurricane season will be over in another 30 days or so. What a horrific year its been for so many. Glad to hear NOLA did not get hit to any great extent.
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10-08-2017, 12:58 PM
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#4302
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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We are so thankful that New Orleans was not badly damaged, too. We feel like we really dodged a bullet this time.
Although we are used to this, still, in the back of our minds is the utter nightmare we experienced after Katrina. We thought we were taking this one really well, but there was a lot going on on a subconscious level. Today both of us are just unbelievably stiff and sore from having muscles as tight as piano wire for a few days due to subconscious stress. We can hardly walk.
Today I'm planning to just sit, doze on and off, and recover.
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10-09-2017, 09:21 AM
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#4303
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cooksburg,PA
Posts: 1,873
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
We are so thankful that New Orleans was not badly damaged, too. We feel like we really dodged a bullet this time.
Although we are used to this, still, in the back of our minds is the utter nightmare we experienced after Katrina. We thought we were taking this one really well, but there was a lot going on on a subconscious level. Today both of us are just unbelievably stiff and sore from having muscles as tight as piano wire for a few days due to subconscious stress. We can hardly walk.
Today I'm planning to just sit, doze on and off, and recover.
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I'm glad you dodged the bullet.
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10-09-2017, 09:32 AM
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#4304
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Free To Canoe
I'm glad you dodged the bullet.
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Thank you!! I gather that Mississippi was not so lucky, although we haven't heard from any of our Mississippi members yet. I saw online that Biloxi got 7" of rain. Hope they are doing OK over there.
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10-09-2017, 10:13 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Colorado Mountains
Posts: 3,165
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We are in the middle of the first snow for the year. A little over an inch on the ground and it is snowing heavily. I'm wasn't ready for this. The truck is in town in the shop, but the roads were just graded Friday so I would just make a mess if I tried to plow. There are still summer people up here. We should be OK. It is supposed to warm back up starting tomorrow. I need to go split some wood before I can work in the house.
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10-29-2017, 10:05 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 416
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Wind is howling, it's pouring rain, and the power just went out here in southeastern Connecticut. Looks like it's gonna be a long night for the power crews. They're showing almost 60,000 customers out now and that number is going up quickly.
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10-30-2017, 09:34 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: North
Posts: 4,043
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Escaped our first wet snow without any power loss or downed trees. Hopefully it dries up enough for all of us to get our leaves raked. This years snow took us all by surprise as early as it was.
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11-02-2017, 02:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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The first snow is here! I guess that means golf season is over....
So glad I don’t have to drive anywhere today, winter tires notwithstanding.
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11-02-2017, 02:36 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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Well, it's 70° here today so we do hope y'all keep all that snow up north where it belongs....
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11-02-2017, 03:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
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It's 88 degrees in my 'hood today....had freezing temps during the night just a few days ago.
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11-02-2017, 09:25 PM
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#4311
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Wow, snow!!!
Our high today was 84F, which is a little hotter than our average high temperature of 74F for this date.
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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11-04-2017, 06:53 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 717
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Our area is going through that lovely season where the weather goes back and forth from warm and muggy to cool and dry, and my sinuses go into complete meltdown...
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12-08-2017, 02:18 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Snow in new orleans!!!
We have a winter weather advisory for snow and sleet, and believe it or not, it is snowing outside! It's only 36 here so it won't stick.
Frank and I eat lunch out every day, and it was my turn to drive. Like many here, I can't drive in the snow or ice at all, and had no idea how much worse the weather might get while we were eating. So I drove to the nearest sandwich shop just 2 very short blocks away and after lunch came straight home. We plan to stay home now.
I saw snowflakes the size of quarters falling on the windshield and sliding down. Pretty awesome!
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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12-08-2017, 02:42 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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From your many other posts about life in New Orleans I've often thought about trying to talk DW into moving there, but clearly it is not far enough south. If I can talk her into a move south, I want it to be somewhere where I'll never see another snowflake.
We're also forecast to get snow, possibly tonight and then tomorrow, then again on Monday night into Tuesday.
Evidently buying a new snowthrower wasn't enough to stop the snow. Or maybe I didn't spend enough - Ariens makes one that has an electronic fuel injected engine and electric hand warmers built into the handlebars, all the bells & whistles, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the $1,800 that it costs for the 24 inch one.
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12-08-2017, 02:52 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,727
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Snowed here last night (Houston north).
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12-08-2017, 02:52 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
From your many other posts about life in New Orleans I've often thought about trying to talk DW into moving there, but clearly it is not far enough south. If I can talk her into a move south, I want it to be somewhere where I'll never see another snowflake.
We're also forecast to get snow, possibly tonight and then tomorrow, then again on Monday night into Tuesday.
Evidently buying a new snowthrower wasn't enough to stop the snow. Or maybe I didn't spend enough - Ariens makes one that has an electronic fuel injected engine and electric hand warmers built into the handlebars, all the bells & whistles, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the $1,800 that it costs for the 24 inch one.
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Well, the snow isn't there YET - - maybe your snowthrower's magic will still work.
I would recommend Honolulu. I used to live there, and we thought it was frightfully cold when it got down in the 60's. I think the lower 60's was as cold as it ever got while I was living there. When the thermometer hit 70 or below, my high school classmates and I would pull out our pretty sweaters to wear, because we were cold!
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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12-08-2017, 02:53 PM
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#4317
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Originally Posted by aja8888
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Brrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
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12-08-2017, 03:03 PM
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#4318
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,791
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They are predicting up to five inches for me. I’m looking forward to my first “retired” snowday but it’s on a Saturday morning so it won’t count.
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12-08-2017, 03:12 PM
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#4319
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GalaxyBoy
They are predicting up to five inches for me. I’m looking forward to my first “retired” snowday but it’s on a Saturday morning so it won’t count.
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Wow, it's going to look like Christmas up there.
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12-08-2017, 05:53 PM
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#4320
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,596
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Good to see you southerners getting some snow! We also have snow in the forecast - up to inch before tomorrow am.
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