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we live in a strange world...enjoy the penguinsNothing worse than yellow snow as I remember.
YouTube - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - FRANK ZAPPA
we live in a strange world...enjoy the penguinsNothing worse than yellow snow as I remember.
Sarasota is very nice. As a fellow Wisconsinite (once upon a time) let me suggest you check out Lakewood Ranch. It was originally bought and then developed by the Uihleins, the beer barons of Milwaukee. Lots of cheeseheads there -- a planned community east of Sarasota. May not be to your liking but worth seeing.I see you're in Sarasota. That is the area i'm thinking that I would go if I was going to leave winter behind. Right now, being near my family is what's keeping me in Wisconsin. Are there any downfalls to Sarasota. Muggy summers don't bother me a bit. Hurricanes don't worry me. Housing seems very reasonable. How are RE taxes. I know HO ins. is a little high but i'd be looking for a place well under $100,000 so it can't be that bad.
I see you're in Sarasota. That is the area i'm thinking that I would go if I was going to leave winter behind. Right now, being near my family is what's keeping me in Wisconsin. Are there any downfalls to Sarasota. Muggy summers don't bother me a bit. Hurricanes don't worry me. Housing seems very reasonable. How are RE taxes. I know HO ins. is a little high but i'd be looking for a place well under $100,000 so it can't be that bad.
All that ice reminds me of December 1979 in MO. (yeah, a looong time ago) Anyway, we didn't have power or gas for three days and we, like most, had no generator. We did pretty well except we froze our buns off since we had a waterbed. ....
Well... uhm... ah... gosh, we had a big rainstorm last week that dumped 12" in 12 hours. (It's probably the same storm that Brat's dealing with now.) We had to shut all our windows and one of our roof vents leaked when the rain blew in. And all our lanai furniture was soaking wet, all the way up to the house wall. And a local reservoir almost overflowed and we had flash flooding in a bunch of gulches around the island.
And... and... and the surf temperature is down in the low 70s and it feels really cold when you first get in. I may have to buy a 3mm shorty for next winter.
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That name would have fit me in uhhhhhh 1979........Well, if you had told that story earlier, you could have had the BunsGettingFirm name.
and a house a block & 1/2 away i was taking pics of yesterday - it took a good hit from an oak branch:
Nords, don't forget the VOG (volcanic smog) its been pretty bad until today. I must say all this ice, snowstorms, wind chill below zero sounds very exciting, I am so envious of you folks with changing weather.
Honolulu is so boring, forecast HI 79 Low 67 repeat through Christmas, maybe we will get showers on Christmas day, Friday we are due for a cold snap 77.
Nords, don't forget the VOG (volcanic smog) its been pretty bad until today.
Cool Walt! I hope you post some pics!Being an optimist (sometimes) I'm going to check out a slightly used Yamaha 1300 touring motorcycle this afternoon. From the description over the phone I'll probably buy it, get it home somehow, and store it in the shed until April..
Oh trust me I love the boring weather here a lot having only being here 9 years. I often ask Kama'aina do you ever get bored with weather and they pretty much say are you kidding! Personally, I still chuckle every time I see the breathless promos for the local news with the two segments devoted to the weather forecast (although surf forecast is serious ) and the Hawaii severe weather channel. I play poker with one of the local sports casters and have asked why why the meteorologist don't video tape their forecasts a week in advance. He isn't sure either.
Personally CNBC this last year has been a great substitute for the Weather channel and associated hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes.
I'll admit is cruel to post on this thread,with many of virtual friends suffering, but I did use the right emoticon
Never thought of that! Should we laminate our currency, or just minimize the adverse effects by spending it faster?Ahhh, yes the dreaded VOG. Interesting what happens to certain types of security inks (used in printing financial documents) when exposed to the sulfur oxides, sulfate aerosols, trace metals and other chemical compounds in VOG. Half the fun was trying to figure out why documents printed on the mainland and distributed all over the US were fine except in HI, where the inks and paper did strange things...
People either love living here or they hate it, but there's rarely ambivalence or apathy...I like wide open spaces, so I would have claustrophobia living on a volcanic island..........
Visiting the sisters in Wisconsin and sharing the same snow. It was down from 8" that Fox was predicting yesterday.It's officially the snowiest december ever in my city with 33" so far. They're forcasting another 4"+ for the next 24 hours so we'll shatter the record
Visiting the sisters in Wisconsin and sharing the same snow. It was down from 8" that Fox was predicting yesterday.
We are not planning on going anywhere, we are from Arizona.If you're down near milwaukee area you could still get up to 8 inches with this latest storm. Drive safely.
78 today, 76 tomorrow, 77 on Friday! Jacksonville Florida Mike
We left Orange Park last Friday (12/19) and it had been great as we were down there a week. Driving back to Ohio the temperature was falling about 2 degrees every 100 miles, but it was still in the 50's when we got home. This past week has been a tad COLD. Currently, just put the dog out, it is a lot warmer and just a light rain. Glad we did not get a Ice Storm. We sill like the spring, summer and fall, here in Ohio better than the spring, summer and fall, down there, and we lived there (Orange Park) for 19 years. Just need to find someplace further south to hide for the winters.
Cool Walt! I hope you post some pics!