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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sixpence on January 23, 2005, 05:54:24 AM
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We are freakin buried. Maybe I can get out of work today.
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Always good to see a New Englander say "freakin".
Best of luck to you, Peter Griffin.
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this is WICKED AAWESOME
getting like 60mph gusts here on cape cod and like 3 feet of snow. i'm snowed in at work until monday
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Originally posted by moose
i'm snowed in at work until monday
What a nightmare.
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Whats snow?
Tronsky
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About 30 inches here, 15 below wind chill. "Only one good thing about winter........summer's comin!"
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Originally posted by moose
this is WICKED AAWESOME
getting like 60mph gusts here on cape cod and like 3 feet of snow. i'm snowed in at work until monday
OVERTIME! Bada Bing! :D
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(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/55_1106492194_snow1.jpg)
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Great...it's gonna be cold and really stormy here in 3 or 4 days then.:(
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UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!
(http://www.satyrnet.it/griffin/peter2.gif)
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(http://dogsnot.net/mt/images/snow.jpg)
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Freakin wicked cool.........Sacred Heart is closed - must be bad.
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Cool. Wish we got that much.
I love big snow storms
We got around 14" here.
Sure glad we got a snowblower a couple years ago.
I sure dont miss the ol heave ho but I still wouldnt mind shooting the guys that drive the plows that send all that packed stuff 20 feet up my driveway.
BTW your house needs a paint job:)
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U should've been at Tahoe last weekend.
Forget about it!
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I couldn't handle that kind of weather.
It's 69 here right now, high of 76 today :)
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Originally posted by NUKE
I couldn't handle that kind of weather.
It's 69 here right now, high of 76 today :)
It's dropped to the mid 60's here....I'm freezing my prettythang off...I'll jump in the hot tub later.
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Who was your architect, Picasso?
(http://dogsnot.net/mt/images/snow.jpg)
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That's not my house, it's my neighbors. I'm IN my house. It's actually a typical pre-1800s New England home.
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Originally posted by Martlet
That's not my house, it's my neighbors. I'm IN my house. It's actually a typical pre-1800s New England home.
Oh
still needs a paint job lol
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Oh
still needs a paint job lol
It's slat board. You don't paint that. It's actually a pretty sweet looking house. Probably worth about 750k
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Wow, that storm really picked up steam! We got about half of that yesterday and the night before. White out conditions at MKE (huge field, huge gusts, 40mph) the whole day.
crazy stuff
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Originally posted by Martlet
It's slat board. You don't paint that. It's actually a pretty sweet looking house. Probably worth about 750k
lol 750k....
it's only cause the location is desirable
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Originally posted by Bodhi
lol 750k....
it's only cause the location is desirable
And it's a sweet house.
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Just talked to my Daughter in R. I. she said 36 inches. :eek: :lol
I was griping it was sunny and 40 here.
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Originally posted by Bodhi
lol 750k....
it's only cause the location is desirable
Ofcourse, I would pay anything to live next door to Martlet.......;)
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Originally posted by patrone
Ofcourse, I would pay anything to live next door to Martlet.......;)
You couldn't afford to live next door to me.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Just talked to my Daughter in R. I. she said 36 inches. :eek: :lol
I was griping it was sunny and 40 here.
Your daughter is a theif and a liar.
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Originally posted by hawker238
Your daughter is a theif and a liar.
Do WHAT? Let me tell you something you lil punk ***. My daughter is NOT a thief NOR a liar. Possibly she measured next to the house. Maybe she was told that by her ding bat mother.
Don't you come here and call my daughter NOTHING.
You dont know her. SO, you keep your friggin mouth shut before you end up on the wrong side of a FRIKIN talk with someone.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Originally posted by Martlet
You couldn't afford to live next door to me.
Yes I could, but I doubt the opposite...........:p
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Originally posted by RedTop
Do WHAT? Let me tell you something you lil punk ***. My daughter is NOT a thief NOR a liar. Possibly she measured next to the house. Maybe she was told that by her ding bat mother.
Don't you come here and call my daughter NOTHING.
You dont know her. SO, you keep your friggin mouth shut before you end up on the wrong side of a FRIKIN talk with someone.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Channel 6 is reporting most of RI got between 20 and 30 inches, with some coastal areas receiving more.
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Originally posted by patrone
Yes I could, but I doubt the opposite...........:p
Uh huh.
Hey, if it makes you feel better to say so, don't let me rain on your parade.
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I was doing some yard work today and actually got some sun. I even broke a sweat. It was a comfortable 85 out
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I was doing some yard work today and actually got some sun. I even broke a sweat. It was a comfortable 85 out
I broke a sweat, too. Shoveling all that snow. I forgot to take the snowblower in to be fixed.
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Originally posted by Martlet
Channel 6 is reporting most of RI got between 20 and 30 inches, with some coastal areas receiving more.
Thank you Marlet:) Since SHE DOES live right on the coast of R.I.
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Red... it was a joke, bud. Take a deep breath and realize the quote did not say anything about snow being 36"
Not a good joke, but it was a joke.
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I must have missed that humor101 class.:)
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We had 6-10" actual, with 2 foot to 3 foot drifts Saturday. I had to drive to Lansing Saturday due to my sister-in-law graduating from Law School. The drive was fun. This is my favorite time of the year.
Karaya
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Originally posted by Martlet
I broke a sweat, too. Shoveling all that snow. I forgot to take the snowblower in to be fixed.
Left mine sitting from last year, finally got it started and the engine raced, couldn't get the idle down. Took the cover off the carb and the linkage was all frozen. Oiled it and finally got it working. Kept meaning to have it serviced before the winter. I can't imagine shoveling again, that would suk. I would offer the kids next door a C note, seriously. We got caught in one of the 3 foot spots along the shore. Salem, just north of us got 38" and Revere, just south, got 36".
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where are you sixpence? i play hockey in saugus... you there? or beverly?
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For those of you missing the Sun, my local beach at the end of a days surf. :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/Piha.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/LionsRock.jpg)
Piha Beach, Auckland NZ
...-Gixer
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Snowmen, where are the frikkin' snowmen? Perhaps a snow-spitfire? C'mon you guys....entertain me! ;)
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Originally posted by moose
where are you sixpence? i play hockey in saugus... you there? or beverly?
Sin city, grew up in Revere(six feet of ocean water in my bedroom blizzard of '78'). Where you play, hockey town? Sent ya an email.
BTW, This was written by a 72 year old woman during the blizzard of '78'
The following is from a diary kept by the mother of Melrosian Betty McGowan, now resident of the Cochrane House. Winthrop and Revere (Atlantic Ocean shore towns)are under 10 miles east of Melrose. Beacon Hill and Dorchester are part of Boston, 6 miles to the south. Other towns mentioned are beyond a 10-mile radius, north and south. Cottage Ave. and Hillside Ave. were in the author's neighborhood.
Monday, Feb. 6 -- 25 degrees and cloudy. Strong northeast winds 50-60 miles per hour blowing at 1:00 p.m. as snow started falling or rather blowing in a straight line by the gale. It's going to be a big one.
6:30 p.m. -- 28 degrees in Boston. Almost hurricane winds blowing and snowing hard -- a driving snow. The front windows of the house are covered with snow again, as it swirls around the corner of the house. Winds clocked at 83 mph at Logan Airport (94 miles per hour later).
Planes can't get into the hangars so will have to be kept outside. In the last storm a radar-controlled "caterpillar" vehicle plowed, being controlled by the tower.
Tuesday, Feb. 7 -- Governor Dukakis declared a state of emergency and President Carter signed an emergency order for Massachusetts. We are under military martial law jurisdiction. No one allowed out on the streets. A big flash of light came at 7:20 p.m. and out went the lights all over town. I had candles and flashlight ready.
Storm is howling and blowing and snowing so you can't see but a few feet out the windows. The front windows really piling up with drifting snow. No plow can get up here. 12-15 foot tides are high at 10:20 a.m., running five feet over normal. By afternoon people along Winthrop Shore Drive and Missing Link in Beachmont are being evacuated as six feet or more of water is in the cellars. Point Shirley, the same. One rescuer went into a house to get the folks out and in less than five minutes the water rose three feet and no one could get out. Eventually, they did. Lights on again at 1:30 -- only out three hours. Gas burner in the furnace is out. It doesn't run any more.
Still a blizzard. Tides high at 10:00 a.m. Terrible destruction and houses damaged almost beyond repair in Winthrop. It is unbelievable. The winds are 70-94 mph. It is a hurricane-type wind swirling round and round and the eye of the storm moving only about one inch an hour, that is why the storm is lasting in all its fury so long. The TV and radio storm center is doing a marvelous job of keeping us informed.
Stoughton, MA to Cranston, RI area very bad. 70,000 people with no electric power. A roof blew off a house and into a generator, blacking out the area. South Boston, Beacon Hill and many more places are blacked out. Dorchester, etc., as well as Needham-Dedham ... just about everywhere.
From Needham on Rte. 128 to Stoughton, one unbroken line of stalled cars slowly being buried in snow. No plow can move because of the snow. Drifts are 20 feet high. Three thousand cars and five hundred trucks stranded in Needham to Randolph on Rte. 128.
Cottage Ave., my street, is one mass of snow drifts 15-20 feet high across the streets. Can't see cars as snow has completely covered and drifted in between them and two to three feet over the tops.
Snow has stopped about 10:00 p.m. Feb. 7th. Martial law still in effect. National Guard and army units ordered out.
Wednesday, Feb. 8th -- 20 degrees. Sunny and what a sight. All Cottage Ave. from Hillside Ave. looking east toward the ocean, is drifts up to rooftops. The snow is so deep between our cars along the street, I could just see the tops of shovelers' heads.
There is a six-foot pile of sand across Shirley St. going to Point Shirley. No plow can get through until the sand is cleared. Houses with so much water up to the first floor (from the cellar) and above. Folks have just stayed on the second floor at the Missing Link. Many, many houses full of water and people being evacuated to Revere High School. Shore Drive residents in Winthrop have been taken to Winthrop High School.
Helicopter with Governor Dukakis flying over the shoreline and trying to evaluate the terrible damage. It is unbelievable.
In the 48 years I have lived here, I have seen bad storms and hurricanes, but this is the most destructive and devastating ... in fact, it set a record of all time in the hundred years of weather recording.
The huge drifts, at least 16 feet high, blocking Cottage Avenue from Hillside Avenue, are still there. No piece of equipment has come to clear them. Our fire hydrants still buried 8-10 feet deep.
Logan Airport cleared a thousand feet of runway, 180 feet wide, (took 42 hours) to allow troops and equipment from Fort Bragg, NC, to land and assist with getting cars off Route #128 and other blocked highways. Cars are still being towed as fast as possible, but thousands still stalled and completely covered with snow. Two women found dead in a car near Randolph.
Winthrop Shore Drive torn up and sea wall gone, of course, for a block. It is covered with rubble. Big stones and rocks. So much sand and rock on Shore Drive it looks like the beach. Great damage to houses, untold as yet, and great damage to the sea wall.
Feb. 9, Thursday -- 15 degrees and sunny. Cottage Hill still untouched by plows. Schools and banks still closed and businesses, except drugstores and some supermarkets. Supplies cannot get through from the warehouses.
Neighbors on Cottage Ave. are trying to dig out walks and around cars so the plows can see them...they are buried so deep.
People in Revere (a third of it was covered by salt water along the shore) and animals being rescued from houses by boats and rafts. The same in Winthrop. Rescuers wading waist-deep in water to get to the houses. It's indescribable. In Hull and Scituate, 30 or 40 houses just washed away or completely ruined. Devastation all over that part of the seashore and up to Portland, Maine, on the northshore. Landmark at Rockland, Maine, is gone. The Ship cocktail lounge at Anthony's Restaurant on Atlantic Ave., Boston, washed away.
It's four days now and everything's still at a standstill. Still a state of emergency. People can go for food or the drugstore only. Terrible disaster.
Army troops and heavy equipment still landing at Logan Airport and going to Route 128 between Needham and Randolph to help tow cars, etc. In Boston there are over 500 pieces of equipment trying to clear Boston's 690 miles of roadway. Part of the state not so hard-hit. No state of emergency there.
Friday, Feb. 10 -- 10 degrees and sunny. Entire city of Boston was blacked-out again. Winthrop was without power for only 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Words can't describe the conditions. Cottage Ave. still has 12-15 foot drifts blocking access to Hillside Ave ... the big hill down. No town equipment available yet for clearing snow. No plow could do it. It will have to be hand-shovelled. Shirley St., the main road, is clear but narrow.
This storm started as a hurricane off the Carolinas and came up the coast very slowly and with fury. At one point, the satellite picture on TV showed the eye very clearly of the snow-hurricane off Cape Cod on the south side.
The radio and TV are wonderful. Personnel somehow got to the station through the snowdrifts and storm. They just stayed there, giving information for emergencies and phone numbers for the same. The camera men did an excellent job where ever they were. No one now living will ever (probably) see anything like this again. The worst on record.
I am 73 1/2 years old and I've seen bad storms, but this is the worst winter storm ever.
Snowmobiles aided the rescue teams and people were using skis and snowshoes to get around Boston as well as other places. They helped people to hospitals and got personnel there also.
Today the ocean is blue and calm as the Pacific. Looks so harmless yet can be whipped into fury by the elements. The new moon made the tides high 10-12 feet and storm increased it to 15 feet at a monstrous force. A really frightening sight to see such enormous waves.
The children are beginning to coast down Hillside. It's many a year since I've seen that. It was a great place to coast in the 1920s and '30s when cars were scarcer. Cottage Ave. and Crystal Cove were roped off to traffic so that folks could coast way down to Beacon Street. I've done it myself with my daughter when she was young.
11:30 a.m. About 30 people, young and old, are out shoveling the roadway to clear an 8-foot-high path. An unprecented sight. No oil trucks or fire trucks could get through. I never saw anything like this. An army truck tried to get drifts off the hillside intersection but gave up with his piece of equipment ... a front-end loader. Now the shovelers are trying to do just that. Really something to see. Folks working together for the good of all. Those who hardly speak to each other in ordinary times are talking.
Senator Brooks just landed by helicopter on Town Landing just beyond the yacht club on Shirley St. at the bottom of our hill to assess the damage to bayside and to (view) boats moored nearby and everywhere in Winthrop. I guess the worst is over.
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Originally posted by rpm
Snowmen, where are the frikkin' snowmen? Perhaps a snow-spitfire? C'mon you guys....entertain me! ;)
Too cold for a snowman, can't even make a snowball
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You are pure evil Gixer.
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LOL, sorry RedTop, I didn't mean it at all, I just use the phrase.
Anyways, I'm by the coast and I got 15 inches (not in a drift or anything). Up in Providence they got about 23-25.
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DAMN YOU GIXER!
Except for the sand, that is the nicest beach I've ever seen.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Left mine sitting from last year, finally got it started and the engine raced, couldn't get the idle down. Took the cover off the carb and the linkage was all frozen. Oiled it and finally got it working. Kept meaning to have it serviced before the winter. I can't imagine shoveling again, that would suk. I would offer the kids next door a C note, seriously. We got caught in one of the 3 foot spots along the shore. Salem, just north of us got 38" and Revere, just south, got 36".
Me too. I'm in Swampscott and Nahant.
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Originally posted by Martlet
Me too. I'm in Swampscott and Nahant.
Nahant, that house is probably worth more than 750k, I used to dream about living there. The only thing is the causeway gets closed during storms, it's the only way in or out. Used to go to the beach there, but it gets so crowded now I don't even bother anymore. They should make it private for the residents like the point of pines in Revere. Used to take my girlfiend up marblehead by the lighthouse and drive by all the houses, they must run in the millions now.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Nahant, that house is probably worth more than 750k, I used to dream about living there. The only thing is the causeway gets closed during storms, it's the only way in or out. Used to go to the beach there, but it gets so crowded now I don't even bother anymore. They should make it private for the residents like the point of pines in Revere. Used to take my girlfiend up marblehead by the lighthouse and drive by all the houses, they must run in the millions now.
I used to have a rental property in Marblehead, but I sold it because it was too hard to rent. There's no freaking parking there.
I love Nahant. It's pretty secure. If you go to the beaches further in it's pretty much residents only. There's no parking unless you have a sticker.
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Looks like a normal winter in Central NY, but a 30" snow storm is a good one. Last year we got a 56" storm and in two days some areas up here got 72"
We actually only got 9 inches of snow Sat night. Lucky Ones. 20 miles south got 15".
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where's Ripsnort? I was expecting a post with pictures of his house and cars and whatnot?
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Originally posted by hawker238
DAMN YOU GIXER!
Except for the sand, that is the nicest beach I've ever seen.
If it will make ya feel any better, all is not as it seems.
Here`s a picture of Gixer and his girlfriend on his rice rocket headed to the beach.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/22_1106612508_gixer.jpeg)
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Originally posted by Jackal1
If it will make ya feel any better, all is not as it seems.
Here`s a picture of Gixer and his girlfriend on his rice rocket headed to the beach.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/22_1106612508_gixer.jpeg)
LOL
....-Gixer