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Title: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 12, 2006, 09:47:34 AM
First REAL snow of the year.
16+ inches

You know what that means??










BBQ TIME!!!
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Hangtime on February 12, 2006, 09:54:23 AM
you are a warped, twisted demented human being.

....if yer even human.

I ****ing hate snow. We almost made it thru the season without any significant ****ing snowfall, and I bet right now yer out in the ****ing snow making ****ing snowmen, ****ing snow angels and ****ing enjoying ****ing shoveling your ****ing driveway, and enjoying every ****ing minute of it.

And afterwards yer gonna star inna ****ing capital one card commecial with a BBQ going in a ****ing snow drift.
Title: Re: Bout damn time
Post by: doobs on February 12, 2006, 10:06:58 AM
Quote
Originally posted by DREDIOCK
First REAL snow of the year.
16+ inches

You know what that means??
 




Yeah I know what it means,

means I gotta go outside and break my f...... *** shovelin

one long *** driveway, and A 10 foot mountain of snow at the end off it.


Can't friggin wait to get out there, on my only day off this week.:furious
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Maverick on February 12, 2006, 11:40:10 AM
What is snow???:huh


































:p
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Nilsen on February 12, 2006, 11:50:00 AM
Have about 1 - 1,5 meters of fluffy snow here...









:)
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lazs2 on February 12, 2006, 12:02:02 PM
what is a meter?

lazs
Title: what is a meter?
Post by: xrtoronto on February 12, 2006, 12:07:47 PM
let me guess...it's a girly way of measuring things?
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 12, 2006, 12:11:57 PM
Dead on.  We barely got clipped here in the dead center of PA.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Urchin on February 12, 2006, 12:22:38 PM
Lol, whats barely clipped?  

Got around a foot in Baltimore.. thats pretty significant for this area.
Title: Re: what is a meter?
Post by: storch on February 12, 2006, 12:52:39 PM
Quote
Originally posted by xrtoronto
let me guess...it's a girly way of measuring things?
nope I have two of those meters right here at home, one to measure electrical consumption and the other water
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 12, 2006, 01:03:41 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Hangtime
you are a warped, twisted demented human being.


Why thank you. its a family trait I've always taken great pride in.



....if yer even human.

People do often wonder that about me

I ****ing hate snow. We almost made it thru the season without any significant ****ing snowfall, and I bet right now yer out in the ****ing snow making ****ing snowmen, ****ing snow angels and ****ing enjoying ****ing shoveling your ****ing driveway, and enjoying every ****ing minute of it.

I love snow. I'd rather there be snow then just cold and gray. They way I see it. Im in the northeast. its winter. Its SUPPOSED to snow.
If I didnt want or like snow I'd move to Florida with the Canadians , "New Yo-akas", and other weaklings:D

Actually my wife traded in my snowshovel for a snowblower several years ago. And yes I did enjoy every minute of it. So much so that not only did I do my Property. but I also did my next door neighbors sidewalk and drivewy leading out to the street where the plows,plowed him in. Then I walked it 2 1/2 blocks down and did my sister in laws property.

I only make snowmen to appease my daughter and I never make snow angels, and certainly not in 16 inches of snow.
 I'm crazy, not stupid lmao

And afterwards yer gonna star inna ****ing capital one card commecial with a BBQ going in a ****ing snow drift.  

I wish! I could use the money.

but then again I wish I had a penny for everytime someeone told me I was a "warped, twisted demented human being."  (But you forgot "sick and deranged")

I wouldnt need to be in a Capitol One commercial.
I'd OWN Capitol One. And probably a few other things too!

Well Im off now. I have to go run and get lighter fluid for the Brinkman

The expressions on peoples faces when they see me in line at the store will be...."Priceless"
;)
Title: Re: Re: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 12, 2006, 01:15:36 PM
Quote
Originally posted by doobs
Yeah I know what it means,

means I gotta go outside and break my f...... *** shovelin

one long *** driveway, and A 10 foot mountain of snow at the end off it.


Can't friggin wait to get out there, on my only day off this week.:furious
My condolences, I feel for ya, I really do! (http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/redir?src=singingfish&requestId=db4f74b139c742a8&clickedItemRank=3&userQuery=Let+it+snow+let+it+snow+let+it+snow&clickedItemURN=http%3A%2F%2Fcat-ra.universal-music-group.com%2F_jazz%2F_ram%2Fs1%2F00731454906722_01_05_00.00-01.30_s1.ram) :D
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Morpheus on February 12, 2006, 02:19:30 PM
over 2 feet here in ct. i am sick of ****ing winter.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: xrtoronto on February 12, 2006, 02:21:15 PM
I used to make a fortune when I was a kid shovelling neighbours driveways etc...do kids still do that kind of thing? Slip some neighbours kid $10 to do it!
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Eagler on February 12, 2006, 02:26:22 PM
don't see how you guys do it really

if we get 24hrs of gray skies, some rain and "freezing" temps in the 40's, it is depressing enough ...
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: xrtoronto on February 12, 2006, 02:44:08 PM
you are correct eagler...up here there is something called SAD (seasonal affective disorder) which is alot like depression, but it is caused by lack of sunlight and well, crappy weather!
On the up side...when spring comes around we really enjoy and appreciate it.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 12, 2006, 02:55:55 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Eagler
don't see how you guys do it really

if we get 24hrs of gray skies, some rain and "freezing" temps in the 40's, it is depressing enough ...


Exactly why if its winter I want snow instead of just cold, with grey skies

Snow at least looks cool (more then just n the literal sense)

I like Blizzards in particular. Usually I wait till its at its height and near white out conditions then take the dog for a nice long walk
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 12, 2006, 03:04:43 PM
Clipped means barely hit.  We have 2 inches of snow here.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: G0ALY on February 12, 2006, 03:25:46 PM
You are my kind of people!  While the snow was'nt that deep.. it was 14 degrees during this BBQ. (an oldie but a goodie!)

(http://goaly.homestead.com/files/grill.jpg)
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Urchin on February 12, 2006, 04:27:28 PM
Hehe Laser, but you are from PA.. I figured maybe clipped meant only a couple feet.  

My girlfriends sister lives in Pittsburgh, and it snows all the time there (according to my girlfriend anyway).
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: texace on February 12, 2006, 04:50:16 PM
I'm content with the random ice storms down here. Making "sleet angels" doesn't have the same effect...

We've probably only had one "real" snow storm in my lifetime here. :confused:
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: ClevMan on February 12, 2006, 04:51:07 PM
Flurries this AM...  But, the snow couldn't get near the RIBS sitting in the stomach of the BBQ...  I love winter
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Holden McGroin on February 12, 2006, 05:05:44 PM
177" snowpack mid mountain...

9 chairs open

(http://mtbachelor.com/images/content/winter/2_1_06_unknown_cindercone_1wr.jpg)


But I usually go to Willamette Pass...its 40 miles closer and $36 to Mt Bachelors $49 a day.

65" snow pack mid mountain,  249" cumulative snow this year.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: cpxxx on February 12, 2006, 05:12:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
what is a meter?

lazs


About a yard. But it's spelt metre not meter.

No snow here, last time it snowed round here was Christmas day 2004 but it was gone the next day. It was weird like someone's wish had come true for a white Christmas.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: xrtoronto on February 12, 2006, 07:36:17 PM
saw the snowfall on the dinner news. You guys got ALOT of snow

they showed Manhatan and I was really surprised...I can't remember when I last saw that city under so much snow

we still have little/no snow here (very weird for us)
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 12, 2006, 07:40:26 PM
Well Pittsburgh is east of Erie.  They get lake effect snow all the time.  It's nothing major, but you'd probably see flurries every day.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Ripsnort on February 12, 2006, 09:33:21 PM
60 degrees and sunny today here in Western WA. Be nice to me or I'll post a pic of a freshly detailed black BMW. ;)
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: midnight Target on February 12, 2006, 09:46:36 PM
I'm still wearing shorts... and I look dam good in 'em too.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 12, 2006, 10:10:56 PM
Golly-geen you guys.  I'm freezing my balls up here.  I've been dying for the temperature to raise to 35 or 40 so I can get some exercise.

(http://photos-003.facebook.com/n11/0/63/9329817/n9329817_30870003_274.jpg)

(this may or may not work.  I don't have the time to upload it to my spaces).
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: doobs on February 12, 2006, 11:09:34 PM
Dred I hope you enjoyed it, every square inch of my body hurts.

we all dont have teenage kids to do our snow bidding for us.

ah crap just resprained a finger.




I'm with ya Dred I love the snow just not when I dont have my 11hp snowblower with me.  goin to need a back transplant.

now I'm at war with the plows, I keep breakin thru to the street and they keep plowin mt everest my into my driveway, they are not going to like next pass.  I put large rocks and chains in the snow where they goin to pass next. the chains are hooked to 5 full garbage cans of snow and rocks.

f' them, if that dont work, mister 30/30 will have to take out a tire or two.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Hangtime on February 13, 2006, 12:21:31 AM
When I lived up in Maine the rural plowing on side streets was done by locals on contract to the town or county. This one yokel that knew I was 'not frum round heyah' used to love to clip off my mail box post with his plow. After replacing the 4x4 three times I decided i'd been abused enuff and welded 4 '78 monte carlo rear coil springs together and buried the bottom of the tower in a cement plug. The Mailbox top had 20 pounds of lead plate for a base, U-bolted to top of the spring. Since the wife objected to the 'junkyard' message it seemed to convey I boxed the tower with a thin sheath of 1/4" ply, painted it up all city-like and stuck a light on it. So he wouldn't miss it.

I then sat and waited for my first (and only) eagerly awaited for NorEaster.

I was parked in my leather chair next to the window, sippin a hot coffee; enjoying storm's aftermath when the yokel plowed by.. and I still vividly remember the mail box's savage flight outwards, splinted wood and snuffed light flying in the cloud of snow; and the sound of the inevitable crushing *WHUMP* of the mailbox's hammer blow back into the cab door of his purdy new dodge powerwagon as he barrled by.

"caint get theyah frum heyah", my ass.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 13, 2006, 04:45:17 PM
Quote
Originally posted by doobs
Dred I hope you enjoyed it, every square inch of my body hurts.

we all dont have teenage kids to do our snow bidding for us.

ah crap just resprained a finger.




I'm with ya Dred I love the snow just not when I dont have my 11hp snowblower with me.  goin to need a back transplant.

now I'm at war with the plows, I keep breakin thru to the street and they keep plowin mt everest my into my driveway, they are not going to like next pass.  I put large rocks and chains in the snow where they goin to pass next. the chains are hooked to 5 full garbage cans of snow and rocks.

f' them, if that dont work, mister 30/30 will have to take out a tire or two.


I amost always enjoy it when someone elses body is in pain LOL

Actually I did it all by my lonesome as my son had stayed at his friends house the night before. Probably to get out of snow detail LMAO.

I know the plow war well. Why I usually wait till they've don the mjority of the plowing before I even bother. What they do afterwards I just blow through with my work van.

My biggest thing with the plows is I live on a corner where they put the huge pile and typically they put that pile which usually measures about 8-10 feet high by 10-15 feet around RIGHT where the sidewalk meets the road. And Im supposed to clear a path to the road.

So what I do is I dig till I see the curb and stop there.
Someone from the township once mentioned this to me and I told em that the only way Im gonna try to get through that )what usually is at that point a solid block of ice) is if they issue me a blasting permit.

But they could always use some common sense and put the pile another 10  feet over to where the sewer actually is since thats what they are aiming for anyway.

I've never heard another word about it. but they still keep putting the pile in the same place which means the cleared pather for pedestrians comes to an abrupt and unannounced end ande they have to climb over.
Once just to be a nice guy I cleared a path all the way around the pile and to my driveway, by way of my front lawn. and I mean my entire front lawn.

you see the path I cleared was in the design of a maze, zigzagging back and forth over the width of about 75 feet. It was funny as hell watching people follow the path zizagging. reach the end of the sidewalk, then walk back 50 feet, only to turn left and walk another 50 feet only to turn right for another 50.
Eventually though people tired of it and just walked through the snow to the road eventually wqearing down their own path.

Made for some amusing entertainment for a while though
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: xrtoronto on February 13, 2006, 05:00:41 PM
did most people get to work today?

did you make it in today Dred?
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: midnight Target on February 13, 2006, 05:38:45 PM
86 here, just turned down the AC. It was getting a little cool in the office.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Gunslinger on February 13, 2006, 05:44:21 PM
Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
86 here, just turned down the AC. It was getting a little cool in the office.


yup same here, had all the windows open in the house and was wearing a tank top and shorts while doing yard work.  barely a cloud in the sky.
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: Masherbrum on February 13, 2006, 05:48:24 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Hangtime
you are a warped, twisted demented human being.

....if yer even human.

I ****ing hate snow. We almost made it thru the season without any significant ****ing snowfall, and I bet right now yer out in the ****ing snow making ****ing snowmen, ****ing snow angels and ****ing enjoying ****ing shoveling your ****ing driveway, and enjoying every ****ing minute of it.

And afterwards yer gonna star inna ****ing capital one card commecial with a BBQ going in a ****ing snow drift.


This is eerily remaniscent of "Urchin".   Notice the "****"

Karaya
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 13, 2006, 06:28:15 PM
Sometimes I friggin hate Pennsylvania.  

I remember a story my dad likes to tell.  He got tricked into being in the marines during Vietnam.  About 3/4 the way through Bootcamp he asked the DI what Vietnam was like.


The DI tells him, "Son, have you ever been to Pennsylvania in August?  Imagine that except with half as many mosquitos."
Title: Bout damn time
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 13, 2006, 07:52:03 PM
Quote
Originally posted by xrtoronto
did most people get to work today?

did you make it in today Dred?


I made it but alot of the secondary roads were still a mess.
Fortunately I work for myself so I can usually all my own hours.
Unfortunately, I work for myself so when I have a job going and I think I might be able to make it I go to work reguardless of the conditions.

thats the downside to being in your own buisness. You dont get sick days or personal days or vacation days. and when you dont go to work you loose that days pay. Period LOL

But I made it in just fine. a little later then I would have liked. but it was mostly just prep work today anyway