The good thing is the wind and drifting has created a sort of mote all around the house. The bad thing is I have to snowblow the driveway with the "backup" snowblower since the good one broke after the last storm a week ago.?ÿ
It looks worse once I go outside. Had to check the dryer vent. Apparently I'm not starting the dryer until I get the shovel out of the truck inside the garage. And it looks like only my Oldsmobile remains unblocked.?ÿ
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Stay warm and dry. Looking at that snow makes my back hurt. I always seem to tweak my back when shoveling snow. ?ÿExcept when i am using the tractor. ?ÿThen it??s me a cup of coffee and layers of clothes .
God!?ÿ Makes you just want to go and hug a water moccasin.?ÿ ????ÿ
It just keeps coming. I cleared the garage entrance and snowblowed twice very slowly (afraid of a belt letting go on the backup snowblower since they're very cracked). It's going to need to be cleared again soon, blowing everywhere. A car and a truck apparently are blocking our road a mile up the street. No plows have gone by yet and just a couple of vehicles drove by.?ÿ
No, lol you're thinking of the Buick Grand National/Turbo regal. They look almost identical. It's a 350 Olds V8, with only about 200hp. But it gets 25mpg highway.?ÿ
I'm slightly older than you and yeah I'm familiar with the GN/Turbo regal, but wasn't sure if you Canucks created a secret turbo cutlass in that same body style.?ÿ looks fun up there in the great white north,?ÿ it's a beauti way to go...
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI
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Makes you just want to go and hug a water moccasin.?ÿ
I console myself while shoveling snow that it is the reason I don't have to worry about scorpions, copperheads, alligators, pythons, and other southern plagues.
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As much as I would love a fast turbo car, I don't mess with it because it's reliable and good on gas. Hardly anything to go wrong and I can fix it on the side of the road if needed.?ÿ
Bob and Doug Mackenzie are hilarious.?ÿ
They just closed all our roads and officially declared a state of emergency. Glad I have nowhere I have to be. I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be stuck than here at home anyway.
It's annoying that my parents are a 10 minute drive away and we still can't go see them though.?ÿ
No snow to report in Orlando. My outdoor plants are adorned with frost cloth, which is being kept in place by barbell plates. My dog was extra frisky when I walked him earlier in the 30?ø air.
I console myself while shoveling snow that it is the reason I don't have to worry about scorpions, copperheads, alligators, pythons, and other southern plagues.
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Which reminds me to post this cool oldies hit from Christopher Cross - Shovelling
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i should have taken a picture as proof that I had the garage entrance cleared. Lol. It's almost completely drifted in again.?ÿ
We got too much snow for that to work. Apparently our road is blocked by a stuck car. Nowhere for anyone to turn around.?ÿ
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Pshaw!?ÿ Tis but a minor affliction.?ÿ The first photo looks like me attempting to get out of the parking lot at work around noon back in 1977.?ÿ It's not me, but it could have been.?ÿ The second photo was far too common and only 30 miles from Indiana but next to Lake Michigan.?ÿ Not far from the lighthouse shown, I walked out on ice mountains about a quarter to half mile from the beach one Sunday afternoon.?ÿ Solid ice all the way to the bottom.?ÿ BTW, got out of there in 1979.?ÿ Waaaay too much snow for me.
We've had some unpleasant, and sometimes dangerous, weather recently.
But nothing here recently compares to my Christmas Eve 1983. It was -20 F, 20 mph sustained wind with 40 mph gusts, and drifting snow. We had been at my brother's place that day and were supposed to gather with my mother's relatives on Christmas day so wanted to get to my parents' house that night. They set out in one car with me following in mine.
Dad's car developed a sputter (water in the gas he just put in?) and he pulled over. I got out to talk to him and had trouble breathing without freezing up my air passages. After a while the car started running smoothly again and we finished the trip.
We were on the road for almost 4 hours, half of it on I-80, and saw 6 other vehicles on the whole trip.
There were people in Iowa who froze to death that night from being stranded in their cars.
Making that trip even with 2 cars was foolish. Anyone going out alone was crazy.
