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23450. judithathome - 1/23/2008 4:10:01 PM We had brown outs yesterday, just as we do in the summer when it hits 105 and everyone hogs the air conditioning...electricity went out three times. And of course, this happens just as the rates go up and we're all getting screwed over by what they charge.
I guess people never heard of putting on sweaters. Of course, the reason so many people have to crank up the thermostat on a day the temps dip below freezing is due to so many living in houses with "great rooms" that have two stories of wasted space between the floors and ceilings...yeah, they look great and if you could figure out a way to teleport up to that stunning cathedral ceiling, you'd be toasty as hell. As it is, you're stuck on the floor freezing your kiester off... 23451. Magoseph - 1/23/2008 9:15:04 PM It's snowing now--again. It's by far the worse winter since I moved back up here twelve years ago. My bill for plowing is getting bigger every couple of days.
Right now, we have Hi: 16° and tonight Lo: -4°. It's a trial to go to town, shop for food and pick up the mail. Flexy can't go out for his daily walk in this type of weather--we both are afraid that he'd get a chill. He sits on the porch in plain light right now getting his vitamin D, screaming at one of his pals who doesn't seem to understand today's Market.
I'm so glad that finance and politic entertain him--he's not much for watching Grey's Anatomy reruns and old movies and since he doesn't want to stay alone, I'm now reading The Ambassador--again.
23452. wonkers2 - 1/24/2008 2:37:03 AM It's miserable here too, Mago. Almost enough to shake my belief in global warming. Please stop sending that bad weather aross Lake Michigan! 23453. arkymalarky - 1/24/2008 3:25:15 AM Remember, it's about weather extremes. When we went to CO last summer, they'd had the worst winter in their memory, and they've all lived up their 20-50 years. 23454. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:24:47 PM I'm reading The Ambassadors from Henry James, just in case you wondered which book I was talking about above. 23455. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:39:22 PM Wonks, it'll be still cold today: Hi: 8° Lo: 4°, but Friday, Saturday, and Monday will be much better, in the thirties. 23456. judithathome - 1/24/2008 4:54:54 PM We're in the 30s during the day here...which is extreme for Texas. 23457. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 3:26:00 PM We just had school cancelled. Woke up to sleet. Bob had to go, which makes me mad. I wanted him to stay home, but he said the interstate is clear (that's most of his commute, but I commute on country roads). 23458. alistairconnor - 1/25/2008 4:37:33 PM You cancel school for sleet?
Wimps. 23459. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 4:57:05 PM Yeah, yeah. We're used to hearing that from big, bad hard winter people. With it below freezing but not far below, it's slicker than owlshit on the roads. Freezing rain and ice is the worst. On the rare occasions that it really snows, it's actually easier to get around--though we still close schools because we don't have the road equipment to clear rural roads for the school buses. 23460. wonkers2 - 1/25/2008 6:03:04 PM Goose shit is slicker'n owl shit. We have to put up with it December through March! 23461. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 6:31:25 PM It's not the same when you have lots of hard-frozen stuff, especially snow. The most fun I had being out was when it snowed over a foot here. Schools were closed because rural roads were snowed over, but we could drive, the electricity never went out, and we had a blast. The ice storm that left us almost two weeks without electricity was another story--trees snapped everywhere and an undrivable sheet of ice everywhere. The only vehicles that could get over it were utility vehicles--Hummers were pulling SUVs out from ditches right and left. 23462. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 9:32:51 PM I am an INTJ.
Anyone want to say what they are? 23463. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 9:37:09 PM Nobody can drive on ice.
My wife is from Syracuse and makes fun of the locals' reactions to winter weather. She can't do it too much in front of me anymore because I always point out how she high-centered her Subaru on a ridge of ice (that was a refrozen birm from the plow) outside my house and I pulled her of with my POS front wheel drive car.
Yankees. 23464. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 9:38:04 PM And nothing beats a Georgia clay road during a downpour for being nearly completely undrivable. 23465. judithathome - 1/28/2008 9:47:15 PM I am an INTJ.
I would but I got enough of that BS several years ago when another poster was always going on about it.
23466. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 10:17:20 PM ...yikes... hostile... have a great day! 23467. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 10:19:28 PM Maybe this will make you feel better.23468. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 10:19:49 PM This 23469. judithathome - 1/29/2008 12:19:40 AM That wasn't hostile! I just happen to think that Meyer's-Briggs stuff is sort of a crock. Sheesh, am I not allowed to have an opinion that differs?
You asked...I answered truthfully and get accused of being hostile?
Let's be sure to avoid the subjects of politics and religion from now on, okay? ;-)
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