I am caught...

[LeftyFingerPop]

in a snow vortex.

My home received 90 inches of snow.

This may not seem like much, but it fell in 30 minutes.

Oh well...time to start shoveling.

[SPKrazy]

1. meh

90 inches

no big deal :P

shovel shovel

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Yeah, no big deal to you...

but all I have is one of those tiny plastic shovels that kids play with on the beach. :hi:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. Remember- dress in layers, and work SLOWLY.

After all, it's no day on the beach... :shrug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. I'll tell 'ya....

Seriously...just finished shoveling out. Could not keep my fingers from freezing. Has to take frequent breaks to warm them up. These winters get harder on your body with every year that passes.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. I was in Ohio during one of the great blizzards of the time.

It was '82 or thereabouts. I was a mile outside town, in the top half of a farm house. The only place to park my car was outside, so I parked it as close to the road as I safely could. The whiteout began that night and didn't let up for four days (I THINK it was four days- I happened to have a few bottles of Boone's Farm and such on hand, and the whiteout is a complete blur to me in more ways than one because of it).

When it was over they had to clear the roads with BULLDOZERS. Northern frickin' Ohio, and their road clearing equipment couldn't handle it. Frickin' great. They put an additional six foot high wall of snow between my car and the road. It took the entire day to dig it out, and another day to get the packed snow and ice out of the engine compartment and dry the wiring out.

Now you know why I moved south. :toast:

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. Wow...

your story reminds me of a fear that I have always had, even though it may be entirely unreasonable.

I have always feared being trapped in a car on a closed highway during a blizzard. Not so much of a worry now with cell phones...but still...

Thanks for sharing your memories...Boone's Farm....my first drunk...Strawberry Hill!! :toast:

[lost-in-nj]

23. OH GOD

Boone's farm and Apple Annie

but my very first
really fucking drunk
didn't think I would make it home drink....


FUCKING BLACKBERRY BRANDY

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:


lost

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. Boones Farm...

sitting on my bedroom floor, listening to music, not feeling a thing, wondering what the big deal was about getting drunk, then all of a sudden...BLAM!!!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. Strawberry Hill- THAT was the one!

I can't begin to count how many gallons of that stuff went down my gullet back in the day. To be a young, ignorant drunk again... :rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

26. I stopped drinking it....

after it refused to stay down :rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. Exactly.

I believe '82 was the year I put the bottle down myself. It did get a bit wearisome after a while, getting drunk on cheap wine alla time...

[leeroysphitz]

8. That's really only a problem if your driveway is longer than say, oh

10-15 miles.

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. 40 feet...

and made it a double wide 2 years ago. This time of year, I curse the day I did that.

[MrCoffee]

4. it's just 7 1/2 feet

puh-leeze.

sheesh, i hope you're stocked up on canned goods. stay warm and well in that mess.

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. Actually...

it was really only 7 and a half inches (I measured). It just seems like 7 and a half feet when shoveling it.

[graywarrior]

6. Yipes!

Sounds like the blizzard of '78

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Oh God...

just joking about the 90 inches. I remember the blizzard of '78, and of '93.

[graywarrior]

14. I just found some pix of the '78 blizzard

[LeftyFingerPop]

16. Jesus!!

Do you know where those pics were taken? Especially the 2nd one? Thanks.

[Critters2]

18. I'm guessing the second pic was taken on 138 North, just outside

Milton. But it's just a guess.

Critters
your wintertime smart ass

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. I was going to guess that...

but I wasn't really sure. It would have been easier if there was some kind of sign or something in the pic. :P :hi:

[graywarrior]

17. That is route 128/95 going into Milton Ma

[LeftyFingerPop]

20. OK thanks graywarrior...

I wasn't sure what state Milton was in. Incredible pics, thanks for posting them.

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Well, there's a reason for that but I can't explain it.

It's a Dead thing.
:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

12. Hey!

I used to have that bumper sticker, until I started traveling stealth! :hi: :thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

21. It's 71 degrees here.

And I'm feeling hotter than hell too. Wanna send me some of that snow. I can't wait until it actually turns into fall here so I can complain about being too cold, :P

On Edit: Fixed the smiley...

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. What I wouldn't give...

for 71 degrees right now!! My fingers were so frozen earlier that I had to run COLD water on them to warm them up!

[Shine]

27. OMG that sounds freakish!!!

you have my sympathies, philboy. us west coasters so can't relate.... :hug:

We just need some damn rain out here! :hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

28. Just joking Shine...

actually was only 7.5 inches. Where I live in New York, if we get snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, that is VERY heavy. That happened today. :hug:

[Shine]

29. Oh, good to know.

I was seriously shocked by that and I hadn't read your whole thread, so I didn't get the joke.

Keep warm out there! :hi: Good luck with the shoveling.

[LeftyFingerPop]

30. Thanks Shine...

All shoveled out now, except we are expecting up to 18 more inches this weekend from a noreaster. Yikes! I hate these snowy winters! :hi:

[Shine]

32. at least you guys have interesting weather.

I suppose "interesting" is a euphemism, though. :D

we don't tend to get much dramatic weather out here, but when we do, I'm TOTALLY into it.

I lived in OH til I was 12, so I remember the snowy winters. I don't miss them. :hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

33. I call bullshit

you want me to believe you got 7 and 1 half FEET of snow in 30 minutes?

:eyes: :shrug: :rofl:


"I am Caught

in a snow vortex.

My home received 90 inches of snow.

This may not seem like much, but it fell in 30 minutes.

Oh well...time to start shoveling."