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Posted: 1/17/2006 12:27:32 PM EDT
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wasn't born yet....  hee hee... septic tank  |
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Posted: 1/17/2006 2:47:16 PM EDT
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Sounds like use lucky people in SE Iowa are going to get dumpped on this weekend. Any where from 8 to 10 inchs some places are saying but hay its going to be 50 degrees here tomarrow just got to love Iowa's weather "If you don't like it just wait a day or two and it will change 100%"
As for 1973 snow i was one years old i don't rember that one. 
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Posted: 1/17/2006 5:52:46 PM EDT
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Damned! Stop it, you guys are making me feel old
 . Actually, I was only 5 at the time. It was kind of one of those things you don't forget. 8-10 inches this weekend? Maybe I'd better be careful what I wish for. (or rant about)
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Posted: 1/17/2006 7:07:54 PM EDT
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Hey , Milldude, I was 5 too!! I can remember digging snow caves in the 5-6 foot drifts in our front yard because we HAD drifts! I get so sick of people these days complaining about "all the snow we get". 4-6 inches in one blow, it's gone in three days and everybody is whinin' and moanin'. I don't even think we have had three days worth of below zero temps this year!!!
I am so SICK of BROWN!! I joked with my cousin a few weeks back about an OLD worn out pair of brown (now a mottled tannish color) carhart coveralls i got and how they were actually the PERFECT Iowa "winter" camoflage. I bet the millitary desert patterns would work real well right now.  Craig |
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Posted: 1/17/2006 8:07:39 PM EDT
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Yeah the drifts were awesome!!! We were snowed in for about a week before the plows got to us. It was great. My Mom has pics packed away of the drifts. I will try to go over and find them.
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Posted: 1/18/2006 5:33:33 PM EDT
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I wasn't born in '73, but I do remember a heck of a storm in 1985 around Thanksgiving. My parents drove us to Iowa City from DesMoines to celebrate with family and we got snowed in for a day. I remember when we got back home the snow had drifted off of the roof and created a tunnel to the front door. That was sooo awesome as a kid!
My parents have pictures from a blizzard, maybe the 1973 one, where the county snow trucks had to borrow the railroads snow throwers to clear the streets. |
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Posted: 1/20/2006 4:28:15 PM EDT
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It has been an unusual winter for sure but I'll take this warmer weather because I really don't want to see my heating bills with a frigid winter ('99-'00) again with the energy prices being what they are and living in a 125 y/o house.
 If I really want to see snow I'll get out to SE Idaho and go snowshoeing up on our ranch in the mountains.  If I want to be in warmer weather I'll go down to our acreages in Arizona.  If I want to be in warmer weather AND be close to a beach I'll go down to our retirement acreage in the panhandle of Florida.  If I REALLY want to get away from things I need to sell off some of the acreages in Arizona to pay off all our bills and then buy the lake/river front property I've always wanted up in Ontario, Canada.  There's one other property that I want, but it has nothing to do with weather, and that's the 80 acres in NW Utah which was the very first piece of property I'd ever looked at buying.  Although the weather may not always be what I want it to be around here...within the next couple years I hope we're able to just travel to whatever weather we want. 
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Posted: 1/20/2006 4:58:06 PM EDT
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Hey... SNOW!!!!! got about an inch and a half here. sure wish i could get out in the morning and hunt some yotes! figures- used to be my life would get put on hold for a good trackin' snow... now I got other MO IMPOTANT SPONSIBILITIES!
  
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Posted: 1/20/2006 7:02:33 PM EDT
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Don't you love Iowa weather?
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Posted: 1/20/2006 8:31:21 PM EDT
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