NOV. 10th - Just moved into our new house. It's starting to snow. The
first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. The wife and
I took our hot buttered rum drinks and sat by the picture window,
watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering
the ground. It was beautiful.

NOV. 11th - We woke to a lovely blanket of crystal snow covering the
landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub was covered with
a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time in years
and loved it. I did our driveway and sidewalk. Later, a city snow plow
came along and accidently covered up our driveway with compacted snow
from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled
it again.

NOV. 12th - It snowed an additional five inches last night and the
temperature has dropped to around 11 degrees. Several limbs of the trees
and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our
driveway again. Much of the snow is brownish-gray.

NOV. 13th - Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which
soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Brought new snow
tires for both cars. Fell on my ass in the driveway. $145 to the
chiropractor, but nothing was broken. More snow and ice is expected.

NOV. 14th - Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4x4 in order to
get her to work. Slid into a guardrail anyway and did considerable
damage to the right quarter panel. Had another nine inches of the white
shit last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling
in store for me today. Goddamn snow plow came by twice today.

NOV. 15th - 2 degrees outside. More fucking snow. Not a tree or shrub on
our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was out most of the night.
Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater
which tipped over and nearly burned down the house. I managed to put the
flames out, but suffered 2nd degree burns on my face and hands and lost
my eyebrows. Car slid on the way to the to the emergency room and was
totaled.

NOV. 16th - Goddamn mother fuckin' white shit keeps coming down. Have to
put on all the clothes we own just to get to the fuckin' mailbox. If I
ever catch the son-of-a-bitch that drives that snowplow, I'll chew open
his chest and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner just
to hit our driveway again. Power still out. Toilet froze and part of the
roof has started to cave in.

NOV. 17th - Six goddamn more fuckin' inches of fuckin' snow and fuckin'
sleet and fuckin' ice and God knows what other kind of white fuckin'
shit fell again last night. I wounded the snowplow asshole with an ice
ax, but he got away. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going
snow-blind. I can't move my toes. Haven't seen the sun in weeks. More
snow predicted. Wind chill minus 22 fuckin' degrees. I'm moving back to
texas.

That's why the Huns live in Texas in the first place.

We came from the Land of Ice and Snow, but I'll be damned if we're ever going back!

Ice is for making drinks.

Eric The(HumidSubTropical)Hun[>]:)]

Were'nt you moving to Boston?......its not THAT bad there!....[red]Except the gun laws[/red]

That's pretty good!  I moved from Detroit to Alabama 13 years ago, and I won't be moving back if I can help it.


Balming

I am still debating it.   After learning of the gun laws out there, I am pretty nervous about moving there.  However, I am in the 'People's Republic of Illinois', so who knows.  I am looking the NH option and driving into Mass when needed.

Fort Lost-in-the-woods, eh?  I had the pleasure of being down at Fort Silly-ass and got to hump up and down those big friggin hills in the middle of summer.  ahh, memories.

You pussies! [;)]
Cold (really cold) weather, complete with sleet, snow and ice is what separates the men from the boys.  Sure, it's a pain in the ass, but you haven't had any fun until you've put your sled (snowmobile) up to 100mph+ on an icy street or lake.

Seriously.  If you're gonna enjoy the northern falls (best season, IMHO), you've got to put up with a little inconvenience.  I only regret that I moved south from my home in Michigan to Indiana (which i love), which doesn't get nearly enough snow and lakes are nonexistent.

You want snow and ice?  I lived up in the 'UP' for 12 years.  290 inches per year of snow.  I still miss the 'UP'.  Lots of forest and good people up there.  

Ohh southern boys and snow, always good for a laugh.  I was raised her, so dealing with snow is a pretty common thing.

Damn alot of people on this board went to Ft Leonard Wood.  There must be alot of 21 Bravos here (For those out of the service, its 12B, but they recently changed it).

ire1971,

The gun laws in Mass are strict, but the worst part is that it's upto your local town police chief whether you get a Class A permit, which allows high cap mags and guns, or a Class B, which is limited to guns that can't take more than 10 rounds.  Fortunately my local police chief is one of the good guys, and issues class A to everyone, but alot aren't.

Many people live in Southern NH and commute to Mass, a couple real big highways dump into Mass.

Gun laws in NH, Maine, and particularly Vermont (concealed carry for everyone) are much better than Mass.

Southern NH is a great place to live, 1 hour to the ocean, 1 hour to the White mountains.

Yep, I feel winter in the air my self.
It's about 70 now and with in a month it should drop to 40 or so.

After a month or two of that it's back to the beach.

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Oh crap, look my ice cream is melting[:D]

A (real) yankee's impression of living in the deep south. A classmate of mine from PA writes on our class's message board:

"Hey All:

I am living in Oxford, Miss'ippi pursuing my PhD in biology,
specifically restoration ecology. I have been here a year now, living
with my boyfriend of three years, Will Gorham, who graduated from
Annapolis in '98. He is doing his MAF in Creative writing.
Mississippi is both much more, and some less, than one might expect.
While I expected toothless illiterates waving the confederate flag, I
was instead suprised to find toothful illiterates waving the flag of
the confederacy in the guise of fraternity boys and rich old men. For
a while I was lulled into believing that maybe the south had changed.
I met some sweet people who showed me that some southerners had
something more than bourbon between their ears. I alway had my eye
out for the dirty old klansman but other that a few isolated occasions
he eluded me. Then, the other night I ended up sitting at a table in
my fave bar sitting next to the card carrying editor of the New
STandard, the local "rich people's" newpaper. He had apparently just
finished a documentary about the founder of the clan, shown as the
misunderstood leader that he was. In his words, the clan when it was
started had nothing against African-Americans, just jews and
catholics! Did I ever feel better. Will has apparently been
approached on numerous occasions by those who wanted to share their
special views. The most sure thing I know about this place is that
there is always a new suprise waiting around the corner."

Ever heard of "lake effect"?  You UP guys have I'm sure.  I grew up on the Southern shore of Lake Erie and in January the cold wind sweeps across the lake and picks up the moisture, creating the "snow belt".  We would get hit with 12 to 24 inches while just a few miles away they got something like 2".  And don't think that the lake warmed the air any either.  I hated waiting for the school bus.  If you Southerners are ever up here and wonder what those little guard houses next to the mail boxes by the street are for.  Just think white and cold.  I need a hot chocolate. Bye.

Ahhhhh....sounds like a nice, balmy Michigan Autumn.

Now if you want to talk about Winter....well...that's another story altogether.


I do miss it so.  Maryland gets nothing but ice during the winter.  And the drivers on the Beltway...


....just plain stupid.

Give me the Wolverine State anyday.

MIerinMD

I used to hunt up in Copper Harbor.

Try 40 below wind chills coming off of Lake Superior.

That's BRISK baby!

Why is it, at least around here, that when an inch or so of snow falls....EVERYONE forgets how to drive?

I was born in Kalamazoo and, every winter, the back of our two-story house was snowed in halfway up the second story.  You could build some kick-ass forts in 15' of drifted snow.  Oh, and my father owned a golf course and an extra 40 acres for our big-ass Mercury snowmobile (has to be the biggest snow hog ever made).

Everytime I read that, I laugh my ass off. Being plowed in by the plowman really bites. Especially if he does it while your at work. By the time you get home, that stuff is frozen solid like concrete.

LMAO!!
[beer]