A Natural Disaster In The Making

 

1. Sure it’s bad.

   My daughter has been to 17 different bars and restaurants with her trip here to Florida.  Today is the day she is coming for home cooking, at our home, and it will be 30 degrees instead of 75.

   Menu:  2 roasted ducks (She is a vegetarian - or pretendetarian - she loves duck)
   Spit turned pork
   barbecued shrimp
   steamed claims
   steamed mussels
   stone crab claws (learnin’ to eat)
   cold shrimp
   Blue Crab (maybe if my fish salesman talks me into it)
   Lots of fruit for smooothies
   And a vegetable or two

   We are tryin’ to get her to move here so we stop and walk through “lots of vegetable markets” and she keeps sayin, “This is a really good place for a vegetarian to live.”

   Sad thing is we go ahead and buy French wine but we like Italian better and have a bunch of it too.  My 21 year old son is takin’ her to all the bars and is her event coordinator because he really wants her to move to the Sunshine State.

   All in all her trip has costs me a fortune into the Florida economy.

   My wife calls roasted duck - “the cross-over meat.”

   Posted by Z Woof       01/23/2005  at  10:47 AM  



2. I don’t want to even hear it from your pansy ass...We have had for the past week sub zero temperatures, with wind chills well below zero.

   Current conditions in Milford, NH, 2 feet of snow on the ground, still falling, about 10 degrees, with a steady 20MPH wind, gusting to 35MPH, causing white out conditions. Should stop sometime today, but the wind will not.

   Yeah, I know you went to Antartica, but you *ASKED* to do that shit Texas is looking better and better…

   Posted by Anthony L.       01/23/2005  at  11:03 AM  



3. Don’t have it quite as bad as Anthony L. does but here’s the deal in Brunswick ME:

   Looking for a total snow accumulation of 8-16 in (which really isn’t much) but the real bitch are the temps (it’s -1 now, windchill of -21) and the wind (25 to 30 with gusts up to 55mph)

   Needless to say, we’re staying home to clean house and watch football

   Posted by Severa       01/23/2005  at  11:35 AM  



4. Anthony, big difference---in NH you EXPECT COLD, WIND, SNOW, BLIZZARDS.

   In Florida we want orange juice from oranges picked fresh from the tree, not FROZEN orange juice.

   And who says I was complaining?  Please re-read carefully.  I was making a tongue-in-cheek commentary. 

   Musta missed that one, eh? Coulda been the high winds blew it right pastcha!

   Posted by Vilmar       01/23/2005  at  11:48 AM  



5. 01/23/05 10:27:57 AM

   Temp 55.2 Wind 1 mph

   Humidity 55% Wind Chill 55

   Forecast Today:  High 58 Low 38
   ..  Mostly Sunny
   Monday: High 68 Low 37
   ..  Partly Cloudy
   Tuesday: High 67 Low 38
   7 day Forecast:  See Above

   Hey, I"m just Saying…
   Sunny (rarely soggy, sometimes shaky)
   So.Cal @ 3200 ft. above sea level

   Posted by DR@HDfixit       01/23/2005  at  02:29 PM  



6. What the hey are you people talking about? It’s all summer to me.

   Yours enviously, Fred from the Canadian praries.

   Posted by Fred Z       01/24/2005  at  01:40 AM  



7. “Musta missed that one, EH?”

   Hah! Vimar is a closet Canuckistani!! The “eh?” gives it away every time. Bet he says ROOOF instaed of RUFF too.
   I know what the prairies are like Fred.
   We just had a couple of weeks at -28 to -30 in the BC interior; couldn’t believe that. And finally got snow. I couldn’t stand a non-white Xmas. But the ultimate was over on the island - Henderson Lake got 8 METRES of rain. That’s about 26 FEET of rain. Guess that’s why only one person lives there.

   -Dan D,
   Canuckistan

   Posted by Dan D       01/24/2005  at  05:58 AM  

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