Glowball Warming, Dixie Edition

 

1. I was stationed at Cherry Point USMC base in NC.  A three-inch snow paralysed the State and closed schools.

   Posted by Oink       12/16/2005  at  09:33 AM  



2. No problem.  I’ll just burn copies of the New York Times.  There’s enough gas in that to fuel my house all season.

   In San Antonio today the high temperature will be in the mid-50’s.  I won’t even turn my central heating on.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       12/16/2005  at  09:44 AM  



3. The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
   Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
   A nuclear error but I have no fear
   London is drowning and I live by the river
   THE CLASH
   Bulldog

   Posted by bulldog       12/16/2005  at  09:46 AM  



4. 450K in the dark eh. Macker predicts a baby mini-boom in nine months!

   Posted by Macker       12/16/2005  at  10:36 AM  



5. An inch of sleet and snow during afternoon rush area tied Raleigh in knots a couple of years back.  The fools who thought they knew how to drive on icy streets were the ones wrapping themselves around power poles and tying up traffic.

   Posted by Tannenberg       12/16/2005  at  02:03 PM  



6. Mid-50’s for the next week here in San Antonio.

   I think I can suffer through.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       12/16/2005  at  02:18 PM  



7. Sounds like somebody needs a Blue Norther.

   Posted by StinKerr       12/16/2005  at  08:58 PM  



8. Bite me, MAJ.  I’ll think of you when it’s 110 down yonder.  I’d miss snow and lousy weather. Honest. :colts:

   Posted by Oink       12/17/2005  at  07:47 AM  



9. Geez.....live with it.........in ‘78 we had a blizzard in R.I. that paralyzed the state.........we made it through with powdered milk for the kids, lots of canned goods, boiled water on the grill for coffee, kept the fire in the fireplace going for heat - slept in front of the fire in sleeping bags...................The first year I lived in St. Louis there was a major snowstorm - people panicked - and they still panic when snow is forecast..........geez, just make some preparations “in the event of” - it doesn’t take much to prepare for a bad winter.......I still do.......even to keeping a bag a kitty litter in the trunk of my car in the event I get stuck going to & from work in the snow.........one can survive on tuna fish sandwiches for a few days if the electricity goes out, which seems to happen more in St.L. than it ever did in R.I..................

   Posted by Dottie       12/17/2005  at  10:11 PM  



10. I can eat tuna fish, Dottie, but I ain’t eatin’ any kitty litter. Do you melt the snow to mix it into an oatmeal kinda consistency? Must be a New England thing…

    Posted by StinKerr       12/18/2005  at  12:32 AM  



11. DOT: We did all that in ‘78, plus I baked fresh bread.  All 5 of us crashed in front of the fireplace—fortunately the electricity stayed on & we had a freezer full of food. 

    I remember that I concluded that I wasn’t going to work when I saw the snow had drifted up to my car’s windows.  I stood in the middle of a busy intersection, out from under the swinging stoplight, and saw nothing but wind-swept desolation in 4 directions.

    All the neighbors pitched in and helped each other.  I was the designated neighborhood go-for-supplies guy. On the third day I dressed like a character out of “The Thing” and walked a mile to the grocery for essentials, like cigarettes.

    Posted by Oink       12/18/2005  at  06:09 AM  

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