#1 2013-02-11 14:55:40
Nor'easter, ground zero here. Three days of subfreezing, no power, no light, no heat. House is still cold, mid 30s, setting here bundled but still shiverin in my whole body con-dome. Heat, heat, heat, please tiny furnace, deliver heat!
Fuck, it's over. You shoulda heard the wind what did it.
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#2 2013-02-11 16:05:41
I heard there was a bit of weather in your direction, choad.
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#3 2013-02-11 17:29:03
Looks deceptively purdy, donut? We got high wind, downed trees and less snow than inland. Here's the day after at choad central.
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#4 2013-02-11 17:46:12
I thought you said you guys had a storm??
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#5 2013-02-11 17:58:58
holy fuck, choad is norman rockwell.
we used to have houses like that in the south. now, they have either been overtaken by kudzu or have been razed to make way for a gloriuous new tractor factory.
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#6 2013-02-11 18:09:50
Emmeran wrote:
I thought you said you guys had a storm??
Sustained high wind blew up the bay, making landfall here and the upper cape. Snow accumulation, as always, landed right where you're moving. I promise I'll have the last laugh.
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#7 2013-02-11 18:16:40
Lip shitz wrote:
holy fuck, choad is norman rockwell.
we used to have houses like that in the south. now, they have either been overtaken by kudzu or have been razed to make way for a gloriuous new tractor factory.
This house and the one next to it were built in the 40s. Don't know if they still exist, but many of the Berkshire scenes and characters Rockwell painted were still around when I lived out that way 30 years ago.
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#8 2013-02-11 18:37:20
choad wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
I thought you said you guys had a storm??
Sustained high wind blew up the bay, making landfall here and the upper cape. Snow accumulation, as always, landed right where you're moving. I promise I'll have the last laugh.
I'll be out there in a bit to check it out however I have a presumptive feeling that the term "blizzard" isn't quite the same on the coast as it is up on the great plains.
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#9 2013-02-11 18:55:14
Emmeran wrote:
I'll be out there in a bit to check it out however I have a presumptive feeling that the term "blizzard" isn't quite the same on the coast as it is up on the great plains.
Mind numbing cold is the same curse anywhere but you're right, Nebraska is worse. I spent 3 weeks in the Sand Hills during the dead of winter and it felt like an arctic research station.
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#10 2013-02-11 18:59:22
Glad you're okay, choad. From my toasty abode in San Antonio, Texas, I empathize as much as it is possible for me to do so. You warm yet?
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#11 2013-02-11 19:04:41
Indeed, I have more snow on the roof right now than Choad has in his yard in that picture. But his area had the worst power outages, most of Cape Cod was dark this weekend, and his and adjoining towns the worst affected. We got much more snow up he-ah in New Hamp-sha. And now it's raining, so a lot of people including me are wondering if their roofs are going to make it through the night.
Bill just needs to get a better sleeping bag and some serious New England sleepwear and accessories for the single man on the go.
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#12 2013-02-11 19:45:58
monkeyboy wrote:
Bill just needs to get a better sleeping bag and some serious New England sleepwear and accessories for the single man on the go.
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/ … _200485293
Same unit, make and model, you humped room to room five winters running in that windy Hanover hovel, am I right?
Here's a helpful disaster tip next time you lose all your creature comforts. Don't call monkeyboy. He'll read you your weather report and laugh.
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#13 2013-02-11 20:33:38
Hah, missed the Chesapeake area completely!
Being off grid sucks when you're not prepared for it. Hope you're comfortably defrosted by now.
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#14 2013-02-11 21:45:15
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#15 2013-02-11 21:55:41
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT MOTHERFUCKING BIRD FEEDER?! I need one of my own!
The raccoons down here are diabolically intelligent and resourceful, and their thieving is driving me to despair.
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#16 2013-02-11 22:34:40
choad wrote:
Same unit, make and model, you humped room to room five winters running in that windy Hanover hovel, am I right?
You can keep warm and roast your weenie at the same time. Just don't get the Jack D near it.
choad wrote:
Here's a helpful disaster tip next time you lose all your creature comforts. Don't call monkeyboy. He'll read you your weather report and laugh.
You do realize I was snowed in when you called, eh?
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#17 2013-02-11 22:58:46
George Orr wrote:
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT MOTHERFUCKING BIRD FEEDER?! I need one of my own!
Yeah, here it's the damned squirrels.
It's a "Cling A Wing Ball Globe" and locally here they sell them with those nifty covers to keep the squirrels out. However, the damned "rats-with-furry-tails" have managed to find ways around it, so now I have to spread Vaseline mixed with cayenne pepper on the pole. Nasty, but it works.
The tubular one has millet seed and the vermin don't care about that. I also save all my meat grease (bacon & hamburger drippings, etc.) and when I get enough I melt it, mix in some birdseed and pour it into small square trays. Once they harden up I pop them out, put them in a suet block wire frame and hang those on the other side of the millet feeder and the birds love it, particularly the woodpeckers.
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