6 inches snow thursday12/13/07, CT,NY,NJ,RI,winter mix,ice ,sleet,snow

stonehouse said:

[quote author=I remember someone telling me when we got the October storm (in WNY) last year, “Don’t worry it aint gonna stick” By 7pm we were in darkness trying to close the garage doors manually in the shop. I didn’t see work for 4 days afterwards. Sooo, let me be the 1st to say, it aint gonna stick. There now we are all jinxed. Now I’m happy, no work for 4 days.

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yea, WNY got F'ed up last year. I went to see the parents in amherst about a year after the storm, was my first time back. Way depressing. Lots of firewood though.
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I'm origanally from Clarence Ny and went back after the storm last October first with my fire dept to help out and then after seeing the wood I took my truck and trailer back and started collecting. I was dropping it off at my mothers house and I think I should have enough for a few years just from that. The best part is it was all out by the road and cut into small easy to move sections. Gave me mixed emotions. Wasn't nice to see all the downed trees and limbs, but hey I have lots of heat now.

Mike Wilson said:

Seven days of wood in the basement, boat up and out of the water and under shrinkwrap, 10 day supply of fuel for the genset, snowblower and chainsaw ready to rumble, no large logs lying in front of the bulkhead on the beach to punch a hole in same, ham radio juiced up and ready to transmit, beer fridge full, and the wife just got back from the supermarket.

BRING IT!

-- Mike

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AMEN! Once I'm done playing in the snow, I'll be inside with a beverage and have the radio on, probably 40M. Maybe catch you there. The one thing I forgot to prepare was I didn't charge my MP3 player. I wear hearing protection anyway, nice to plug in and listen to some fine snowblowing music. The neighbors think I'm nuts anyway, so they don't even notice me out there dancing around with the snowthrower anymore. Just got a call from NWS- we're supposed to get 10" plus now. I like our local NWS forecaster, he's got a good perspective on our local climate.

Might have to hit the store Saturday for more beer and wine, before the BIG NOR'EASTER hits! :smirk:

Catskill said:

Mike Wilson said:

I've been doing it for decades, literally. We've found everything on the beach, 3 dingies (one nice Dyer Show with sail, that I used as my own dinghy for about 12 years), a full sailboard with sails, a kayak, the entire 10GI sea buoy from Goose Island CT (with brass bell and buoy light, which I kept!), two dead dolphins, a 60' long section of dock from a marina, and a brand new 38' long powerboat that liberated itself from Old Saybrook! That's not to mention literally dozens of trees... I think they come down the Connecticut river, one of you HearthNet clowns from CT, MA or the hinterlands must be sending them down here to keep me warm!-- Mike

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Wow! You got some nice stuff there, that buoy sounds like a great conversation piece for the house. I haven't come across some of the other nice stuff you found but I bet someone was looking for their 38' foot power boat back.

My collection includes some deck chairs (nice ones too), pool rafts and various water toys, life jackets, water ski's, channel markers and yes, an assortment of dead marine life and water fowl.
:-/

Mike Wilson said:

but you see honey, there IS no button on the end of the stick. You have to pull the stick towards you, and then it works juuuuust fine. Dopey! So much for that car dealer and instructing customers on the basics! Good grief.

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German car?

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I didn't keep the whole buoy, just the light. My friend showed up with a flatbed trailer, 6 buddies and a blowtorch and pulled the bell off, which was nice. When it showed up on my beach I called the Coast Guard and told them Hey, I have something here of yours... they said thanks, we'll come pick it up. Two months went by, I have this giant buoy laying in my back yard (it was about 25' tall, 8' wide, painted red and made of steel)... so I call again. A month later we decide to take come souvenirs. About 7 months after it landed on the beach, the Coast Guard shows up with a large helicopter, drops a guy down who hooks up some cables,and then they pick the whole thing up off the beach and fly over to New London with it. Pretty impressive to watch.

As for the car, no, it's not German. We have only had German cars for quite a while, but we switched and I got her a Volvo S80. It's okay, but i will probably kill myself in it. Compared to my car, driving her's is like cruising down the road in a leather couch.

-- Mike

Gibbonboy said:

AMEN! Once I'm done playing in the snow, I'll be inside with a beverage and have the radio on, probably 40M. Maybe catch you there. The one thing I forgot to prepare was I didn't charge my MP3 player. I wear hearing protection anyway, nice to plug in and listen to some fine snowblowing music. The neighbors think I'm nuts anyway, so they don't even notice me out there dancing around with the snowthrower anymore. Just got a call from NWS- we're supposed to get 10" plus now. I like our local NWS forecaster, he's got a good perspective on our local climate.

Might have to hit the store Saturday for more beer and wine, before the BIG NOR'EASTER hits! :smirk:

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Yeah, "The Big Nor'Easter" ... funny how we have one every year now, isn't it. I think the last real storm that qualified as a NorEaster, in my book, was the one we had in 1992. I lost 25' of my backyard into the water that day, and about 500 linear feet of shrubbery. It made my stomach sick, but I have to tell ya, it looked absolutely hysterical... I had sod on the beach, and everywhere you looked was a privit hedge bush... for about a half a mile. I laugh at it now.

As for radioworld, I could pop on 40 perhaps... I usually do 75 though. Crank up the MP and the 2100B and away we go...



-- Mike

Mike -

I was on Block Island a few years ago... I could have sworn I saw land to the west... could have been you!