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Post by Clipper on Feb 27, 2008 13:15:15 GMT -5
I should not make fun of my neighbors. The people here are wonderful and friendly for the most part. I just crack up when they go into panic mode at the mention of snow.
We sat at Perkin's Pancake Restaurant last night, and watched 5 different salt trucks come down the southbound exit ramp, drive under the bridge and go back north. Three of the five were spreading salt down the ramp. The restaurant is at the 7 mile marker on I-81. When we left, to go home in Tennessee, 7 miles to the south, the south bound on ramp was not salted and neither was the 7 miles of road from there to the Tennessee line.
Do ya think they are simply not in posssession of a comprehensive snow plan? Thank God it had not gotten slippery as of yet. I can see it all now. Tractor trailers doing 65 in the passing lane and all of a sudden the salted road ends and they are flying along on slippery road. Whoopeee!
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 27, 2008 13:28:03 GMT -5
JUST 2 INCHES!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!! People in CA are the same there when it rains. Panicking, slipping and sliding all over the place. Oops . What topic is this suppose to be? ::)Hey guys, we're doing it again. ;D
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 27, 2008 13:29:42 GMT -5
Ya gotta just love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
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Post by frankcor on Feb 27, 2008 16:27:48 GMT -5
I had 2" accumulate on my ass while I was clearing my walk this morning.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 27, 2008 18:00:09 GMT -5
Geez Frank, ya gotta shovel faster! When the snow starts accumulating on your ass you are moving WAY too slow!!! LOL
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Post by thelma on Feb 27, 2008 18:32:30 GMT -5
When I was visiting Nashville, Tenn. 20 years ago, I remember asking a native how they handled snow if and when they ever got it.
He explained "Hell, no one knows how to drive on dry payment. How do you expect anyone to know how to drive if there is even a inch of snow on the roads? We just close up all the businesses and go home and wait for the snow to melt"!!!!!!!
Does this include you, Clipper? - LOL
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Post by Clipper on Feb 27, 2008 20:48:20 GMT -5
;DHell yes! I am not afraid of the snow, but I am terrified of the southern drivers that do 55 or 60, and then are amazed when they slide off the road or past a stopsign and wreck themselves for someone else. Unless I have to go out, I simply stay home until the roads are bare. I have a 4x4 truck, but it doesn't have a rubber donut around it to keep people from hitting it, haha. I saw an incident of so many accidents that the state TOOK DOWN the guard rail. It was at a T intersection, and so many people would fly up to the intersection, slam on the brakes and fly through the stop sign, and half kill themselves when they smacked the guard rail, that they discovered that fewer people were injured flying through the intersection and down into the swamp than by hitting the guard rail.
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