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Offline Chris

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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2010, 10:48:08 PM »
The roads here are a couple inches of packed snow and ice.  Not too terrible... I was able to drive home with no problems, but I hope they're cleared soon enough.  It's probably stopped precipitating here for a few days.
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2010, 11:19:21 PM »
Things are getting really bad here.

We had snow, that switched over to rain about 8:30 for about 15 minutes....then went back to snow....then went to sleet for about an hour. It was hitting the family room window so hard it sounded like someone was throwing tiny pebbles against it. By 11 it was back to heavy snow. At 11 they said to expect an inch or more here in the valley through the night.

We have DirectTV and since about 10:30 only getting a few channels...and some are intermittently working. The local ABC channel has been out for some time. I know it worked at 10 but by 10:30, Direct had a thing that said we know this channel is not working, do not call. I have no Fox News.... :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:

Decided to do a bit more laundry just in case we lose power.

Son walked up to the neighborhood bar ....it's about a mile. Several of his buddies are there and they are shooting pool....supposedly the place is closing early. He's supposed to work tomorrow....but who knows.

Interstate 40 is shut down west of here, kind of over near where Ree lives I think. Hope she's ok. I75 north of here up to Kentucky is pretty wicked from north of the 40/75 junction....which is about 10 minutes from me.

I hate to gripe...but geesh....couldn't we have just had the snow?
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #52 on: January 30, 2010, 12:10:36 AM »
Well shit....tv's gone.

Can't get a satelite signal.

That means someone is going to be on a ladder trying to get the ice/snow off of the satelite dish in the morning.

Sounds like it's ice coming down again... :(
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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #53 on: January 30, 2010, 12:16:09 AM »
noooooo!!! 

Our cable went out at work.  We managed to keep our internet connection, but the TV's all went out.
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #54 on: January 30, 2010, 12:26:55 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 30, 2010, 12:16:09 AM
noooooo!!! 

Our cable went out at work.  We managed to keep our internet connection, but the TV's all went out.


Internet is AT&T DSL and it's ok for now. The electrical and phone lines are buried in the subdivision, but they aren't out along the road. We're a two street subdivision and we live almost to the end of the longer one....with a steep hill and two smaller ones between our drive and the road. The subdivision owns the streets...so we have no hope of salt trucks in here.

If the trees start falling out on the road, we're screwed. The road outside our subdivision is really curvy and it's a half mile up to the main road. The main road will see salt trucks, but not snow plows. If trees fall on the road, hard telling when we will get out....it's at best a tertiary road, so there are lots of other areas that will see salt trucks before us.

I can hear the sleet hitting the heat pumps... :(
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #55 on: January 30, 2010, 10:03:05 AM »
Quote from: debk on January 30, 2010, 12:10:36 AM
Well shit....tv's gone.

Can't get a satelite signal.

That means someone is going to be on a ladder trying to get the ice/snow off of the satelite dish in the morning.

Sounds like it's ice coming down again... :(

Ummmm, they DO make heaters for those satellite dishes......... that would negate your snow/ ice problem....... 
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #56 on: January 30, 2010, 12:09:21 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on January 29, 2010, 08:09:07 PM
This was our street during the ice storm from a couple of years ago in December.



That looks familiar.  I had to drive into work that day, only to be told later that morning to go home.  It stopped, the sun came out, and warmed up to about 40 degrees that afternoon, which meant all the ice started showering down in HUGE chunks.  I actually took my hard hat out to the end of the drive so I wouldn't get clocked with a chunk of ice.
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #57 on: January 30, 2010, 12:59:34 PM »
It was nice and cold yesterday, so Kristin and I decided to go to a hockey game and be even colder. Stars beat the Avs 3-2.

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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #58 on: January 31, 2010, 08:52:18 AM »
Quote from: Mike220 on January 30, 2010, 12:59:34 PM
It was nice and cold yesterday, so Kristin and I decided to go to a hockey game and be even colder. Stars beat the Avs 3-2.

Stars?  Avalanche?  I thought you said you went to a hockey game!

Call me when you play an "Original Six" team.
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Re: Wo0tAgE Friday!!!
« Reply #59 on: January 31, 2010, 12:05:59 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on January 31, 2010, 08:52:18 AM
Stars?  Avalanche?  I thought you said you went to a hockey game!

Call me when you play an "Original Six" team.

Blackhawks on Feb 9, but I ain't flying to Chicago.
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