treepatrol
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Starphoenix
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I'm with ya, Treepatrol, in PA. We're gonna get pelted with the snow soon in these parts. I'm atop the mountains, so we should get walloped!
I'm not going out tomorrow.
It's 22 degrees now.
Steph
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lymie tony z
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Sorry to hear all you Northerners are so cold...
Did'nt the Gov predict a mild winter this year?
Well gee...It's about 74 and sunny today here in Safety Harbor....
The last Hurricane was a fizzle, and we escaped the others again this year so I guess we're safe till next summer....
Make a snowball or snowman for me y'all....zman
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lymebrat
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It's cold, snowy, wet, windy and plain old miserable, here in New Hampshire. I hate snow!
We were suppose to go to my daughters diabetes clinic and support group today and had to cancel due to the snow. I worked 3 days trying to get everything together for this appointment.
And my daughter was so excited to finally get to meet other 7 year old kids with diabetes, and show off her trophy she won from the juvenile diabetes research foundation, for her outstanding fundraising efforts....she was so disappointed we had to cancel.
Did I mention I hate snow?
In my opinion it should snow on Christmas and New Years Eve and that's it!
Try to stay warm! ~Lymebrat
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Gee Lymebrat , if you hate snow, why do you live in the Granite state? More bad weather today so here's an article about a town called Slab city which is situated in the sunbelt to warm us up
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I took a recent trip to a California desert to check out a scrubby campsite in the middle of the sand trap that stretches from San Diego to Phoenix. The nowhere setting and psycho temperature, a relatively cool 112� on a recent afternoon, tells you right away that the 100 to 150 squatters parked there this summer--several thousand others always flee the heat and return in October--are whacked out of their gourd.
But let's not rush to judgment. How much is your mortgage, and do you consider it sane? The Slabbers, who live in motor homes, trailers, tents and vans, pay absolutely zip, staking claims on state property that's A been available to all comers without hassle or regulation for 40 years.
When did you last make it through a day without wanting to choke one of the following: a cabbie, a telemarketer, the idiot driver in the next lane, the repairman who showed up three hours late, the people who control Internet access, all airline executives, a meter maid, some insipid bureaucrat, one of Larry King's guests or King himself?
Face it: your life is hell.
Meanwhile, the Slabbers may bake in the sun but they fall asleep to the sound of coyotes and shower in a fresh spring not far from the banks of the Salton Sea. But before you cancel the beach-house rental and pack the pup tent, you should know that Slab City--which got its name from the concrete remnants of a World War II training ground used by General Patton--isn't exactly Palm Springs minus ex-Presidents and bad pants.
There's still an aerial gunnery and a Navy SEALS' training ground nearby, and nothing makes those joes happier than blowing things up day and night. There's no running water or sewage system; an Imperial County official calls Slab City an environmental nightmare. The county wants to regulate the 640 acres and charge squatters a fee, but the land belongs to the state, which would love to dump it but can't find a sucker.
So Slab City endures, with its misfits, coots, dropouts and loners, most of them pensioners and all of them celebrating freedom, the religion of the desert, and, best of all, free rent.
"A lot of people call it the last frontier," says Woody, 55, a retired truck driver, after a cooldown in his outdoor bathtub.
While Woody dunked his derriere, fellow resident Linda Barnett, under a military camouflage net, delivered the nightly CB broadcast of camp doings and items for sale or barter.
"There's no information overload here, no crank calls, no Jehovah's Witnesses bugging you and no one trying to rip you off," says Barnett, a former X-ray technician who moved here nine years ago with a bad back and a disability check.
That may be true. But Slabbers have built a society somewhat like the one they fled, with good neighborhoods and bad, gentle souls and sociopaths, entrepreneurs and lazy Lebowskis. And Barnet's got a cell phone and color TV, for crying out loud.
Anita Parman, 59, is here with roughly 30 family members who look like a lost division of the convoy from The Grapes of Wrath. Dogs dive for shade under beat-up trailers and dust-coated kids wear wet towels to beat the bastard sun. Last fall Anita got pulled over while living up north and had to cough up $1,500 for car insurance and a smog inspection, so she said the hell with that. "I'd rather get me a horse and a couple of burros and live here."
"Anybody who stays at the Slabs in summer's got to have a loose screw," insists Mike Aleksick the fire marshal in nearby Niland (pop. 1,042). He's made friends among the 5,000 snowbirds who come in each winter, but there are outlaws among them too. "I've been shot at twice and been in fistfights." Kamikaze Slabbers scurry onto the gunnery at night, hunting bomb remnants to sell as scrap, and a few have blown off limbs with live ammo. Aleksick resents that people sit up there tax free and then run him ragged with service calls, but he says 80% of the Slabbers are decent folk.
Leonard Knight, 66, has found heaven, picking Hank Williams tunes on his guitar, pumping his rickety bike into Niland and laying down coat after coat of paint on his hillside GOD IS LOVE shrine, a 14-year project at the entrance to Slab City.
"I couldn't be any happier," says Knight, a former snow shoveler from Vermont who has cash to spare from his monthly $200 Social Security check. Yeah, summer is miserable. "But I got 13 coats of paint on [the shrine] now, and you should see it shine when it really heats up. It's beautiful."
So who's crazier? Leonard, or the average Wall Street monkey in a suit, trudging to work in the 97� soup New Yorkers call air?
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treepatrol
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This just in, it looks like that pink band in the south is causing problems.
ATLANTA - Freezing rain and ice jolted the South on Thursday, closing schools, snarling traffic and knocking out power to about 300,000 customers from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C.
The outages were caused by ice -- up to half an inch thick -- that formed on tree limbs and fell onto power lines. About 190,000 were reported without power in western North Carolina and South Carolina's upstate, 57,000 in the Atlanta area and nearly 50,000 across parts of northeast Georgia.
Ten school systems were closed in Georgia and more than a dozen closed in North Carolina, where mountain communities in the western part of the state were told to expect 1 to 3 inches of snow and sleet.
The weather also caused delays of more than an hour at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Forecasters expected the temperatures to increase above freezing across much of the region by Thursday afternoon, but then dip back into the 20s overnight.
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lymebrat
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Hey Flyers,
I live in New Hampshire, as this is where my ancestors settled, we even have a pond, and several roads named after us.
My family lives here and New Hampshire is one of the most beautiful states I have even seen..even if I do have to deal with snow
Spring and summer are awesome and autumn is breathtaking..winter is pretty for the first 6 weeks, after that, it gets really old and cold
But anyways, I live here as most of the time the weather is perfect, it's a great environment to raise children, the mountains and lakes are breathtaking and the majority of my family lives here.
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