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| I have to go to East Lansing tomorrow and just checked the weather report - ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE?!?!?! How can you live like that? I don't think if I wore all the clothes I own at one time it would be enough to keep me warm. Sheesh!
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Do they have hot weather and hurricaines in Florida? Different strokes for different folks. |
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Location: south east Michigan | You will be within spittin' distance of Elderly Music. That is a store worth visiting!
Drive directly east for two hours and you can play my guitars.
If you hit Canada, you went 1/2 mile to far. |
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Location: Cincinnati | it's what you're used to. I like the change in seasons. of course here it happens every other day. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | At least around here you have to get divorced to lose a trailer.....and you can usually see that coming.
Shortly after your girlfriend calls the wife for a grown-up type sit down.... |
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| "The Great White North"
It keeps you strong and it makes you smart. You have to survive up here. You southern folks get soft and complaisant. Don't you worry though... after global worming floods Florida, and then the ice comes and we get "frozen out" we'll be coming to conquer what's left of the South. Remember we are Smart and Strong. Well I'm not.... but the rest of these guys are!
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Location: south east Michigan | Back in the day I would lay on the runner beam of an ice-boat and hold on with my fore-arm in the pilots cockpit. Eight inches above the ice at 50 mph. At times the boat would hike up on the front and side runners and the rider would find himself a couple feet higher. Only flipped over once and we always wore helmets.
Or...attach a water ski tow rope to the ice boat, put on ice skates, and go.
Or... take a regular but larger size sled, add a spiked drum that is held down to the ice with spring tension, run it with a 5 hp engine that is mounted between your knees and go.
Those were the days. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Too much effort in surviving up 'yonder'. Hunt, kill, skin, butcher, cure, tan, sew buffalo just to stay warm. :eek:
Down here, a palm frond weaved into a loin drape and another frond as a fan and all is well! ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I flipped a snowmobile once doing about 40. My glasses iced up sticking out into the 30 below weather through my ski mask. Cow pies are really hard at that temperature. I hit one and it flipped 2 of us off. That still hurts even through all the layers of clothes I was wearing. Nobody wore helmets on snowmobiles back then.
A guy here just died this weekend when he fell into a tree well skiing. Headfirst into about 10 feet of powder and suffocated. It might be better to drown. |
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Location: Montana | Yes but come May thru Oct you know what youre in for! |
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| I remember diving in a pool in Florida once. the water was a cool 94 degrees. Spent the entire time there inside with AirCon. Only way I could survive. I can work outside up here all summer and right up until it gets to 0 like it is now and not sweat. You put me in that humidity and I don't care if its 60 I melt. This is the time of year I'd like to go to Florida. for a few weeks.... The rest of the year I'll keep my mountains, trees and trails, deck, stream and private lake. And the pool only needs to be maintained though June, July, August & Part of September. And it is cool when you jump in like it is supposed to be. I have a huge outdoor wood furnace and am thinking I could use this to heat water and extend the pool season if I want.
Spent no more the $1000 on wood last three years to heat two homes.....bet you spent more on the aircon electric alone than that.
Remember its always the highlanders that come down to raid, not the other way round. Were watching and waiting. Enjoy the suntan.
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Or...you could live in the middle, like I do; the earth doesn't wave up and down, the mountains don't become landslides, the air currents normally don't spiral around in tightly-knit funnels, the snow is easily manageable, hurricane flooding is almost non-existent, there are no fires that roar down canyons, and the extreme ends of the temperature scale mostly only happen in July-August and January-February.
(Of course, this is New Jersey, so's there's lots of other non-weather-related unpleasantness to grow weary of--but that's another story......)
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Northcountry:
... Don't you worry though... after global worming floods Florida...
Randy oh no, are the international nightcrawlers headed to florida too? time to get outta there all you "more south than most of us" folks. these are bigger than fish. ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hey G8R
I'm with you. We're in CT this week and it was 3 this morning. That's way uglier than any hurricane. Also I just got an email that talked about global cooling and that's what we really need to be worring about. The fact that the sun is chilling down, not some marketing rhetoric by Al Gored. But let's not get political. I'll take a little wind and rain over this frickin ice every time. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | What Beal said. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hey, don't worry about it. It's up to -2 right now. That's a lot warmer than it was Yesterday. Just make sure you wear at least 3 layers and bring something to cover your face. Frostbite bites!
Ditto on The Elderly Instruments. They don't have a lot of Ovations, but you can pick up and play $10-20,000 guitars and think about how better a good Adamas plays. Lots of Martins, Gibsons, Taytors,etc. |
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Location: Jet City | North is OK, as long as you stay all the way West!
Just bring an umbrella. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hey! If any of this crap about global warming turns out to be true, everyone is going to be looking to move up here. I just hope everyone who chooses to do that stays down around Detroit. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK, the weather is terrible here. Stay away. More room for me. I hate standing in lift lines in the winter and having to watch out for other boaters in the summer. And having to call ahead for a tee time is the pits. Sometimes its over 100 degrees when I'm out there by myself on the golf course and I couldn't even play in January. Once last summer I had to put the top up on the convertible. It's awful. Stay away. |
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Location: NJ | ThreeDegrees,Beal? :D
It was 11 here this morning, I can only imAGine up on that mountain . . .
Of course, that 11 was only the MeanTemp(there's a name), and with the WindChill factored in, it was BelowZer0 . . .
. . factor THAT into YOUR ThreeDegrees, & y'get (HoldOn, . . . CarryThe7, . . .)
. . it equates pretty much into one, pissed-OFF ol' BassettHound. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Its a wonderful 13 here in downtown Northfield Vermont. And we have more snow on the way all ready got more than we need. And if it gets much colder I will be the pastor of the First Church of the Frozen Chosen.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | A pleasant 39 and holding here, with just a bit of drizzle.
Say what you will about Northwest weather, but it's darn temparate if you ask me. High of only 95 at the height of summer, with our lowest overnight winter temp of, say, 15, maybe 6 days a year. Somewhere always between 35 and 85, with blue skies and a breeze or a constant, steady mist and beautiful evergreen forests...now THAT's living! |
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Location: Jet City | 15? I can't remember it getting that cold here, well not in a long while. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Well it's minus 5 this morning, and even my dog peeed ice cubes.
Pauly |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | some kind of single digit again this morning, FAHQUE!!!!
On the bright side I should get my 45th tonight. Serge, If you can go by Elderly it would be well worth the trip. |
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OT: Crazy northerners!
