I love winter...

[Zzzzz]

Oh yeah…that brings back memories!!! The newscast is from Ohio, but the story was the same for just about any northern state.

I remember the pleas on the news for people with snowmobiles to help get doctors and nurses to the hospitals.

Anyone with a 4x4 or a snowmobile was a hero.

I remember that as well. My dad had a 4x4 & we helped some friends in rural areas get groceries in.

 

[syscokid]

silly lake lovers

Salt Water for me ----
Cocoa Beach to my East

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CLearwater BEach to my west......
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Just to the left of the above pic where the blue roof public restroom building is there is a groovy little beach bar with the best "Bushwackers" in the area --

of course the absolute BEST Bushwakers and steemed shrimp come from the FLOR A BAMA Lounge -- built right on the Florida Alabama line....... so many good times at this place ......
Dont look like much from the street........
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thats cause the PARTY is out back
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Ugh! Too many people...

 

[iblive]

That's what I remember. It was so much fun! I had so many snow forts everywhere. We only came inside when we were made to. I warmed my hands at the dryer vent and kept on going.

Not as much fun when you have to work in it. Pulling a 40ft semi trailer down these roads delivering and picking up farmers tractors. On one trip front of my truck got sucked into the drift. Just happened the farmer I was delivering the tractor to happened by….. since I was in sight of his driveway. We had to unload the tractor. He drove it around the block…. A country block is a mile to a side….. so four miles later he backs up to my truck and drags me out of the drift with the tractor I was delivering. Great fun.

I did not miss that when I got moved into the parts department in 1980.

Edit: Should have added. Farmer had to drive around the block since I had the road blocked.

 

[smitty_p]

Not as much fun when you have to work in it. Pulling a 40ft semi trailer down these roads delivering and picking up farmers tractors. On one trip front of my truck got sucked into the drift. Just happened the farmer I was delivering the tractor to happened by….. since I was in sight of his driveway. We had to unload the tractor. He drove it around the block…. A country block is a mile to a side….. so four miles later he backs up to my truck and drags me out of the drift with the tractor I was delivering. Great fun.

I did not miss that when I got moved into the parts department in 1980.

I guess, I’ll have to beg your forgiveness of @Zzzzz and me.

We were just kids…with weeks off from school spending our days building snow forts and sledding!

Our memories are a little more care-free!

 

[iblive]

I guess, I’ll have to beg your forgiveness of @Zzzzz and me.

We were just kids…with weeks off from school spending our days building snow forts and sledding!

Our memories are a little more care-free!

Its all good you guys. No apology necessary. The fact we're all still talking about more than 40 years later tells us that storm made quite an impression. We may have been different ages when it happened..... still stories we are all telling our grandkids. "You think this is a storm.... ya shoulda seen the one we had in 1978."

 

[Cadorman]

I think I was in 6th grade at the time.

 

[eSGEe]

got sucked into the drift.

sounds like my exwife !!!


I remember that Blizzard..... Dad and I had to keep climbing on the roof of the garage (flat) to push the snow OFF so it wouldnt collapse the roof --- I remember he had icicles hanging from his mustache...... and we all slept in the living room (no power) in snowmobile suits between the fire and the gas space heater ......................
good times...................................................
"F" the frozen HELL.

I might lose power in a hurricane for a few days and be HOT and bothered and PISSED .....but I DAMN SURE wont freeze to death .... or die of carbon monoxide poisoning ,........from poorly ventilated space heaters

 

[Zzzzz]

sounds like my exwife !!!


I remember that Blizzard..... Dad and I had to keep climbing on the roof of the garage (flat) to push the snow OFF so it wouldnt collapse the roof --- I remember he had icicles hanging from his mustache...... and we all slept in the living room (no power) in snowmobile suits between the fire and the gas space heater ......................
good times...................................................
"F" the frozen HELL.

I might lose power in a hurricane for a few days and be HOT and bothered and PISSED .....but I DAMN SURE wont freeze to death .... or die of carbon monoxide poisoning ,........from poorly ventilated space heaters

I think you probably just ate some yellow snow by accident & have carried the bitterness all these years. You force yourself to suffer down there in that hellish weather to forget your mistake. Hahaha!

 

[CoyotesGator]

Not that one needs an excuse for Zappa in the morning, but........