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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:33 PM
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Killer snow storm heading right at us in South Alabama.
2-4 inches predicted with massive drifts up to 6 inches. I went to Winn Dixie today and loaded up with supplies for this massive blizzard - a 6-pack of beer, some treats for my cats, and a pack of chewing gum.

:toast:
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:35 PM
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1. And the batteries-----don't forget the batteries. Have fun !
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:37 PM
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2. Where's you short wave radio?
You and the kitties need to hear all the religious shows with bad music and old bible thumpers.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 07:02 AM
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41. It's gotta be a crank-powered radio or it's no good for this storm n/t
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 07:50 PM
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45. You bet. I've got one of them, too
Cost us 40 bucks. We used a Grundig crank type last week.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 07:58 PM
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46. Hell, I've got one of those Grundig cranks.
Decent little radio when power is out. It even has a light.
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:37 PM
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3. don't forget candles and lighter...and charge your cell phone. n/t
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:38 PM
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4. Bread, milk, and toilet paper
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:38 PM
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5. 'Massive' drifts up to 6 inches??
That's not a drift, that's snowball makin's.

:rofl:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:50 PM
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9. For us in the south, that is massive.
We get terrible thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes, but throw us a little bit of snow and we freak out!!I am super excited about the 4-5" of snow we are supposed to get. On a really cold year, we may get a flurry. So hell yeah for the little piddly snow we are getting!!!!

As matter of fact, I am sitting here with my husband by a fire listening to music and watching the snow fall. Loving every minute of it!
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:58 PM
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13. Trust me, the novelty will wear off
if you spend a couple of weeks digging out your car. :)
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:59 PM
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15. I imagine so, but I don't see that in my future in mid-MS.
We take what little we can get.
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:44 PM
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6. Killer?
We don't have any snow in Boston. :(
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:51 PM
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11. We might have more snow tomorrow than they have for the Winter Olympics.
I'm just having fun with all the crazy weather girls and guys down here, but there really could be some decent accumulations of 5-7 inches in parts of South Alabama.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:19 AM
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17. Where did you hear the 5-7 inches part for So. ala???
I am in SW Ala. but don't catch the tv weather, just the internet.
Sounds like you are saying a REAL snowfall???
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:24 AM
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18. Channel 12 from Montgomery.
That's what they predicted on their news tonight. Parts of SW Alabama could get up to 7 inches.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:26 AM
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19. Hey, Neighbor...look what I just found....
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 11:50 AM
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43. Snow-toon for southerners
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ThomThom Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:04 PM
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44. You can come on down to the DC area we will let you have all you
can carry. It is piled high here. Today, we are getting the cities moving again. People can get back to work.
Many people in Maryland have been without power for days.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:45 PM
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7. Oh, hell I forgot
to get condoms for the cats.

:beer:
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:46 PM
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8. Poor cats
(deleted) <grin>
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:27 AM
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20. clothespins. nt
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:51 PM
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10. Two years in a row the ODU basketball team got snowed in in Birmingham.
In the '80s.
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:54 PM
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12. Where are you in South Alabama?
I grew up in Clarke County. Will they get snow?
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:04 AM
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16. I'm in East Alabama, not far from Tuskegee and Auburn. You will get plenty
in Clarke - maybe 7 inches.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 11:59 PM
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14. We might even get some snow here in the Panhandle,
though only inland--here on the immediate coast we will only get cold drizzle.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:34 AM
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32. The weather service says Tallahassee is getting light snow right now
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=216&map.y=149&site=tae&zmx=1&zmy=1

But the air temperature is 40F so it's melting on the way down. Here, about 25 miles north east of there, we're just getting rain, maybe some sleet. The horses are in the barn. If it were really cold and snowing, I'd leave them out, but with the cold wet weather, it gets through their coats and they get badly chilled.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:49 AM
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33. It's been quite a cold winter here, hasn't it?
I think I have had enough of this to do me for a while.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:56 AM
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34. I am definitely ready for spring!
I've been here when we had colder temperatures, like Chistmas of 88 or was it 89 when it got down to 8 degrees. But never when it was that cold that long like we had last month.

And my old bones can't take it. Monday night when the low was moving in, I could barely walk from the pain in my joints. Tonight is getting that bad. Times like this the Vicodin does not help, crawling under the electric blanket with it cranked up to HIGH does not help. The only thing that will help is when the barometric pressure gets back above 30 inches.

If this is what the future holds I may well sell my farm and move to Belize! I'd still have to live with low pressure systems but at least they would be warm.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 02:02 AM
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36. Yeah, that was an awful cold spell. It just wouldn't end!
And the humidity makes it that much worse. People don't understand that 40 degrees with humidity near 100% is far worse than much lower but dry temps. When it's cold here, it hurts. It's actually painful.
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Artie Bucco Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:30 AM
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21. The DFW area got slammed
Every town in the DFW area got 5 inches plus of snow my town got 7 inches.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:38 AM
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22. 6 inches? Massive? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
:rofl:
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:59 AM
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24. I'm just joking and having fun with the weather guys down here.
:beer:
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 12:40 AM
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23. Come on Elwood
No beef jerky?! Rookie
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:08 AM
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26. I have plenty of Vienna sausages. I'm too old for jerky.
Edited on Fri Feb-12-10 01:10 AM by Elwood P Dowd
Arthritis is hell.

:beer:
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bandit599 Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:01 AM
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25. Good luck with the winter storms
We're used to winter in Alaska!
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:10 AM
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27. What about Wilson the Beachball?
:rofl:
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:18 AM
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28. I have a VHS tape of the movie
but it's buried with M-16 and all my New World Order tapes.

:spank:
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npk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:22 AM
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29. In Atlanta they say we might get a dusting, up to an inch
That means massive traffic jams and dozens of cars parked on the side of the road. :D

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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:23 AM
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30. Get about 5 gallons of milk........
Edited on Fri Feb-12-10 01:24 AM by kestrel91316
so you can make snow ice cream for the whle neighborhood.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 01:24 AM
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31. They're calling for snow in coastal SC too. I'll believe it when I see it.
We never get it when we say we will, but if we do, it'll definitely be killer.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 02:00 AM
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35. Nice to see all those prayers for rain are coming through for you guys.
Too bad about the timing, though...
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 02:32 AM
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37. Yes, our repuke governor person is a real piece of work.
Edited on Fri Feb-12-10 02:42 AM by Elwood P Dowd
He prays for rain, and we get monsoon weather in the summer/fall. He also stole the 2002 election from the real winner, Don Siegelman. Don went to bed as the elected governor and woke up behind Riley when the Baldwin County results were changed by KKKarl Rove's cronies.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 03:04 AM
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38. Yeah, Thom Hartmann is all over the Siegelman case.
I can't believe Obama hasn't pardoned him yet.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 05:25 AM
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39. Stay safe
:D
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Baclava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 06:40 AM
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40. Time to start breaking up the furniture and burning it!
Books too. That's what they would do in the movies.
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-12-10 07:02 AM
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42. Stay off those roads!!!!
Years ago I went through a storm like that in Alabama. I'm a New Englander, grew up with snow and ice. I got out on those innocent looking roads down south and it was a nightmare. Stay home, guys, be safe. It will melt.
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