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I love storm days.  We haven’t had a good one for a long time.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Samanatha, you may not want to ask to exchange storm stories on a blog read by people from North Dakota.

We hear “an hour to dig out” and go, “What, was it July?”

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Yeah, but we can all make fun of the southerners who wig out over an inch of snow, yes?

Sure.  Southerners...and people from Oregon.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Ha!...Oh my gosh, that is too funny! That looks like fun. Do you suppose he had somewhere to go? ...

I found a Toro snowblower on the side of the road last summer with a ‘free’ sign on it.  Never had one before.  It needed about $30 in parts and a few hours of TLC.  Runs great now.

Haven’t had a chance to use it, all the snow has missed MN this season.  Has been plenty cold, just not much snow.  (yet)

Most of the snow has missed ND too, it seems.  We certainly haven’t gotten a whole lot here in Minot.

Plenty cold though.  I don’t think it’s been above zero here in a week.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I’m tired of digging out, only to watch the snow drifts obliterate my work only hours later.

My arms and lower back are crying.

And say what you want about southerners. They can be funny around snow (first “snow day” I ever had growing up was for a dusting of snow in Florida back in the late 1980’s), but they deal with things like hurricanes.

Samanatha, you may not want to ask to exchange storm stories on a blog read by people from North Dakota.

We hear “an hour to dig out” and go, “What, was it July?”

The kids really hate it when the big blizzards come through in July.  They don’t even get a storm day out of it since there’s no school.  Plus it really messes up the baseball schedule.

but they deal with things like hurricanes.

Not necessarily well.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Sam, when I lived in Atlanta the entire city would shut down for a 1/4 inch of snow. What really made me laugh like hell was the fact that pretty much EVEYONE in Atlanta is from up north somewhere and they can’t drive in it.
In all fairness, that region has almost no snowplows or salt spreaders. Still, the ground turns white and all the brokewings forget how to drive!

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And Toot, those in the South who have such a hard time after hurricanes are,,, wait for it,,,,, Brokewings. When I was growing up we did not have FEMA coming in and screwing up everything in sight. National Guard, Red Cross, Corp of Engineers. Oh, and ourselves.

During the last 20 odd years the influx of Brokewings has brought with it a massive number of whiners, who all expect the “gov’ment” to fix everything when a storm goes through.

My Mom is an HR Block district manager, she had all her offices up and running for tax season after Katrina, at their conference the next summer several of the Wheels from corporate went on and on about how she got FEMA to fix everything so quickly. When she got up to speak, she quietly explained that FEMA did nothing other than put bluetarps on a couple of the buildings. Everything was cleaned up and fixed by her office staffs and their families/friends. I helped clear 2 of them while I was down their. And like everything else I did down there, I did it for free. Well, that ain’t really true. I paid for the privilege of working my ass off for a month and a half.

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Yes, 2H9:  I greatly respect those that get things done and don’t respect those losers in New Orleans who sit around and cry and complain that nobody is putting their life back in order for them.

I know someone who knows someone that went down to help after Katrina.  (as you may know we had a little disaster of our own 10 years ago and his church decided it was payback time).

Long story short he quit in short order because the homeowner they were helping was sitting in a lawn chair while they were fixing up his house.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Oh, yea! Lots of that crap going on. Human nature in action. “I want free crap and I want it NOW!!!”

People defruading charity groups and Uncle are a staple disaster relief. My brother Mike has been working for FEMA since November ‘05. They hired him because people would not cooperate with out of staters that went in after Katrina. He sees “lawnchair foremen” all the time. He also sees internal waste and fruad all the time. Several hundred trailer homes that have been left to sit because FEMA regs don’t allow them to be set up in areas that have flooded. On and on and,,well you know the deal, been around the block once or twice yourself.

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D$%# this Global Warming®!

"Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards in emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.”
- Dave James

Steve, how do you get the Registered mark when you type things? I noticed you use it on different things you post.

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Steve, how do you get the Registered mark when you type things?

Alt codes.

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OH:  Like that’s going to work with 2H9!

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Alt codes.

WÏCK€D, thanks lik.

Now I can correctly type ÆON FLUX if I want…

Toot, you are correct! I am on a laptop that has no number pad, num lock gives me !@#$%^&*()_+ and nothing else. I sent the link to Wifey’s email, can use it on her computer. Thanks Lik!! Any idea if I got a free standing number pad to USB into my laptop if altcodes would work?

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