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Joe Caruso
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 - posted March 08, 2018 01:14 PM      Profile for Joe Caruso     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
For those of us in the Metro-Area, please be safe, pray Spring will come through - Shorty

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Steve Klare
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 - posted March 08, 2018 01:55 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Yessir!

The beginning of March came, the back yard melted down to just the mud and brown grass, and thoughts of Spring caught a middle-aged man's fancy!

-I thought I'd take the bikes out of the shed and put the snow blower away. I thought about waxing my car, maybe getting a set of roof racks for my wife's car too.

It seemed we were in the clear...

-but then yesterday happened:

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Long Island Expressway, Westbound, Roughly 4:30PM

It was a downright white-knuckle commute! (-you ever see a snowplow go into a skid?!!)

You've got to understand: this is a carpool situation, so I had no direct control. (-Just begging to be listed in the credits as a hapless victim!)

-so the bikes are still in the shed, and I had to use the snow blower this morning...still the same: March 20th is only 12 days away!

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Joe Caruso
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 - posted March 08, 2018 02:08 PM      Profile for Joe Caruso     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
12 days?! - Thought this Saturday with the turn of the clocks ahead, we'd be introduced into the season of lovely lamb and choice weather - Oh well...no, never saw a snowplow jackknife or swirl about, but I'd stay away far-away - Love to you all, was hoping to see the smiling Mrs and the eager little Steve, have some films for him - God Bless - Shorty

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Steve Klare
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 - posted March 08, 2018 02:31 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I count it as of the date of the Vernal Equinox: March 20th.

What was kind of stinky about yesterday was after a long day I might relax watching a few films, but with power lines falling all over the place there was no way I was plugging into that!

I just fixed a projector! (Let's not blow it up!)

The Mrs. and the Boy will return to Wildwood in October. The nice thing is with ME packing the luggage I won't need a forklift to unload the car!

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Graham Ritchie
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 - posted March 09, 2018 12:33 PM      Profile for Graham Ritchie   Email Graham Ritchie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
That looks very cold indeed, last week I was looking at the snow hitting Scotland it looked terrible. I wonder if this is down to climate change.

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Steve Klare
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 - posted March 09, 2018 12:53 PM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Here this is pretty much business as usual. We have these storms that come up the Coast year round called Nor'easters that depending on the temperature you can get flooding rains or a foot of snow in a day.

(If it's below freezing and Thursday night, I'm all for it!)

If this was a choice vs. a hurricane, this is definitely where I'd go: nowhere nearly as violent.

March is a funny kind of month: one March 3rd when my wife and I were engaged, it was 75 and sunny and we went canoeing.

-not so much this year!

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