dat - Posted - 10/29/2012:  13:51:59

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Originally posted by OM45GE

What amazes me is how big these things are. The storm is still south of New Jersey and we're getting this kind of weather already.

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 sounds like you need to get your lawn chair out and set on the roof too

dat - Posted - 10/29/2012:  13:53:25

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Originally posted by Alaina

I just hope it doesn't get much worse! 

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 me too, after Rita and Ike coming through here, I don't like to see folks getting in the way of those things

Alaina - Posted - 10/29/2012:  13:53:26

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Originally posted by dat

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Originally posted by OM45GE

What amazes me is how big these things are. The storm is still south of New Jersey and we're getting this kind of weather already.

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 sounds like you need to get your lawn chair out and set on the roof too

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Don't forget your mixed drink!!!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/29/2012:  15:10:02

We had a 75' tree come down on the neighbor's house about an hour ago. I just got in from cutting the branches off their house. Thankfully there's no major damage and no one was hurt.

Alaina - Posted - 10/29/2012:  15:34:05

During the last hurricane we were in, mom parked her car outside in hopes that a tree would land on it so that she could get a new one haha

DeanT - Posted - 10/29/2012:  15:52:37

That's how I get tornadoes to miss our house

Alaina - Posted - 10/29/2012:  15:53:08

Hahaha funny how it works isn't it?

DeanT - Posted - 10/30/2012:  00:15:25

I hope everyone is safe and sound this morning!

OM45GE - Posted - 10/30/2012:  03:51:04

All are safe here and the storm is pulling away. Still nasty to the west though.

dat - Posted - 10/30/2012:  05:46:07

Good to hear you made it through.  

OM45GE - Posted - 10/30/2012:  06:10:36

Mother Nature has her ways of letting you know who is boss doesn't she?

dat - Posted - 10/30/2012:  06:19:08

NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT

dat - Posted - 10/30/2012:  07:10:28

Anybody heard from Mr. Q

Alaina - Posted - 10/30/2012:  08:09:11

Not yet, hoping everyone made it through okay

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 10/30/2012:  14:38:43

My stupid internet has been spotty lately. During a hurricane, when you really want to know what's going on, etc., is not the time to have problems with your internet. AND my cell phone battery isn't keeping a charge very well.

I got a little water in the basement and the lights flickered a bit but other than that it wasn't too bad. Got lots of spinning done. Sounds like I'll be back at work tomorrow.

Alaina - Posted - 10/30/2012:  14:40:06

Glad you made it safely 

Edited by - Alaina on 10/30/2012 14:47:27

DeanT - Posted - 10/30/2012:  14:44:59

whew! Glads that over. Looks like quite a mess to clean up now in some places

Alaina - Posted - 10/30/2012:  14:46:29

Not only a mess, but look at what is going on in W. Virginia! It's like The Day After Tomorrow is becoming a reality

dat - Posted - 10/30/2012:  15:03:35

quality spinning time,   hard to go outside when it's cold and wet anyway.    did you get any roof sitting time in to watch it blow in?

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 10/30/2012:  17:10:05

No roof sitting. Wouldn't want to risk dropping a spinning wheel and if I'm gonna be sitting I might as well be spinning!

DeanT - Posted - 10/30/2012:  18:02:49

Some of the blizzards are crazy... trees breaking from ice... yikes

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 10/30/2012:  18:36:47

Some of the ice storms around here are wicked. I remember my first year at Gallaudet they told me I needed to get a tetanus shot before I could register for shots my second term so I pulled myself up the hill (the health services place was located on the hill halfway between the university and the residential high school) because if I just tried to walk I'd slide on the ice all the way back down. Then I got to the health center and they told me I didn't need a shot until August.

And all the students were ice skating on the track.

DeanT - Posted - 10/30/2012:  19:10:48

Down here in Kansas we would love just a little bit of that ice and snow, but not enough to break trees. We never get a long enough freeze to skate anywhere

dat - Posted - 10/31/2012:  05:50:22

we'll get a day or two scattered out through the winter that we'll get a little ice, usually a little slush on the roads once or twice a year that'll last a day then the sun comes back out

DeanT - Posted - 10/31/2012:  08:37:46

It's in the 70's here... it was 80's last week. One day last week hit 93.

Alaina - Posted - 10/31/2012:  08:38:56

Happy Halloween!!!

DeanT - Posted - 10/31/2012:  12:46:20

Little rug rats.... If I can scare them away... I get all the candy bars....

Alaina - Posted - 10/31/2012:  12:49:27

I knew someone who would dress like a scarecrow and sit out front with a bowl of candy on his lap. He scared the living daylights out of so many little kids! One even wet his pants

dat - Posted - 10/31/2012:  13:05:19

we live far enough out that people don't accidently come by the house unless they have been lost for a while.  normally we don't have any of those  tricycle motors come by anymore

Alaina - Posted - 10/31/2012:  13:05:39

Oh that must be nice!

DeanT - Posted - 10/31/2012:  15:32:30

We live in the city... it's hopeless, rugrats everywhere

Alaina - Posted - 10/31/2012:  15:51:04

Same here!

RB00 - Posted - 10/31/2012:  18:00:49

I heard a little kid at the street tell his dad that he didn't want to come up to my door because his sister told him a dead guy lives here!

DeanT - Posted - 10/31/2012:  19:31:39

I played my banjo on the front porch tonight... didn't work... but I did manage to hide some candy bars for me... :)

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 10/31/2012:  19:54:04

My buddy DP gave out candy from the back of his van one year.

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 10/31/2012:  19:54:35

I did trick or treating in reverse. I went to see George and gave him treats while I was there.

DeanT - Posted - 11/01/2012:  00:11:54

George?

OM45GE - Posted - 11/01/2012:  03:58:56

We got about 100 kids last night. My son went out as an ATM machine. He made the costume himself out of a box one of my guitars was shipped in.

I can't eat candy anymore so I didn't have to worry about keeping any aside.

dat - Posted - 11/01/2012:  05:48:50

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George?

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George is 'Niffers noble steed

DeanT - Posted - 11/01/2012:  07:26:50

Oh yeah... like, my old brain should have remembered that!

Alaina - Posted - 11/01/2012:  08:53:20

I heard that people forget things as they get older...

dat - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:07:26

I heard something like that, but I can't remember exactly what it was

Alaina - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:14:19

Isn't that how it always seems to go?

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:21:58

I'm not sure I remembered things even when I was younger.

Alaina - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:31:44

I try to use that excuse but no one buys it...

dat - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:41:01

do you remember smooching on the giraffe?

Alaina - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:42:23

How could I forget?

OM45GE - Posted - 11/01/2012:  09:49:46

Someone told me your memory is the SECOND thing to go as you get older. I can't remember what they said the first was.

DeanT - Posted - 11/01/2012:  10:02:29

I lost most of my memory in the 70's