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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: St Paul Steam on January 06, 2025, 09:31:54 am
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Though I reside in Texas, I am originally from Detroit, Mich; I’ve seen my fair share of snow too!!!!!!
I drove through Indiana and Indianapolis right after New Year’s Day on my way back home from family gatherings and luckily just beat the winter weather by a day or so!
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Oh man, I would have loved to have one of those "fat Boy" scooters myself back....oh 50 yrs ago (sheesh ::) ) great photo.
They are amazing Bruce, boy oh boy the kids have some great things these days!
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Oh man, I would have loved to have one of those "fat Boy" scooters myself back....oh 50 yrs ago (sheesh ::) ) great photo.
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When my Grandkids and family watched Bruces' videos, it was pretty amazing because its just sooo different to our life here. That snow just looked so white, so nice and clean and so cool! In emails between Bruce and myself I passed on some questions from the Dale Gang and Bruce so nicely went the whole 9 yards and produced just a fabulous video answering all the questions in great detail and telling interesting fact about the U.S and his State, they Grandkids, Jenny and myself were just enthralled.
We've had a break from intense sun, actually its been raining for the last 3-4 days with temps in the mid 20's to just under 30 (around 86F) the humidity is insane though.
The Grandkids each got an electric 'Fatboy' motorbike/bike for Christmas, these things are just incredible....boy oh boy would I have liked one of these at their age!
They road over to watch the private vid from Bruce, you can see in the pic of the bush on the other side of the lake, after 5 years since we got hit with a bushfire there's still a lot of years until it looks like it did. Its very triggering to watch what L.A is going through, golly my heart goes out to all who have been through that devastation.
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Thank you Bruce :)
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I've been pondering what's worse.....the horrible interminable heat of 9 month Summers with a UV index that literally fries your skin, nights of temps around 86°-90° coupled with high humidity that makes sleeping difficult.....Or that snow and ice!!.......I haven't come to a conclusion yet :)
We’re lucky to enjoy both in Minnesota ;) Luckily the heat/humidity is only about a month here :D I’ve lived in a house with no A/C where the night time temp in the bedroom was in the high 90’s
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I've been pondering what's worse.....the horrible interminable heat of 9 month Summers with a UV index that literally fries your skin, nights of temps around 86°-90° coupled with high humidity that makes sleeping difficult.....Or that snow and ice!!.......I haven't come to a conclusion yet :)
my thoughts on this are...you can always put on more clothes to stay warm, there's only so many clothes you can take off to stay cool. 8)
I've used this exact same line, more times than I can count!
Though sometimes I have added .... to get cool and stay legal!!! ;c)
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I've been pondering what's worse.....the horrible interminable heat of 9 month Summers with a UV index that literally fries your skin, nights of temps around 86°-90° coupled with high humidity that makes sleeping difficult.....Or that snow and ice!!.......I haven't come to a conclusion yet :)
my thoughts on this are...you can always put on more clothes to stay warm, there's only so many clothes you can take off to stay cool. 8)
That's what everyone says down here :( plus, the Australian Aborigine wasn't black for no reason....most of us should be in England, Scotland or Ireland :(
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I've been pondering what's worse.....the horrible interminable heat of 9 month Summers with a UV index that literally fries your skin, nights of temps around 86°-90° coupled with high humidity that makes sleeping difficult.....Or that snow and ice!!.......I haven't come to a conclusion yet :)
my thoughts on this are...you can always put on more clothes to stay warm, there's only so many clothes you can take off to stay cool. 8)
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I've been pondering what's worse.....the horrible interminable heat of 9 month Summers with a UV index that literally fries your skin, nights of temps around 86°-90° coupled with high humidity that makes sleeping difficult.....Or that snow and ice!!.......I haven't come to a conclusion yet :)
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Or even more often the water will pool behind the ice dam and leak through into your house
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"Those icicles look dangerous ..... like spears just waiting to get ya!"
more often than not, you just hit them (accidentally) with your head & knock them of, you would probably have to be lying flat on the ground & have 1 fall off & come perfectly Straight down to hurt you, it can happen though. what happens far more often is that all that weight hanging off of the gutters will often pull the gutters down off the house.
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Incredible Nick and great memories mate of your grandpa, I can remember years ago pics of you shoveling snow off his roof (did I remember that right? It was a long time ago).
Close, that was my other grandpas house who is still with us. I keep his roof raked now so he doesn’t get the giant icicles 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KOZjk3Y78&t=69s
Those icicles look dangerous ..... like spears just waiting to get ya!
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Incredible Nick and great memories mate of your grandpa, I can remember years ago pics of you shoveling snow off his roof (did I remember that right? It was a long time ago).
Close, that was my other grandpas house who is still with us. I keep his roof raked now so he doesn’t get the giant icicles 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KOZjk3Y78&t=69s
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I had to share this picture of my grandpa the year he passed (almost 11 yrs ago)
He would sit by the kitchen window behind the drift everyday… drinking coffee and watching what little traffic would drive by. He had gotten too weak to keep up with the snow so I came out and shoveled/blew it away because it was blocking his view :D
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A couple more from that day
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Incredible Nick and great memories mate of your grandpa, I can remember years ago pics of you shoveling snow off his roof (did I remember that right? It was a long time ago).
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I had to share this picture of my grandpa the year he passed (almost 11 yrs ago)
He would sit by the kitchen window behind the drift everyday… drinking coffee and watching what little traffic would drive by. He had gotten too weak to keep up with the snow so I came out and shoveled/blew it away because it was blocking his view :D
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A couple more from that day
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Oh wow Bruce, can't thank you enough mate for going and filming those three vids!!!!
Watched them a few times now with Jenny and last night with the grandkids....they said numerous times "How do people live there" :o
It looks sooo clean and sooo cool and crisp, the air must be just wonderful to breath in and fill your lungs.
Good timing as well, its raining here today with Summer lightening storms after two days and nights of horribly intense 40°C+ (106°F) heatwaves which are due to return over the weekend.
Thanks for that effort, super duper appreciated :) That snow blower, what an awesome bit of kit, must be such a time saver from using a shovel.
You have no idea of the questions this Aussie family had watching these vids :)
"How do people live there"
"What about the animal"
"How do people drive on the roads"
"Do people break hips slipping on the ice"
"Do kids have to go to school"
"Do they flood when all that snow and ice melts"
They just kept on rolling in!!! LOL Its hard for us to imagine its just so different.
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Same here.
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And here we sit with no snow right now :'(
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here ya' go Jim, got some weather in Indiana :)
https://youtu.be/co1TabxH7WA
https://youtu.be/Buz9wy_s9-s
https://youtu.be/3PcBkD9Pw2E