Ice storm!

On Feb 25, 3:26 pm, Dallas wrote:
On 25 Feb 2007 07:56:17 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote:

There were 25 guys in line buying chain saws

Sounds like a great opportunity to make some money.

I'll load up an 18 wheeler with some of our local "undocumented immigrants"
and a bunch of chain saws and be up there tomorrow.

--
Dallas

ROFL! Wait, don't do that, I'll load up the Aztec with 5 semi-
documented immigrants and be there tonight! no... wait... the snow
plow STILL hasn't been down our road and the drifts are now over 4"
deep.

We've been housebound all day, but we have electricity and heat.
Other than one of my mechanics, who drove out here in a Cat payloader,
we haven't seen a single vehicle, not even a snowmobile, drive by the
house.

Jay, how many chainsaws did Menards have? Glad you got one before
they sold the other one!

Jim

"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
.. .
Actually, if global warming did melt all the ice on land and
the oceans did rise 20 feet, it would make rebuilding New
Orleans moot and save the taxpayers a lot of money. And
just think of all the new seaports. The whole state of
Florida would become a skin-divers paradise, but it would
ruin the bass fishing in the glades.
And Brittney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith are "real" news.


As an interesting asside to all of this, even as the Greens are clming
that
we are within one degree of "irreversible and catastrophic" global
warming,
I heard a rather interesting asserton about climate a couple of days ago.

It seems that we are still several degrees cooler than the predicted
temperatures from a long term solar cycle and--this is the interesting
part--we are the same amount cooler than the "optimum" temperature for
world
wide food production.

BTW, I am no expert on this,

you are so right there - you are no expert, better leave it to those who
have spent a lifetime studying the matter.

wrote:
no... wait... the snow
plow STILL hasn't been down our road and the drifts are now over 4"
deep.

We've been housebound all day, but we have electricity and heat.

Please tell me that was a typo, and you mean four FEET deep, not four
inches!

Being housebound in four-inch snow is kind of like having to spend the
night on an escalator due to a power failure.

.... Alan
--
Alan Gerber
PP-ASEL
gerber AT panix DOT com

Oz Lander wrote:
Montblack wrote:


("Oz Lander" wrote)

Sorry to heretywr.....whoops! Sory about that! Just spilled some of
my suntan oil on the keyboard! Doh! ;-)
Seriously though, got baked red raw all over my back building a
trampoline for the kids yesterday!


Rereading your post, I notice you failed to include an invite. That's
just not right!


Montblack
10-15 inches of snow forecast for tonight and tomorrow, in the Twin
Cities - St Paul/Minneapolis, MN


I'm in Australia! That means an open invite! You know! "Where the
bloody hell are ya?"
The BBQ is always fired up, and the beers always cold!

Where? I'm ready for another visit!! Well, Maybe in 3-5 years.

Margy

no... wait... the snow
plow STILL hasn't been down our road and the drifts are now over 4"
deep.

I'll bet you meant to say four FEET deep, no? Four inch drifts aren't
very impressive, nowadays... :-)

Jay, how many chainsaws did Menards have? Glad you got one before
they sold the other one!

Just got our internet/cable back here at the house, at 7:30 PM CST.
It took our cable provider 24 hours to get the neighborhood back on-
line -- but one of our two buildings at the hotel is still without
TV.

I am sure glad we installed DVD players in all the suites, and decided
to provide free DVD borrowing priveleges for all of our guests!
That's kept 'em quiet for 24 hours...

Menard's had dozens of chainsaws, but they were flying off the
shelves. I got a real nice Homelite 45 cc, 18-inch model that made
quick work of my mess.

I can't stand up straight, and my arms are still vibrating -- but we
got it done. Joe and I worked 6 long hours, in ankle-deep slush,
cutting and hauling. We've got three truck-loads of kindling, for
anyone who would like it!?

Required aviation content: I have not heard nor seen a plane in Iowa
City in 48 hours. First time since 9/11 I can say that.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

yup should have read four feet.... dang shiftomatic keyboard

OR

the air compressor is shot on the family lowrider

"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
...

Where? I'm ready for another visit!! Well, Maybe in 3-5 years.

Margy

Victoria.
Oz Lander

Chris wrote:

"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
.. .

Actually, if global warming did melt all the ice on land and
the oceans did rise 20 feet, it would make rebuilding New
Orleans moot and save the taxpayers a lot of money. And
just think of all the new seaports. The whole state of
Florida would become a skin-divers paradise, but it would
ruin the bass fishing in the glades.
And Brittney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith are "real" news.



As an interesting asside to all of this, even as the Greens are clming
that
we are within one degree of "irreversible and catastrophic" global
warming,
I heard a rather interesting asserton about climate a couple of days ago.

It seems that we are still several degrees cooler than the predicted
temperatures from a long term solar cycle and--this is the interesting
part--we are the same amount cooler than the "optimum" temperature for
world
wide food production.

BTW, I am no expert on this,


you are so right there - you are no expert, better leave it to those who
have spent a lifetime studying the matter.

You mean the same ones that proclaimed global cooling in the 70s?

Matt

Jay Honeck wrote:

Menard's had dozens of chainsaws, but they were flying off the
shelves. I got a real nice Homelite 45 cc, 18-inch model that made
quick work of my mess.

Jay,

I hate to burst your bubble, but I was a professional logger for several
years and there is no such thing as a nice Homelite. :-)

If it isn't a Stihl, it isn't a chainsaw. :-)

My 056 is 20 years old and still going strong and I use it a fair bit.
My only complaint is that Stihl no longer stocks parts for it. I think
it will outlive me if I don't drop a tree on nit.


Matt

Chris writes:

you are so right there - you are no expert, better leave it to those who
have spent a lifetime studying the matter.

The ones who have spent a lifetime studying it know no more about it than
Peter does, unfortunately. You can roll dice and match the accuracy of
predictions made by the "experts."

Remember, we still cannot predict the weather even 24 hours in advance with
any degree of accuracy. We know absolutely nothing about what the weather
will be like ten or a hundred years from now.

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