A sunny day in January, 2017

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 5 months ago to Entertainment
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Ahh, the prospect warms my heart. Although, one knows not who shall next occupy aforementioned residence. It could be as grim then, as now.

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  • Posted by $ nickursis 11 years, 5 months ago
    Bravo! I can't wait for it to be true, but the horrible thing, nightmare on Elm Streetish is "president Pelosi"! ACK, run for the hills.....
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Been there, seen that. :) No problem though, 'cause everyone was friendly enough to lend a hand of their own free will and help others get back on the road.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hard to judge. We just got finished with black friday, so the shelves are a mess anyway.

    Tonight will tell.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, no. In rain, Okies all think they're Mario Andretti. But, if it snows or freezes, they panic like little gurly men. In fact, we have some icy/snowy conditions coming up in the next few days, and listening to the panicked talk is hilarious.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's just life in 'Tornado Alley'. I grew up in the NE corner of OK, on Grand Lake. I can't remember a year when we didn't have a number of tornados and didn't have to go to the storm cellar at least twice. All but Grandma. She refused to go into the ground, would sit outside on the porch in her rocker till it had passed. She'd have warm cocoa for us when we came back to the house.
    Just life. You adapt.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We were experiencing one several years ago, when I heard a pounding at the front door. I was surprised to find a friend from the other side of town at the door, wet and bedraggled, but also white as a ghost and shaking like an aspen leaf. He came in and immediately collapsed to the couch. All he could say was, "A damn tree just passed me! It just flew by me in the other lane. My wife's just going to have to wait. It passed me!"
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have driven 4x4 trucks for decades. Many, mistakenly imagine their improved forward traction also means improved braking... not so fast! False confidence... Of course, the upside is, you can pull back out of the ditch without a tow... most of the time...
    I remember you telling me of your Karmann Ghia. Year, color, ragtop? Here is one that would stink in the snow. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jDQvDUIb...
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw that on the news. Another mayor in CA is trying to address the pensions in his city, which are draining the city dry. Driving it towards bankruptcy, actually. And his fight w/the unions is going to be bloody. Just watch how many people will start calling him racist. They haven't yet, because he's a democrat, but just wait. It will happen.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hahaha! That's Virginia! I had a Karmann Ghia that just was great in the snow. I would see 4x4's in ditches as I passed by. They didn't understand the physics of snow and centrifugal force.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't know if that would be considered irrational in my book. My gosh, that you were getting pulled by it, just frightening! I cannot imagine it.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hope that luck holds out. One thing: As friendly as the drivers were, most didn't have a clue how to drive in slick conditions where I was. Coming from Mi. I was stunned to see 1/4 inch of snow one morning send most of the drivers around me spinning off into the bar ditch. It seems they didn't know how to feather the gas and brake. It was before anti-lock and traction control. LOL
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was an adventure. Stupid, but an adventure.
    A friend had called to warn me about the tornadoes and tell me where there was a shelter. Meanwhile, Gary England got excited, and predicted a tornado to touch down pretty much on top of me in about 13 minutes. While I dithered, my friend told me to come to his house on the SW side of town, as there were not supposed to be tornadoes there.
    So I took off, and the tornadoes turned. One of them took a course about 1500 yards south of the Walmart where I work.
    At one point my minivan began sliding and starting to tip, the tornado was so close.
    I finally reached my friend's house... just as the tornado sirens started going off in his neighborhood.

    I got back home about 4 am... I didn't even have a *power outage*.

    But, since about 2003 or so, when one passed over my house, I've had an irrational fear of the things.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I know a lot of good people in Detroit. Unfortunately they must live with the mistakes of their neighbors. Some progress is being made though; today a federal judge has cleared the way for the bankruptcy proceedings... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/... We shall see what happens. There are so many that believe in the free lunch, there is bound to be more obstruction.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    :-( ugh! Hail and tornadoes... One of my sisters is in KS. They get the same stuff. I'll take my chances with snow and nor'easters, lol
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  • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's weird; I've had good luck with hail. There is a lot of it; it goes hand in hand with tornadoes.

    But even the hour or so I spent being chased across town by the May 30th tornadoes didn't put one dent in my minivan... and there was plenty of hail and hail damage to other vehicles.
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