Glad you’re all right from this year’s big storm. What amazes me tough is how we buy into catastrophe after catastrophe mentality that the 24 / 365 new cycle spoon-feeds us. For gods sake it’s only a couple of feet of snow. We have seen it before and we will see it again. This idea that just because it didn’t happen within the last few years it’s historic is so idiotic. For gods sake our ancestors lived in waddle huts and managed to live through a snowstorm why can’t you in a nice brick house with all our modern conveniences? If you take the time to prepare a little instead of thinking that you can’t possibly cope than it’s a day or two off not the next life and death moment.

40 Rod

Was listening to the radio while on a road trip. Attention, breaking story! A huge blizzard is forecast for the next few days. Seventy five million people in it's path. 

Had me going there for a second. Couple weeks ago Biggi and I were laughing at another breaking news story about Chicago expecting three inches of snow. 

Oh the humanity of it all! Then we went out and shoveled snow/schnee. Have to shovel snow again today. 

      Joe.

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Panda loves snow!!

Grisen

feuerbixler wrote on Jan 24^th, 2016 at 2:23pm:


Give a girl a broom and a camera..................

Well it looks as if it is going to start hitting us here in Britain within 24 hours. It's unlikely to be snow but very heave rain, just when a large part of the countryside is still draining down after the floods less than a month ago. 

Just what we need, 100 mph gales driving high tides one way when vast amounts of water is trying to drain into the sea. There isn't anywhere in Britain more than 56 miles from the sea. 

I'd also better lay in some food for a few days as I may live high and dry but I need to cross low bridges to get the shops some miles away, and I've learned from experience they get shut down first. 

Good luck to everyone,

Harry

I'm near Newark airport, we got 25" of the white stuff. With temps at/near 40 this week, this mess will soon be a distant memory. but, we still have February and March can be a very tough month as well.

EricJ,

At least about 20 years ago in Maryland, adjacent to  DC, on homeowner's land immediately adjacent to Rock Creek Park, there was a program allowing designated, approved "hunters" to kill deer with crossbows on homeowner's land with permission of homeowner. For a while that was very popular program ------ but, last I knew the program was dying out. Those designated, approved "hunters" got tired of shooting so many "tame" deer. Neither Homeowner or "Hunter" got to eat deer.

There was a big fuss initially about those "hunters". Then homeowners tired of system cause "hunters" would come (on request of landowner), cock and load crossbow, walk into back yard and kill one deer and leave, taking dead deer. Then following summer does would have two more -- NOT a long term winning process for homeowners.

Also, "hunter" selection was supposedly very picky. "Hunter" had to be a real, life Willian Tells and kill deer instantly, on spot with one bolt. No deer allowed to stagger into neighbors' yard, getting it all bloody while dying.

Should you look on map of DC metropolitain area, you will see that Rock Creek Park is a large forested area along creeks. Deer used RCP as sleeping places and ate their meals in homeowners back yards. Slowly, homeowners planted more and more plants that deer did not like. 

Then I moved away and lost touch with folks there.

Grisen

FYI -- Last I new, in DC, it was highly illegal to defend your backyard vegetation from deer by shooting and eating them.