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[Hank70SS]

Originally Posted by Ken Hayes

This was taken at 9:30 this morning off the front poarch. It was -9* wind chill at -29*

Hey John, ya want some of this crap......I can send ya a couple of truck loads.....remember....I got your address........LOL.

Ha! You don't even have any snow there, come on out here if you want to see snow. I went to the bank, drugstore, supermarket, meat market and Costco today. The parking lots are getting real small with all the snow piles. Costco had 15' piles along the end of their lot.

[flash]

Ken ,we have enough here now ,PLEASE DONT send more .They released us from work at 11:00 this morning and it was too late ,the roads were already impassable .I left my truck 1 mile from work and walked the other 6 miles home .It has not stopped snowing since it started and the GDOT did not even get started up here til way too late as they thought it was going below us .I finally got home at 2:30 PM and built a fire ,my wife is still not home yet ,my brother in law picked her up but the roads are so bad they cant get home. The school system has routed all homebound buses to the nearest school as most roads are not passable and the kids will have to spend the night at school.This one caught everyone off guard ,did I mention I HATE SNOW AND ITS 17 DEGREES OUT THERE .

[Hank70SS]

[QUOTE=flash;50886...This one caught everyone off guard ,did I mention I HATE SNOW AND ITS 17 DEGREES OUT THERE .[/QUOTE]

What? It was all over the news last night that you guys were going to get nailed.

[BillsCamino]

Just have to make it until Saturday & Sunday...forecast is a high of 65.

[Ken Hayes]

John, your just north of Atlanta arent ya? Just watchin the weather channel on TV sayin you guys got about 1 1/2" on the ground and could get 3"-5" before its done.

Thanksgiving day in 1969 I was stationed in the Army in Lockport, NY. (between Niagra Falls and Buffalo) It was my turn to be switchboard operator and duty driver. We got 32" of snow in 24 hrs. I got a call to go pick up some guys from the airport near Buffalo...so I put the chains on the van and went out to get the guys......it was an exciting ride to say the least but I got it done. The next day I had to drive a duce and a half with a custom made 12' blade on it to plow the roads around all the officers quarters. I ended up doing a shift from 6:00am Thanksgiving day untill 10:30pm the following night.

[BillsCamino]

Never knew of an Army base in Lockport...I grew up in that region.

[Ms Grumpy]

I agree Hank. I like driving past the parking lots that have the front loaders clearing snow. Then they lift them up onto a pile that is huge !

I can't wait until later this week, hopefully our temps will get out of the negatives and into double digits......above zero. lol

Went out to start my van in -21 degree temps at 6:30am this morning. She was not happy and turned over a little slow. Got home at 5:50pm and the temperature was 6 degrees.....heat wave.....

[Ken Hayes]

Bill, I was right off of Upper Mountain Road near Sanborn. In the middle of a corn field under ground.....Nike / Herc missle site.

[BillsCamino]

Originally Posted by Ken Hayes

Bill, I was right off of Upper Mountain Road near Sanborn. In the middle of a corn field under ground.....Nike / Herc missle site.

I know exactly where that is. Just outside of the Indian Reservation between Lewiston and Cambria.
Lockport is actually due east. My paternal grand parents lived there for years and are both buried in Lockport.
My sister lives right around the corner in Bergholtz. One of my brothers lives in the Town of Lockport as does his construction company.
Spent many Sundays at the Niagara Dragstrip...behind the old Niagara Falls AFB/Bell helicopter complex.
T-giving '69...I was a senior in HS.
Cool!!

[flash]

The big problem here with snow is nobody knows how to drive in it ,if youre going keep moving keeping a safe distance between you and whats ahead of you. But here everyone wants to be on each others bumper and when one stops everyone stops and when facing uphill nobody can go .Hwy 140 was a very long parking lot with nobody moving ,we pushed people up the hill until we wore out .I finally was able to turn my truck around and get it to a side road and left it ,walking the rest of the way home .Hopefully some of this thaws out with help from the GDOT spreading salt and gravel and I can get my truck tomorrow .