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12-11-2009, 01:33 PM
As some of you know, one of our administrators at Talk of The Villages, Tony, does not live in The Villages. He and his wife visit as often as possible.
They live in Erie, Pennsylvania and today, sent me this picture of how he is passing the time this December 11th.
He says that is him operating the snow blower and that his wife Bernie took the picture. You'll notice that conveniently the face is not discernible, so I'm guessing he is actually taking the picture.
JLK
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/talkofthevillages/Snowblowing.jpg
Russ_Boston
12-11-2009, 01:47 PM
I feel your pain Tony!
That was nothing like the pain in the right hand from the cold wind. Now I am in front of a nice, glowing fire. With a little something to warm me on the table beside me. There are some things nice about winter.
Eat your hearts out, Floridians!
Buckeye Guy
12-11-2009, 09:28 PM
Hi Tony,
I was born and raised in Ashtabula Ohio. I also know about Lake Erie snow.
Eleven inches of snow fell today, but the winter hasn't been bad, really.
Russ_Boston
12-11-2009, 10:14 PM
That's because winter starts next week!
uujudy
12-12-2009, 12:03 AM
Eleven inches of snow fell today, but the winter hasn't been bad, really.
Really.
Niels
12-12-2009, 01:14 AM
Eleven inches of snow fell today, but the winter hasn't been bad, really. :1rotfl: ....soooo, what would a bad winter be like?
KathieI
12-12-2009, 01:17 AM
Hi Tony,
I was born and raised in Ashtabula Ohio. I also know about Lake Erie snow.
Seriously Buckeye,,, is there really an Ashtabula?? OMG, I thought it was only in a song..wow!
That's because winter starts next week!
Very funny, Russ... 11 inches in the Fall, makes the winter look promising, LOL.... ??? :1rotfl:
I measure snow for the National Weather Service. Its a long story. A bad
winter, for non-skiers, was the the 2000-2001 winter. We got 273 inches. (I
thought it was less. (How memory makes things better.) The people in the
snow belt around here got more. Almost 23 feet that season for me.
I went skiing.
billethkid
12-12-2009, 09:21 AM
by Christmas it was considered a mild winter.
Who woulda thought that what we grew up in....walked to school in...played in...still went to work in....would be considered National newsworthy?
btk
collie1228
12-12-2009, 09:32 AM
I wish I knew what a "mild winter" was. I live just north of Syracuse, NY, the perrenial winner of the "Golden Snowball Award", given to the major city in NY with the most annual snowfall. We average 121 inches a year (that's over ten feet annually for those of you without a calculator). Syracuse has won the Golden Snowball award nine of the last ten years. So I'm sitting here wishing for a mild winter, knowing that our definition of mild here in Syracuse is probably somewhat different from the rest of you TV'ers. I know, I know, no one makes me live here. But the good news for me is that I have two years to retirement, and TV here we come!
Russ_Boston
12-12-2009, 09:37 AM
Same as me Collie - 750 days and counting.
chuckinca
12-12-2009, 10:36 AM
Imagine how much you would get if it wasn't for global warming!
We had an inch in places around Walnut Creek, CA earlier this week - makes about one inch of snow in the past 10 years.
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another Linda
12-12-2009, 11:30 AM
I wish I knew what a "mild winter" was. I live just north of Syracuse, NY, the perrenial winner of the "Golden Snowball Award", given to the major city in NY with the most annual snowfall. We average 121 inches a year (that's over ten feet annually for those of you without a calculator). Syracuse has won the Golden Snowball award nine of the last ten years. So I'm sitting here wishing for a mild winter, knowing that our definition of mild here in Syracuse is probably somewhat different from the rest of you TV'ers. I know, I know, no one makes me live here. But the good news for me is that I have two years to retirement, and TV here we come!
Ah, another Sybericusan! We are a tough lot, aren't we? But we have had so little snow this year that I fear we will get soft. Of course leaving for a brief visit to TV in a couple of days softens me up too.
Talk Host
12-12-2009, 02:43 PM
Nobody, yet has addressed the issue of, "is that really Tony, or is it his poor beleaguered wife.
Pturner
12-12-2009, 03:16 PM
Hi Tony,
As someone who has never lived north of VA, I've never even seen 23 inches of snow, cumulatively, in my whole life. Sounds very glamorous to me! Although, I can see how it would get (c)old.
BTK: Our weather here in ATL might not make national news, but boy, when we get two flakes, you’d laugh your head off at the local news. It’s all the local newspapers, radio and TV talk about. We used to close schools at the drop of a flake. Now we outdo ourselves—we close schools at the mere prediction of a drop of snow. Businesses close too. And the weirdest thing is, all the grocery stores run out of bread and milk—as if the sun were not going to be out in a day or two (or an hour or two) and melt the snow.
Funny, too, when it snows, you can tell the Northerners in the neighborhood. They shovel their driveway as if there is going to be somewhere they can go! lol
Anyway Tony, enjoy the snow and warm drink when you come in from the cold.
:mornincoffee:
Talk Host has besmirched me. There is a lady here having great joy promulgating that my wife, really, is in that driver seat and that I am behind the camera in the warmth.
Yet another slight by Talk Host.
Pturner
12-12-2009, 05:49 PM
You would deny the lady her great joy?
Ohno. Not me. You're not getting me with that one. Not the ladies here. For sure.
katezbox
12-12-2009, 10:54 PM
Hi Tony,
As someone who has never lived north of VA, I've never even seen 23 inches of snow, cumulatively, in my whole life. Sounds very glamorous to me! Although, I can see how it would get (c)old.
BTK: Our weather here in ATL might not make national news, but boy, when we get two flakes, you’d laugh your head off at the local news. It’s all the local newspapers, radio and TV talk about. We used to close schools at the drop of a flake. Now we outdo ourselves—we close schools at the mere prediction of a drop of snow. Businesses close too. And the weirdest thing is, all the grocery stores run out of bread and milk—as if the sun were not going to be out in a day or two (or an hour or two) and melt the snow.
Funny, too, when it snows, you can tell the Northerners in the neighborhood. They shovel their driveway as if there is going to be somewhere they can go! lol
Anyway Tony, enjoy the snow and warm drink when you come in from the cold.
:mornincoffee:
PTurner - where are you in Hotlanta? My daughter lives just inside the perimeter near Vinings...
We will spend a few days with them and then fly to )shudder) Maine. Tony - I am having nightmares about being anywhere near that much snow. Stay warm!
chelsea24
12-12-2009, 11:48 PM
Tony! Is that you with all that cold air??? And I always thought you were just full of hot air! :girlneener: Don't let Jack Frost nip anything! :wave:
Barefoot
12-13-2009, 05:26 AM
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/talkofthevillages/Snowblowing.jpg
Makes me homesick for a Canadian winter.
On second thought, no, not really. :22yikes:
Hot air. harumph.
Our snowfall here was worse than what my son's family got in Canada.
I would be happy to box up some of this and send it to Barefoot.
Donna
12-13-2009, 12:14 PM
:mornincoffee:<<<Tony..is that really you???............:cold:
Yep, it is, Donna.
Don't believe some of the women and Talk Host who have said that its my wife on the tractor.
Pturner
12-13-2009, 03:11 PM
PTurner - where are you in Hotlanta? My daughter lives just inside the perimeter near Vinings...
We will spend a few days with them and then fly to )shudder) Maine. Tony - I am having nightmares about being anywhere near that much snow. Stay warm!
Hi Kate, we live about 30 miles east of ATL. When will you be here?
Barefoot: Did you wear shoes in the Canadian winters? lol
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