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Evil Stang
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: Snow storm pics |
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Got up Friday as usual, was playing Tiger woods 2007 on PS2, just got it the day before. We had just laughed at the weather man the night before because they said some minor snow in the valley areas (south of Buffalo,t he traditional "Snow Belt" areas. Next thing i know there's and inch, then 3 than 12, than 18" WTF branches hanging low, lots of sloppy wetness everywhere. Had the radio on and they were talking about the road and all the accidents. Meh, it's Buffalo no big deal. PM i had dinner made and we say down and started to watch the Simpson's and have dinner, 50 power went out for about 30 seconds. 510 went out for about 30 seconds. 520 power went out till Wednesday afternoon!!! This posed several problems, wet sow = water in about 5 hours, so the sump hole backed up. Fridge kept everything cold and or frozen for about 36 hours (brand new fridge). Furnace may be gas but need electric to run. So back to Thursday night. Melissa had to work so she got ready and off she went. I was bored sitting in the dark so i picked up my son, who never lost power and we went out int he slop (4wd rules!!!) and got the stuff for his Halloween costume (Undertaker from WWE). I got home and the Temp inside was down to 61 degrees. About 10 pm i was bored and pulled out the sleeper sofa cuz it was about 10 degrees colder upstairs, got my comforter and slept with the nice warm dogs underneath the comforter. I woke up sweating at one point. Get a call about AM, Melissa re-mined me to check the basement. Sure enough there was some water on the floor. Couldn't' do anything about it in the dark so i went back to sleep about 8 am i get a Call from Melissa, 90% of the day staff called in and she had to stay at work, she ended up leaving about 1130 am (been there since 7 pm the previous night) took her about 45 minutes to make the normal 20 minute ride home. Problem was, the weight of the wet snow caused thousands and thousands of trees to come down. IT looked like some tree hating warlord came through and attacked all the trees. So about 930 i hit the roads, no working traffic lights, people being stupid and not treating it like a 4 way stop as they should. Went to Lowe's (Like home depot but better, don't think they are in Canada yet) to see if the had a generator, they sold out with in half an hour of opening. I was walking out with just a shovel (didn't have one) and caught a kerosene heater for $125, bought that and off i went to find kerosene. None to be found in Tonawanda, Amherst or Buffalo. Ended going up to Niagara Falls, USA to get some at home depot. Got the living room up to 67 degrees from 53 degrees in about 1.5 hours, i highly recommend having one on hand for just such emergencies, but please read the manual and be careful. All the snow was gone by Friday evening as the temps were in the low 50's there after and i thing up to the 60's by sunday. My cell phone lost power about 5pm Friday so i had to use Melissa's and hope to charge mine in the car overnight, well my car charger didn't' work. get a cal on Mellisa's phone from my sister, she was at work and they were on generator (she is the News director at WBEN radio) went there and charged my phone and made some call to find a generator, found a couple in Ohio and departed making the 3 hour drive to Cleveland. On the way home they said expect power to be out for about a week. went home and threw Melissa and the dogs into the truck and took them to her sisters in Angola where they never lost power. Her step father in law and i went down to stow Ohio where i had arranged for them to hold the last 2 5700 watt generators they had (Troy Built, last forever type stuff, and of course American made). Ben, father in law also bought a chain saw to clean up the yards. so $1700 later we had 2 generators (i had a 10% off coupon ) a Poulan Chainsaw, some cords and off were were to make the 3 hours drive home. Got it all set up by 1045 pm and the basement was pumped out, we had the fridge on and a tv, but no cable, so Sunday was spent looking for an antenna (again, Niagara Falls USA cam e into play). and thats how life was pretty much up until today!
The Sabres game went on as planed because th arena never lost power, like most of the City of Buffalo, the burbs were hit the hardest. The areanawas full cuz they had heat Adan cold beer!!!
My back yard, down the street, some the next day and some from Sunday
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yellowstang
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
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Location: Baton,Rouge,La.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| nice pics evil . you have snow storms ,we get hurricanes. i like snow , im going to the 4 corners in thanksgiving, i cant take the cobra cause i wrecked it . need frame /floorboad pulled . we going to the grandcanyon, going to red rock , metor crator, mesa verda,and more . going in the m/b i guess.should be cool and snowy? |
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67Customs
Joined: 13 May 2005
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Location: North Cackalacky
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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yellowstang wrote: i cant take the cobra cause i wrecked it . need frame /floorboad pulled. The '03 Cobra or the '07 Cobra???
Dang Dan, you did get a lot of snow. I kept hearing that it was going to be a bad winter and that it would hit quicker than usual and I didn't believe it till we got snow flurries yesterday. I so hate winter. :( |
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Evil Stang
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| You wrecked the Cobra, dumbass. |
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yellowstang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| the 03 i wrecked i couldnt handle the power :lol: no really the gas pedal stuck. they didnt send my a recall notice.it never stuck b4 ? only takes 1 time , the 07 i still got havent drove it much its got 3200 miles onit. prob going to sel it . i hate verts now there flimsy. plus i never put the top down , hell i dont drive them much anyway. |
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Evil Stang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll tade you mo 03 and Ranger for eht 07 :lol: |
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67Customs
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Wheew. I thought you wrecked the '07 Cobra. :?
It's not all that much better that you wrecked the '03, but it is better.lol |
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yellowstang
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| i didnt mean to be a dumbass cobra wrecker :roll: iam going to be a goodass cobra fixer now. :lol: |
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Evil Stang
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I like your new signature :? |
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67Customs
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| :lol: |
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yellowstang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Evil Stang wrote: I like your new signature :? haha i wonder who did that ? :lol: bring to body shop tommorrow. if weather permits.ill be gone for 2 weeks coming up at thanksgiving. |
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wildthing
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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Location: greencastle ,pa
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| nice pictures , luckly we still haven't gotten any snow here yet. just a dusting. mostly we are haveing near record temps. |
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Joe4speed
Joined: 21 Nov 2004
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Location: Jupiter, FL
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow! I just saw the pics! Pretty unreal! Reminds me of hurricane season! |
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