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Friends in Snow Places

JennySuzuki

JennySuzuki

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Dec 18, 2013
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#1
It's snowing here. It doesn't usually snow more than a couple of centimeters, about once a year, and it's generally gone the next day. Tonight's forcast is calling for 6-10 cm of accumulation.

It's amusing listening to my coworkers. You'd think they were afraid of their tauntauns dying before they reached the first marker! Meanwhile, I have candles, and quilts, and a pile of cheap, second-hand sci-fi novels ready to hand. I have a camping stove and tins of food... and I expect to use none of it except the pile of novels.

What do you do when you're expecting snow? Are you a "milk and bread" compulsive?
 
#4
JennySuzuki.....where are you located?

When we lived in New Hampshire, I would get the snow shovels ready, bring in a few extra loads of wood for the fireplace, and make sure safety supplies where in the vehicles we would be driving the next day. We usually had plenty of food in the house, so there wasn't much of a need to rush to the grocery store.

Here in Washington State, I don't do any of that. When it snows here, it's mostly gone within 24 hours usually. If it were to last longer, I'd do the same as above minus the wood part since we have a gas fireplace insert.

-Mike
 
#5
The roads iced over yesterday afternoon so I went and bought more beer. Today, the sun is shining and the ice is gone.

I have to admit, though, it was pretty alarming to go from having perfectly clear roads to having iced over roads within ten minutes! It happened while I was driving to a job only a mile away from my shop. All was fine when I left, but I pretty much slid into the driveway of the house I was doing the repair at. A mixture of sleet and snow basically got dumped on Shreveport all at once.

I bought beer and went straight home after that. I already had food there.
 
#6
MJ5150 said:
JennySuzuki.....where are you located?
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The South.

I live in a state with a constitutional ban on same-gender marriage. Why? Because my girlfriend likes her home town. But you can understand why I'm a little leary of tying my openly lesbian online identity to my closeted real world identity, so we won't narrow it down further than that, okie? Okie.
 
#8
No problem JennySuzuki. I wasn't looking for coordinates, so your answer is sufficient.

Folks in the South are generally unprepared since it happens so seldom, so I understand the concern. You may want to pick up some ice melt (for the porch/walkway/driveway) from your local hardware store and an emergency kit to put in your vehicles, then an extra blanket or two before you head out.

If you had some food items handy that did not require refrigeration or heat to prepare, that may help if you lose power.

-Mike
 
#14
In '93 we had more snow and ice than we knew what to do with in middle-TN. They LITERALLY closed Kentucky. My mom was down for the holidays, and a two day visit turned into eight because she couldn't get home (which pleased my now-Ex to no end :rollno: ). Seven of those days we were without power--a neighbor loaned us a kerosene heater, I ran the gas grill in the carport, and we ate through the freezer stock.
These days--over East, now--a fully stocked liquor cabinet does a halfway decent job of chasing away the cold, but we do have emergency plans for the animals before warming ourselves. :)
And acoustic instruments. :bassist:
No rushing out for milk or AW here.
 
#17
I think it was about '93 that we had the big snow storm that shut down my little college town for several days. I lived in the Student Ghetto, and we happened to have a grocery store in walking distance. I remember my roommates and I walking down to it, making jokes about goose-stepping masses chanting "Milk and Bread! Milk and Bread!"

And when we got there, sure enough, the bread isle was picked clean. I'm guessing there were a lot of sandwiches eaten that week! (One of the two best weeks of my life, actually).
 
#19
When I was young and there was a good chance of a snowstorm, I remember we would always fill the bathtub with water in case the power went out. Otherwise we could not flush the toilet. (Nasty!) A requirement for those who used an electric pump to transport the waste water outside.

In addition to our furnace, my father had also installed a wood stove. When we lost power, we still had a source for heat. Also, my mother would make a real awesome soup/stew using the top of the wood stove as a heat source.

If you have a propane or gas stove, you can still use your burners in a power outage.
 

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