Posted by Mitch on January 5, 2002, at 0:03:11
In reply to Snow, Rain, and more rain, posted by IsoM on January 4, 2002, at 14:21:01
> Mind you, when it does snow, it exerts this strange pyschic force to draw everyone from their houses into their cars. Then, all lemming-like, they attempt to drive up & down the hills we have in town. But powerful magnets, cleverly hidden in the snow-covered ditches, yank their cars into these ditches. Some magnets are even powerful enough to flip the cars onto their roofs. Other psychic forces convince ordinary drivers to think they can drive twice as fast as they normally would, sliding through stop signs & red lights to careene into other cars heading for ditches. It's a great comic epic everytime it does snow here!
>Do you get any "blizzards" along the coast up there? Big blizzards are trippy. I remember the big blizzard of '77 that hit the eastern 2/3 of the U.S. and parts of Canada. It took almost a week before a bulldozer came down our rural road to clear it-good thing we had a wood stove. I dug my car out right away and remember running out of gas on the way back in from town one night in the middle of nowhere (record cold of -25 F). It was a beautiful, moonlit, perfectly quiet nite during the the two mile walk to the house. Good thing there was no wind at all-I might not be here now.
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