[Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Touch?, Craig - What I - of course - didn't mention in my 'critique' of
the effect of snow on D.C., is that nothing can touch the hysteria level
of the electronic media here when there's even a hint of snow -
"StormForce 7 will keep you up to the minute on the track of the storm
with our exclusive Doppler radar! Don't leave your set! The end is nigh!
It's going to SNOW!"

And then there are the hoards who head for the supermarket at the first
suggestion of snow, to pile the grocery cart full of milk, bread, and
Twinkies. Can they honestly believe that snow's going to collapse the
entire infrastructure and they're going to starve to death?!

Meanwhile - IT'S F&$*%ING SNOWING AGAIN!!! They're calling for another 9
inches in Boston - there's nowhere to put the damn stuff...

Oh...on a more meaningful note - my wife, who was just checking CNN
before heading for work, calls upstairs to inform me that there are 31
U.S. Marines dead in Iraq.


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Craig Zeni
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:11 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!?


Well let's put it this way, B.D...I used to work for a company here in 
NC that relocated here from Waltham, Mass.  The first time we had a 
couple of inches of snow, all the Boston transplants gave us locals a 
bunch of grief about being wusses and staying off the roads...nevermind 
the fact that of the 24 that relocated here fully 1/3 of these 'expert 
snow drivers' found themselves in the ditch when they slid off the 
road.  They thought they could drive in snow...they found out that they 
could drive on PLOWED roads, not snow covered rural roads.  Next time 
it snowed, they stayed home :)

Besides, without us, where would CNN get all the images of fools 
sliding around on ice-covered bridges and roads?



On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:40 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Hey, no one's laughing at the 55 degrees - especially in light of the 
> predicted 4-6 more inches of snow, lot's of wind, and temperatures 
> that will make New England look like old Alaska. But that doesn't 
> negate the fact that yawl are a bunch of wusses when it comes to snow.
>
> Remember, it's not snow until it's deep enough to plow. ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Craig Zeni
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:14 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!?
>
>
> Y'all just laff it up about us in snow...and remember it's gonna be 55

> degF here in NC tomorrow when you're still trying to find your car in 
> that snow bank that's the size of Lichtenstein...
>
> :)
>
> CZ
> NC
>
> On Jan 24, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>
>> I'll never forget my February drive from Boston to Florida in a wild 
>> snow storm (read that as heavy flurries, fellow New Englanders) and 
>> seeing dozens of North Carolinian's stuck in three-inch snowbanks at 
>> the side of the Interstate.  The only cars moving had NY, Conn., and 
>> MA license plates.
>>
>>
>>> Hey, man, it's the best we can do 'round these parts.
>>>
>>> You may be amused to know that what you saw in those photos resulted

>>> in hundreds of fender-benders and traffic nightmares including a 
>>> six-hour drive home for my lab tech (normally a 20-30 minute drive),

>>> most of which was stuck in traffic on an interstate.  I think the 
>>> final tally was as much as 2inches (5cm) of snow in the worst hit 
>>> areas.
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>>> I'm sorry Aaron, but you call that SNOW!?!?
>>>>
>>>>         Buzz
>>>
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>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>> Boston MA
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