Looks like 2014 is coming in strong!!

[macojoe]

We are in the 12 to 18 inch range, as is a few here, cb, rkc, monkey and a few others hold on to your hats!! My son coming tomorrow to help me get some desil in the tank for the sub 0 weather coming also!!http://www.wcvb.com/image/view/-/23728356/highRes/1/-/h/252/maxh/92/maxw/138/w/378/-/30nox0z/-/1-1-510-pm-web-snowfall.jpg

[Destroyer]

The're saying near blizzard or blizzard conditions for this one. Where I am in NJ we're expecting 4-8, but with just a tiny shift in the track we could be looking at over a foot. Batten down the hatches me' hardies...we be lookin at a fierce blow.... Arrrrrr.

[Road King Cole]

I heard its going to be the biggest storm of the year so far.

maybe I won't have to go to work tomorrow...

rkc

[bradford]

Imagine how cold it would have been if we didn't have global warming! :sun:

[Redneck]

you boyz must get that heavy wet snow on the coast hear that's some ugly S#!t to deal with. not to cold up here but the snow just keeps coming this year we got another 20cm on New Years eav. The snow in side that trampoline must be 4-5Ft deep kind of tired of moving it thinking of moving me.:bat:



http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee482/havoc76/DSCN0350_zps125378f1.jpg

[macojoe]

We have about 3"so far, they say tonight we are geting the blizzard with winds to 40 mph+. Say we will have below 0* wind chill so it is at least be a light snow. I am not feeling well at all as I could not get my shot till this afternoon. so I will be using the 4x4 to get out the drive and skip the shovel LOL!

[Stinky_Hooker]

Gonna be in the 20's here next week. I wish we had some snow though!! Im in shorts today!! LOL

[Pipe_Dream]

Gol dang global warming!

[Destroyer]

Gol dang global warming!

It's all that there Methane being released by all them thar cow farts... Dangit

[macojoe]

Stinky I have all the snow you want!! 14+ with 3 foot drifts!

[charlie_the_tuna]

went out this morning and shoveled around 8-10 inches. nice and lite because it's so cold. 10* in the sun. not much of a snow so I didn't bother taking photos. when it starts getting 2 feet or more , that's a blizzard.

[smokeonthewater]

Guess I won't get any sympathy here......

5354

[Destroyer]

Guess I won't get any sympathy here......

5354

LOL Smoke... that's barely a "dusting". v1

[Destroyer]

went out this morning and shoveled around 8-10 inches. nice and lite because it's so cold. 10* in the sun. not much of a snow so I didn't bother taking photos. when it starts getting 2 feet or more , that's a blizzard.

X2 on this was NOT a blizzard. We got 6"- 8", depending on the wind. My 2 snowblowers ate thru it like it was a snack. Only took about 2 hours to do the driveway and all 3 cars..

[ssiredfish]

I dont know how you guys deal with that every year.....

How does it not just suck every day for 2-3 months???

[bradford]

I dont know how you guys deal with that every year.....

How does it not just suck every day for 2-3 months???


And why is it that no one cool moves down here from up there?

[Destroyer]

And why is it that no one cool moves down here from up there?

Well, we used to live in St. Mary's, Georgia, so it's not like we don't know how life is in the deep south, but....

A serious question so it gets a serious answer.....

A variety of things Brad... Location, finances, jobs, age, schools, demographics, weather, are but a few of the reasons.

For instance, I'd like to move to the southern part of NC or the northern part of SC. Have wanted to for over a decade. But my wife works for the state, and she still has 6+ years to go before she can retire with a full pension. If we were to leave now, we'd lose her pension and all her health benefits. With the new Obama health care taxes, :cen: it would be impossible for us to loose those benefits and survive. It sucks, but there it is. So we're stuck here.

Plus I think we're getting to the point in our lives where it's too late to learn an entirely new language. Y'all speak kinda funny ....:booty:

[charlie_the_tuna]

it's a vicious cycle. if I made this money down there i'd live like a king. making this money up here and I can barely keep my head above water. I just cant make this kind of money down there so when I retire in about 10-12 years i'll do the snowbird thing and then you'll have your cool person from up here.

[ssiredfish]

And why is it that no one cool moves down here from up there?

There are a few but it is a select few. Always welcome new folks to the area provided they can leave a few things back home. Their driving, attitude and comparisons to the north. We aint got time for that.....haha

The finance thing I hear alot. Seems to be the common factor. A friend of my wife with the same degree is makin 5x as much as she does livin in NYC. My wife was all down and out until her friend was discussing finances with her. 70K for an apartment, 15K for parking, 400-500 a week on meals?!?!?!?! I told my wife her friends makin it, she just aint keepin it.
Id rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable(and snowed in) any day, lol......

[Pipe_Dream]

It's all relative. Many of my wife's relations live in NE Ohio. They can't believe how expensive groceries are here, or how much a take-out pizza is here compared to "back home." Of course, the wages in NE Ohio aren't anything to write home about, either. If we sold out and moved there we could buy a heck of a place. Not that we're about to.

By the way, I took the ol' Pipe Dream out on a maintenance run Saturday. It was breezy and in the upper 50s. Yesterday was mid 60s. Of course it's getting a little chilly the next two nights.

[Destroyer]

There are a few but it is a select few. Always welcome new folks to the area provided they can leave a few things back home. Their driving, attitude and comparisons to the north. We aint got time for that.....haha

The finance thing I hear alot. Seems to be the common factor. A friend of my wife with the same degree is makin 5x as much as she does livin in NYC. My wife was all down and out until her friend was discussing finances with her. 70K for an apartment, 15K for parking, 400-500 a week on meals?!?!?!?! I told my wife her friends makin it, she just aint keepin it.
Id rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable(and snowed in) any day, lol......

Last year I bought a very nice 3 bedroom ranch home, full finished basement, half acre of land, dry, non-flood zone in one of the better areas of NJ. Price was about $350K. Taxes are 8.5K a year. I could take that same money and go South and get almost double the size of the house and land, with taxes less than 1K a year.. But I could never make the kind of money I was making here down there. So we'll wait till my wife retires, and then we'll probably move a little further south.

[smokeonthewater]

WOW I always figured a lot of you guys were rolling in the dough just based on the price of the "cheap" boats ya find and post up.... Most of my friends think I'm "rich" tho they never account for all the time I spend laid off (and admittedly not always in a huge hurry to get back to work if it's summer) but even so I'll never even consider spending 350,000 on a house......150k maybe but that would include a BIG pole barn to store my toys.

[garagenc]

Last year I bought a very nice 3 bedroom ranch home, full finished basement, half acre of land, dry, non-flood zone in one of the better areas of NJ. Price was about $350K. Taxes are 8.5K a year. I could take that same money and go South and get almost double the size of the house and land, with taxes less than 1K a year.. But I could never make the kind of money I was making here down there. So we'll wait till my wife retires, and then we'll probably move a little further south.

Not anymore Destroyer.

The taxes are less but houses have gone up

[Destroyer]

Not anymore Destroyer.

The taxes are less but houses have gone up

Ya, I know Garage... Last time I really looked at the home prices in NC I was shocked. 250 - 350k seemed to be the norm. But the further south you go, and the further west you go, the less pricey they are. The trick is going to be finding my price in the area I want. I don't have a lot of hope, but I have a willingness to buy a fixer-upper as long as the land is there and the house is in reasonably good condition. Time will tell. Meanwhile, I shovel snow and get some exercise, so it's not all that bad.

[spareparts]

Ya, I know Garage... Last time I really looked at the home prices in NC I was shocked. 250 - 350k seemed to be the norm. But the further south you go, and the further west you go, the less pricey they are. The trick is going to be finding my price in the area I want. I don't have a lot of hope, but I have a willingness to buy a fixer-upper as long as the land is there and the house is in reasonably good condition. Time will tell. Meanwhile, I shovel snow and get some exercise, so it's not all that bad.

NC was invaded by Yankees paying way too much money for houses long ago, ever since Money magazine listed The Raleigh/Durham/ Chapel Hill area as the top place to live(sometime around 92?), the inflated prices went thru the roof. Half of Ohio is doing the same thing around here. After personally visited Ohio, I can understand their want to leave, if you come down here, haggle with the prices a bit, don't pay thru the nose like most of them do, keep the South affordable if you can

[charlie_the_tuna]

wanna hear something sick? my property is 40x100 and my taxes are over 11 grand. cant wait to sell this house and get the hell out.

[ssiredfish]

wanna hear something sick? my property is 40x100 and my taxes are over 11 grand. cant wait to sell this house and get the hell out.

Um not to mention walkin around with small weiners 2-3mths outta the year. And dont try to tell me yall are sportin more than a stack of nickels this time of year:you:

[GREYWOLF]

Lucky Jack - .......The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seaboat: weatherly, stiff and fast, very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime.


I love that movie MASTER AND COMANDER must have watched it 20 times

[Destroyer]

NC was invaded by Yankees paying way too much
money for houses long ago, ever since Money magazine listed The Raleigh/Durham/ Chapel Hill area as the top place to live(sometime around 92?),
the inflated prices went thru the roof. Half of Ohio is doing the same thing
around here. After personally visited Ohio, I can understand their want to leave,
if you come down here, haggle with the prices a bit, don't pay thru the nose like
most of them do, keep the South affordable if you can

WTF is going on? I typed out a fairly long reply to this, posted it, looked at it to make sure it was ok, went to a different post and when I came back the damn thing had disappeared!!!! This is the third post I've had a post do that in the last 2 weeks!!!

Spare, you hit the nail right on the head. The reasons are long and I'm not going to retype them again, but suffice it to say that even though home prices are starting to pull back a little, I don't think we'll ever see the prices of the 70's - 80's era again....even adjusted for inflation. And if I come down there you can bet that I'll haggle for every cent I can save. I worked hard for my money, and I'm not gonna just throw it away. Every penny saved is a penny more in the gas tank of the boat.

[garagenc]

Destroyer
Let me know when you want to move down here, I'll sell you my place. Nice house, 2 acres, pier and boat lift.
I want to buy a trawler and set sail.

The wife is a real estate agent and can help you.

[ssiredfish]

Lucky Jack - .......The Surprise is not old; no one would call her old. She has a bluff bow, lovely lines. She's a fine seaboat: weatherly, stiff and fast, very fast, if she's well handled. No, she's not old; she's in her prime.


I love that movie MASTER AND COMANDER must have watched it 20 times

Yea thats my favorite line from that movie.......man and his boat, its a beautiful thing....