Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [was: Happy Holidays]

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Steve Wiltsie done said:
> 
> At least you weren't in some of the hundreds of cars and trucks that got
> stranded on the interstates and secondary roads in Indiana and northern
> Kentucky.  It took up to 24 hours to get all of the people out of their
> vehicles and into a shelter.

I never do the holiday travel thing.  Seems nuts to get caught up in the
crowds and snarls and such even in -good- weather.

> > I can handle it if we could just get the #@)%*! car out of the parking
> > lot--we're only 40 feet from the plowed throughfare!  Talk about
> > frustrating...  Driving isn't a problem.  Getting the car to move -is-.
> > Totally unprepared, as I thought it would be like 4", not 8-12+.
> 
> Let's see, complaining about 8 to 12" and not concerned about those of us
> who got 2.5 feet.  Sounds right to me.  Or maybe just ridiculous.  (That's
> "ridiculous" with a capital "Jerk").

*snerkle* :) Hey, I'm not actually complaining that we -got- it.  2.5
feet...I've seen worse in my lifetime, back up north.  I'm just annoyed
that the meteorologists (read: inaccurate witch doctors--even The Weather
Channel's site originally said this would all happen close to 24hrs later
than it did, as late as last Sunday) didn't even come close on predicting
the right volume.  If I'd have known it'd be that bad, I'd have prepared
for it ahead of time.  It was supposed to be "a couple inches"...about
four, really.

Actually,, it could have been 0.25".  What really killed us was the ice
underneath it, as it started out as rain, then sleet, then finally an ice
storm both before and after the actual storm.  It was blowing from one
direction and I remember walking into the living room and asking Kelly what
was making this weird crackling sound--were our computers okay?  It was ice
hitting the windows out there.  Doh.  If it hadn't been for the ice, the
snow probably wouldn't have even been a factor here.

mark->
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