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Replying to: richard64 (Jun 09, 2008 4:33 pm) |
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Replying to: richard64 (Jun 09, 2008 2:27 pm) |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 09, 2008 2:48 pm) I absolutely agree. Then there's the fact that the desert or other southern areas with hellish summer weather routinely get to deal with it when the days are longest. Up north, the bad weather is accompanied by short days. In the summer, while there are rainy and/or humid days, many are very pleasant. . .and long. You'll not be surprised to hear that the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce doesn't ask me for comments. |
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I went outside and was actually cold this evening. A cool front went through to the north and it's down to 75. It's been 90s here today and was in 90s down in JoelCountry for an extended weekend.  We drove a car to get there and back. Was Lamar Alexander the Secretary of Education Bush brought from Texas. That one had done a wonderful job increasing the dropout rate in the county schools so GW brought him to Washington.  Trouble was the computer system for the county schools was having the data altered to make it LOOK like more were graduating.  Don't you love how these types manage their resumes! 
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100F heat or -20F with a foot of snow any day... but not hail and/or a tornado 
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Replying to: sky23213 (Jun 09, 2008 9:09 pm) When I read this I said to myself this guy knows something about Minnesota. So I checked on you and I was right. You are now officially excused from making crazy comments here. There is something wrong with a place that has 120 even 140 degree temperature swings. Its just gotta affect ya. jmonroe |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Jun 09, 2008 5:48 pm) That’s true. When I lived in S. C. one time when it started to snow (never got more than a ½ an inch that day), while Mrs. jmonroe was in the grocery store she couldn’t imagine why the store had become so crowded so fast. When she commented to one of the other shoppers about the crowd the woman said, “how long have you been in here, didn’t you see it’s starting to SNOW”?  They were making their last run for essential food items. When watching the 11 PM news from Augusta that night, I noticed that there wasn’t a telephone pole in that city that didn’t have a pickup truck helping to hold it upright.  jmonroe
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Replying to: jmonroe (Jun 10, 2008 4:48 am) With all the accidents that had to be good for the car sales business and the auto repair shops! Even whitewater rafting wasn't popular then.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 10, 2008 5:06 am) You brought up a very good point about the sheet metal repair shops. I worked with a guy in S. C. who was born and raised there. He said his brother-in-law had a collision shop and even though it didn’t snow there often (Only once in the five years I was there. That BIG ½ inch one I just posted about) his shop had more work than they could handle on the few occasions when it did snow. To the point that they took only the cars that weren’t driveable first, then the fender bender types and it took quite a while to get to them. All the shops down there operated like this but the customers screamed just the same.  jmonroe |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Jun 09, 2008 5:48 pm) That is correct. We don't have the equipment to fight the snow. There is a joke in the South that when it begins to snow, you go to the grocery store and buy bread, milk, and eggs. Also, you stop by the package store and pick up liquid refreshment. Richard
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