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Stoo · 04 April 2007, 22:02

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Originally Posted by prairie tuber

The Manitoba Advantage...

So you're saying that you'll simply freeze to death and not be rattled to death?

I called Boat-storage Guy... Told him to keep it. We're expecting gale force winds, and up to a foot of snow for the weekend. Fortunately, my favorite indoor sport ("Rumbyfire", which is similar to rugby, except you don't need leather balls... just an iron stomach...) is still in season...

pathalla · 04 April 2007, 22:51

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Originally Posted by Stoo

So you're saying that you'll simply freeze to death and not be rattled to death?

I called Boat-storage Guy... Told him to keep it. We're expecting gale force winds, and up to a foot of snow for the weekend. Fortunately, my favorite indoor sport ("Rumbyfire", which is similar to rugby, except you don't need leather balls... just an iron stomach...) is still in season...

Cursed by the Gods in early April! A foot? That will really suck if it comes this way...

prairie tuber · 05 April 2007, 05:03

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Originally Posted by Stoo

So you're saying that you'll simply freeze to death and not be rattled to death?

I called Boat-storage Guy... Told him to keep it. We're expecting gale force winds, and up to a foot of snow for the weekend. Fortunately, my favorite indoor sport ("Rumbyfire", which is similar to rugby, except you don't need leather balls... just an iron stomach...) is still in season...

Yup preserved for eternity kind of like the wooly mammoth and Dick Clark. What the hell kind of food (ie. solids) are consumed with the rum during a rumbyfire session that requires an iron gut?

pathalla · 06 April 2007, 01:09

Don't have a foot of snow here Stoo... at least not yet. But it is f....in snowing!! AARghhh! I have had enough of sitting inside, as I always say, snow always blows...

Stoo · 06 April 2007, 02:57

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Originally Posted by prairie tuber

What the hell kind of food (ie. solids) are consumed with the rum during a rumbyfire session that requires an iron gut?

Solid Food? I try to limit it to ice... Real food just slows down the pickleing process...

When I was away a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a bottle of 21 year old rum from Nicaraugua... I'm sipping it on the rocks as I type this... It's so smooooth.....

pathalla · 07 April 2007, 15:39

I sometimes wonder what the hell my ancestors were thinking when they settled in this area... I love the Great Lakes but the off season weather is extremely trying. I have never been a fan of Winter weather or snow. Especially snow, just don't like it. So when Stoo mentioned a foot of snow was forecast for his area, which is not that far away, a feeling of dread swept over me... Ah that won't happen here I said to myself, maybe a sprinkling? I really don't like snow on the walks or drive, if it comes down, clear it off..NOW! The ultimate unpardonable sin of course is... Snow on the boat. Friday night they weren't calling for much on Saturday so I went to bed hoping for the best. So you can imagine my dismay when I got up this morning and looked out the back window to see...YIKES!!!! SNOW!! ON THE BOAT!!!
Not the boat! It's gonna make a mess, get it off!!

pathalla · 07 April 2007, 17:25

I hate these early spring snows, with lake effect it seems there is always one storm which dumps a ridiculous amount of snowfall in a short period, I'm calling it eighteen inches (overnight) but it might be more, checkout the rear bumper on the truck. I am not going anywhere until Monday. I really hate to see snow on a boat, it is just wrong! Thank God for sunlight, as I was clearing the deck the snow was starting to melt due to the increasingly direct rays of the sun.

Stoo · 07 April 2007, 18:13

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Originally Posted by pathalla

So when Stoo mentioned a foot of snow was forecast for his area, which is not that far away, a feeling of dread swept over me...

And the funny thing is that it blew right past me! Lot's of wind and cold, but I think the snow didn't settle until further south...somewhere around Cleveland I think...

Sorry Pat... Don't give up though. I KNOW thats it for winter now!

pathalla · 07 April 2007, 18:29

Thanks for that info Stoo, that made me feel a LOT better... I live in Cuyahoga county. Cuyahoga is a indian Name/word. I am sure the indian meaning of the word is "snows alot, live elsewhere". If you go just 40 to miles west of Cleveland the snowfall drops off dramatically as lake effect is less pronounced. No knock on the good people of Buffalo but at least I don't live there, they really get hammered usually.

Stoo · 07 April 2007, 18:50

As a native of Hamilton, I know Buffalo well. They get the Erie lake effect snow being in the lee of the prevailing wind, but they also get it from the north from Lake Ontario. I remember showing up at the border there a few years ago, only to be told Buffalo was "closed" and there was a driving ban. Of course we went anyway even though the roads hadn't been plowed. Along the lakefront, the drifts were so high that they were up to people's roofs (on the one story houses).

I always thought Buffalo would be a great spot to be a school teacher, since you only need to work about three days a week in the winter!

I hope I didn't speak too soon about our snow. Now that the wind has died, it's coming down (as opposed to "past") pretty hard. Visibility is about 100' I would say. Now, where's my rum...?

pathalla · 08 April 2007, 14:06

I cannot beleve we are having such shitty weather this late in the year.. unf---in believable!!.... it might as well be the middle of January. Someone shoot me and get it over with. I bet there is over two feet of snow on the ground, I am not going to spend one more winter in the North if I can help it. Anyone want to buy some real estate in the snow belt in Ohio? Cheap?

pathalla · 08 April 2007, 20:38

enough said..

Stoo · 09 April 2007, 02:48

It's nice to know where all that snow went that blew past the other day. Unfortunately, the ice blew back into the harbour again...

The Coasties are back on duty though, so that must mean something! They're docked right across the harbour from my place. The fish tug is a visitor from down the lake... Apparently in trying to loosen things up a little for us! (Not my pics..)

pathalla · 09 April 2007, 03:41

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Originally Posted by Stoo

It's nice to know where all that snow went that blew past the other day. Unfortunately, the ice blew back into the harbour again...

The Coasties are back on duty though, so that must mean something! They're docked right across the harbour from my place. The fish tug is a visitor from down the lake... Apparently in trying to loosen things up a little for us! (Not my pics..)

Ice? That ain't ice.. you want ice? I know a dumbass who lives in Cleveland that can REALLY show you some ice...

Stoo · 09 April 2007, 04:32

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Originally Posted by pathalla

I know a dumbass who lives in Cleveland that can REALLY show you some ice...

Don't despair. It's supposed to get up to 5C this week. I think that's a baulmy 41F or so isn't it? Hell, Rogan will be getting his thong out soon!

Stoo · 12 April 2007, 22:49

OK... trying again. Just picked up the boat. If everyone would please face north and blow hard, it would help to dislodge the ice that's bunging up the harbour!

603doug · 13 April 2007, 00:41

i am going to watch al gore's movie so i can decided where it is overheating and move there. 6" to 8"snow forecast for tonight here in new hampshire, fortunately the ocean does not freeze and the sea look good for sunday

Stoo · 13 April 2007, 00:53

Funny you should mention that snow.. we are considering a last trip to Vermont to ski. They're supposed to get hammered...

pathalla · 15 April 2007, 02:46

Well guess what? It's snowing yet again... well what the heck, it is only two weeks to May, maybe there will be ice on the lake again by then... Argghhhh!!!!!

prairie tuber · 15 April 2007, 18:02

It's a gorgeous, sunny + 14 C (57-58 F) here this afternoon. Why haven't you guys moved to a nice warm climate like we have here in Manitoba???

Looks like the Manitoba's Summer switch has been turned on - give us a couple more weeks and the temps will be staying between 25-35 C (77 - 95 F) until the first week of September.

What sort of a whiny wimp would start a thread like this, bitching about the weather anyway?