from sunny California

[Whipsnade]

A California couple moves east to get away from the big earthquake.

Jan 24
5pm. It's starting to snow. The first of the season, and the first snow we've seen in years. The wife and I took our hot buttered rums and sat by the picture window, watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful!

Jan. 25
We woke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time in years, and loved it. I did both our driveway and sidewalk. Later, a snow plow came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled again.

Jan. 26
It snowed an additional five inches last night and the temperature has dropped to around 11 degrees. Several limbs on the trees and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards, the snowplow came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is brownish gray.

Jan. 27
Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell on my ass in the driveway. $145.00 to the chiropractor, but nothing was broken. More snow and ice expected.

Jan. 28
Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4x4 in order to get her to work. Slid into a guard rail and did a considerable amount of damage to the right rear quarter panel. Had another 8 inches of the white shit last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today. That goddam snowplow came by twice today.

Jan. 29
8 degrees outside. More fuckin' snow. Not a tree or shrub on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candies and kerosene heater which tipped over and nearly burned our house down. I managed to put the flames out, but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands and lost all my eyebrows and eyelashes. Car slid on ice on way to emergency room and was totaled.

Jan. 30
Goddam mother fuckin' white shit keeps on coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the fuckin' mailbox. If I ever catch the son of a bitch that drives the snowplow, I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then comes down the street at about 100mph and buries our driveway again! Power is still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.

Jan. 31
6 goddam more fuckin' inches of fuckin' snow and fuckin' ice and god knows what other kind of fuckin' white shit fell last night. I wounded the fuckin' snowplow asshole with my ice ax, but he got away. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going snow-blind. I can't move my toes. Haven't seen the sun in weeks. More snow predicted. Wind-chill is 22 fuckin' degrees below zero. To hell with it. I'm going back to California!

[EggbornHatchedrotten]

lol

The only time I felt a little testy, nervous was when the plows just couldn't get through to my house (and I live in town two blocks from the fire station) for five days. The snow behind my car was over 12 feet deep. Apparantely they were too busy getting some school buses out to the toll road to pick up stranded people.

I could walk around, but the snow was 7 feet over my head on either side of the maze-like paths people made on the sidewalks. I came to a dead end a few times on my way to the post office and store, and had a 15 minute walk back to find another way through the maze lol.

Otherwise, I absolutely love when everything shuts down suddenly as I always overbook myself.

Even when I lost three windshield wipers in one day ( I keep a stash in my car) I didn't mind hehe. Glad no one was hurt when the first when flying off as I was on the highway. When I showed up to work though, I was a hero. I am sure I got some more job offers because I am nuts like that and actually show up to work without whining like a scared school girl.


Now driving down the road only to miss a tornado by 2 minutes.. that was a little scary. No place to go! With snow, yeah, you know it's there, and when for the most part. If you get stuck, it's your own dumbarse fault for being out in it and not having the proper stuff to handle it. Falling? bust open the wallet and buy some winter boots with traction at Walmart. Mine have lasted me 10 years and cost five dollars.

Hauling my older paretns out in this will suck soon enough.

Earthquakes? Crap on fire? no thanks. I can go without sun for months at a time.

[Burleybarley]

I can go without sun for months at a time.

That's b/c your aquarium comes with a heat lamp, right ?