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> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:38:43 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2019-02-11 3:15 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 3:01:05 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 2/11/2019 1:34 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>>>> People panicked here in the Seattle area last Thursday, as evidenced
>>>>> by my local Fred Meyer being completely out of shopping carts when I
>>>>> arrived around 6pm to pick up a few things. I had done my major shopping
>>>>> the day before and as always I managed to forget something. I soon found
>>>>> where all the shopping carts had gone - they were manned by restive
>>>>> customers standing in lines 20 deep, going halfway up the aisles. I
>>>>> must say things were pretty calm despite the gridlock and lack of
>>>>> essentials like bread and bananas. Fortunately I had "about 12 items"
>>>>> and the express lane lines were more reasonable.
>>>>
>>>> When I lived in Philadelphia, that was common. In New England, no big
>>>> deal. People were batter at driving in snow and the highway crews are
>>>> better equipped to deal with it. In all my years in CT, if I could get
>>>> out my driveway I could get to the store.
>>>
>>> Same here in Michigan. What do you call 8" of snow? Tuesday.

>>
>> The people of Buffalo don't even consider 8" to be a snow storm. They
>> average over 90" of snow per year.

>
> Same in the northern Catskills... we're supposed to receive a foot+
> tomorrow. Just came back from town with a 5 pound top round, pot
> roast is always a good winter meal.
> Just noticed five does grazing, means plenty snow coming... oops, one
> girl looking in my window, and two more girls just arrived. Oh, two
> more behind my vegetable garden. A small herd arrived.
>


Popeye, yoose forgot to measure their tits.