RE: April showers...

[AustinBoston]

 If April Showers bring May Flowers,
 
 What do April Snowstorms bring?[]
 
 Bad Attitudes![:@]
 
 Austin
 
 UPDATE:
 
 4/7/03:
 
 We are getting another 6-8 inches in the next 24 hours. [:@]  This is getting a little more than annoying.  I ve lived in this area for 43 years, and can t recall this much snow in one April before. (Except the April Fool s blizzard of  97...but most of that was in March, we had to clean up on April first.)  The NWS forecast includes snow for the next three days, and possibly more at the end of the week.
 
 Enough is enough, already!
 
 Austin
 
 
 
 

[campingboaters]

 AustinBoston
FROZEN flowers! []... and NO camping!  [:@]

[goose]

 AustinBoston

 

ORIGINAL:  AustinBoston
 
 If April Showers bring May Flowers,
 
 What do April Snowstorms bring?
 

 [font=" Times New Roman" ]" May BeCranky" [/font][>:]
 

[luvourjayco]

 AustinBoston
Some very unhappy campers [>:]

[PI]

 AustinBoston
YOU DON T WANT TO KNOW!!!!

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 AustinBoston
Now, just because I had to scrape my van windows this morning is no reason to be cranky!!! []  
 Well...maybe just a little bit! [>:]

[birol]

 AustinBoston
A friend of DW s broke her cars windshield while she was trying to scrape the ice off the windshield, ouuccchhhhh, she wasn t a happy camper [:@][:@][:@]

[wiininkwe]

 AustinBoston
Our April showers all turned to ice, and all the trees and surfaces were covered with a thin skin of it.  It looks pretty, all glistening and shiny, but that s only when I m looking at it from my living room window.  
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[GeneF]

 AustinBoston
Missed the ice but just got through snowblowing another 6 inches of the white stuff.
 
 More bad weather on the way for tonight. [: (]

[mike4947]

 AustinBoston
Finally, we got a break, just wind, cold ,damp, and light rain. Thirty miles north , and west has gotten 2 inches of ice since last night. Thirty miles east and south is snowing and blowing almost white out conditions.

[wiininkwe]

 AustinBoston
Well, our ice lasted all day, and now it has been raining/sleeting again for several hours.  That pretty, thin layer of shiny sparkley ice has become a thick coating.  We also have some pretty strong winds. Every time the wind blows, all you hear is crackling sounds.  It s more than just the ice cracking, it s also the limbs and branches of the trees and bushes.   I went outside with Spanky a little while ago, and grabbed her and ran just in time when I heard branches cracking over the back yard.  We had just made it to the porch when the limbs started to fall.  As we stood there and watched, I could hear a big crack from the old maple in the front of the house, too.  It s pretty dark so we can t see just how big the branches are, but both back and front yards have downed limbs.   I m surprised that we still have electricity.    And just a few hours ago we were talking about maybe being able to go camping soon.  Not as long as this stuff is hanging on!
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[Gone-Camping]

 AustinBoston
April can be a funny month! Up there it s still snowing, and daylight savings time starts in 2 days!
 
 When I rolled the trash can out front Monday morning, there was a thin film of ice on it. But on Tuesday it was 75 degree s, 80 on Wednesday, 85 yesterday. Today was very odd, it s been so warm, I wore Tee shirt and shorts to work (tow truck), and it got to about 81 degree s... But around 2pm a back-door cold front blew in, dropping temps to 54 degree s... I was miserable the rest of the day from the cold! [: (]
 
 But the bright side is, I m going camping in 2 weeks!!!! []

[Miller Tyme]

 AustinBoston
What do April snowstorms bring?
 
 Plow trucks in the ditch!!!
 Yep, this morning on the way to the job site, one had slid off the shoulder during our ice storm, and another stopped to help. Guess what? Two plows in the ditch.[][8D][]

[GeneF]

 AustinBoston
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 I don t know which one to choose but I have HAD IT.
 
 In my last post I mentioned that I had just finished snowblowing 6 inches of snow on Friday morning.
 
 Here is is Saturday morning and I am getting ready to go out and tackle another 8 inches of the white stuff.
 
 If anyone sees a grey Sienna pulling a 98 Mesa doing about 80 on Route 95 heading south, just wave, I ll be behind the wheel.
 
 There is at least a foot of new snow sitting on the roof of the camper.[]

[birol]

 AustinBoston
Now our next door neighbour broke the driver s side window of her car, she was pounding so hard it was inevitable [&:][&:][&:]
 
 It was a lot fun to do the newspapers this morning, (NO, I did not break my cars glasses, turned the heater on, let it warm up for 15 minutes, and all ice on the windows slided off the car). Everywhere was ice on ice, on snow on ice on snow , you get the picture.
 
 Ut was a beautiful scene though, and weird enough, the ice had some texture to it and was not slipping, it was quite walkable, with no sudden movements, afelt almost normal. As the sun dawned, more ice came down from the sky and gorund became very slipper, but by that time we were almost done.
 
 I am hoping this is the last day of snow and ice     []