My youngest daughter lived up near Seattle for 3 years. It's a great part of the country. She now lives in New Orleans. So for vacation we get to go to a different part of the country.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:36 AM, rookie <speedif...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I feel your pain Harvey, I lived near you until last summer. I > experienced 45 years of Chicago area winters, each year they seemed to last > longer and become colder. At great cost and effort my wife and I said > goodbye to friends and family, sold the house, (and a lot of woodworking > equipment, NOT the Legacy) and moved to the Pacific Northwest. No more > severe cold or shoveling snow, it's not Sunny Southern California but it's > a lot more civilized. > > On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 3:02:16 PM UTC-8, Va Oak wrote: >> >> One "challenge" we have here in the DC area (and probably not unique to >> the DC area) are folks from 3rd world countries that may have never even >> seen snow - much less driven in it - but they think they can get in their >> car and drive as before the snow fell. (We also have our share of "born & >> raised here/locals" that act like idiots in ice & snow driving >> conditions.) >> WRONG. For starters, they clear the driver's window and front windshield >> - that's it. They leave 2+ feet of snow on the roof, hood (bonnet for you, >> Roger, Brigitte & other "Continentals), trunk, and the fail to clear off >> other windows, head lights, and tail lights. Then they attempt to get on >> the road in a 2-wheel drive car - front wheel drive if we are lucky. And >> it all then goes from bad to worse. Add to the above - all the other >> drivers out there that still feel they have to drive, talk on a cell phone, >> and even text - in these hazardous conditions and it makes for an "exciting >> driving experience" for the rest of us. >> I'll take heat and rain over ice & snow ANY DAY!! >> Mac >> ------------------------------ >> ------------------------------ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bill Bulkeley >> Sent: Jan 27, 2016 3:53 PM >> To: legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com >> Subject: wet wet wet >> >> Well guys the heat down here as broken gone from over a hundred to 65F >> but it broke with a downpour of rain >> >> My shop has 2inches of water on the floor fortunately it drains away >> fairly quickly, life in Australia J >> >> >> >> What sort of problems does the snow give you guys? >> >> Bill >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
