Shame you guys don't have the American Coast Guard to assist with these
situations. :-)
In the winter of '80 (I think it was, might have been '79 or '78) we rescued
the SAME GUY THREE TIMES by helicopter because he tried to walk from Cape
Cod to Nantucket over the frozen water. (You non US- or
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:06:03 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shame you guys don't have the American Coast Guard to assist with these
situations. :-)
In the winter of '80 (I think it was, might have been '79 or '78) we
rescued the SAME GUY THREE TIMES by helicopter because he tried
The ice was maple-hardwood-floor solid -- about three feet thick.
Except Magellan never thought to take a compass (dumb-ass!) so once he
lost the horizon, he wandered around as lost as Stevie Wonder in a blizzard
white-out. Once, my bad. Twice, you're an idiot. Three times, we will drop
bread
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:57:17 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ice was maple-hardwood-floor solid -- about three feet thick.
Must have been really COLD!
There were actually some folks who successfully walked from Cape Cod to
Nantucket that winter -- a once in several lifetimes
Don,
Was that maybe '77? I lived near Annapolis at the time and the
entire froze rock solid. Folks were building fires on the ice.
There was no Frostbite Sunday series that year.
Take care,
Chuck
On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:26 PM, Craig McCluskey wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:57:17 -0500 LT
Might have been '77. The late 70s are sort of a SAR blur to me. Get up, go
to work, fly for eight hours, go to bed, get up, repair avionics, ... er,
repeat for a tour.
I know that the entire northeast was one solid block of ice, probably
touched Maryland during the process.
A co-worker lived at
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:06:03 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shame you guys don't have the American Coast Guard to assist with these
situations. :-)
In the winter
That winter the Sound was frozen solid for several weeks, they were
having to fly heating oil over to the island to keep the winter folk
from freezing. The big blizzard was in 78 (THAT was lots of fun!) but I
think you are right, the freeze was a year or two later.
--R
--R
LT Don wrote:
The reason I didn't get it, is because it is not funny. Well, it may be
funny to certain people but I fail to see the wit. Perhaps if they had some
canned laughter to go with it. To put it into some perspective Fawlty Towers
is
funny,.
Since it's a New Zealand site (I'm sure you
The last person that tried to row to Kiwi got lost and has not been seen
since.
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The reason I didn't get it, is because it is not funny. Well
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