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2018-01-05 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
yep, and as long as you send yer money to albore, you'll be ok! I think it was 1970-72 that Popular Science had the cover about "the coming ice age." Others were slow on the uptake, with the peak uproar at about 1974. Only then albore was too young so he couldn't make zillions on it and fly

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2018-01-05 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Well it was a wicket pissah stawm. --FT Sent from iPhone > On Jan 5, 2018, at 6:21 PM, clay monroe via Mercedes > wrote: > > C’mon Floyd, > > Most of them never were alive the last time a goodly storm hit. If I recall, > the headlines in the major weekly magazines

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2018-01-05 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On January 5, 2018 at 6:21 PM clay monroe via Mercedes > wrote: > > > C’mon Floyd, > > Most of them never were alive the last time a goodly storm hit. If I recall, > the headlines in the major weekly magazines of that era were going on about > the impending Ice

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2018-01-05 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
C’mon Floyd, Most of them never were alive the last time a goodly storm hit. If I recall, the headlines in the major weekly magazines of that era were going on about the impending Ice Age. Then some enviro nerd decided it was going to be a quick decent into Hell instead. Forty years on, we

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2018-01-05 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Yup. Indianapolis. I was a senior in high school. I remember it well. -D > On Jan 5, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > Was that in Indiana? That storm hit there a few days before, I was stuck in > Ft Wayne until the street got cleared of

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2018-01-05 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Was that in Indiana?  That storm hit there a few days before, I was stuck in Ft Wayne until the street got cleared of about 30" of snow, and then to dig the car out of that.  Lost a coupla days from what I had intended.  I was headed back to Cambridge, got to the Ohio border and the snow was

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2018-01-05 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I remember the Blizzard of 78. I got trapped in the house with my Mom, and she followed me around for two days just yammering at me since there was no one else there. I finally bundled up and trekked cross-country about two miles to a friend’s apartment where I holed up for several days to

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2018-01-05 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
This was an all time record high tide, beating the blizzard of '78 by .1". On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > https://jalopnik.com/the-cars-are-frozen-1821804568 > > I was there in the Blizzard of 78 when the same thing happened, it

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2018-01-05 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://jalopnik.com/the-cars-are-frozen-1821804568 I was there in the Blizzard of 78 when the same thing happened, it amazes me that these people did not move their cars.  The forecast was pretty clear for a coupla days.  I guess just like the folks here who don't heed hurricane predictions.