imported_buick5563 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Austin Texas is closed for this. Some snow. Mostly ice. But I was able to light a fire under my "veranda" in front of my garage and sip some Christmas Irish whiskey (Midleton's extra rare). [/image] [/image] [/image] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_MrEarl Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 If the snow and ice is so rare why didn't you keep it there. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Instead of sending it my way. If you're gonna send the ice then how 'bout sending the Midletons xtra rare with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_buick5563 Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 Slow down Mr. Earl, Blame Thriller. This came from the North.Mike Middleton(two d's) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 We're getting more this weekend here in Misery. I'll box some up and send it South.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest norb Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 In Buicktown we have warm temps and not much snow this winter. About 1/2 in. now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 53Nailhead Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Just another day in above the 49th....maybe even alittle above average temps for us! It's well into the -15 to -25 with windchills in some parts of Canada! How's Buffalo & the lake effect Stevo! Les Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BJM Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 When I sold my 64 Wildcat convertible it was sold to a guy from Norway. He came and picked it up in the middle of (our) winter wherein in Iowa we had about 12 inches of snow at the time. I was thinking this guy is crazy. Flys over from Europe, rents a truck and trailer on the east coast to pick up my car and take it to southern California to load it on a vessel.This little, slight guy backs his rig onto my property, correctly lines it up to my garaged 'Cat and puts it up on the trailer as though it were a nice day in the fall. Then I ask him about his situation in Norway. He says he "typically" had about 9 feet of snow for most of the long winter. He kept a path from the house to the garage. The garage was wood stove heated "as hot as you want it". 9 feet of snow. He was all of 5'5". I can't get that image out of my mind when I want to complain of "bad weather" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serb Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 It is just perfect here in the Buffalo/Niagara area. The temps have been between 10F-20F during the day, single digits at night. We got the ice the other day but not like they did in the midwest. The trees and everything got a nice coating of ice and then it snowed for a couple of days,(the real fluffy large flakes). I never got a chance to get out and take some pictures of the trees. When the sun was shining, it was perfect for pictures. The sun caused some of the ice to melt yesterday.All in all, the weather has been great this winter so who could complain about a little snow, ice and cold. After all, it is winter in Western New York. We are prime for a big storm if the winds are right and everything else falls into place. Lake Erie water temps are such that the lake has not froze over yet. With the wind whipping across the lake and the moisture that it will pick up will cause havoc when we get it.Lamar, if you need some sipping stuff, let me know and I will send you a bottle of some good Serbian brandy.Stevo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Thriller Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Slow down Mr. Earl, Blame Thriller. This came from the North.Mike Middleton(two d's) </div></div>LOLWell, if you are going to blame me, perhaps I should actually send you something resembling cold weather. Here's some photos from KS on another forum I frequent - Kansas Ice Storm Thread - one look at the second photo and a friend of mine said "Cool...ice cream from the source".Actually, it's going to hurt to have things like this. They're talking about fresh fruit and vegetable prices tripling due to freezing temperatures in CA.That kind of looks like about a November photo....And really, if you are going to drink at a time like this, choose something appropriate, like perhaps Canadian Club <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Perhaps some Wild Turkey whiskey might be appropriate? Or what about Southern Comfort and a warm fire place as the Buick Projects are pondered?It IS unusual for Austin, TX to get that much cool weather . . . but the year it snowed on the beach south of Houston . . . THAT was unusual.Key thing is that our northern associates are more used to that stuff than people in Austin, TX are . . . (having endured much more snow and ice, with all due respect over the past week than Austin residents knew existed!)NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unclefogey Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Thriller,Thanks a lot. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I had no clue that a website on ice fishing existed. I just spent a half hour reading some of the posts when I surely had a lot of other things to do. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Like shoveling the snow off my driveway.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Thriller Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Perhaps some Wild Turkey whiskey might be appropriate? Or what about Southern Comfort and a warm fire place as the Buick Projects are pondered?</div></div>Ah...SC over ice...that's been a while. Years ago I would fill a beer mug with ice, then whatever SC would fit, and my evening was made.Glad to be of service Unclefogey...IceShanty is a pretty extensive place. I obviously don't actually do enough fishing as I have well over 1000 posts there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Any weather involving solid precipitation around here, just shuts everything down...we have no way to deal with it like our more northern friends.We usually have only about 10 real days of winter here and then 10 months of summer.Willie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Willie, you forgot the one month of Hell masqurading as summer where it is 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaffer Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Neat photos! We have only seen one small dusting of snow here a couple of weeks ago and it melted within a couple of hours. Tomorrow (Sunday) some are forecasting rain, some freezing rain then over to rain, but who knows? BTW- looks like you have a Southern Live Oak there. Nice tree! I currently have a couple planted. I hope they grow quickly before I am too old to enjoy! lol. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Bill, I didn't know that the "Houston Humidity" reached as for north as where Willie is? Up there, maybe the "Hill Country Humidity" is from the foliage and cooler valleys and ravines?The real question might be . . . "Where are the biggest mosquitoes and do they like the salt air from the coast?"Looking forward to warmer weather . . . it's supposed to be in the lower 50s soon and I'll bet people break out the tank tops and shorts for that "tropical heat wave". . .NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Really has been a weird winter. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> We are just starting to get typical January temperatures the last week or so here and have had only a few dustings of snow and nothing to plow. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> The plow trucks, Back Hoe and Bulldozer are just sitting quitly awaiting the BIG ONE. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> If my axle was fixed I could have Driven the 15 Buick as we had a Day that was in the seventys in the early part of January. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> The caterpillars so far have not lied this year. Black on both ends and brown in the middle. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 After a 10 days of cloudy, cold, rain and some ice it popped up to 66* today (75* in the shop). After a little work we went for a 60 mile drive in one of the 55's. Life is good....Willie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_buick5563 Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Well,The weather has gotten better so no time for lollygaggin' on the forum. I was going to reply earlier that lest you who know me forget, I grew up in DC. (Not officially a Yankee BTW... except to Texans <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ) I remember a snow we had on Washington's birthday in the early 1980's that was 3 feet (he was our first prez for my brethren in the Great White North). Snow is way different than these southern ice storms. Willis is right though, that you guys are way more prepared than we are. Heck, Dallas, three hours to my north, is more prepared than here. Our de-icer is fertilizer. The salt is saved for our margaritas <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. Speaking of drinking... Southern Comfort? Canadian Club? I'm not in college anymore, sirs. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> It was in the 60's here today. Last night I put a top wood kit in my model A (nailhead powered hot rod to be). Today I installed a hidden stereo in my friends 60 Electra. Schaffer, that is a live oak. The garage was built around it, and I had to build a ramp to enter so as to not disturb the roots.That's about it for now. Temps are supposed to drop again this week. No ice fishing though... Man, those dudes are manly.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Speaking of drinking... Southern Comfort? Canadian Club? I'm not in college anymore, sirs. </div></div> No comment after our night of Martini drinking in Rochester.... <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Was that at the hotel bar with the stellar service? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />We just got another 4 inches of snow last night into this morning. Good thing I'm off to San Diego this week!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_buick5563 Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Speaking of drinking... Southern Comfort? Canadian Club? I'm not in college anymore, sirs. </div></div> No comment after our night of Martini drinking in Rochester.... <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> </div></div>OOOH, ya got me. I believe those were pink. I admit it, OK? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />MikeYes, Adam. BTW, I'm not trying to make light of this subject at the same time the Smashed Wildcat Post is up. I was walking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I guess that since you're not in college anymore Mike, you've "graduated" to Crown?? Or Weller & Weller Water??It was middle '50s up here today. A beautiful blue sky. The "wintry mix" we were supposed to be getting Monday and Tuesday is now just "rain". What a difference a few degrees of heat can make! It was rainy and foggy on Saturday, though.It would have been a great day for a trip to Buffalo for a meeting, but in the "heat (or cold) of the moment" last week, we got it moved to this next weekend. Oh well . . .Enjoy!NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Thriller Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Well, the news tonight showed snow in NM and AZ...interesting.By the way, if you think you have big mosquitoes, come visit us in the summer <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />The Canadian Club was partly intended as a pun, but I guess it snuck under the radar (which is soon to be flying out of ND in drones). I don't drink much whiskey or spirits overall any more...I like the beer and my homemade wine, some Kapali in the hot chocolate on a cold winter day...occasionally still and SC over ice...occasional Appleton's....We've got a little over 2' of ice most places now where the water is still...plenty to drive a truck on if there isn't too much snow...as long as the weather holds out, I should be fishing this weekend. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_buick5563 Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We've got a little over 2' of ice most places now where the water is still...plenty to drive a truck on if there isn't too much snow...as long as the weather holds out, I should be fishing this weekend. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> </div></div>Like I said...MANLY.<img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SledZeppelin Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Got at least a solid 1" of ice, especially that pooled up in the back of my truck on an incline.The rustbucket '73 Centurion sat sheltered in the garage. What's wrong with me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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