[K3PZN-List] [Qcwa] More Lessons from Isabelle (sort of)

[Keith Krichinsky]

 > We don't get much damage from a hurricane here in Vermont, but we do get
 > blizzards and the ever popular ice storm, some lessons I've learned:
 >
 > 1a.  A tree branch with leaves on it will break when filled with the 
snow,
 > generally the branch that your car is parked under.
 > 1b. Never park your car near a tree after Oct 1st.
 >
 > 2a. 4WD will help you go on the ice, but it will NOT help you stop.
 > 2b. The guy with the $45K Audi Quattro 4WD who passes you on the 
interstate
 > at 70mph when everybody else is doing 40mph, will be upside down in the
 > median about 2 miles down the road
 >
 > 3a. The ice on the power lines is pretty to look at.
 > 3b. When the power lines break because of the ice, it's not pretty any 
more.
 >
 > 4a. Kerosene heaters are messy and smelly.
 > 4b. Never should have sold the damn kerosene heater at the yard sale last
 > summer (Oil furnaces don't run without electricity).
 >
 > 5a. Gave up heating with wood... too much work.
 > 5b. Glad the neighbor didn't, can always go over there when the furnace
 > doesn't work.
 >
 > 6a. All cars come with all season radials now.
 > 6b. All season radials are only good in Florida and California.
 >
 > 7a. Everybody finds the pictures of quaint Vermont houses with their 
roof's
 > covered with snow to be very picturesque.
 > 7b. It's a pain in the ass to get out the "roof shovel" and remove the 
snow,
 > because if you don't the roof will eventually cave in. You also get the 
joy
 > of "ice dam's" that form as the sun warms the snow in the day and then it
 > freezes again at night. So then you get to have the fun of getting out 
the
 > extension ladder and a sledge hammer to break up the ice while freezing 
your
 > butt off.
 >
 > 8a. Ice dam's don't form when it's -40F
 > 8b. -40F is damn cold... the snow "squeaks" when you walk on it.
 >
 > 9a. Some of the bravest people on the planet are the mail "persons" -
 > somehow they aways manage to get here, even on days when the weather is 
so
 > bad I'll choose to take a sick day.
 > 9b. It must suck to be them on those days.
 >
 > 10a. A copper water pipe will freeze when it's below zero and the wind 
blows
 > in through the cracks in the house. So always keep a propane torch handy 
to
 > thaw it out.
 > 10b. Thank God if the pipe doesn't split (yup it did here). Also, try not 
to
 > burn down the house when thawing out the pipe ;o)
 >
 > --Tom
 > K1VG
 >
 >

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