ExiledInIllinois

:lol: Wow... I really dodged a bullet there!

And I still don't have RED tomatoes! Well, two... Cool nights I suppose? :angry:

My friend lives in NC and he imported a snow shovel when he moved down there... His neighbors look at him in disbelief... Heck, I have some neighbors up here look at my snow shovel in disbelief! The one guy down the street is from MS, said he is moving back there when he retires. :lol:

That is classic (blue part) what the Coastie Petty said to the reporter! These people (one's blaming the USCG) are maroons (even in the literal sense! :D )! At work there was a small recreational vessel that broke down in front of a 6 barge tow (about 9,000 ton of product bearing down on them)... I kept on asking them if they were broken down... Not a peep or wave from them... I thought they were gonna move... Just phucking around like most of them do in the face of certain danger... :wallbash: :wallbash: Till the tow started laying on his whistle (repeatedly to signified danger)... I finally go to them on the lower lock guidewall and started to go ballistic on them (I am not a saint! ;) )... The guy replied (he was holding a beer): "What do you want me to do?" I said: "First thing sir is to put down the beer!" I was ready to evacuate him off onto the guidewall in case the tow hit the his small vessel or made a pancake out of it against the wall, but another recreation boat came in and tossed him a quick line and pulled him and his vessel from danger (the tow was already backing down and trying to stop it's momentum).

Not defending them down south, but it is kind of big deal down there... Don't they only bury the water lines a little below the ground? I would take things could freeze easily??

It is amazing... With all the cold, they say Lake Erie is not quite frozen yet... Still leading to LE snow... You'd think the Lake Enhancement would be shut off? Go figure. It is so bad here that we haven't locked a boat in almost a week... It is just too thick to bust through even with the steel barges. I remember winters where we barely had skim ice form during the winter and had bass fisherman going out in January.

I know what you mean... They were saying "blizzard" here once they latch on to the warnings that were issued for Western Illinois, Iowa and points beyond. <_< It has been a hard winter so far... Just went back to WNY last weekend and the snow totals seem to be very high... Really prime skiing in the Southern Tier. It was crazy driving on the Indiana Toll road last Friday... Not a cloud in the sky... Noon and it was still -20 actual temp... Black ice everywhere! I knew it was going to be cold, but you have to factor in that at that temp salt does not work and everything freezes!

Hey... 2-4 inches a day for 2 weeks adds up! That's 28-56 inches over that span. ;) ;) Oh, wait... You meant just 2-4 inches total. :doh: :lol: :lol:

What? You don't like PPP at TBD/TSW? :nana:

People who have fire hydrants or drains near their property and don't shovel them out! Where is civic pride?... Oh, and getting people to not be slobs when setting their garbage out on garbage day. Wanna know how someone lives? Take a gander on garbage day. Phucking Bohemians... ;)

Asphalt does have more "give." Heck the chains on my old snowblower were digging into my asphalt driveway... Same thing when I went to jack up my old truck... I used a floor jack with smaller wheels, the wheels started to leave marks! :blink: Ya... It is Friday, so me complaining about my asphalt driveway doesn't count... I guess the mods are sleeping! :nana:

Kinda like being a firehouse at times... Has a lot of down time... Yet, steady work... Like tonight, quite as a church mouse on the radio and things are starting to freeze (kinda early)... ^^ Sorta a complaint? ;)

Exactly. I am a lock and dam operator... Summer is nothing but pleasure boats and booze... You want to act rude? We can all spend a lot of quality time hanging out together. Cut off a 700' x 70' tow boat and want to share the lock chamber with him? :lol: :lol: Wake the other boaters? Funny how people get the message without even to hand out a single citation.

How come there are not that many toll roads west of the Mississippi?

Can we reset the PPP board on TSW back to the spring of '03? :chris: :chris: I know I will burn for this... Bring it! :chris: :chris:

:oops: :oops: Can I be the official Sabre "reverse curse" person?... I thought Boston would be smokin' after last night's pasting... But, never thought Pole Smokin'... :blush: Believe it or not, I can root for the Habs and Otters... But, the Leafs and B's will always be homos! :D

What does that mean? Would he have to sit out some games after they review it? :angry:

Is this Danny's first career "Hat-trick?"... I know he doesn't have many... Maybe one or two at the most? ???

Sorry for being the Cassandra here... But, I fear the exact opposite! Boston should be Smokin'... :bag:

Ya... Right, then the petulant pussies will revolt and where will that leave us? Duplicating the Maple Leafs when the set they record of wins to start the season, ONLY TO MISS THE PLAYOFF'S... I fear, IMO, this team is a lot more mentally fragile than we think! :(

THe whole idea of a mid-season NHL All-Star game is absurd... Just imagine if someone gets hurt... Turns an ankle or what not? How many stars does BFLO have in it... The Sabres Cup run could be seriously tested if say Miller breaks his leg or something... Just let them skate, let everything go by you and the highest score win... Isn't it basically a non-checking game (the All-Star)? JUst imagine how the Sabres would roll in this kind of environment!

Relax everyone! Sure a point would have been nice and shouldn't compare to other teams... BFLO is still 2nd in the league... Sure a pt. down on the streaking the Pred... And streaking is the word for a team BFLO throttled minus HT... BUT... Even know it was a "rough" Jan. to this point... BFLO is still 5-5-1 in the month... Not bad for a mid-season "slump"... .500 hockey with your best D-man getting healthy and some other nagging little injuries... Would have been nice to get the pt... Again, relax... Like one caller said yesterday, this is the way the Sabres were winning to start the season... As they did yesterday against the 'Nucks... Live by the "sword", die by the "sword!"... :D Today they died... Yesterday they lived!... :D

Unfortuntately, for this team... Effort means riding into town (the playoffs) on a banged up, frothing horse... This time it was Novotny... Is it bad luck or what, they play all effort and get hurt in the process?... It HAS to be in their heads... Trying to ride this baby without having to give it full throttle at the risk of blowing a piston! Sorry for the dumbass analogies... :D

Montreal is a "puddle jump" from BFLO... I don't agree though, but they probably do it for the people on Vancouver Island (more so than mainland BC and the city of Vancouver) and people in the rest of the PT zone... At 8:00 the game starts there at 5:00... Just as people are getting off of work... Would be kind of funky to start the game at 4:00 PT???

Exactly... And the goal (Savard) came on the power play... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: