Montana weather su#@$ (Rant)
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Burning Brakes
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Montana weather su#@$ (Rant)
I cann't believe it, I woke up today (Thursday May 23,2002) and the ground is covered in snow. I look at the thermometer, it reads 30 degrees.
This year has been unreal for trying to get the vette out or to go golfing. It's supposed to be spring.
At this time, I'm supposed to be driving the Stingray to the golf course to play a round and kill a few brews on the patio afterward.
I'm sick of it. Give me a spring already. :U
This year has been unreal for trying to get the vette out or to go golfing. It's supposed to be spring.
At this time, I'm supposed to be driving the Stingray to the golf course to play a round and kill a few brews on the patio afterward.
I'm sick of it. Give me a spring already. :U
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From: Living in the Hartland
Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
Make sure you keep that shhhiiiittt cuz I am done with it! Now my car doesn't want to run right now the weather has improved. :mad Always something! :cry
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
Red, everyone has his job, BUT after a lifetime of enduring what I thought of crappy weather in Maryland for most of my life, then finally moving to Florida too late on account of arthritis....tell you what, to do it all over again...
I"d move...period...before you too look back and miss all the good times you could have had...driving your vette with top down, etc....it just plainly can't get HOT enough for me these days.....
I"d tackle an overheating engine anyday, rather than a cracked block....
or another damn starter motor in a snowdrift...dead battery, etc....
GENE
I"d move...period...before you too look back and miss all the good times you could have had...driving your vette with top down, etc....it just plainly can't get HOT enough for me these days.....
I"d tackle an overheating engine anyday, rather than a cracked block....
or another damn starter motor in a snowdrift...dead battery, etc....
GENE
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From: Tucson AZ
Re: Montana weather su#@$ (69er)
Right now I would trade a few days of snow - haven't seen rain since October and now its D#$% hot!! Try driving around here in a vertible - you'd cook before you got where you're going :mad :mad !
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
We've been cold here in Ohio, too. But today, not to rub it in or anything, was beautiful. Unreal.
Just the same, I've always wanted to live in Montana. Never been there, but I know it's incredible.
[Modified by joeveto, 9:27 PM 5/23/2002]
Just the same, I've always wanted to live in Montana. Never been there, but I know it's incredible.
[Modified by joeveto, 9:27 PM 5/23/2002]
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From: Calgary
Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
Hey, you sent your lousy weather up here!! The storm followed up the Rocky Mountains and gave us a good dump up here in Alberta. It's all melted now, thank God. Hope we get some hot weather soon!!
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (2nspire)
We've had some cooler than normal weather here as well. Must be that "global warming" that the liberal freaks talk about. :lol: All in all it isn't too bad. In the 60's most days, would be nice if the wind would die down, but not too bad. Most years it gets HOT right about now, then just gets hotter through the summer. I've been through Texas in the summer a few times, and it gets hot there, but nothing like a good 100+ July and August in South Dakota with 90%+ humidity. :crazy: :smash: :cheers:
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hot and sunny here in the Yukon.
For a change
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hot and sunny here in the Yukon.
For a change
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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From: Orange Park Florida
Re: Montana weather su#@$ (zymurgist)
zymurgist, I left Rockville/Potomac area of Maryland to come here to Jacksonville, home of the breeze, I know full well about hot oppressive summers...not a stitch of wind for 2-3 months in summer up there, then slam bang into winter with overnite lo's in the 30's.....no springtime either, maybe 2 weeks...defined as household windows open all day/nite time.....
my last winter there I suffered a 3' snowfall, with 6' drifts...96-97 winter that was....never again...
GENE
my last winter there I suffered a 3' snowfall, with 6' drifts...96-97 winter that was....never again...
GENE
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (TJRed76)
I always say if you don't like the weather in Montana, wait 5 minutes. Earlier this week 87 degrees, three days ago an inch and a half of rain, followed the next day by 2 inches of snow. Today, sunny and already 65 degrees. Makes me really appreciate it when I can drive my vettes.
Last month I drove my '96 to Kalispel, and got hit with a wet snow storm. I can not thank my traction control enough. With out it there was no way I would have made it home. I knew it would do bad on the snow and ice, but not that bad. 17 MPH was maximum speed on the snow packed and icy roads. As more wet snow fell my wife and I were sure we would not make it home. Calm and carefull we lasted till the plow come up behind us and we gladly let him pass. A trip I will never forget. :seeya
Last month I drove my '96 to Kalispel, and got hit with a wet snow storm. I can not thank my traction control enough. With out it there was no way I would have made it home. I knew it would do bad on the snow and ice, but not that bad. 17 MPH was maximum speed on the snow packed and icy roads. As more wet snow fell my wife and I were sure we would not make it home. Calm and carefull we lasted till the plow come up behind us and we gladly let him pass. A trip I will never forget. :seeya
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From: Hagerstown MD
Re: Montana weather su#@$ (mrvette)
Hey Gene,
I don't know much about Jacksonville, but I know that Palm Beach County is horribly hot in the summer. And although I live in Maryland, I'm waay out west so I can cruise up into the mountains of Pennsylvania if it gets too hot "down in the valley." There's a little lake in the hills (Cowans Gap State Park) where the water is always cold. The lake is surrounded by mountain ridges so it doesn't get that much sunlight.
Cheers... :cheers:
I don't know much about Jacksonville, but I know that Palm Beach County is horribly hot in the summer. And although I live in Maryland, I'm waay out west so I can cruise up into the mountains of Pennsylvania if it gets too hot "down in the valley." There's a little lake in the hills (Cowans Gap State Park) where the water is always cold. The lake is surrounded by mountain ridges so it doesn't get that much sunlight.
Cheers... :cheers:
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Re: Montana weather su#@$ (mrvette)
Red, everyone has his job, BUT after a lifetime of enduring what I thought of crappy weather in Maryland for most of my life, then finally moving to Florida too late on account of arthritis....tell you what, to do it all over again...
I"d move...period...before you too look back and miss all the good times you could have had...driving your vette with top down, etc....it just plainly can't get HOT enough for me these days.....
I"d tackle an overheating engine anyday, rather than a cracked block....
or another damn starter motor in a snowdrift...dead battery, etc....
GENE
I"d move...period...before you too look back and miss all the good times you could have had...driving your vette with top down, etc....it just plainly can't get HOT enough for me these days.....
I"d tackle an overheating engine anyday, rather than a cracked block....
or another damn starter motor in a snowdrift...dead battery, etc....
GENE
:cheers:
Olivier