Originally Posted By MPierce >> Maybe we'll get a free trip! << Your Mom suffered sever head trauma, and a permanent physical disability, and all you want is a free trip?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> So we are all busy doing the WIPE-OUT while others are headed to the Parks! I fell over at EPCOT. I like a little of both << I hear those theatres in the round can be treacherous!
Originally Posted By fkurucz <I love that feeling you get just a split second before your head strikes the icy sidewalk. I learned fast that sidewalks with steep inclines covered in ice are not your friends.< I would suggest taking a few months of Judo. The first thing they teach you is how to fall down without hurting yourself.
Originally Posted By MPierce Nope, we get some good ice storms here. They don't happen very often, but when they do watch out. Nobody is use to walking on it or driving on it. We don't have a clue how to put snow chains on.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I've been there during that- the driving is like America's Funniest Videos' - people who think that 4x4 somehoe means they will stop at 60 mph on ice-- hilarious
Originally Posted By MPierce If the roads get icy in Texas, you best stay home! Unless you are really into bumper cars.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad The thing is , the older you get the more you forget how bad things like that hurt until you get an unsuspected reminder!
Originally Posted By danyoung >ice in Texas? I thought you only had hail?< Ice in Texas is like nowhere else I've ever been (& I grew up in the great white North of Idaho!). With the high humidity, the air basically freezes on the road, and then just builds and builds. The roads aren't sculpted for ice & snow, no one has snow tires, and most people don't begin to know how to drive in it. I never have any problem getting to work on an icy day, but probably 75% of the public will just stay home. And then the next day it'll be in the upper 40's and everything will go back to normal.
Originally Posted By MPierce Every time it ices over in the Metro Mess they always show that same DART bus sliding sideways. They've used that same clip for at least 15 years.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^^That clip will always be new to someone. And the senile will forget they ever saw it before. Or, cheap cheap cheap, take a new picture.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Hey, MPierce, Happy came to visit me today(well actually to kill an hour between her class and going to work). We had 2-4 inches of slush here, she's 35 minutes west of me and had snow and ice. This morning as she was dragging her barrel of trash down her 100 foot driveway, she slipped and fell twice. She said she immediately thought of you.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt ^^^it's offical, my life is sad! The best laugh I had all day was when a big trash barrell fell on me!
Originally Posted By MPierce ^^^ When you can laugh about something rather than curse about it just means life really is good.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Her husband hunts & fishes too. Even her DDs fish. I've got dead things hanging on my living room wall.
Originally Posted By FenwayGirl Must a NE thing Bobbelee...I have dead things handing on my wall too! And a freezer full of pheasant, venison and fish...although not such a bad things in these times.
