We Got Dumped On Again!

[mj-trading]

8 inches and still coming down! Expecting another 5 inches! Winds are blowing hard!
I can't remember when we had weather like this in April as normanly were doing Auctions 4 or 5 times a week in nice weather in April!

GOT TO LOVE IT!:rolleyes:

[unclejunk1]

Sorry man! 83 degrees and thunder here, expecting rain anytime now. We need it, has been so dry. Don't want the snow but sure could use the water it brings. I know you are tired of winter but at least you will be able to wash your car and water your lawn when it clears. Atlanta is even worse. Throw another log on the fire and keep listing.

Rick

[mj-trading]

I'll turn my million watt fan towards you!! Ok!:rolleyes:

[unclejunk1]

With that kind of power I need to set up a power generating fan to make electricity from your fan. With wind power I just might be able to afford to run the air conditioner. :D Give me five minutes before you turn it on. Ok! :rolleyes:

[rnrgiftsnmore]

Please give me notice too, need to put up the dome over my area!!;) Don't want that white stuff anymore this spring. Although they are telling us it can happen. Weather guy even said that one computer model was showing us getting up to 11 inches by Monday afternoon.

[mj-trading]

I wouldn't dout it you get it! It suppose to be going your way! Heavy the first 2 inches then light and fluffy the rest! High winds tho! Lots of drifting! Barley snowing now! Winter warning suppose to end at 7pm

[mj-trading]

Now the radio says could get another 3 to 7 inches tonight!!

[Lanascountry]

LOL, Didn't someone say it is SPRING..on the way to SUMMER??:p THIS is all
folk need high gasoline bills and HEATING bills!! :(

[mj-trading]

Were out of fuel! 30 above here! Were using ceranic elec heaters!
Didn't want to put any lp in as we want to change company's this summer! This outfit we have now will only come out with a minnium of 300 gal! Can't afford that even if we could then when we change company's they will charge us $100.00 to pump the remainder out!

[Lanascountry]

JB cut ours off also..:rolleyes:I don't know what he is thinking as the $$ is
just going to go higher I am afraid.:(

[unclejunk1]

Cost over fifty dollars to fill the gas tank yesterday and it was not empty, I shutter to think what it would cost to fill the conversion van. :eek: Only use it to tow with now. I don't know what MJ heats with but cannot imagine what the cost is if he uses oil. Heat pumps don't works so well there. :( Feel for you buddy.

[mj-trading]

Heat with LP!
Some have heat pumps here but they cost so much to put in!

[Lanascountry]

MJ, we live in the Southen mountains (gets quite a bit colder at times) what we notice
with our heat pump..LOL, it is SO cold when it comes on..for a WHILE!!:(
Johnny said we are going back into the 30's here Sunday..that is hard to belive!! YUCK!

[mj-trading]

26 here right now! Got to 33 today! Earlier this week we were in the 50 & 60's

[katandron1]

A nice balmy 70 something here today with a slight breeze........nothin but sunshine !!!!

[Lanascountry]

:)Kat, We had a beautiful sunny day with slight winds today..Guys I want to ask..
(well maybe not in areas with a lot of snow..seems we have the MOST pollen
and folks sick with allergies we have had in a while..They said allergy season
is going to last another month..Into JUNE?>?:rolleyes:

[unclejunk1]

Two words - Bee Pollen. Some say local honey but I still say Bee Pollen for allergies to pollen. When we first moved here the pollen was so much worse and from more varieties of things - year round. The doctor put me on some really expensive stuff and then sent me to a specialist. Nothing worked but Bee Pollen for me. I take one everyday year round. Comes in a capsule and can be bought for a small price at drug stores or wally- world - you know the US Chinese Embassy that is headquartered in Little Rock. All jokes aside it has been the best thing I have tried with quick results. If you are really stopped up you need to take two and expect to feel a little worse until it all drains out. Second or third day you will feel like a new person. The Chinese Embassy sells it for around $5.00 a bottle or you can order it online from Swansons. If you let this mess go to long you can get sinus infections or worse end up in the hospital. I am allergic to bee stings so I worried about using it - don't it is harmless, considered a food substance.

[katandron1]

I just wanna say one thing...........
John turn that fan back towards Roz!.........
Today it might be in the 50's with a sharp cold north wind blowing around 25-30 miles an hour. It was soooo nice yesterday, and I was able to get out in the yard and do some work.

[Lanascountry]

Unc can tell you that is the way it has been in our (general vicinity) warm
one day and almost like fall the next! :confused:

[mj-trading]

Oh i'm sure your getting a side wind from my fan! I got it pointed at UNCLE

[katandron1]

Well you are blowing storms to SC......
Ron is in Charleston and says they have storms commin their way....and they need to open the transformer prv valve.....they are needing to get that done before the storm comes through.

[Lanascountry]

Yeppers!! :D

[mj-trading]

You said before Ron is a trucker?

[mj-trading]

Sunshine and 42 out today

[katandron1]

Was/still is.........he went back to North American Substation Services .......
They build/repair/maintain transformers. On the phone with him now, he is 30 ft up in the air on top of a transformer. Tomorrow he will be drivin the testing rig up to Maryland for the next job. Btw......he LOVES that phone.....now he is buggin me to get internet on the service.

[mj-trading]

Heck! Maybey Ron will be up this way as they plan on building a big transformer plant and running new power lines from west of me to Duluth, MN About 150 miles

[katandron1]

He might.....the guys get sent all over.
You know those big white windmills???? Those things run off of substations, so many windmills per substation. North American is one of the companies that build those substions.

If he gets sent up your way, I'll tell him you offered him and his crew rooms for rent for the week LOL. Home cooked meals and all. If I get enough of yall scattered around the country......the guys will feel more like they are at home and not in motel rooms LOL.

[mj-trading]

Ya Right!!
We have manufactors of those windmills not far from here in Crookston, MN Called Thunderbird and they also have another plant up NW of us by the Canadian Border

[katandron1]

There's only 3-4 guys on a crew John.....
You know you and Myra will like the company.
There's alot of those windmills comming out of tx also. We see them all the time commin up I-35.
The base of those things are huge...think it takes like 3 different semis to haul just the base.

[mj-trading]

They have to run Police escort part of the way on US HWY #2 as it is 2 lane from Cass Lake, MN to Duluth. MN

Ya there Big!

[katandron1]

My grandparents and my dad do escort for oversize........in Tx the cops ask the semi driver how fast can your truck run.....if that driver says 90, the cops shut down the street and that load is escorted at 90 by the cops, when they get through towns, the escorts take over again.

[mj-trading]

Reason i asked if Ron was a trucker as we use to have 2 trucks running over the road least to Dart Transport! So we were in Tx and OK alot!

[katandron1]

He has been a driver for a long time, he also did/does alot of heavy equipment work(dozers & such).
He had to go back to North American though cause the company he worked for a couple weeks ago the pay just wasn't there. Dispatch was taking loads that were not paying much. It's hard to pay bills on what he was making.
Last year we had no issues paying bills while he worked for North American. The downside is he is gone for 3 weeks at a time. But when he does come in for his week, we have no worries. I told him he had to go back or we were gonna join the ranks of millions in forclosures.

[mj-trading]

A person got to do what they got to do now days!

[katandron1]

He wasn't able to enjoy being home 3 weeks ago...constantly worried about how we are gonna pay this or that. No health insurance, so when I broke my ankle in January, I didn't go to the hospital, no need to add another bill. No it's never gonna be right again, and I'll wear the ankle brace probly for the rest of my life but I can live with that. Course he says that now we have insurance, I need to go and have it rebroke and set right. Told him I didn't like pain that much !
He was just much happier last year when he could come home for his week and be able to relax, and him being happy and enjoy his life is my biggest concern.

[mj-trading]

Get a bottle of Wild Turkey and you won't feel the Pain!:rolleyes:

[katandron1]

LOL, 2 weeks after I broke it we decided to go out....I was wearing one of those big walking boots (was dads when he broke his ankle) Told Ron I wasn't gonna wear that thing out to the club, After 3 long island teas I was dancin and playin pool (or at least attempting to) havin a good ole time.......didn't feel a thing till the alcohol wore off around 10am the next mornin.

[mj-trading]

Pretty hard to 2 step or line dance with that on!

[rnrgiftsnmore]

Caught the weather tonight at 6, apparently your fan has lost some of it's power.:D They have removed the snow from our forcast, back into the 60's by Wed.

[mj-trading]

We have it pointed at UNCLE! Not your way this time!

[rnrgiftsnmore]

Thank you!!!!:D

[Lanascountry]

Ms Kat, was your hubby a independent trucker and was he affected by some
of the guys striking a few weeks ago? I wanted to ask on here, and did not know
how folks felt about it.(the strike, I mean).
It did not get as cold here as they predicted, but it is colder. It is time for everyone
to have spring now!!:D

[katandron1]

Lana,
No thank God he isn't independent, although if he had been I would have supported that strike. Mom and I got to talking the other day about diesel prices. Used to be that diesel was the cheapest gas you could get. It's a trash fuel, leftovers from making gas. Now it's the highest costing fuel. And part of the reason is, that the diesel regular vehicles have become so popular(and for good reasons). There are so many diesel passenger trucks on the roads now.
The reason I would have supported that strike is, those independent truck drivers cannot make a living with the diesel prices so high. They spend upwards of 600-1000 dollars filling up a semi. EVERYTHING that every person has/owns was moved with a semi to it's destination. There isn't a thing that consumers use that was not hauled at some point in time with a semi. If those truckers go bankrupt because they can't afford to drive independently anymore, that also affects us.

[mj-trading]

Not much snow left now!!:)
Raining and 48 out!

[Lanascountry]

To Kat (for a minute) geez..we are not truckers..but you are SO correct!

I followed that strike and watched the guys slowly rolling in front of the white house on the tube. I guess the poor independent guys just did not have enough power to make it take..LOL, I went on (and JOINED:)) the trucker's union boards and stayed on there like 3 days!!

I know this is NOT at all unusual but several guys with a family,home, vehicle and big rig said that now they often get what is called a 'cheap haul' (am I saying that right Kat? Anyway the take is like $14-1500.00 and by the time these guys buy gas (around $1100.00 ) and food (maybe 125.00 if they eat 'cheap', & sleep in their rigs)) they will come home with less than $300.00 for 2-3 days..geez that is awful, and look at the danger the guys face everyday, on top of everything else! :(
Some of them are about to lose their homes as well as their rigs..it makes me FURIOUS!
Just wanted you to know that blue-collar and mid Americas' working folk were backing the guys almost 100%!!
John & Myra..I am so glad that hard freeze let go of 'yall..Did you blow it toward Roz?? :eek:

[mj-trading]

We aim the fan toward UNCLE