Stephen C. McKinney Memorial Thread (1969-2001)

Post by **Furls Fire** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:11 am

Hugglessss back

Post by **Furls Fire** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:43 pm

I just noticed this: 115 pages, 2280 posts.

Love lives here, tho at times it brings with it pain, it also brings overwhelming joy. My heart is full. I love you all!

Post by **SoulBiter** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:30 pm

We all love you too! I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas.

We (my wife and kids) drove up to Ohio Friday night to spend some time with family before Christmas and will be driving back on Tuesday to be at home for Christmas. Some very nasty weather out there. We got hung in traffic and that threw us way behind and we ended up driving at midnight in whiteout snow conditions through lower Kentucky with the interstate looking more like a dirt road than an interstate because all we could see of the road were tiretracks of cars that had gone by at some point. It takes alot longer to make that trip at 30mph. Not to mention trying to watch the road and praying that we would get through it safely.

We heard later on the radio that they closed the road (in the area of Jelico going through the mountains) just after we went through.

Post by **aliantha** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:41 pm

Glad you got through safely, SB. It was a humdinger of a storm. I was hauling Magickmaker home from college up I-81 on Friday night -- not an experience I would care to repeat any time soon, as the road conditions were much as you describe them. Plus the windshield wipers kept icing up. Not fun...

Post by **Furls Fire** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:46 pm

Sweet mercy. Thank God you are all safe. I saw the storm on the news yesterday and spent alot of time praying for the safety of all of my friends in that part of the country.

I'm so happy to hear you are all home, and are safe.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:05 pm

aliantha wrote:Glad you got through safely, SB. It was a humdinger of a storm. I was hauling Magickmaker home from college up I-81 on Friday night -- not an experience I would care to repeat any time soon, as the road conditions were much as you describe them. Plus the windshield wipers kept icing up. Not fun...

Yeah! And you all know what?? ali flat out refused to txt with me during that!! A fair-weather friend, indeed! *hmph*

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:24 pm

So...
did you text with Magickmaker instead?

Post by **Seareach** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:20 pm

I've hardly ever seen snow. It once snowed where I lived as a kid (a once-in-twenty-years type event). I woke up and was terrified (I was only about 3 at the time). My mum put me and my sister next to the combustion stove and dressed us in thick stocking and gloves and stuff and we went outside and played in it. It was the best fun I'd ever had. And then it snowed here where I live about two years ago (the first time in 100 years) but it was only a short flurry of snow. I took SoS outside and I remember him laughing (and falling over a lot) and then coming inside with a bright red nose. Can't imagine what it'd be like, having thick snow everywhere. Must be wonderful...unless you're driving in it of course.

...sorry...just a bit of reminiscing there.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:30 pm

There is no better thread for joyous reminiscing on all the Watch, Sea...
...IMO, of course.

Post by **StevieG** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:07 am

Continuing the snow theme

- we had snow one day in winter in 2006 when Jack my son was about 12 months old. He was fascinated! He kept on saying "no's" (for "snow") in a wonderous voice! I live at the foot of a mountain, so it gets some snow in winter, but it very rarely settles at our place - there's very rarely even frost, so this was a treat!

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:35 am

Menolly wrote:So...
did you text with Magickmaker instead?

He did.

Sea -- it was nice to stay inside and watch the snow pile up all day yesterday. It *really* snowed, too. Flakes driven sideways by the wind, just like I remember from my Midwestern youth....

My old snow shovel broke the winter before I moved out of the townhouse, so I threw it out -- "I'll be in an apartment, I won't need a snow shovel any more."

So yesterday Magickmaker and I started digging out the car (just a preliminary pass -- it was still snowing) with a broom and a short-handled shovel that I use for the fire circle when we go camping. Then our downstairs neighbor came out on his balcony and dropped his snow shovel over the railing for us to use.

And today as I was finishing the digging-out process, a guy with a snow shovel materialized out of nowhere and basically did the job for me in about five minutes flat.

This seemed like a good place to tell that story.

Happy Yule, everybody.

Post by **StevieG** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:48 am

So you really do shovel snow??

- I thought that was just something far-fetched that happened in the movies - it seems inconceivable that that much snow could fall!

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:54 am

Oh yeah, you definitely have to shovel it. We had 16 inches of the stuff fall yesterday. It's covering everything.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:48 am

Steve, I posted these of two snowfalls a year ago.

From December:

And January:

Post by **Furls Fire** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:55 am

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight,
All the way home I'll be warm.

The fire is slowly dying,
And, my dear, we're still good-bying,
But as long as you love me so,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Post by **Furls Fire** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:11 am

We should have a Christmas Carol sing song

Post by **Durris** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:36 am

My area of CT got 8 inches of snow yesterday. The coast got 10-15, leaving less for inland locations; usually the gradient is the other way round (inland is north).

I talked to my dad in the mountains of Southwest VA tonight. The snow there was more like 18 inches, and his area has no power or water. 3 families trekked on all-terrain vehicles to a large supermarket with a generator to run its gas pumps and brought back enough fuel to run their home generators long enough to conserve the food supply (3 hours for the fridges, then 3 hours for the freezers, lather, rinse, repeat). Dad was stuck at his workplace over Friday night because it's on top of an adjacent mountain and all 4 of the descent roads were impassable.

Post by **StevieG** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:06 am

Let it snow!! Sounds like the snow is widespread.

They're amazing images Fist! Is there a race to see who can be the first to, I don't know, write their name in the snow or something?

Amazing world eh? At a similar time of year, this image below can happen in my part of the world. This was actually October 2006 (the same year we had snow settle in winter

) - a bit of a scary river of fire!

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:03 am

Furls Fire wrote:We should have a Christmas Carol sing song

A favorite of mine...
...though a bit more religious in tone than Let It Snow

Long time ago in Bethlehem,
So the Holy Bible say,
Mary's boy child, Jesus Christ,
Was born on Christmas day,

Hark, now hear the angels sing,
A new King born today,
And man will live forevermore,
Because of Christmas day.

While shepherds watched their flock by night,
Them see a bright new shining star,
And hear a choir sing,
A music seemed to come from afar,

Now, Joseph and his wife, Mary,
Come to Bethlehem that night,
Them find no place to born she child,
Not a single room was in sight.

Hark, now hear the angels sing,
A new King born today,
And man will live forevermore,
Because of Christmas day.

By and by, them find a little nook,
In a stable all forlorn,
And in a manger cold and dark,
Mary's little Boy was born!

Hark, now hear the angels sing,
A new King born today,
And man will live forevermore,
Because of Christmas day.

Mary's Boy Child ~ Harry Belafonte

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:29 pm

We heard later on the radio that they closed the road (in the area of Jelico going through the mountains) just after we went through.

Hey SB, you drove through my county.

Jellico is a small town right on the Kentucky border, and the interstate from there to where I live in the southern half of the county was indeed closed for a while. We didn't get a lot of snow, but what we got came on FAST and made everything chaotic for a while. Some parts of the county are still without power this am.

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Stephen C. McKinney Memorial Thread (1969-2001)