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SSSS Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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but the grocery stores just love it when the media predicts "a major winter storm" coming. _________________
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OndinitaAKALibchit Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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SSSS wrote: | but the grocery stores just love it when the media predicts "a major winter storm" coming. |
Totally!!! And here in GA, a few flurries are considered a major winter storm. People start driving like maniacs & go grocery shopping as if they're going to be stuck in a bomb shelter for a month! Me...I just get wine, cheese, maybe some french bread & I'm ready for the snow! _________________ "If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties ... if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal.'" ~ Senator John F. Kennedy 9/14/1960
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Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 3177 Location: Corrales, NM
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Here in NM a dusting of snow is routinely referred to as an inch or more of snow. Now in higher elevations they do get several inches regularly throughout the winter. They don't freak out about it like folks in the lower altitudes do over a few snowflakes. _________________ "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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SSSS Journeyman
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I remember...and I think it was 1978....Atlanta was totally paralyzed after five inches of snow fell. _________________
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Brant Admin
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 5277 Location: Hopewell Township
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I was there. And you are right. We Yankees had a jolly good time driving through it. _________________
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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So, I was thinking... what do you do when both parents have to be at work, and there is a two hour delay?
Since teachers have to be at work at the regular time, is there a drop off for parents who are stuck? _________________
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Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 2753 Location: You can't get here from there
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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dick wrote: | So, I was thinking... what do you do when both parents have to be at work, and there is a two hour delay?
Since teachers have to be at work at the regular time, is there a drop off for parents who are stuck? |
No, there is not a drop-off option at most schools. For two-worker-parent families, it is a scramble on those mornings! Since for most of my working time at this job I've been close to home, I used to bring them to work with me and put them in an empty conference room with breakfast and Legos until it was time to run them back home to catch the bus. For their first few years of school, until I lost my old job, I think my Mum and I would take turns calling in sick or going in late. (And no, that's not why I lost my job.) I'm not sure what parents do who are not as fortunate as I was with my employer.
That's why it is a pain if they delay, then cancel! Plans have already been rearranged for a two-hour delay, then you have to look at all day! At my old job, if school were cancelled early enough, I took them to the day care they attended in the summers. This job, I left them at home alone since I was so close (ason was 12 the first winter). *gasp _________________ -amom
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:25 am Post subject: |
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I took advantage of today's two-hour delay and went to breakfast with bson. Used a couple hours of comp time and had a really nice time. I highly recommend it. _________________ -amom
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Awesome. I love breakfast. I'm convinced that bacon is the best weapon to combat Muslim extremists. If they'd only taste it, they'd immeadiately conform to the western culture. _________________
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:38 am Post subject: |
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I'm making hamburgers tonight topped with bacon and fried eggs. While the wife's away ... On the subject of weather, I just talked to the missus on the phone, and she says they're going batcrap crazy in Nashville because a "blizzard" is coming. _________________
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Now I want bacon. Bacon and eggs and hash browns and either a waffle or french toast, and maybe some sausage. _________________ The end is nigh! OR forums die APRIL 1. Don't lose contact! Join the forums at bogsource.com now! |
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: |
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I had pancakes, a scrambled egg, and bacon. Ymmm. Still stuffed! _________________ -amom
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: |
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If you're in the Pittsburgh area, you have to go to Frank and Shirley's, a place I go for breakfast with a friend who lives in Castle Shannon. It's at 2209 Saw Mill Run Blvd. It's an old diner-type restaurant, and the home fries are incredible. I can't recommend it highly enough. _________________
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I've been there! One or twice going into Pittsburgh in the old days. You're right...excellent fare. _________________ -amom
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OndinitaAKALibchit Journeyman
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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dick wrote: | Awesome. I love breakfast. I'm convinced that bacon is the best weapon to combat Muslim extremists. If they'd only taste it, they'd immeadiately conform to the western culture. |
Definitely!!! _________________ "If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties ... if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal.'" ~ Senator John F. Kennedy 9/14/1960
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