How are all the East Coaster folks doing?

Bill Leverett

Bill Leverett

PCS Member/Super Site Supporter/Paramedic Supervis
The news are showing some pretty fierce storms on the East Coast. How is the East Coast PCS family holding up?
 
I just spoke to my brother in New York City a couple of hours ago (the one who drove my Criterion up to Canada for me). My nephew, who goes to school in Spain, is stuck in Copenhagen on his way home for Christmas because there are no flights landing in New York. They anticipate that he may make it home by Tuesday. Fingers crossed.
 
We had better than a foot of snow, and it took a while to push it to the sides. It isn't the snow that bothers me, it is the extremely cold weather. Today is the first day of winter, so in 13 weeks from today, we will have the first day of spring. Can't wait.... :D
 
We're OK. Got two feet of snow here in MD. The garage roof seems to be holding up :eek: (actually, we've had more and been fine, so I'm not worried), but it'll be a while before I can get in the garage due to the drifts. Oh well, we have nowhere to go in the ambulances anyway.

I was at work at the airport fire department Saturday during the snowstorm. At the peak of the storm, airport maintenance still had not come to plow the airport firehouse. We got a call, and #1 ambulance responded and got stuck. So #2 ambulance (my unit) responded and got a little further and got stuck. We got unstuck first and made it out to the road, where I found two snowplows and commandeered them to plow the firehouse, which they did. Well, after all that, airport maintenance shows up with two front end loaders, a dump truck, a snow-blower truck, a Vammas plow (big, expensive, runway clearing tractor-trailer plow), and a supervisor. They got the firehouse plowed and cleared. Divine providence was that they got the Vammas got stuck in a ditch - a very big "ooops"!!!! :eek: If only they'd have come by earlier with just one regular plow.... :rolleyes:
 
Ah, you guys are having all the fun. All I have here is sun and sand but today is only getting up to 62. Enjoy it while you can for in a few months it will all melt away.

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It's this time of year we in Cactusland just chuckle when reading these reports. Though you all may say no way when thinking about the Summer furnace we have learned to deal with we too think no way when thinking about your winters. :D

Happy Holidays to all!!!
 
Congratulations Greg on your first post.. You joined in March...... What took so long??? Not like you to be so silent.. :D
 
snowand cold

More cold than anything else up here, 13F, and windy so it feels like O , I didn't do any Xmas parades this year as the IH is still in the shop getting the engine rebuilt...
Busy on the road, lots of MVC's and veh-pedestrian collisons, even had someone call in an ice rescue that turned out to be an ice fisherman... too soon for that since the rivers aren;t frozen over yet...
 
I can do without all the snow we get here, but I will take the cold any day over the summer heat and humidity. I actually look forward to winter for this reason. The down side is all the pro cars are tucked away for a few months.
 
Doesn't snow here much, ever. When it does everything shuts down. It's suppose to be in the high 40's to low 50's for the rest of the week.
 
Brendan Martin said:
Is that a Morton Building?
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I don't know, it was here when we bought it. It doesn't have a Morton nameplate, or any nameplate, so I don't know who built it, if it was a kit or built from scratch. It's not a pole building, it has steel beams inside with metal and fiberglas siding, and has a concrete floor. It won't blow over anytime soon. The little garage is a wood, Amish-built shed.

This is the third time we've had more than 18" of snow in one day since we moved out here 12 years ago. But we get by - our neighbor plows the driveway with his farm tractor, and when the road's plowed, we're back to normal.
 
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