Nor'easter The Storm??? Or Can We Travel
Until now I had not ever heard of this Title or a kind of storm with snow like this, I guess but what it is for this part of the country is pain and suffering!! I hope the ones affected take all precautions possible to prevent loss of life!! We have talked about this kind of conditions happenings about every 50 to 100 years in different parts of the United States and other place around the world!!!
It's a very sad time for people this time of the year with Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year just ahead of us!!!! We have to think and believe it can't hold us down for long it's just temporary in nature!!
However we start to wonder how the weather will be for the holidays around the country? You know we tease and hear it announced all the time about the snow birds going south to Florida for the winter while others head out to Arizona!! No matter the severity of the hurricanes we never hear about the Floridians going up north during the hurricane season they suffer through year after year!!!!! They stay put time after time from what little I know which is one reason when a mandatory evacuation order is given for big hurricanes only a hand full will leave!!!
I have driven through Arizona when the big-big dust or sand storms are raging and I stopped every time in a safe place like a Walmart parking lot until it was over!!! On the other hand I have driven through Phoenix with the sun shining bright going north to Flagstaff and run into snow so deep the highway patrols require you to put on snow chains!!!! If you didn't have them there was a guy on the side selling them at twice the price you would normally pay!!
I bet there are members here that know exactly what I'm talking about!! You always carried snow chains in your trunk year round otherwise you would never be allowed to go past Donna summit going to Reno, NV from California!!!!
I miss those traveling days but when I think of them now it brings back great memories of when I was more able to travel in my motor home and enjoy life!!! I remember like it was yesterday the gas was 97 cent a gallon and I had an 80 gallon tank!!!! "Those were the days"!! Now my travels are to New Orleans and maybe to Fort Benning Georgia for reunions of the pistol shooting team members!!!
It's so much better to think of and remember the good times we had back in the days!!! When I think about those times considering how things has changed everywhere, the times now are really not that bad in my case!!! I guess the memories last a long time so many of you will remember Nor'easter for sure like a high tide and another heavy snow fall at your doors!!!!!!! Be good, if you can't then be careful!!!
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