-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 02-14-13  01:44 <=-

 > You must be in Massachusetts...  here in upstate NY, the state is under
 > a state of emergency

 JK> wow.. I missed that completely during "the storm".. In the Ithaca area
 JK> it was  just the same-old same-old.. maybe we got about a foot and a
 JK> half of snow  (looked cool)..

I only happened to catch it on the radio in the quick news break...
Governor Cuomo announced the state of emergency for the whole state, but
didn't close any roads... he said it was to allow for better control of
the situation as the local governments saw fit...  Pretty much same-old
same-old here, too...  :)  But it was pretty nasty down around NYC...

 JK> we paid the neighborhood kid to shovel us
 JK> out.. Ron told him  "here's 20 bux, shovel what you think is fair"..
 JK> This great kid shoveled us out  completely :)

Nice.  :)

 JK> Then it rained.. warm rain.. and all the snow went away.. today, we
 JK> have the  sad remains laying about (well sad if you were a snowman
 JK> ). 

We've still got some snow around... didn't get too much rain, mostly
just clouds and threatenings... what I really don't like is ice...
fortunately there's not too much of that...  

 > planning any unnecessary driving even so.  :)  We got out to do our
 > usual weekly grocery shopping yesterday (Fri) late morning, just at the

 JK> We also shopped "just in case"..but it turned out not to be really
 JK> necessary.. 

I didn't think we'd really need to stock up, but we usually do our
grocery shopping on Fridays, and by then we need milk and other basics,
so putting things off isn't advisable... especially if the next day is
supposed to be worse... 

 JK> Still waiting for spring-ish temps though.. darn it's cold.. Guess
 JK> it's  February.   :)

Welll.... yeah...  ;)   Give it a coupla months...  ;)

ttyl         neb

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