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It was so cold today in Canton that the home boys were actually pulling up their pants...

 

Winter's Almost Over.....

Won't be long now.... Winter is almost over...

I can finally see the deer moving around again in my back yard....

 

^^^^ :lol: We used to have that mailbox problem also until my (4) older brothers that worked at a steel mill came home with a 10 foot section of 8x10 I beam and did a nice little weekend project for my Mother in the late 60's.

My brothers dug a huge 6 foot deep buy 4 ft hole, filled it with lots of rebar hammered into the ground in every direction concrete. Then they took an old Steel Milk can like the one below and cut the top and bottom for the I beam and filled it with concrete. Oh the concrete came from a family friend and my brothers buddy that owns a cement co so it was about 3-4 yards worth made with stone from the local quarry. (That's funny later) Next they made an mailbox out of 1/4 inch or so diamond plate steel and put the diamonds on the inside and a little flag. Everything was welded together and that thing never moved again.

It used to mess up plow trucks blades all the time and if anyone tried to hit our mailbox with a bat or toss a few M80's inside they got a huge surprise. Nothing could even put a dent in it.

In the late 90's it was finally moved or should say was tilted 4 inches when a dump truck (12 wheels) hit it with the corner of his front bumper trying to pass someone on the right while they were making a left hand turn. The mailbox broke about 2 feet off the end off his bumper destroyed the fiber glass fender and ripped the side out of his tire and sheered off 3 lug nuts and ripped off his passenger step. Thank god he swerved back a little or the next thing was his fuel tank which was only scratched.

I would say the mailbox won that battle among several others over the years.

Since then my mother sold the house and has passed away but the mailbox was always still there every time I drove by my child hood home.

The mailbox from hell was finally removed with a bulldozer and a crane because they were widening the road and they could not get it out of the ground. :lol: When they did get it out it was sitting up on the lawn with 6-8 guys looking at it going WTF because it looked like a huge concrete porcupine with a short tail and a box at the end. :lol:

They used the crane to put it in a bump truck and haul it away.

 

A friend of mine ran into a mailbox that damn near totaled his 510 on the Ohio Winter Rally. Mailbox was on top on an automatic transmission mounted vertically & filled with concrete. Mailbox 1, 510 zero. I thought it was funny as heck, good old Dave saw no humor in it. Although in the rally results it did say his DNF was due to transmission problems.

 

I really really hate it when I am just standing there and the snowplow comes by

 

Donk on Ice

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It was so cold, my tongue still hurts..

 

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

Change the name of the thread from 'How cold is it' to '#%&q@#*$!!!!!'

 

I was going to try my ice dancing tricks again since we seem to have plenty around.

Misplaced my outfit.

 

"Watch out where the huskies go & don't you eat that yellow snow" Zappa

 

Cold....

 

That's OK, when California slides under the sea we'll be high & dry.

 

-2F here this morning.

Yikes, glad my office is a very short commute. Do have to zig around the couch to prevent a massive coffee spill.

 

I've got a spare space heater....

You have a CF steering wheel....

Even trade?

Oh, and I'll overlook the fact it has a flat spot on the bottom....

 

It was 2* this morning on the way to work, seat heaters on their lowest setting - thank god for those - by the time I got to work there was almost lukewarm air coming from the dash vents!

Saturday it's supposed to be mid-40's again...crazy weather!

 

Snow Day....

The way it's snowing today....

This could be useful for getting to work in the morning... Could solve my morning commute with the Columbus traffic....



I especially like the bovine horns....

I noticed the VW performed the safest....

 

Last night, with 60 mph wind gusts, wind chills to -50F, and zero visibility in blowing snow, the word went out that the county and state were pulling all plows, emergency, and law enforcement vehicles off the country roads because most were impassible and all were unmaintainable.

So if you got cocky overnight, venturing out and getting yourself stuck in a drifted ditch, by now you're certainly looking like a popsicle.