Some of you may remember that Denver had a blizzard last week. Our
area got 33 inches of snow, most of which is still piled high
everywhere you look. Some of it is still on neighborhood streets,
creating axle-breaking ruts.

It's snowing again, hard. They are predicting anywhere from 10-20
inches by noon tomorrow.

On the stove, simmering:

--chili because we're finally finished with the prime rib and need
something SPICY
--yellow split-pea soup using the ham bone left from our pre-holiday
employee lunch

It smells GO-O-OD in here!

In article . com>,
says...
> Some of you may remember that Denver had a blizzard last week. Our
> area got 33 inches of snow, most of which is still piled high
> everywhere you look. Some of it is still on neighborhood streets,
> creating axle-breaking ruts.
>
> It's snowing again, hard. They are predicting anywhere from 10-20
> inches by noon tomorrow.
>
> On the stove, simmering:
>
> --chili because we're finally finished with the prime rib and need
> something SPICY
> --yellow split-pea soup using the ham bone left from our pre-holiday
> employee lunch
>
> It smells GO-O-OD in here!
>
>
Well, it sounds as though you have a few blessings to count, which is
always a plus.

I'm just surprised that Denver, of all places, was as floored by this
storm as it seems they were. I would have thought three feet of snow
was a common thing out there, a just-shake-it-off and get on with your
business kind of thing.

I remember back when Chicagoans almost burned the Mayor at the stake
when she screwed up the city's response to an even more severe storm.
Any of that kind of ire brewing in Denver?

Bob

On Dec 28, 3:35 pm, yetanotherBob > wrote:


>
> I'm just surprised that Denver, of all places, was as floored by this
> storm as it seems they were. I would have thought three feet of snow
> was a common thing out there, a just-shake-it-off and get on with your
> business kind of thing.


It reminds me a lot of the blizzard of ''78 in New England. It came on
fast and lasted 36 hours. People in both storms were abandoning their
cars on the higway because the snow was so deep only the largest 4WDs
were able to get through. A bobcat that was trying to clear our street
had to put on chains because ther was just no traction.


> I remember back when Chicagoans almost burned the Mayor at the stake
> when she screwed up the city's response to an even more severe storm.
> Any of that kind of ire brewing in Denver?


Yes, along political lines. Mayor Hickenlooper (yes, that's his name)
has been criticized because he didn't clear every flake off of every
street within 2 hours of the storm stopping. He said "The residential
streets have been plowed" when some of them hadn't, but he was just
repeating what the Public Works people told him. There are hundreds of
miles of streets and...40 plows.

There's no way that voters would approve of buying enough plows to take
care of monster blizzards which happen less than once a year. People
need to take responsibility for staying home and keeping their cars off
the streets to avoid accidents and to let the plows have access.

We weren't here yet, but after the Christmas Blizzard of '82 the former
mayor, McNichols, was laughed out of office when he suggested a
solution was to put plows on garbage trucks.

There's no way to please anyone under these conditions. Mother Nature
always has the last laugh.

said...

> There's no way to please anyone under these conditions. Mother Nature
> always has the last laugh.


Ain't that the truth.

Here in Philadelphia, winter exposes the worst of neighborhoods. Plenty of
folks with freezing cold anger and guns!

Where I live, it usually takes two or three days to really do a good job of
clearing the roads.

When I FINALLY get to the main roads, it's bewildering that traffic and
life has gone on so "business as usual!"

Still, the price I pay for privacy and comfort is SO worth it! If only I
could hibernate!!!

Andy

In article >,
yetanotherBob > wrote:

> In article . com>,
> says...
> > Some of you may remember that Denver had a blizzard last week. Our
> > area got 33 inches of snow, most of which is still piled high
> > everywhere you look. Some of it is still on neighborhood streets,
> > creating axle-breaking ruts.
> >
> > It's snowing again, hard. They are predicting anywhere from 10-20
> > inches by noon tomorrow.
> >
> > On the stove, simmering:
> >
> > --chili because we're finally finished with the prime rib and need
> > something SPICY
> > --yellow split-pea soup using the ham bone left from our pre-holiday
> > employee lunch
> >
> > It smells GO-O-OD in here!
> >
> >
> Well, it sounds as though you have a few blessings to count, which is
> always a plus.
>
> I'm just surprised that Denver, of all places, was as floored by this
> storm as it seems they were. I would have thought three feet of snow
> was a common thing out there, a just-shake-it-off and get on with your
> business kind of thing.
>
> I remember back when Chicagoans almost burned the Mayor at the stake
> when she screwed up the city's response to an even more severe storm.
> Any of that kind of ire brewing in Denver?
>
At least Denver and Chicago have snowplows. Rumor has it that Seattle
has TWO. Why so few? Most of the snow hits to the east or west of us,
in the foothills of the Cascades or in the Olympics. Our weather is
moderated by Puget Sound. Two other reasons that Seattle has so few
snowplows a

1. Hills. A snowplow wouldn't make it up some of them, even with
chains. The cops will just barricade off some of the steeper streets.

2. Narrow residential streets, with lots of cars parked on them. Or
these cute little concrete doughnuts at intersections that are designed
to slow drivers down.

My mother, who lives in the snow belt of upstate NY, had a good laugh at
our snowstorm last month. She had a good bit of snow yesterday. She
also had unexpected visitors: a family that couldn't get their truck up
the hill by her house. She let them use her phone to call friends, and
the husband was nice enough to shovel her walk for her.

OB Dinner tonight: lamb shoulder chops, cooked in some fashion.

Stay warm, Gloria!
Cindy

--
C.J. Fuller

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wrote:

> Some of you may remember that Denver had a blizzard last week. Our
> area got 33 inches of snow, most of which is still piled high
> everywhere you look. Some of it is still on neighborhood streets,
> creating axle-breaking ruts.
>
> It's snowing again, hard. They are predicting anywhere from 10-20
> inches by noon tomorrow.
>

I live in the Big Thompson Canyon, and the snow's coming down faster,
and heavier than the pre-Christmas snow. I'm still tired from all the
shovelling the first time, so I may stay home from work tomorrow, even
if the highway gets ploughed well enough to drive up to Estes Park.

> On the stove, simmering:
>
> --chili because we're finally finished with the prime rib and need
> something SPICY
> --yellow split-pea soup using the ham bone left from our pre-holiday
> employee lunch
>
> It smells GO-O-OD in here!
>
I stopped in Safeway in Estes Park today, mainly to leave off some film
for developing, but I filled up a container with some baked potato soup
on the way to the photo counter. Lucky for me, the guy behind the
photo counter rung up the soup, as I've never seen such long lines in a
grocery store before. Many of the shelves were empty. It always
surprises me how many people seem to have no provisions set aside for
unforseen emergencies.

I made a stir-fry tonight, mainly because I had all the vegetables that
needed to be dealt with, but in weather like this, nothing tastes so
good to me as soup.

Elaine

In article .net>,
lid says...
> Spaghetti tonight. Chili tomorrow.
>
>
Isn't it supposed to be "Chili tonight. Hot tamale."?

Bob :-)

In article . com>,
says...
> We weren't here yet, but after the Christmas Blizzard of '82 the former
> mayor, McNichols, was laughed out of office when he suggested a
> solution was to put plows on garbage trucks.
>
>
Actually, that's not a bad idea. While it's not "optimal", that
approach has been used successfully elsewhere to give some "surge"
capacity for really nasty blizzards.

OB Food: It's a nice gesture to wave the snowplow driver down when they
finally do come through, and offer him or her a cup of hot chocolate or
a grilled cheese sando, or both. Since I started doing that, my mailbox
has not been clipped even once! (Maybe it's like the garlic vs. vampire
thing. I wonder what it would take to keep them from re-burying the
driveway entrance.)

Bob

yetanotherBob > wrote in
:

> In article
> .net>,
> lid says...
>> Spaghetti tonight. Chili tomorrow.
>>
>>
> Isn't it supposed to be "Chili tonight. Hot tamale."?
>
> Bob :-)

I do wish for a 'hot tamale'. ;-)

yetanotherBob wrote on 29 Dec 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> OB Food: It's a nice gesture to wave the snowplow driver down when they
> finally do come through, and offer him or her a cup of hot chocolate or
> a grilled cheese sando, or both. Since I started doing that, my mailbox
> has not been clipped even once! (Maybe it's like the garlic vs. vampire
> thing. I wonder what it would take to keep them from re-burying the
> driveway entrance.)
>
> Bob
>
>

Beer...lots of beer and they'll do your driveway and front walk.

"yetanotherBob" > wrote in message
...
> In article . com>,
> says...
>> Some of you may remember that Denver had a blizzard last week. Our
>> area got 33 inches of snow, most of which is still piled high
>> everywhere you look. Some of it is still on neighborhood streets,
>> creating axle-breaking ruts.
>>
>> It's snowing again, hard. They are predicting anywhere from 10-20
>> inches by noon tomorrow.
>>
>> On the stove, simmering:
>>
>> --chili because we're finally finished with the prime rib and need
>> something SPICY
>> --yellow split-pea soup using the ham bone left from our pre-holiday
>> employee lunch
>>
>> It smells GO-O-OD in here!
>>
>>
> Well, it sounds as though you have a few blessings to count, which is
> always a plus.
>
> I'm just surprised that Denver, of all places, was as floored by this
> storm as it seems they were. I would have thought three feet of snow
> was a common thing out there, a just-shake-it-off and get on with your
> business kind of thing.
>
> I remember back when Chicagoans almost burned the Mayor at the stake
> when she screwed up the city's response to an even more severe storm.
> Any of that kind of ire brewing in Denver?
>
> Bob

Ummm, you've got your facts wrong. Jane Byrne (the city's only female
mayor) was elected mayor, in part, because her predecessor, Mayor Michael
Bilandic, failed to respond to a very bad snow storm in a satisfactory way.
Chicago takes it snow storms rather seriously ;-).

Kate

In article . net>,
says...
>
> Ummm, you've got your facts wrong. Jane Byrne (the city's only female
> mayor) was elected mayor, in part, because her predecessor, Mayor Michael
> Bilandic, failed to respond to a very bad snow storm in a satisfactory way.
> Chicago takes it snow storms rather seriously ;-).
>
> Kate
>
>
Thanks for the correction.

By way of an alibi, I was in sunny Spain at the time, helping to fend
off the forces of godless communism, and could only read about it in
Sun-Times clippings sent from home. Thus, my memories are a bit (ahem)
hazy. But I do recall clearly that, at the time, I was *very* upset to
have missed being there in person for all the excitement.

Well, maybe not *that* upset.

Bob

OB Food: The tapas were generally excellent, but you had to be careful
with shellfish from the Bay of Cadiz.

In article >,
yetanotherBob > wrote:

> OB Food: It's a nice gesture to wave the snowplow driver down when they
> finally do come through, and offer him or her a cup of hot chocolate or
> a grilled cheese sando, or both. Since I started doing that, my mailbox
> has not been clipped even once! (Maybe it's like the garlic vs. vampire
> thing. I wonder what it would take to keep them from re-burying the
> driveway entrance.)
>
> Bob

Honey, it would have to be a verifiable, witnessed, documented,
saint-producing, squint-your-eyes-tight-flash-of-light murrcle!
--
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