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No Californians here, Bucko.
Anybody feel like those clowns out there in Cali have lost touch with their inner weathermen? Like maybe their talk of sun and surf, great cruises and amorous women have just been consistent reminders that our weather sucks?
I say we let them know how life is in the real world with a thread of our own. Bring out the Canadians. Let's hear from the New Yorkers. Mickey, mash some buttons and stick up a picture of your ice-fallen, broken a** and your car with studded tires on it.
Where are the Englishmen in all of this chatting about the sun? I bet those poor sods haven't seen it since July of 2006!
Where's poor Dusty? We haven't heard from him since he had to tunnel his way to the outhouse with a garden trowel! How is Jim Ward? He's probably in a solid block of ice by now!
Anybody from Vermont, or maybe New Hampshire? Nova Scotia? Groenland? Tellar thu Danske? Where's Oregon in all this? Mountain biking somewhere in the Cascades in a snomobile suit and full-face helmet?
Where are the Siberians? The "Great Alaskan In Hiding" from Chicago, with his sled-dog-pulled, copper-colored, carbon-fiber-lined, Iditer-hotrod contender?
We need to pull together here folks. Get out your scarves. Pull on the mittens. Don the PARKAS! CRY HAVOC!



(Phew. That was fun. Personally, I gave in to the pressures of reality today. Baltimore had a high of 35 and a low of 27. My car's not working. The Chesapeake Bay is cold and gray, and even the geese have all gone farther south. Is it spring yet?)

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No Californians here, Bucko.
Anybody feel like those clowns out there in Cali have lost touch with their inner weathermen? Like maybe their talk of sun and surf, great cruises and amorous women have just been consistent reminders that our weather sucks?
I say we let them know how life is in the real world with a thread of our own. Bring out the Canadians. Let's hear from the New Yorkers. Mickey, mash some buttons and stick up a picture of your ice-fallen, broken a** and your car with studded tires on it.
Where are the Englishmen in all of this chatting about the sun? I bet those poor sods haven't seen it since July of 2006!
Where's poor Dusty? We haven't heard from him since he had to tunnel his way to the outhouse with a garden trowel! How is Jim Ward? He's probably in a solid block of ice by now!
Anybody from Vermont, or maybe New Hampshire? Nova Scotia? Groenland? Tellar thu Danske? Where's Oregon in all this? Mountain biking somewhere in the Cascades in a snomobile suit and full-face helmet?
Where are the Siberians? The "Great Alaskan In Hiding" from Chicago, with his sled-dog-pulled, copper-colored, carbon-fiber-lined, Iditer-hotrod contender?
We need to pull together here folks. Get out your scarves. Pull on the mittens. Don the PARKAS! CRY HAVOC!



(Phew. That was fun. Personally, I gave in to the pressures of reality today. Baltimore had a high of 35 and a low of 27. My car's not working. The Chesapeake Bay is cold and gray, and even the geese have all gone farther south. Is it spring yet?)

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Cory:

I am with you 100%. Who wants to have a SEG all year round from driving their Speedsters? How wants to be able to take it out on a whim all year round? Instead we have to wait until the arctic blast that just dumped an inch of solid ice on all pavements to defrost. I could hardly get the garage door to open so I could get a glimpse of the speedster under its car cover.

I have to admit I do feel a little jealous when I hear about them going on cruises. I guess it just makes us appreciate our speedsters a little bit more when we get to use them. I can hardly wait for the tempatures to just get above freezing so I can take her out for a spin.

Enough with the cold weather, let the spring come around soon.

Sorry Cory I wanted to back you up on this, but no can do. Lets talk in April !

Andres D.
You're right, those Left-Coasters need to know what it's like to be cold and shut indoors. We've had to run our heater for two days now when the temp plunged into the 40's at night. Now it's barely going to reach into the 60's and my wife has to bundle up to just to get the mail. I hope her car starts OK in the morning and the roads aren't too bad for her to drive to work. I just think you guys over there need to lighten on us frozen Right-Coasters.

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I am (was?) a third-generation Californian. Spent my first 32 years there. After living the last 20 in the Portland area, I can tell you that the deep blue sky or the (rare) perfect winter day to take the Speedy out is a treat to be appreciated. I don't think the Californians share that sense of "specialness" because every sunny warm day is just another day. No doubt waking up to the same Playmate model every day would become mundane. Those of us in the less temperate zones are treated to the special and exiting while you sun belt guys just get more of the same. Boring.
Yeah, that bit about having only one season - even a perfect one - all year long must get old.

It's too chilly here in Charleston today for a wimp like me to drive with the top down. I might do a short top-up run later just to get the kinks out. Of course in August when it's too damned hot to drive an open car during the day but you do it anyway, I'll be envious of the folks in CA (or up north).
Lane,
Would you believe I've never driven top-up? I'm too tall to see traffic signals, so I just bundle up with hat and coat. The only time I was really cold was the first half of the drive down I-5 for the Southern Oregon Tour. I came this close to stopping and putting the top up, but I managed to carry on until the sun warmed things up. The CA guys just can't appreciate this.
Gosh, you guys are way to funny with this cold weather stuff and us coastal people. Our friends have a place in Aspen,Colorado and the skiing conditions by yesterday were more than perfect.!!so Larry will be flying his plane to pick us up and this California Coastal girl is going skiing for 4 days. Yahooooooo.... so I will be freezing my butt off too, so there. ~Esther
I love the change of seasons! I better in New York. I've run the snow blower everyday for the past 2 weeks. We have about 2 ft. on the ground and a lot so blowing and drifting. Had a 5 ft. drift across all 3 garage doors last Wednesday. Got up at 5 AM so the Wife could get to work. I worked from home. Oswego is about 100 miles to the east and they got about 12 ft. in just a few days.

6 ski slopes within 2 hours drive, snowmobiling, ice fishing, ice skating, along with cross country skiing and snow shoeing right out side my door!

It doesn't get any better than this!
I was gonna bitch and moan about the cold but I looked at the week ahead forecast today and it shows temps in the mid 40's from tomorrow on out, damn, now I have to get my summer clothes out! Now if I could just get my car back......ahhh, 42 degrees, the smell of Hawaiian Tropic and the warm breeze blowing through your hair - man it just doesn't get any better!
I hate the Rose Parade... Every Year (Except last year) every parade shows the wonderful San Gabriel Mountains in the back-drop and a temp of 72 degrees and everyone from mid-west and east of the Rockies is headed west... STAY HOME. We have no more room we just have earth quakes and drive by shootings and traffic so heavy when we take out our Tubs we only go 15 MPH on the freeway (Interstate for some of you)

You're all correct... Cali stinks... I wouldn't reccomend it to ANY one...

Vince........... Think they bought it?

Speedster "D'
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