An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Woke up to 7° in Parachute, CO. Which, considering what temps everyone east of here has been posting, isn't bad. But it's almost cold enough to hunt down my toque, I usually don't wear one until the temps or wind chill gets down to 0°. (Toque is the Canadian word for what we call a toboggan hat, ski cap, or watch cap)

 

Yeah but maybe where you live but not in Florida. I used to run a Watertown, NY run back when I was driving and they get some serious snow upstate NY. I know snow is heavy up north and in the mid section of the country just not Florida.

 

we’re not used to getting a foot and a half of snow dumped on us in one night either. School was closed for days, it took the city forever to get the main roads to an acceptable state, and most residential streets are still the pits almost 3 weeks later (including mine)

At least you guys have the luxury of it melting quickly

 

There’s a reason snow in Florida and the blizzard warning in New Orleans made the news. Because it’s unusual. No one gives AF that it snowed in Kansas and is cold.

 

A dusting in florida is nuts, 8 inches in Milton is biblical, what a dumb approach to say “that’s nothing”, that’s crippling for us especially with temps remaining cold, it’ll be a few days before things are safe to travel again. As a lifelong Florida resident I can tell you the cold here is different, it’s wet and nasty that’s why you see us bundled up at 50 degrees, and ice and snow to these levels is nothing short of a natural disaster.

 

Mother Nature has spared casa de Snackbar's house from her frozen precipitation wrath

 

Yes it's very rare to have a snow storm like this one. Because of the lack of any normal snow accumulation in Florida, no mayor in his right mind would spend tons of taxpayers money for snow plows that would set in their road department yards and rot before they were ever utilized. We'll suffer for a couple days before the meltoff happens and then it will go back to the 60's and 70's.

 

They have me headed to Wichita...and I think I might be getting an OD load. A KS, MO and GA permit popped up in my email

 

You’re welcome. I left the paperwork in the file folders next to the door.

This is one big ####ing stepdeck.