I have a bet that it is going to be one of the worse years for cold and snow. Mother Nature is fixing global warming :0) There has been a lot of Volcano activity and when all the smoke and ash is spued it cools off the planet. After Mt. Saint Helen's blew we had a couple of cold years in Oregon and Washington. I remember husband Kent was salvaging a barge in Alaska and it was in the 50's I was in Oregon without power for a week and in the grips of an ongoing Ice storm. The kids and I sat and watched the power transformers blow up all over the city. I have always had power back up and that house had 2 huge fireplaces which were a blessing. Now we just fly south for the winter. It will be in the high 70's today. To make this GSD related, this life style seems to make my 3 GSD's blow coat year around :0) Terry ________________________________ From: "VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx" <VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx> To: AKeller97@xxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 6:21:21 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Weather In a message dated 11/14/2010 9:07:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, AKeller97@xxxxxxx writes: Did you get the snow that was shown? OMG this is just too early and my mind set isn't ready for it. I have just finished the worse three days that anyone can imagine. Yes. I've lived out here for 55 yrs,had many snow storms with 4 ft of snow and minus 40 below,but at that time Lake Elmo only had 3000 people living here We now have 30,000 people ,and apparently our Electric company didn't keep up with the maintenance for the increase. Anyway it was a bad storm --wet heavy snow and high winds. I lost three trees and many branches from others,and since last Friday ( it's Monday now) was without heat ,water and electricity of any kind. the Temperature in the house dropped to 40 degree,so bundled up in old ski stuff that I had long ago, put away. Every time you'd call the electric company,they would say they couldn't get to Lake Elmo for another day--that Mankado had 40,000 without power,while Lake Elmo only had 32,000. I guess it was wide spread around the whole state. After 24 hrs of that,I had my son try and hook up my Dog show day's generator to see if at least we could get some heat in the house. He is a whiz at stuff like that . He got it going ,but could use it for only the furnace,but at least we got it a little warmer in the house ,So with using flash lites,we survived until everything came back on at 6 PM Sunday night,. It was a long 3 day's without use of water,no heat or lights. Needless to say, no computer use,so if anyone emailed me in the last three days, I wasn't able to communicate . Right now it is 8:15 Mon AM and now to fix all the clocks again and David to get out the chain saw and start on the mess of trees outside. Helen Miller Fisher ===========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ =========================================================================== ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================