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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Back Room => : ShadowShot January 30, 2010, 09:20:25 AM

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: ShadowShot January 30, 2010, 09:20:25 AM
We had 10 inches drop last night toped with sleet.
Just started snowing again.
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: Bogey January 30, 2010, 09:27:05 AM
Where do you live?
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: ShadowShot January 30, 2010, 10:31:51 AM
North Carolina
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: RedFeather January 30, 2010, 10:34:39 AM
Just saw you guys are getting a lot of ice.
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: ezman604 January 30, 2010, 11:14:29 AM


Same "Global Warming" going on here on the west coast of TN. We got 9-10" of snow after a layer of sleet. Rain and snow on and off for the last 24 hours. Below freezing temps keeping it from melting till possibly Monday. YUCK.....



Dave



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: Jerrycup January 30, 2010, 12:13:36 PM
Dang. Tommy and I hail from the Bluff City. We used to like the snow and ice. We had a nice Champion F-56 and some hills to slide on.
It's 32 here in big D, rained like heck on Thursday and Friday, but no ice or snow - still seems pretty frigid by our standards. I bet it warms up here tomorrow...
I'm ready to go shoot my new pistol, will have to pay for an indoor range.

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: shadow January 30, 2010, 12:31:01 PM
Just some bone chilling temps here :0 teen's during the day and low single digit's at night. The critters won't even come out to play. :0 Ed
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: ezman604 January 30, 2010, 12:35:30 PM


Kewl, from Jackson, eh????



Just a few miles from me, about 17 or so.



Dave



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: Tn.Reb January 30, 2010, 12:51:09 PM
I'm in upper N'East Tn.we have about six in.of the white stuff and still getting flurrie's.Low tonight predicted to be 16 deg.so much for Al's global warming/
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: Jerrycup January 30, 2010, 01:04:56 PM
Bluff City = Memphis, although Whitehaven was not really part of Memphis when we grew up.
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: ezman604 January 30, 2010, 01:17:07 PM


Duuuhhhh....a lot of companies in Jackson go by the name Bluff City. Didn't think about Mempho....LOL



Guess they ARE on the coast and really a bluff city.

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: Jerrycup January 30, 2010, 01:53:37 PM
Memphis _is_ the "Bluff City", named for the fourth Chickasaw Bluff on the Mississippi, the best landing on the river for many hundreds of miles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickasaw_Bluff
Jackson being 85 miles east of there, you can see my confusion. Jackson's a nice town, though.
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: gamo2hammerli January 31, 2010, 09:59:43 AM
Only about 4cm....1 1/2" of snow over the last 3 days.....but the stiff wind... 40 to 60kph (35mph) blew them into small snow drifts.
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: North Pack January 31, 2010, 10:15:27 AM
Just lucky, ...
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: Big_Bill January 31, 2010, 01:04:24 PM


With 20 deg. temperatures, and wind chills below 10 degrees. the weatherman was wrong again !



They predicted that the storm would miss us, and as expected it didn't ! Two inches of snow on top of some light ice !



When they forecast a dusting, is suggests you better stock up on supplies, when they call for a blizzard, forget about it ! These, well educated guys with Billions in satellites, radar, and computer simulators, ain't as good as The Farmers Almanac ! And they forecast over a year in advance !



Give me the Woolly Bear Caterpillar any day !



Bill

: Whitehaven ... small world
: bnations February 01, 2010, 01:56:17 PM
My wife's family all grew up in Whitehaven.  Did you know Sonny (my Father-in-law), Betty or Mark Howell?  They grew up on Hoyt Wooten's place.  Their Father, Smith Howell (my wife's Grandfather), was Mr. Wooten's foreman/boy-friday.  Wouldn't that be a small world if you all knew each other.

Bobby Nations
Collierville, TN

P.S. You probably know this already, but Whitehaven isn't what it used to be any more.
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: Jerrycup February 01, 2010, 03:21:58 PM
No, I don't recall those names. Tommy and I went to Hillcrest and the Wootens were Whitehaven HS people.
But I am sure that my father (who managed the Auto-Lec store in Whitehaven Plaza about 1/4 mile from Graceland) knew them, and we have mutual friends.
We lived on Rosebanks, right down the street from Dick Hackett.

Yes, Whitehaven is now known as BHZ, home to a bunch of rappers and hoods, and the old Whitehaven Plaza is mostly razed. I left there in 1976.