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: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: daved March 30, 2008, 03:17:30 AM
And sleep until November??!!  The 4" of snow we got Friday pretty much melted off yesterday, but I woke up this morning to another inch, and it's still coming down!  I thought March was IN like a lion and OUT like a lamb.  My chickens are NOT amused!  Some pics for your entertainment, later.

Dave
: Re: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: DanoInTx March 30, 2008, 03:48:27 AM
Howdy Rip, Rod Sterling here.  It's not that you have slept for 4 months, it's that you have now entered,.....The Twilight Zone!
: Re: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: March 30, 2008, 04:09:28 AM
At least Dan didn't try to impersonate Rod Serling and chose to be Rod Sterling instead.  It hardly ever snows here in Alabama but occasionally we do get a freak event.  Two in mind, once it snowed in April and not too many years ago it snowed in excess of a foot overnight.  Imagine that!  In a place where it hasn't really snowed and accumalated in years and you wake to 14" of snow in your front yard.  I recall watching it come down that night.  It was driven by a cold front crossing with a thurnderstorm.  That was the first time in my life I had ever seen near continous GREEN lightning.  It was probably the last time also to see more than a foot of snow here in Alabama.  It crippled the B'ham area for nearly a week.  It has snowed twice this year.  But what fell overnight was gone before 10am.
: Re: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: DanoInTx March 30, 2008, 04:19:35 AM
Yes, I think Rod Sterling is Rod Serlings arch nemesis:)
: Re: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: March 30, 2008, 04:22:03 AM
I'd imagine it doesn't snow that often in Ft. Worth/Dallas either, does it?  I have a best buddy from high school who ran your way in the lat 80's.  He still comes to see me every big holiday when he's home to see family.
: Re: Did I do a Rip Van Winkle?
: DanoInTx March 30, 2008, 04:54:31 AM
Not often, but it does occasionally.  We had some last month:

(http://www.gatewaytoairguns.com/airguns/photos/get-photo.asp?photoid=1042)

(http://www.gatewaytoairguns.com/airguns/photos/get-photo.asp?photoid=1043)