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[Plum Crazy]

You guys are having a ball reliving the "olden days"
But the reality of it all is that we is grown ups now.
Gotta get to work and snow sucks.

It sucks in my gutters and it sucks in my shoes.
The f'ing plow guy I kill will be on the news.
I have had enough
I can't take no more
If you don't believe me,
Watch channel 4.

I am a sand bunny, not a snow bunny.

[Pete_G]

I don't think they allow kids to sled on the hill I grew up sledding on anymore. Someone was probably killed or permanently injured. The last time I was there I was probably in my early 20's and it was still epic, so this isn't the sort of hill the lost its magic as you got older. That hill was serious business.

Really the only proper sled for the hill was a toboggan which afforded some degree of control and kept you near the ground with a low center of gravity. Something with runners, while it could steer, in the event you crashed, would usually cause injuries due to the fact you were off the ground. There was no need to get a running start, even the bravest among us inched over the edge. A forward fall due to gravity as you went down was entirely possible, leaning back a bit was advised.

Someone (usually me) always felt the experience could be improved with a quality ramp at the bottom. No one would tell a new arrival to the hill it was there though which provided top notch entertainment.

And then some genius would give always give an inflatable a go on the hill. This sort of sled was almost a guaranteed tragedy and if it didn't occur during the near vertical drop you could count on results in the form of ridiculous air time when they hit the ramp at the bottom.

I can hear bodies crashing into the snow at high speeds, the popping of inflatable tubes during landing, kids crying after discovering the hill and the jump were a little more then they bargained for, and people struggling to breath from having the wind knocked out of them even now...

[kensac]

Oh yes, the memories of that one! Gang of us from Gillette HAD to go to the Beanpot. The wife said it was going to be bad but Oh no, "I can drive in a little snow". 5 days later I got home to Scituate, MA. and all of the homes on the beach were gone or badly damaged. had a great 5 days holed up in the Gillette plant. Good food, drinks from the plow drivers, showers, cots, card games, Tv coverage of the storm etc. Very pissed off wife, cold, ran out of wood and burned some furniture, food running low 4 kids driving her crazy.

had a very long hill behind my house in Middleboro and after an ice storm everyone in town it seemed came there to take the long ride down. One girl got scalped as she ran under a barbed wire fence. What a bloody mess.

[Joe]

The Emergency Management people see it this way:
If you don't cancel and there are traffic jams and kids and workers can't get home, you're fired.
If you cancel everything and close the state, and the storm comes after school lets out, and it was all a big false alarm - some people will biotch, but you keep your job.

It's an easy decision if you want to keep your state/city job.