Hi Helen, Happy Birthday. Sorry you didn't get to go out on the day itself, but I'm sure you'll have a great time when we can shovel out. The pile at the end of street is worse than I ever remember it. You have to pull way out into the road before you can even begin to see if a car is coming. Last I heard they were saying 6-10, but that was from earlier this afternoon, so we'll just have to wait and see I guess. Did you see that massive truck that can melt the snow? I heard something about it being used in NY, then I saw it on the news one day last week. Good idea, but I'm not sure where they drain the water? They would have to locate the storm drains first and that doesn't seem so easy to do these days! Lisa Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "helenware" <helenware@comcast.net> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [ML] This year started with a bang. > Hi Annette, > Thanks for worrying about me-it is snowing like crazy here-I am so sick of > snow and ice! > It is my birthday and we cancelled plans we had and my grandson and his > fiancé just left-they brought me pizza and a strawberry cheesecake for > dinner to celebrate. > I don't like to go out in the slippery weather for fear of falling so we > will go out to casino and dinner tomorrow or another day depending on > weather! > You know that the plows and sanders keep up with all of the snow but after > awhile there is no place to pile the snow up and now we have had over > forty > four inches in January it is piled high! Hard to see when pulling out to > a > road or in parking lots! > Spring can't get here soon enough for me! > Helen