Record White-Out!

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  1. jaythespoon

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    What is snow?; and can it be purchased at Home Despot?
     
  2. wig-wag-trains.com

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    Has this thread turned into a political thread?
     
  3. Pete Nolan

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    Home Depots' and Lowe's were closed here today. Everything was closed. My son-in-law Tommy showed up in his 6300 pound Ford 250 extended cab monster truck with the V-10 engine and four-wheel drive and effectively plowed my driveway with his front bumper. Way to go, Tommy! We had our postponed Christmas. We cooked two ducks--nothing left of 14 pounds! He is a strapping young man.

    We moved an industrial-sized filing cabinet upstairs. Now, I'd moved two refrigerators earlier in the day, but this took all our combined strength, even empty! We got it out of my office, then realized we would never get it up the stairs with the three horizontal drawers sitll in it.

    I think a Stupid Mistake 80 is in the offing. I'll sleep well tonight, and be really sore tomorrow!

    But--heart attack prevented!
     
  4. Mag lev

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    On the topic of snow...

    So I was in the kitchen the other day and noticed the powdered sugar... So is there anything that comes close to this color and texture that we can use in modeling? That stuff would look great on my layout lest right up to the point where I spray some scenic glue on it! :eek:)


    Recent daily totals......
    Green Bay 0"
    St Loius 9"
    Albequerque 15"+

    I bet a bunch cars with plates from Florida are a heading this way...

    I wonder how the geese are coping with this?
     
  5. Metro Red Line

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    I understand many people use baking soda for snow.
    Cocaine works too, but I would guess it's rather expensive...
     
  6. Mag lev

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    Talk about getting high up in them there mountains!
     
  7. BoxcabE50

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    Check out the current issue of N Scale Railroading. Has an excellent article on snow.

    BTW- Normal winter weather here. Snow on ground a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. Only above freezing a couple of times since then. Yippee. It's model RRing season!

    :D

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  8. 282mike

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    coke? snow? yea i've heard it called that too. would make good lookin snow, however after workin with it for a SHORT period of time it may be rather Difficult to finish the desired sceneickinggg wwhadya thinnk......
     
  9. christoph

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    When visting Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg we were told not to touch the snow scenes since it would be some kind of glass powder, with a high risk of cutting our fingers.
    Maybe this is a good combination of
    1. have realistic snow
    2. prevent visitors from touching everything on our layout
    Just a nasty thought.... :thumbs_down:

    No snow here in northern Germany, but a single flower blooming outside on new years's eve. And lots of storm.
     
  10. train1

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    Not to rub it in - but they are calling for +11C / 50F and rain for New Years Eve down the highway in Toronto, Ontario
     
  11. Pete Nolan

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  12. Bob Morris

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    40 degrees and no snow here in N. PA. I'm sure glad I don't run one of the ski resorts or a snowmobile distributorship!
     
  13. Pete Nolan

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    I'm standing in the middle of the "street," which is nothing more than two ruts that my son-in-law made last night.

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  14. BarstowRick

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    How about that? We send you our storms from Southern California, that should of dumped a foot of snow on the San Bearnardino Mountains, to enhance our ski slopes and look at what happens. Airports shut down, kids out of school, employees playing in the snow instead of working. First timers freezing their lower jaw while standing in awe of the white stuff. Old timers reflecting on the last time this happened, "I remember back in 1922, the awfullest thing you ever saw". Grin!

    Ok, you guys and gals are having entirely to much fun with the white stuff. Snow (what are you thinking?). So have fun, enjoy and yes your model layout can have a snow zone at the higher altitudes if you so desire. Just don't try using the real stuff!

    You lucky stiffs. Humm I better be careful you don't want to say "Stiff" around a mortician...they get the wrong idea! Dollar signs pop up in their cornea's...ahh business!

    A cold Willy isn't to awfully bad. It will wake you up fairly well. Have fun! Hey, anyone up to making a snow man?
     
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  15. Pete Nolan

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    My birdfeeder has a hat!

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  16. Pete Nolan

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    This was a different storm, but Napoleon sure knows how to build a snowman.

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  17. Pete Nolan

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    It brought down the bird netting structure over our vegetable garden. Since we are now an official disaster area, I think I'll apply for a new 2 x 4, and two rolls of bird netting.

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    More of a disaster, I'm out of beer, and there's no way I'm getting down the street today.
     
  18. OC Engineer JD

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    Pete, how lng did it take to train your cat to do that! ;)
     
  19. Pete Nolan

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    I have an even funnier shot of this cat and me decorating a Christmas tree, but I haven't been able to find it! For an orange cat, he's pretty smart. You can see how long he is; he could once eat off the kitchen table while standing on the floor. Yes, it was a stretch, but we'd be eating and, all of a sudden, see this cat's head above the table.

    That's a five-foot tall snowman.
     
  20. Hytec

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    Gee, I didn't know Maine Coon Cats came in Orange....:eek:mg:

    Hey Pete, based on what I've seen FEMA do down here over the past 15-16 months, you ought to be able to get not only new netting and frame, but a new garden (planted by FEMA volunteers), a new garden shed because it was an "attached" structure, and a FEMA Trailer to put your plants in while you wait two years for your Federal Grant and SBA Loan.... :teeth:

    BTW, after Katrina FEMA handed out water and MRE's, so maybe you could negotiate for some beer....:angel:
     

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