I have had enough of this %#&@& winter.

[ggiese]

I have been feeding the birds this year too. Hubby made some feeders. I am tiring into attract blue birds. I got the worms and those round pellets I think it peanut butter, the guy at the store said they love it It very hard to get blue birds to your house. I also have heated water for them. My idea is if I get a few blue birds to my house maybe I can be happy again. Blue bird of happiness....and there's also blue birds around pictures of rainbows. Pretty pathetic but I it's a goal.

My wife was thrilled when she saw her first "bluebird"! I did not have the heart to tell her it was a Blue Jay...

But we have had some real cool birds show up at our feeders - we have a pair of Cardinals that visit every day, we were visited the other day by a Redpoll Finch, a bunch of Golden Finches stop by daily, about a half dozen Turtle Doves are hanging out and we've see a fair number of Nuthatches. And the million or so Sparrows that crowd everything else out...

[kevin7]

4 deg F at the house this am. Pipes are OK,cars started fine and I have enough winter Lineman clothes for 2 weeks straight. It was hella cold though but all of the fleet trucks started this morning . Gonna be 11 in Charlotte tonight so that means 8 or so here in the country. I grew up in Central IN so wither here is not really all that bad but I am 30 years older now . When you get older the lower your nuts hang so they get cold quicker.

[CptnBlues63]

I have been feeding the birds this year too. Hubby made some feeders. I am tiring into attract blue birds. I got the worms and those round pellets I think it peanut butter, the guy at the store said they love it It very hard to get blue birds to your house. I also have heated water for them. My idea is if I get a few blue birds to my house maybe I can be happy again. Blue bird of happiness....and there's also blue birds around pictures of rainbows. Pretty pathetic but I it's a goal.

My wife was thrilled when she saw her first "bluebird"! I did not have the heart to tell her it was a Blue Jay...

But we have had some real cool birds show up at our feeders - we have a pair of Cardinals that visit every day, we were visited the other day by a Redpoll Finch, a bunch of Golden Finches stop by daily, about a half dozen Turtle Doves are hanging out and we've see a fair number of Nuthatches. And the million or so Sparrows that crowd everything else out...

Now I know where my Redpoll's and American Gold Finches spend the winter! I always look forward to seeing them return because that's when I know for sure it's finally spring!

[illilli]

I just wanted to add that those Southern states don't have the cold-weather equipment that we have North and East. They probably don't have any salt trucks.

[ggiese]

I just wanted to add that those Southern states don't have the cold-weather equipment that we have North and East. They probably don't have any salt trucks.

No plows - no salt trucks - nothing...

A couple years ago I was in Charlotte when a ice storm came through. Frankly - it was absolutely comical to me. The roads really weren't bad at all - but the local folks were all freaked out. Schools, businesses - damned near everything was shut down. They interrupted regular programming (even cut in on the news) to provide updates on the ice storm.

My favorite story about that experience - some boneheaded local reporter was broadcasting a story about how bridges freeze first and are especially hazardous. He was standing on the bridge with semi's buzzing by him. The most insane part of the story was when he knelt down in the roadway and pressed a thermometer against the pavement to show it was at the point of freezing - with semis buzzing by blowing their horns at him for blocking the road...

My experience with Atlanta is that traffic is generally very messed up during the evening rush even on bright, sunny warm summer's days. It took me 45 minutes to drive less than a mile from my office to the hotel. And folks were doing the craziest things - like forcing their way through gridlocked traffic. The damned traffic is at a dead standstill and a few of these chowderheads apparently believe the best way to get traffic moving is to blow the horn and go against the flow. I seriously thought Chicago traffic was the worst - until I saw that nonsense in Atlanta. Now I completely appreciate my fellow drivers here when the only flip me off in traffic...

[TheGreekTitan]

6 more weeks!

[CptnBlues63]

6 more weeks!

I don't put much faith in anything predicted by a rodent. Regardless of what he predicted last year, we still got snow in May.

But, there is an ape who predicts the super bowl................so who knows *shrug*

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireSto...inner-22294762

[cinda]

Yesterday this storm we have right now was suppose to be a few inches of light snow. It's by far extremely heavy and much more then 2 inches my thinking is 6 to 8 once it's done . what a mess!

[CoventryCat86]

My experience with Atlanta is that traffic is generally very messed up during the evening rush even on bright, sunny warm summer's days. It took me 45 minutes to drive less than a mile from my office to the hotel. And folks were doing the craziest things - like forcing their way through gridlocked traffic. The damned traffic is at a dead standstill and a few of these chowderheads apparently believe the best way to get traffic moving is to blow the horn and go against the flow. I seriously thought Chicago traffic was the worst - until I saw that nonsense in Atlanta. Now I completely appreciate my fellow drivers here when the only flip me off in traffic...

I spent all of 2012 driving to New York City pretty much every day and even in the worst of the worst (mid-town Manhattan at 5:00 pm) the New York drivers are the best I've ever seen, no leaning on the horn, no cutting people off just for the heck of it, etc. Yes, there were a few incidents of people behaving badly but on a percentage basis, it was extremely minimal.

I've driven in Chicago too George and it wasn't bad. I think the problem in Atlanta is it's infected with too many non-New York northerners.

The weather up here in Nova Scotia has been relatively mild, -6C (21F for you flatlanders). It's supposed to drop to -8C or so over the weekend for a couple of days.