alisonb
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We will be having a contest on the 'Weather/Elements' in the near future so before your rainy season is over take some pics of lightning, rainbows, storms(dust/rain),flooding etc - be prepared 
That has the making of a good pic for this category, I'd hate to have to be the one taking the pics thoughhillsdown":374hv1e5 said:How about pics of a blizzard ?
pdfangus":f7racbl4 said:well.....for me....
I would rather risk an infrequent encounter with an ocassional serpent which I can easily master as long as I am alert......
as opposed to the constant threat of freezing to death subsequent to almost any failure of anything for six months out of the year.
car break down in a remote area.....body found in the spring thaw in june.....
falling into a snow drift due to crust breaking....body found in spring thaw in june....I nearly had this one happen once.
just plain long hypthermia from cold exposure....body found in spring thaw in june....
wife snowbound with cabin fever.....bodies found after spring thaw in June...
it was 86 degrees here yesterday and you could cut the air with a knife......
was dripping sweat from the top of my head, down my back, off my belly,off my elbows and off my knees
but I will take it anytime over freezing to death....
the winter of 77 in northeast Ohio taught me that I ain't no eskimo and I have no desire to ever be an eskimo pie....again....
supposed to get down into the forties next week....
think I will hibernate....