ExiledInIllinois

Late 1980s, early 1990s... We'd work Ashtabula and Conneaut Harbors. Survey/sound them. Spring build land baseline and establish our guage boards that winter didn't destroy. Summer take the soundings. Come back in fall to sound again and blouse up stations, etc... Conneaut I remember well, for what had to be the world's smallest diner. Johnson's Drive-In. We'd eat breakfast there before heading out to survey. U-shaped counter that sat about a dozen people. Cook worked right in front of you... If it was full, have to wait till someone else finished. Fond memories... Pretty old-school... They don't build them like this anymore. I guess they'd just have a food truck now...

Boy, I bet they are cranky and hungry! One of those bruins should pull a round of overnights with me... I'd teach 'em how to rummage through a refrigerator 1/2 a sleep @ 2 in the afternoon... Maybe shout in the ShoutBox too! 😏

Who do you need? Who do you love? When you come undone (can't ever keep from falling apart) Who do you need? Who do you love? (Can't ever keep from falling apart) Who do you love? When you come undone...

Beats: @Gugnyhad to put down his Sammie! 😉

Sorry to hear! Yup the two snowbelts alee of the Lakes... Ashtabula up through Erie, Southern Tier... And other one off of Lake Michigan, Indiana Dunes on through South Bend. If it's ever rough sledding... You can head up I94 at the split where Indiana Turnpike begins, I80/I90... Head through Detroit/Windsor or Port Huron/Sarnia and head through Southern Ontario/Niagara Peninsula and avoid weather-side of especially Lake Erie. NOT that much slower, customs, etc... Further miles (if you opt QEW over King's Highway for speed)... And bring passports... We've done that a few times to avoid lake effect! Avoid the ~$20-$30 tolls, pick up customs, bridge/tunnel toll... But cheaper than turnpikes/Thruway...

Happy Birthday! 🍻

Just have an exit-plan!

I have driven that stretch from Ashtabula to the NYS line probably 100s of times... A good handful was straight down middle getting pummeled with snow. The Snovember trip... Tacked around the snow in the Southern Tier. Came just in time to see my father's street cleared with the endloader. Had snowshoes ready in case we had to park on main road...

You were in Chicago. Trivia... Do you know the decade where the most buildings went up in Chicago and the skyline changed the most? I was shocked to find out the answer when I read it. Good article: https://www.commercialcafe.com/blog/current-skyscraper-building-boom-falls-short-of-eighties/ 48 went up in Chicago during the prolific 1980s... Maybe coming from BFLo where the bottom fell out in 1979, wouldn't have thought others did so well...

Yeah... Was never really a fan. Way too shallow... 😆

Happy Birthday!!!

Putting your four-ways/flashers/hazards on cuts through the snow when headlight beams blast, reflect the snow back and blind you. Shut headlights off, turn on the fog/auxiliary low beams (if you got them) and put hazards on. The sad part, now every schmo on the road is doing it and going 30mph once even the smallest flake flies. /smdh... That's when you hit them with the Sasquatch Lights:

Uncle Augie... What's a "hood ornament?" 😆 🤣 Boy, that'd dated you! Nothing like a good ole fashion white knuckle drive with the lives of the whole nuclear family hanging in the balance! Ferguson is gonna lose (the rest of) his mind when he wakes up today. I better tag him and his friends. Look what you've done @Ice bowl 67!!! @BringBackFergy @Beerball @Gugny @Mike in Horseheads Please don't check the ShoutBox too... 😏

2009-10, January 2nd ish... Drove down to Florida for Christmas. Then up to South Carolina for New Year's, then on to BFLo thru W.VA for an extended stay before back to Ill-Annoy. I79. Pittsburgh to Erie. Right into teeth of a Lake Effect snow squall band, by the grace of God made it out! Been so many others, that was worse. Usually in the snow belts...

Is what it is Brutha! The train is leaving the station... Don't be late and don't get run over! Malcontents... Stay home!

There's no hill to die on. You either trust the process or you don't. Move on.

Everything in the game is an if or a screwup. They hold them there, they look like geniuses. They didn't, so they screwed up.

If you don't like pi, today is also: "Steak & BJ Day." 😏

And yet. That super duper prevent defense gets one millisecond faster to Mahomes or stuffs them 3 yards shorter, we're celebrating. McD played it like @Gugny plays his first word in Wordle. 😆 Sometimes you get totally boopkiss. Not many, but sometimes...

Remember they didn't lose the game in 13 seconds, other team tied the game on a long kick in 13 seconds. You gotta be kidding. 13 seconds to kick off, other team has all 3 timeouts and all they need to do is tie game with long kick! Not as bad. Losing the game on an OT coin toss because your Defense is already gassed from previous series. YEAH, THAT is worse.

I don't get it? Where were the West Seneca Police? Policing the East-West High School game?

"We got chemistry here!"

I see what you did here! Boy, were you blindsided!

Shouted this. Just felt it had to be archived here!!!

Yup!