WEEEEE.... Blizzard pics....and

[Fishhunter911]

We are only halfway through it!!

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[SilverUnicorn]

Wohoo!!! Stay safe! Still snowing here too. Got about 7 inches, but now we have 50 mph winds too!!!


No calls yet (suprisingly)

Chris

[Grumpy]

And ya'll thank thais is Fun???????????? (Mis spelled intentionally to get my Yankee Twang in there)

In all honesty I do kind of miss these days....of course I had a snowmobile and plenty area to ride....But all that shovelling........

[Fishhunter911]

it is fun.. once the shoveling it done LOL

[EngCo4]

Was out shovelling 6 inches of ALgore's "global warmng"
out of my driveway and walk. This was on top of the
original 16 inches from last Saturday. It is now snowing
and sleeting AGAIN! 1000hrs 6 FEB 2010. GRRRRRrrrrrr!

And we are supposed to get MORE on Tuesday and EVEN
MORE on next Saturday!!!!!

And WE are to the south where it is 'supposed' to be not
as bad!

At least people here are not out "adult sleigh riding" in
their hoopties like up in the cities! The authorities are telling
everyone to STAY INSIDE unless you are emergency personnel
or snow removal personnel. Good advice!

As for the "poor people stuck in the ditches"....well...you were
TOLD to STAY INSIDE!!!! It's people like that who keep people
like us employed!

[HFD eng1ine]

MOVE TO MASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We get this like 3 times a year!!!! But dang this has been a boring winter! Hope you guys stay safe down south! I can't beleive this storm
Didn't hit us!!!!!!! Amazing! Lol 99% of the times the big storms are worse up north not down south! Well I guess complaining about why we didn't get any snow isn't going to help me. soooo ENJOY!!! Yes snow is fun, unless you don't have a snow blower ahahahahahaha. Stay safe.

KP


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[EngCo4]

Don't grin too much! This storm system is heading
right up the Atlantic coast! You very well may get
a "taste" of this yet! You're young and get to play
in it! It's different when you have to go out and
work in it and deal with the dummies that don't know
how to act in it.

Enjoy it while you can. Sooner or later you'll see it
differently.

"Global warming...........BAH!"

[HFD eng1ine]

WHOA!!!!! You might be right!!!!!! It's starting to very very very very very lightly snow here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Fred......playing in it is over for meeeeeee!!! Now it's snowblowing like the entire street....don't get paid.....then walk around somewhat
Close streets and
Shovel out hydrants......don't get paid......and then my gears wet for another week!!!! But still, it's alot better than summer..annnnnmddddd we get more calls this time of the year tooooo.....even if they are all MVA's lol


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[carver60]

Yes snow is fun, unless you don't have a snow blower ahahahahahaha. Stay safe.

Or a atv We didn't even get an eighth of an inch here... Canada sucks when it doesn't snow
What I do when other people get snow and then post it on forums when I didnt even get any:

[Fishhunter911]

and now.....not bad pics for an iPhone...

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[EngCo4]

Yeah! And how would you like RUNNING CALLS in one of
those old open cab fire apparatus or riding the back step
in this weather??? BEEN THERE! DONE THAT!! LOTS!

Getting back tot he station with "snot-sickles" hanging off
of your face and those Red Ball gloves frozen to the back bar!
YEAH!

Glad I'm not having to do that now! THOSE were the days!

[Fishhunter911]

oohhh I have been in MANY open cabs in my day.....as a matter of fact they just got rid of their last one!!!

[Jman423]

Is there an SS under that snow drift Joe?

That's what mine looked like last year when I was in Pennsylvania.

[EngCo4]

Hey there Fishhunter! I hope you aren't confusing canopy cabs
with open cabs! I'm referring to OPEN cabs like as in my avatar!
That one was new the same day of the same month of the same
year that I started in the Fire Service as a Volunteer Firefighter.


If you guys had a truly OPEN apparatus still in service in this day
in age, I would LOVE to see a picture of it! WOW! Most of them
disappeared in the late 80s. Maybe a few rural departments might
still have one as a reserve. There WAS an open cab in service as
late as 2003 in PG County MD as a Water Supply Unit. It carried
LDH and other hose and usually ran driver-only or driver and officer
as it had no buckets (jump seats) and, naturally, you couldn't ride
the back step. This was not a first-out piece, but was special-called
on large working fires.

[edc60]

What do you mean old? this is our front line ladder shovel out the front seat and drive, you feel the wind chill also currently 22F here




send the snow up I'm supposed to go snowmobiling next week and there's very little snow on the ground in Maine where I go.

[carver60]

very nice looking truck!

[Fishhunter911]

WOOOHOOOO Another 12 to 18 forecast to start tomorrow during the evening rush hour.....

[EngCo4]

edc60;

CAN I HAVE THAT???? PLEEEEEZE????That would just right with a Federal Hill Light where the bar is and a Mars Light
or Roto-Ray on the nose! Love those old Maxims!

SWEEEEET! Ride down memory lane!

OH! And yeah, I remember having to "shovel out" the driver's seat on those
rigs! Our ALFs were like that and we even had a couple of open cab GMCs
and Internationals still in the inventory when I started in the paid service!

I even had to drive my Seagrave a few times in the snow! Had to take it to
the garage a couple of times in the dead of winter! OH YEAH!!!

[carver60]

this is freds porn

[EngCo4]

Here's a little EV and Snow porn for you guys!
Ripped from the Old Dominion Historical Fire Society site.

(Canopy cab apparatus, Henrico County VA Bureau of Fire)

[HFD eng1ine]

Wow, looks cool. Thanks Fred. Its a nice truck, i always like pics of rigs at fires with the lights on but covered in snow with only the dim shining of the light in the background.

[SilverUnicorn]

We got wolloped by the storm yesterday. 19.5 inches total.

More pictures from Today:















Chris

[carver60]

*crying* I wish I was you

[Grumpy]

[carver60]

I like snow more then i like sun, dont ask, its a Canadian thing

[SilverUnicorn]

I like snow more then i like sun, dont ask, its a Canadian thing

'eh?

I wish you were me too. Then YOUR back would be hurting from all the shoveling

Chris

[carver60]

im young, my back doesnt hurt

[EngCo4]

Silver Unicorn;
Nice photos! You should save them and make Christmas cards for
nest year!

Carver60;

Yeah. You may be young now, but someday.......you're gonna be

JUST.......LIKE .............ME! BWAAaaa Haaaaa Haaaaa Haaaaa!

I might be old, but I'm not dead............yet!

I might not be as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was!

[Grumpy]

Much more shoveling and...... well just take care of your self....

[SilverUnicorn]

im young, my back doesnt hurt

That's because you shovel with a quad

Just you wait. I've been firefighting longer then you have been alive, so I don't mind that my back hurts a little.

2 herniated discs years ago does not help either, but I keep the chiropractor happy

Chris