Hey,
Youse guys from the Great Northwest:
Are you still with us?
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Hey Joe, you could have called that the BC/WA floods, avalanches and landslides. It is mighty interesting out there and I’m staying home!
Dave is Good! seems he is on the top of the hill and it all runs down from there!
cale
Lets just hope it ain’t the hill that is running down…
Andy Clarke said:Just ride the brown wave. ;-)
Lets just hope it ain't the hill that is running down........
The four feet of snow covering my layout has been reduced to two feet.
Steve Featherkile said:That's good, right?
The four feet of snow covering my layout has been reduced to two feet.
Ric hmmmmmmm if you consider that the 4 feet of fluffy stuff has been reduced to 2 feet of “could be concrete”, it’s quite OK unless you have designs on plowing or clearing with a rotary. That would be some test!
May I never have to consider things like that. Remember this is Southern Illinois.
Your lucky Ric. I won’t see the blacktop on my driveway until spring. I let it get away from me and now I have 3 inches of solid ice with lots of new snow on top. Good thing I have 4 wheel drive or it would be totally unusable. Marilyn & Matt are parking in the level driveway of the empty house across the street.
Hopefully Dave, John & everyone else out that way that we haven’t heard from yet are doing OK.
Wow! Be safe guys. We get weather in spirts, suppose to be cold this next week, but it was 61 degrees yesterday. Just talked to Fred and he said they are in some pretty cold stuff right now. This is part of the reason your Summers aren’t as hot. 
Doin OK here. The bridges on the layout appeared when the snow settled, but they didn’t seem to suffer any damage. My new little boxwoods are still buried. I had more damage to my house than the layout. With the fast warm up, the snow avalanched off the roof and took the gutters with it. A little flooding out back, the old barn where I keep my buildings and some equipment. My wife’s friend lost her entire horse arena. An 80 x 200’ steel trussed building flat as a pancake! At least three other arenas went down in our area as well.
The horse arena just beyond the sign that says “End of the World, 2 Miles,” collapsed as the guys who were shoveling off the roof were taking a break.
And it ain’t over, yet!
I tried to call KaDee on friday about 1:30 my time, got the answering machine telling me that they were not open on New Years day and call back during normal business hours. I figured it was during their lunch hour, then I remembered the news from the morning about the section(s) of I-5 under water.
This happened a couple of years ago after their move to the new building they were flooded. I will try again tomorrow.
Barry - BBT
Doing OK so far;
I’ve only lost 1 bridge on the layout, but it’s the 24’ x 52’ pole barn that is (was) next to my layout that took the beating. It collasped under all the snow. The adjuster was out the other day to get the process going for rebuilding in the Spring.
Hopefully the bridge will be able to be repaired easily, but right now I can’t even get to the layout.
Chuck
Ain’t that the one you wanted me to take down in order to move the layout?