Exchangers-Come here and chat with us

[Meriweather]

Ohhh....sorry to hear about that accident, Kimba.
We have a lot of deer around here. And they do like to come from no where
Glad everyone is alright.

 

[MickeyMamma]

Kimba - so sorry to hear what happened. Thank goodness you are all okay. A bit (alot!) sore maybe, but what a scare! Hope you were able to get ahold of a rental and that you are all feeling a little better each day.

 

[kimbac3]

Thanks Again Everyone

I got my rental. They couldn't find an available full size car (which is what my insurance will pay for) so they gave me a 2007 Suburban!! What a sweet ride! My kids are loving life. Nobody has to sit next to each other!!
It's going to be hard to give that back!!

 

[bobbiwoz]

It's great when that happens with rental cars! Enjoy your rides!
Bobbi

 

[pennst8r]

Kimba--so sorry to hear about your accident! Glad that everyone is ok.

 

[mommytotwo]

Thanks Patsy We spent some of the day at the mall. Thankfully we can all fit in my DH's work truck-boy is that a bumpy ride!) My son's birthday is Saturday so we let him go to the skateboard shop and get a new board for his Bday.
Then DH took us all out to dinner. He said we needed it! It was nice. We told the waitress at restaurant about DS Bday and she brought him/us an AWESOME dessert. Some chocolate cake with ice cream and whip cream concoction. It was so good!!
I'm off to the car rental place today. Gotta get some wheels!

How was everyone else's Superbowl Sunday????

Yum, that sounds like a delicious dessert. After dinner tonight, we had gone to Krispy Kremes and we had gotten donuts, yummy we had gotten some freshly made ones and it was so good that it melted in our mouths.
Superbowl was okay. We had gone to my husband's friends house and there were a bunch of people who had gone over. I didn't place a bet on the game, but I should have since I picked the winning team . I didn't even win the block that was being done at the house . So, for most of the game, my daughter and I had gone shopping.
We had gotten an upgrade for our rental here in Vegas, so we have a Tahoe . It is nice since we can fit 9 of us in there.
Hope to chat with you all again soon.
We are going to see if Kevin and I can get out for a bit tonight while my BIL and his wife watches the kids. I am actually ready to go out, but since my daughter said that she would stay with them, I want to see how that goes since she hasn't stayed with anyone else except me during the night.
I better go rescue my husband from Brandon since he is now tired and crying .

 

[kimbac3]

How is everyone?? It's pretty quiet here!

My truck wasn't totaled but there was over $7000 worth of damage. It could 4 to 6 weeks!!!

Oh well, what am I gonna do?!?!

So how is everyone out there??? Are you all keeping warm

Kimba

 

[ADisneygirl]

Kimbac3 ~ so glad that everyone was ok. I am lucky to say that the airbags have never deployed in my car, knock on wood. I hope to never see it happen. I didn't know a gas was released. That would be terrible for my asthma, but I guess better than the alternative.

It is a little chilly here tonight in Florida. Not bad though. I am thankful that we were not in the path of those tornadoes. How terrible for those people. Nothing to warn them, even if they had weather band radios, who has them going at night while you sleep? The state needs an alarm system to alert residents. We have no basements to hide in, but I'd still like a warning to crouch down in my walk in closet and hide.

 

[mommytotwo]

Hi Everyone.
Nancy, not sure if you will read this, but decided to post here to your question about how my trip was.

It was a busy trip since we were doing this and that. We had visited many family and friends, went to my husband's cousin's housewarming party, we had gone up to the mountain to see the snow, shopping.... it was nice to have the kids see their cousins.

Brandon now has two bottom teeth and it really bothers him during the nights. He is also really big now. He wears 6-9 month clothes and up. I have him in a Gymboree onsie that is 18-24 months .

 

[Pooh67_68]

How is everyone that is in the storm path?

I have had it, between the little snow and all the sleet we have gotten since last night, we have almost if not a foot with more to come.

Patsy get the spare room ready I am so ready to move some place warm.

 

[pennst8r]

I'm not too far from you---and the sleet/hail was coming down as hard as rain for most of the night and morning. It's finally changed to snow.

DH is gone for the week, and the snow pact with our neighbor is he can use our snow blower if he does our driveway, too. It worked pretty well on what was there,surprisingly, and I just shovelled away the last inch of slush.

The kids are outside sledding--huge hill behind our house. There is normally a step down to our patio---but the ice has formed all the way up so the dog just walks straight out!

 

[mommytotwo]

come on over Heidi. The weather here will probably be in the 80s today. My daughter wants to plant seeds today. Yesterday she tried to plant a branch that looked liked Charlie Brown's Christmas tree that she found by the dog . We bought her a new kids plastic shovel and she is having fun digging all over the place.

Hope those of you who are in the storms path are all safe.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Patsy, hope your daughter can get her seeds planted soon.

Final total is 14" with over half of that just ice.

 

[mommytotwo]

Brrrr, that is really cold.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Patsy, hope your daughter can get her seeds planted soon.

Final total is 14" with over half of that just ice.

WOW

We got about 4 inches total. We got mostly freezing rain. The actual amount of precipitation was 2.13 inches. So ours is very slushy and icy.

 

[Pooh67_68]

They still don't have the road I live on in the development plowed and because of that, the guy who was supposed to plow our driveway can't reach us.

 

[mickeyfan2]

It was a little slippery here this morning but now we have black roads. Some roads still need to be pushed back a little bit.

Lucky for us the farmer who plows for us also fills in for the township, when needed. He will plow the road from his house to the snow emergency road and then plow from his house to our house and then our driveway. We both live on the same street. All of that for only $60. BTW our driveway is 500 feet long.

 

[Pooh67_68]

BTW our driveway is 500 feet long.

We are still not plowed out, the road or driveway. It seems that the equipment on four of the trucks broke down last night.

John talked to the guy who will plow the driveway once he can get to us (road needs to be done first), and he was working on his plow as it was broke.

Everthing is a solid mass of ice now and its so thick that everyone is breaking their equipment. Who knows when we will be plowed out.

 

[mommytotwo]

I have never been in a snow or snow storm situation, so here is some questions that I have been wondering about.

*Do you stock up any any type of particular food or drinks?
*Was there ever a time that you were not able to leave your house?
*What goes on with the newspaper, mail delivery....?
*Since you aren't able to go to work....what happens-I am assuming you don't get paid during those days.

 

[mickeyfan2]

*Do you stock up any any type of particular food or drinks?

We don't but many people do.

*Was there ever a time that you were not able to leave your house?

Yes but only for a day or two.

*What goes on with the newspaper, mail delivery....?

We did not get our mail yesterday but it did come today. It the paper did not arrive, you just call in and they give you credit back for paper. Most times the paper just arrives late after the roads are plowed.

*Since you aren't able to go to work....what happens-I am assuming you don't get paid during those days.

I don't get paid, but some companies will pay you if the state is in a state of emergency (only allowed to be on the road for emergencies or for needed jobs) or the facility is closed.




BTW I just saw on the news that I78 is stopped and has a 50 mile back up due to it.