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Old 11-21-2010, 08:59 PM
 
Location: montana
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Tonight in my little town of columbus montana, it is -4 degrees below zero, last winter it got down to -35, so were warm still i guess.. I have seen it 110 here in the summer many times.. Thank you to everyone so far that has responded to my thread...
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Old 11-21-2010, 09:00 PM
 
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My sympathies, it was 79, sun shining in San Antonio today.
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Old 11-21-2010, 11:48 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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It was 81 in DFW today, but windy and humid. I'll still take it over -4. And 110 in summer? The worst of both worlds. Extreme continentality!
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Old 11-22-2010, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Lake Placid
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Kind of crazy to leave purdy Montana . I hear ya though, sometimes snow, colder weather and driving in it is no fun!

Since you are looking to move somewhere that has lots of green, I would suggest something out in the Austin, TX area.
IMHO is really the most greenest city out of Texas!! Trust me, I drove up and down in and out of Tx and the most green you are going to get is the Austin area.

If you like small town fell and want some mountains like MONTANA; JUST KIDDING, actually here it is called HILL-COUNTRY, please check out Marble Falls and Burnet.
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Old 11-22-2010, 10:56 AM
 
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I'm from Mn, lived here all my life(a long time) and looking forward to leaving it all behind in a few years to head to TX. The snow and cold is just hard on everything. Our horses will be happy too.
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Old 11-22-2010, 02:24 PM
 
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if you want green go on to the east side. wanna be east of I45. perhaps lookin up US59 north of cleveland alla way up to lufkin.

lufkin gets some cool weather, perhaps an ice storm, but there is rarely accumulation of snow.
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Old 11-23-2010, 06:36 AM
 
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yeah snow is beautiful, but have you ever had to chain up a truck to get home?? or work on a truck in the snow?? there are other reasons we are choosing to leave montana not just snow, I want opportunities for my wife and children, and I have honestly thought of going to college myself for ministry, but may never do it... Im working in a mine in montana now and want to get out from underground.. In my heart im a long haul trucker... but trucking in montana is slow, not much going out of here...
Or had wind chill temps that reached -70F? (I may be in CA now and planning my escape to Texas, but I used to live in Wyoming so am very familiar with that WY, MT climate. LOL) I do like a BIT of winter snow but not like that any more.)
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Old 11-23-2010, 03:07 PM
 
Location: montana
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believe me, its not just the snow!! I am originally from Minnesota.. I was concidering moving back there i have not lived there since i was a kid.. However i have Lived if you want to call it that, in every state west of the Missippi River.. I was homeless as A child when I grew up my family traveled all over as migrant workers or bums what ever people called us at the time.. we were the only white family I ever seen working in the fields or orchards, we worked in Mission and mccallen texas area but were flooded out once and the next year the fruit trees all froze!! In 1991 in a homeless camp in southern California, called Slab city i met a homeless 16 year old gitl there in 1991 i was 18.. we ran away together a few months after we met.. mainly to get her away from her Dad, my parents new we were running away.. in may of next year we will be married 18 years! in 1994 we had a son.. in october 2006, after my Tonya had six miscarriages we adopted twin newborn baby girls. they are four now.. so from march of 1980 to to march of 1993.. my girlfriend and now my wife was with us untill march of 1993 when I got a job custom harvesting, my lifelong dream was to be a lonh haul trucker.. custom harvesting was my opening to get my commercial drivers licence, my wife and i worked on the road the next 7 years. I drove truck custom harvesting and hauling asphalt for road construction untill our son was old enough for school. I was not about to raise our son the way i was raised.. I was under the influience of my dad for so long and always felt guilty if I done what I wanted rather then what he wanted me to do... you see he was an old man. he was 50 when I was born and would be 87 today, mom was twenty years younger died in 1996 of lung cancer dad died in 2003 he was 79, he was still homeless living on the road all he had was a 1977 dodge van.. My dad was not a good man but I loved my parents and they are both buried together in white sulphur springs Montana... I worked to make sure they were laid to rest as I would want to be... im sorry if this is confusing!! All I really want is opportunitys for my family, and to raise my doughters and give them every opportunity possible...
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Old 11-23-2010, 03:24 PM
 
Location: montana
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When i was a child all i wanted was a farm in Minnesota and to be a trucker.. when we traveled all the time from all over the country.. in a old school bus, car truck with a homemade house on the back or whatever we could at the time.. If we were doing 50 MPH we were lucky. the semis would pass us and they would still be shifting gears.. the time I knew I wanted to be a trucker, I was riding along side my dad we were in a 1953 ford 2 ton truck with a 16 foot home made house on the back, i had a little cassette player with one ear piece and one conway twity tape, I just listened to over and over again.. I had this little cassette player wired to run off the battery of the truck... so anyway we were going through the virgin river george and an old 359 model peterbilt truck with dual strait stacks on it, he was still shifting gears.. i loved it and still do.. in 7 years i drove on million miles, without an accident.. but we still didnt have a house untill 2001, as i said before i was under the influience of my dad and he discouraged me everytime I wanted to settle down.. Always told me in these words, "Minnesota is no ****ten Good" so I never went there.. more later...
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Old 11-23-2010, 09:16 PM
 
Location: montana
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When i was a child all i wanted was a farm in Minnesota and to be a trucker.. when we traveled all the time from all over the country.. in a old school bus, car truck with a homemade house on the back or whatever we could at the time.. If we were doing 50 MPH we were lucky. the semis would pass us and they would still be shifting gears.. the time I knew I wanted to be a trucker, I was riding along side my dad we were in a 1953 ford 2 ton truck with a 16 foot home made house on the back, i had a little cassette player with one ear piece and one conway twity tape, I just listened to over and over again.. I had this little cassette player wired to run off the battery of the truck... so anyway we were going through the virgin river george and an old 359 model peterbilt truck with dual strait stacks on it, he was still shifting gears.. i loved it and still do.. in 7 years i drove on million miles, without an accident.. but we still didnt have a house untill 2001, as i said before i was under the influience of my dad and he discouraged me everytime I wanted to settle down.. Always told me in these words, "Minnesota is no ****ten Good" so I never went there.. more later...
sorry for my miss spelling and poor punctuation, I just read what i wrote, and seen my mistakes...
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