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Old 12-30-2013, 04:42 PM
 
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  • snowblower
  • leafblower
  • ice scraper
  • ice salt
  • snow truck
  • snow plow
  • tire chains
  • winter coat
  • long johns (long underwear)
  • snow shoes
  • performance fleece
  • snow pants
  • wool
  • wool socks
  • mittens
  • compass
  • cold weather oil (for tools)
  • block heater for the truck
  • avalanche preparedness kits
  • snow goggles
  • tornado shelter
  • hurricane shelter
  • sleds
  • two-way radios
  • avalanche transceiver
  • probe (for avalanches)
  • personal locator beacon
  • airbag packs
  • igloos
  • snowmen
  • frostbite
  • altitude sickness
  • malaria
  • snow taxes
  • rain chaps
  • bug spray
  • mosquito lanterns
  • bug lanterns
  • insect repellant
  • lightning bugs (fireflies)

What else can you think of that no one is Orange County has?
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Old 12-30-2013, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Riverside Ca
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Originally Posted by SoCalSun View Post
  • snowblower
  • leafblower
  • ice scraper
  • ice salt
  • snow truck
  • snow plow
  • tire chains. CHECK
  • winter coat
  • long johns (long underwear). CHECK
  • snow shoes
  • performance fleece CHECK
  • snow pants CHECK
  • wool CHECK
  • wool socks CHECK
  • mittens
  • compass CHECK
  • cold weather oil (for tools)
  • block heater for the truck CHECK
  • avalanche preparedness kits
  • snow goggles
  • tornado shelter
  • hurricane shelter
  • sleds
  • two-way radios CHECK
  • avalanche transceiver
  • probe (for avalanches)
  • personal locator beacon CHECK
  • airbag packs
  • igloos
  • snowmen
  • frostbite
  • altitude sickness
  • malaria
  • snow taxes
  • rain chaps
  • bug spray CHECK
  • mosquito lanterns
  • bug lanterns
  • insect repellant CHECK
  • lightning bugs (fireflies)

What else can you think of that no one is Orange County has?
I go outdoors a lot, camping in far away spots
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Old 12-30-2013, 06:44 PM
 
Location: so cal
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Acres of land without a neighbor in sight.
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Old 12-30-2013, 06:52 PM
 
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Zero debt
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Old 12-30-2013, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Worries about "bridges freeze first."
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Old 12-30-2013, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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I do have performance fleece, gloves, wool socks, mittens (as do many athletes that run, bike, workout. row in the morning)/
many boaters have erbs / personal locator devices.

Living buy the beach, I do have a winter coat for winter evenings

many hikers still have compasses in addition to gps devices
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Old 12-30-2013, 09:25 PM
 
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  • WORRIES ABOUT-
  • Black ice on the roads.
  • Worrying if the frozen river shortcut on campus will give way, taking you down under.
  • Temperatures so low there is thick ice inside the dorm's hallway window.
  • Salt eating away at your car's undercarriage.
  • Conditioning your boots so that salt doesn't destroy them.
  • Your car hitting ice and then rolling into a drainage ditch.
  • Freezing you arse off while waiting for roadside service after your car has slid off the road in the middle of nowhere.
  • Carrying a shovel for those inevitable days when you will have to first dig your car out before going to work.
  • Hitting ice and sliding across the freeway, all the time hoping your car doesn't become intimate with a big rig.
  • Being in a statistics class watching the sky turn black when the prof says,
    "Don't worry, the only chances are the tornado will either hit OR not hit; nothing else. Now where was I?"
  • Putting on full winter gear just to walk one block to the grocery store.
  • Having fingers and toes so cold and numb that you wonder if they are still there.
  • A snowplow burying your parked car in a snowbank.
  • Frozen car door locks.
  • Scraping ice off your windshield.
  • "Winterizing" your car.
  • Sky high heating bills.
  • Pipes freezing in your home.
  • Thunder and electrical storms so loud that you are sure your property has been hit (Sometimes it has been struck).
  • Scrambling from an open space like a golf course or picnic area, when an electrical storm is approaching.
  • Bricks falling from a building's facade after a heavy "windstorm."
  • Trees blocking the sidewalk and street after a storm.
  • Listening to weather reports about a nearby tornado and deciding when to hit the basement.
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Old 12-31-2013, 02:47 PM
 
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The snow stuff is used right before the relatives back East are called.

"We went skiing this morning then hit the beach. Yeah. It's 80 here. The waves are great. Really? Bummer. So, how long were you stuck in the snowbank before AAA came?"
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Old 12-31-2013, 04:38 PM
 
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Library card.
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Old 01-01-2014, 08:18 AM
 
Location: CDA
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I lived at the beach and didn't have air conditioning
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