Photo Exchange

(Listed photos will be deleted from server after 12-15-04)

This has turned into a hurricane history web site!  We've seen four this summer - take your pick.

Charley Frances
Ivan Jeanne

Family photos have moved to  My Photo Album

Meanwhile, here's a little humor that has been passed around lately in case you missed it.

You are from North Dakota if-

You are from Florida if-

You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by.

You're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year Because Devils Lake is the coldest spot in the nation.

Your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.

You instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year.

Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.

Your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead.

You have worn shorts and a parka at the same time.

Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.

You have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.

"Vacation" means going east or west on I-94 for the weekend.

You measure distance in hours.

You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

Down South to you means Nebraska.

A brat is something you eat.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

You go out to a tailgate party every Friday.

Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your North Dakota friends. Sad....but true!!

 

 You exhibit a slight twitch when introduced to anyone with the
First names of Charley, Frances, Jeanne or Ivan

An airboat is parked in your drive instead of a car.

Your freezer never has more than $20 worth of food in it any given time

You're looking at paint swatches for the plywood on your windows, to
accent the house color

You think of your hall closet/safe room as "cozy"

Your pool is more accurately described as "framed in" than "screened in"

Your freezer in the garage now only has homemade ice in it

You no longer worry about relatives visiting during the summer months

You too haven't heard back from the insurance adjuster

You've ordered gas cans via FedEx

You now understand what that little "2% hurricane deductible" phrase
really means

You're putting a collage together on your driveway of roof shingles from
your neighborhood

You were once proud of your 16" electric chain saw

Your Street has more than 3 " NO WAKE" signs posted

You now own 5 large ice chests

Your parrot can now say" hammered, pounded and hunker down"

You recognize people in line at the free ice, gas and plywood locations

You stop what you're doing and clap and wave when you see a convoy of
power company trucks come down your street

Your depressed when they don't stop

You have the personal cell phone numbers of the managers for:
plywood, roofing supplies and generators at Home Depot on your speed
dial

You've spent more than $20 on "Tall white kitchen bags" to make your
own sand bags

You're considering upgrading from  a 16" to a 20" chainsaw

You know what "Bar chain oil" is and know how to use it

You're thinking of getting your wife the hardhat with the ear
protector, face shield for Christmas

You now think the $6000 whole house generator seems reasonable

You look forward to discussions about the merits of "cubed, block and
dry ice"

Your therapist refers to your condition as "generator envy"

You fight the urge to put on your winter coat and wool cap and parade
around in front of your picture window, when you finally get power and your
neighbor across the street, with the noisy generator doesn't get electric

And finally you might be a Floridian if: You ask your sister up north to start saving the Sunday Real Estate Classifieds

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