Things You Need To Know If You Move To The South

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Here they use a wing and cruise about 18 mph. Really chucks the snow. Keeps from building high banks.
Its snowing and blowing right now, neighbour is using his leaf blower to blow the snow away. Why oh why? Wait until it stops.
Don’t know how the operators are where u are but around here the road graders fly, wing down and almost clearing the ditch with the snow. Vee plow on front for major drifts. Generally a good job.
 
Don’t know how the operators are where u are but around here the road graders fly, wing down and almost clearing the ditch with the snow. Vee plow on front for major drifts. Generally a good job.
Big shakeup this year, my best friend was the public works foreman/ trainer. Mgmt change, and foreman had no say in how roads were maintained, manager was in charge. Zero skills. Foreman and 3 long time staff retired/walked.
Its the worst i have ever seen it.
 
Just buy some Effeing snow plows, was watching a manager from South Carolina discuss his plows, hell I have more in my town than he has in his state
 
Don't get rid of your snow chains necessarily. I had them for going over passes in the Northwest but never used. One day I get in this wet clay near Kings Ferry Florida they call "gumbo". Brand new pickup and the tread is full of what looks like caked bearing grease. It won't go straight anywhere and was 'fixinto' go in the ditch. I call the local forester who comes out and gets stuck about 100 yards shy of me. He calls a logger with a lifted Chevy and crazy tires who gets by the forester but slides off into the ditch. So he calls one of his crew that had a skidder on a lowboy, headed our way. Meanwhile another forester comes to pick us all up for lunch while we wait on the lowboy. Just for kicks I have them run by my house to pick up that lowly bag of snow chains. They were offloading the skidder when we got back, I slap on the chains and to everyone's amazement, drove right out! The skidder slid off too but proceeded to pull the other trucks out by making way over the tops of my 3 year old pine seedlings (rather than the road). They were impressed.

I highly recommend running them a skosh on the hard road before trying to take them back off. I still carry them, as there are clay roads everywhere down here. But, DO NOT roll with the locals when it snows. I don't care what you got.
 
So serious question here for the taciturn one (DD) I am a rare transplant from the South up here in the North chasing money in the Dakotas (have hood will travel) So being from the South I darn sure know what we call Yankees that move down or stay in the South but what on earth do you Northerners call a Southerner that moves up here? Just curious?
 
wicked smaht

I bought my mothers farmhouse looking thing in Linton ND for $25K back in '06. We sold that thing for over 10x that when the pipeline was going through.
 
Big shakeup this year, my best friend was the public works foreman/ trainer. Mgmt change, and foreman had no say in how roads were maintained, manager was in charge. Zero skills. Foreman and 3 long time staff retired/walked.
Its the worst i have ever seen it.
Nothing like having someone in charge that knows sweet nothing about the job. Not who you know it's who you blow
 
So serious question here for the taciturn one (DD) I am a rare transplant from the South up here in the North chasing money in the Dakotas (have hood will travel) So being from the South I darn sure know what we call Yankees that move down or stay in the South but what on earth do you Northerners call a Southerner that moves up here? Just curious?
I moved from S W Ga. to Missouri in '79 when I was 31. All I heard from the locals for the next 10 years was "Hat ya say?', " where ya from anyway!?" "tell us about the South and peanuts!" LOL
 
m r pigs
m r not pigs
o s a r
l i b
m r pigs
You haven't had grits 'till you go to the low country and have grits where the right kind is cooked the right way. Yellow stone ground grits sautéed in butter just enough to start a slight popcorn flavor, then milk or cream. Makes Quaker Quick Grits a sad example of grits. Youtube can show you shrimp and grits, etc...
 
m r pigs
m r not pigs
o s a r
l i b
m r pigs
You haven't had grits 'till you go to the low country and have grits where the right kind is cooked the right way. Yellow stone ground grits sautéed in butter just enough to start a slight popcorn flavor, then milk or cream. Makes Quaker Quick Grits a sad example of grits. Youtube can show you shrimp and grits, etc...

m r so = o s a r :lol:
 
Florida is so mixed language from all parts of the country that we don't talk southern and in south Florida Spanish is prevalent.
 
Florida is so mixed language from all parts of the country that we don't talk southern and in south Florida Spanish is prevalent.
I think I might have passed through Miami Airport one day and most of the people working there spoke Spanish, it pissed me of something fierce

I felt like I was flying with Walmart air
 
Just a fact of life many people down there are from Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Oh and I don't mind that one but

What I DO mind is people not assimilating and learning our language

English is just about the easiest language out there to learn
 
I have heard differently but I don't know. But I do know that you can take English for non-speakers for free in adult education so why not, hey if you can speak 2 languages in America your job opportunities are much better.
 
And I can guarantee you, 100% that in the time it takes to get a visa to enter the US, you can learn English
 
In 2000 I did a Military transfer from Arkansas to Connecticut. We stopped at a gas station to ask where a fast food joint was and the the lady said "you're not from around here are you " No, we're from Arkansas. "Oh, so you're hicks!"

I had to drag my wife (who was born and raised in Arkansas) out the door before she sinned, lol.
 
So serious question here for the taciturn one (DD) I am a rare transplant from the South up here in the North chasing money in the Dakotas (have hood will travel) So being from the South I darn sure know what we call Yankees that move down or stay in the South but what on earth do you Northerners call a Southerner that moves up here? Just curious?

I think for the most part they call them "Rednecks " !!
 
Red necks are a wide spread species of different cultures. They cover all of North America. I don’t think anyone place can lay claim to red neck species. Their like a weed they can live and survive in any climate and I bare my red neck with pride because not everyone can be a true redneck
 
So serious question here for the taciturn one (DD) I am a rare transplant from the South up here in the North chasing money in the Dakotas (have hood will travel) So being from the South I darn sure know what we call Yankees that move down or stay in the South but what on earth do you Northerners call a Southerner that moves up here? Just curious?
Intruder, spy
 
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