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Southern Snowmageddon 2024 Thread

Well, I almost had a heart attack this morning. With temps dropping to possibly single digits overnight I had all the anti-freeze thaw burst protocols going since yesterday evening again. Our water heater is in a little room off the carport that is not heated. An oversight that I plan to correct as soon as all this nasty weather clears out. To offset this, I ran a small heater in there from 6 to 10 last night, then shut it off when I went to bed since I had no desire to wake up dead this morning. I got up a little before 5 this morning and went out and restarted the heater. The room was not that cold, so all was good.

I make some coffee and start doing my morning wake up stretching exercises and my breathing like I always do. My cats usually join me during this time to pay their respects and get some petting, then they return to their normal aloof behavior.

I was in the middle of my morning breathing when all of a sudden, I hear the unmistakable sound of rushing water. Oh $%^#*, a burst pipe! I go into full on damage control mode. About a year ago we had some plumbing work done and I had the plumber install a master cut off valve for the main water line going into the house. That way instead of having to grab a wrench and run 80 yards down my driveway to the meter, I can shut the whole house off at that valve.

I ran in and shut the valve off, then I ran back to the laundry room to start damage control and start getting the water up out of the floor. No water. What? It sounded like it was coming from the laundry room. I rush outside to the carport and go into the water heater room. No water. I go back in the house. What is going on?

I look around inside the laundry room and realize that the washing machine has started a cycle. That was the rushing water I heard! One of the cats had gotten up on the washer and pressed the start button on the washer! It is a weird feeling being that ticked off and also relieved at the same time.

At this point my wife is up and is trying to figure out what is going on. I tell her we had a Defcon 1 trial run sponsored by the cats. I guess they wanted to gauge our reaction time. Man, it's been a morning.
 
Well it paid off being in the woods - got a small button buck at ten yards, not super proud of killing small deer but it’s where I’m at as a hunter. And I got some good meat!

But the weird part was this. I threw out a grunt at noon after seeing nothing all morning. My button buck came in fifteen minutes later, seemingly just coming down the trail. So I punched him and that was that. My buddy, who was hunting about 300 yards off, and I met up, set our gear down and got to tracking about 55minutes later. And we got about ten minutes into it when a big bodied 6pt barreled through the woods and came into 15 yards of us!! Neither of us had our bows in hand, and my buddy yelled for me to look. The 6pt locked onto my buddy, then wheeled and bounded off.

Wish he could’ve been the one I got today but alas. I’m not sure why he would’ve been barreling through the woods, but if he was responding to my grunt call he was an hour late? It was a great hunt regardless!
 
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mschultz373 said:
Well it paid off being in the woods - got a small button buck at ten yards, not super proud of killing small deer but it’s where I’m at as a hunter. And I got some good meat!

But the weird part was this. I threw out a grunt at noon after seeing nothing all morning. My button buck came in after fifteen minutes later, seemingly just coming down the trail. So I punched him and that was that. My buddy, who was hunting about 300 yards off, and I met up, set our gear down and got to tracking about 55minutes later. And we got about ten minutes into it when a big bodied 6pt barreled through the woods and came into 15 yards of us!! Neither of us had our bows in hand, and my buddy yelled for me to look. The 6pt locked onto my buddy, then wheeled and bounded off.

Wish he could’ve been the one I got today but alas. I’m not sure why he would’ve been barreling through the woods, but if he was responding to my grunt call he was an hour late? It was a great hunt regardless!
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Small deer taste as good or better than big deer. Congrats!
 
This always amazes me. How deer deal with the cold and lack of food. I hunt them in these conditions and they kick my butt. I respect them for how they can deal with these conditions. That's why I like hunting them so much.
 
Cold here for sure. Shot ducks on Saturday.
A buddy of mine hunted our place last night. Lots of little bucks.
 

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The drive into the WMA this weekend. Completely over this nonsense. Where da mud? I can function in mud.


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If you guys had this much salt on the road there wouldn’t be any snow
 

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boyne bowhunter said:
I have the same response to you southern guys ability to cope with 90+F days . . . :tearsofjoy:
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Oh don’t get it twisted, born and raised in S. Louisiana and I’ve heard people complain about the heat all my life, like they don’t know what’s going to happen here in July/August. I’ll take my 100F and 100% humidity Andy day of the week over 70 and below… unless I’m in a deer stand.
 
GCTerpfan said:
Is MD considered south or north? I can never remember. Can I start complaining in this thread? Unlike @boyne bowhunter, the older I get the less I like winter.
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You know, every time I drive across the border I ponder that. The Mason Dixon Line signs still throw me every time. Wait, I'm only an hour from home, how did I end up in Mississippi? Oh yeah, I forgot. But yeah, MD is not culturally the south.
 
elk yinzer said:
You know, every time I drive across the border I ponder that. The Mason Dixon Line signs still throw me every time. Wait, I'm only an hour from home, how did I end up in Mississippi? Oh yeah, I forgot. But yeah, MD is not culturally the south.
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I don’t know many that would consider Virginia and West Virginia south either nowadays but they got more hillbillies and rebel flags in them mountains than flees on stray dog. I thought South meant states in the SEC but they’ve done invited everyone and their brother in that conference recently lol.

You have “culturally” south but I think that really is a lot like rural folks across the country. There’s city folk and rural folk. And then there’s the occasional city folk that like to spend most of their time in the country.

My kinfolk from Pennsylvania are about as rural/country/redneck as it gets. They just pronounce stuff differently like yins instead of y’all, crappy instead of croppy (crappie), and crick instead of creek. Lol
 
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