Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 I am orginally from Saratoga Springs NY and I was home over the Christmas Vacation and I can tell you there is still no snow there now either. I am Living in southern Maine and still not any snow here. Could you send some this way ? Tim Weatherwax Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 911 dispatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 In a message dated 12/28/01 12:33:41 PM Mountain Standard Time, kvfdpc@... writes: << And only 39 working days to retirement (anybody in a warmer climate need a dispatcher for after March?). >> , is this when you expect to dig out??? Janice - you can KEEP the snow over there on the western slope of Colorado. All you others who want it.. well, just keep it away from the Denver area. -- my heart goes out to you. 1982 we had a smaller version of your storm, 24 inches in a 24 hour period starting Christmas Eve. Like an idiot, I chained up my 2 wheel drive pickup truck (back in those days not too many people had the 4 wheel drive vehicles) and it took me 3 hours to travel 12 miles and made it as far as one of the fire houses that I dispatched for. A civilian volunteer with a 4 wheel drive took me onto dispatch where I spent the next 24 hours. If you really want to know your co-workers, spend 24 hours stuck in a small room with them. We had no place of comfort to sleep except for 1 reclining chair in the polygraphy room. Got to eat TV dinners prepared by the jail and sat scared to death because our EMS responses were -- well let's just say that some people died that day because help could NOT get to them in time. And it took a while to melt off all that snow. , if your city hasn't already - somehow get the word out for residents who have a fire hydrant in front of their house to keep it shoveled clear. That was a big hindrend afterwards.. hydrants were buried and it wasted precious time for the FF's to dig them out. My heart goes out to you folks.. but really, please don't share the snow! Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 Well down here in Pughkeepsie NY we got nada Send some our way PLEASE ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 Central Jersey here...no sign of any snow. Please forward all your excess ASAP!! Patty BTPD NJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 <<Here in the Town of Tonawanda, just north of Buffalo, NY, we were wondering >> Wow, not 5 minutes ago, we here at my work were talking about all your snow and whetere the snow came up to our nose or eyebrows. Amazing. As an aside, I used to know a big-boned girl named Wanda. How long has your town had that name? Bob in Tacoma Dispatcher http://www.lesa.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2001 Report Share Posted December 29, 2001 jim wrote: <<< Just west of Chicago here, we got a light dusting on Christmas Eve. That's still all we have and nothing forecasted for another week. >>> jim...shhhhhhhh! you'll jinx us. rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2001 Report Share Posted December 29, 2001 ... Want to come to TN? I can almost guarantee that I will most likely still be looking in March!!! Freida LaVergne, TN www.lavergne.org Kibby wrote: >And only 39 working days to retirement (anybody in a warmer climate need a dispatcher for after March?). > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2001 Report Share Posted December 29, 2001 At 12:42 12/29/2001 -0600, my friend Freida threw out her invitation to Kibby with: >... >Want to come to TN? I can almost guarantee that I will most likely still >be looking in March!!! >Freida >LaVergne, TN >www.lavergne.org We're recruiting, too. (And despite my muted, personal horror stories of late, good candidates for hire would definitely improve our situation!) Our final filing date (for this round) is 1/24/02. It hardly ever snows out here in our four-county chunk of the Central California coastline, usually just dusts the foothills and looks real purty. We did have snow that mucked up one mountain pass last year, but our winters are WET, not terribly cold. Anybody that wants an application package is invited to e-mail me off-list (and I'll redirect the request to my work e-mail address - I almost put it on this list but suspect that some lurker will snitch me off again with this or that complaint of " providing a nexus to the department with inappropriate comments " ). Then I'll send out the application and flyer via snail mail. We don't earn as much as our compatriots in allied agency Comm Centers around us, but I'm a pretty good supervisor to work for...... <dimpling and curtsying> Small Comm Center, two radio consoles, four call-taker positions, ergonomic console furniture, a CAD system that works for us (such as it is), a 4/10 work schedule, and opportunities to transfer to 24 other Comm Centers throughout the state once you pass probation. (Some of which make 300 bucks more a month than the dispatchers working at MINE - even though it's the same department.) Right now, there are LOTS of opportunity for overtime money, but as we get more folks hired, that will diminish. <fingers crossed> We're authorized a staff of 20 dispatchers and have 3 current vacancies, with 3 more projected due to a long-term medical case " dropping off the roster, " one gal planning to go make more money at another agency and one of our dispatchers going off to the Academy soon to be one of those uniformed folks we talk to in the field. Jeez, why would anybody want to work here? Uhhhh.... I wouldn't want to work anywhere else because I love this part of the state AND I love working for my department. (I've worked for another department - for years - in this same area that I would NEVER return to, no matter how much more money they pay!) There are down-sides to any agency and staffing shortages are all across the boards everywhere, so it's not something just WE are experiencing. And, if I say so myself, working at my little Comm Center is better than some of the others operated by my department. Within three years, we'll have a whole brand new facility, too! With that dubious incentive, why not apply? <chuckle> Happy to be here, proud to serve. Olmstead Communications Supervisor ~on the Central California coastline~ " Not presumed to be an official statement of my employing agency. " Home E-mail: mailto:gryeyes@... http://www.gryeyes.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Annette, We haven't gotten much this go round. Had some on the ground yesterday am and a few flurries today but not near what we got right after Thanksgiving. Jen s Abilene PD/FD Abilene TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Snow I am from New York whats that.......I hope we get some soon or the spring brush fire season is going to be BAD....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Down here in the eastern-central Texas area, we don't get much snow. Abilene, where Jenni is, gets ALOT more snow than we do. Had forecasts for snow yesterday (New years day) so I decided to paint my daughters room. Didn't snow or rain. This morning I heard that they had snow flurries one county north of us. Apparently, it was a slow news day so the local TV station sent a news crew to interview people in that county. People lovingly call it " Booger County " - with reason. The first person they interview had this observation about the snow.... " I thought it was bugs. " Yep, forecast is for a bug storm - with no accumulations - thank goodness! annette hallmark tamu utilities Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 --- Jenlmat@... wrote: > Annette, > > We haven't gotten much this go round. Had some on > the ground yesterday am > and a few flurries today but not near what we got > right after Thanksgiving. > It was the weirdest snow I ever saw. I had to work all night, so I saw nearly the whole storm--it snowed like crazy, but hardly any of it stuck. It was still snowing hard when I went to bed, so I figured I would wake up to the same thing as the last time, but when I woke up, there was nothing!! I have never seen it snow that much and that hard and it be so warm that what accumulation there is melts quickly! I'm still getting used to Abilene. ===== Kim I make a difference Tulsa, OK __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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