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XLCaps said:
Caught in a boat on the bay way one of the awe inspiring times of my life.

We went out to fish. Little did we know the weather would turn sour while we were in our little 15' aluminum boat. As we headed back to land, we were just at the mouth of the bay when a ray of light crept from behind the thick clouds, only to illuminate an edge of the bay. The trees were completely amazing, all their colour brought forth in a background of grey. the birds began to flock as the weather lifted, and a single call of a loon encapsulated the moment while small waves still licked the sides of our boat and I looked onward to a small island off shore, where the sun seemed to say, 'oasis.'

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Psychoslut said:
I too have spent a couple of winters in northern wisconsin lol

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Do you still spend winters up north. I need someone to go jeepin with. 

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goldcaphunter said:
What's that like?

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Sanguin3 said:
Fucking crazy blizzard in Colorado when I was a kid, 6.5 feet of snow. Had to keep digging a path out the door every couple hours so we didn't get trapped. We had a full week off school and just fucked around building igloos and snow caves and tunnels and shit. Had some epic day-long snow ball wars with all the kids in the neighborhood. One of my best childhood memories.

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trekie said:
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OhMrJohnson said:
At Madsummer right after Deep Banana Blackout finished their set it got foggy as fuck, like within a half hour it got so hazy I could barely see 10 feet in front of me

It happened right as I started tripping so at first I thought it was just the L messing with me but turned out it was real fog, it felt like some kind of voodoo magic

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If i had a band that toured i would always have a massive set of lasers just for that scenario. Imagine it's just a typical festival (awesome times, everyone frying having a good time) then it gets real foggy like you described, then BOOM! Laser show for free.

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goldcaphunter said:
We should start a Shroomery storm chasing group. I feel like it could be cool! As long as people use their heads and don't go running into a tornado

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I used to storm chase with mom when i was a kid.

The rest of my family would get pissed (i did it from 6-15) because some of those storms were dangerous as fuck. She was a photographer and would get wicked ass pics of lightning. Doesn't sound like much but really think about it. A still image of lightning with a nikon camera. None of that "freeze framing high def video recordings bullshit".

I wish she were still up for it and would drive me tripping through some storms.

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Sanguin3 said:
Fucking crazy blizzard in Colorado when I was a kid, 6.5 feet of snow. Had to keep digging a path out the door every couple hours so we didn't get trapped. We had a full week off school and just fucked around building igloos and snow caves and tunnels and shit. Had some epic day-long snow ball wars with all the kids in the neighborhood. One of my best childhood memories.

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I'm from Illinois we don't consider huge blizzards crazy snow it's just what happens. One year we had a real bad ice and snow storm all the tree branches were covered in ice and it made them break off and tear down all the power lines. Everybody in town had to buy generators and move in with friends that have one. It was walking only for like a whole month, all the roads were covered in fallen trees, power lines, branches, busted up cars etc. We were only allowed 10 gallons of gasoline per day because the semis couldnt make it in town to fill up all the gas stations so there was hundreds of people standing in line outside in the cold for hours with gas cans to walk home with their daily allowance it was nuts. Me and my friends made bank walking weed all over town charging 50 bucks a eighth for commercial.


Anybody feel like moving to Illinois yet?

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Would you agree with me that literally everybody living in this state has a plan or dream to get out one day?

Two winters ago is the winter that came to mind when i read your post. I started doing snow removal that year.

4 winters ago was probably the worst I've seen in my life in illinois (born in 1994). My friend got fired from a job because his car wouldn't start in the cold. He got wrote up and he already had enough for this to get him fired over. Half the people in the store couldn't show up for the same reason. What was stupid was literally 2 months earlier we switched managers. Our old manager said "if it's to dangerous to drive or it'll break your car down, DONT even try to come in. Just call us half an hour before your shift and I'll cover it." Well our new manager decided to throw that right out the fucking window without telling a single person.