[Home-on-the-range] getting around in the snow

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Fri Feb 22 22:53:48 UTC 2013


We only got about 3 inches, this far North.

Dave

At 04:44 PM 2/22/2013, you wrote:
>Yes, KU closed along with everything in the entire world. Bus 
>service stopped at 1:00 yesterday. All the toe lots are full of cars 
>because the police were asked to get rid of the cars left on the 
>streets because plowing had to happen. We got like 12 inches and 
>that is where there isn't any drifting. I have never seen a snow 
>thunder storm before.
>
>Susie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Home-on-the-range 
>[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 4:04 PM
>To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] getting around in the snow
>
>How much did you guys get -- I read on twitter that KU closed.
>
>Dave
>
>At 09:45 AM 2/21/2013, you wrote:
> >Right now they say the white stuff is coming down about 2 inches an
> >hour. I have never seen it come down so fast. On the news this morning
> >they said this is an event about every ten or twenty years.
> >I bet we have 6 by now and it started at my house about 6:30.
> >
> >Susie
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Home-on-the-range
> >[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
> >Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:21 AM
> >To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] getting around in the snow
> >
> >Hmmm! With a dog it is pretty easy. They can find the house again.
> >Of course, they may decide if they are outside to do their duties they
> >might like to play and sniff and twirl you around. In ballet I learned
> >that when you do turns you turn your head at the last minute in order
> >to keep your orientation. That's true, isn't it, Diann?
> >Anyway, so I do try to do that if the dog is twirling me around. As for
> >sounds, my furnace has a sound that it makes on the outside, and I
> >listen for that if I have become disoriented. Also, I can tell here by
> >the lay of the land. Our back yard is on a hill. If I was walking, I
> >would attempt to keep my orientation, but the dog will move pretty
> >freely through the snow.
> >
> >Cindy Lou
> >p.s. How much snow do you have so far?
> >
> >On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Dianne Hemphill wrote:
> >
> > > Hi federationists- most of us find ourselves in a blanket of snow
> > > today (and likely for a few more days to come!). I've been listening
> > > to tips on getting around in the white, cold stuff on the Matilda
> > > Ziegler  and wonder if you have your own techniques for getting
> > > about safely? I'm particularly interested in hearing how guide dog
> > > users accomplish the  multiple outings they must do for the dog's
> > > needs. One of the teaching/training techniques used during travel
> > > classes in Iowa, was to use a radio, for example, at the house
> > > entrance to mark that return point when one went to the mailbox or
> > > corner, for example and the snow had not yet been shoveled ...I
> > > recall more than one experience of slipping and sliding down a steep
> > > driveway when I wrongly thought I could "carefully" walk somewhere.
> > > I have since purchased rubber grips that slip over the bottom of my
> > > shoes and sometimes use my cane as a ski pole...what tips do 
> you have out there?
> > > Dianne _______________________________________________





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