Who cares, it's snowstorm season...
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...sold old trays they were going to throw out for 50 cents. Wound up going up and down Hernia Hill. Had students at the top of the hills going down towards Suttle regulating traffic. Still, plenty of broken bones.
Had a sleetstorm a couple of years later....when a bunch of students got hurt again, President McComas told us that school was on for the next day. Students complained that they could get hurt walking to class....yeah, right.
Had a sleetstorm a couple of years later....when a bunch of students got hurt again, President McComas told us that school was on for the next day. Students complained that they could get hurt walking to class....yeah, right.
Go to Lowe's. In Starkville, when you enter the store turn left and go all the way to the last aisle. Take a right on that aisle and about 1/2 way on the left are these black garden containers about 2.5 feet wide, 3.5 feet long and 1 foot deep and they are pretty stiff. Cost 13.99 today. Brought it home and put a 2x4 on the inside and outside of the front wall of it at the bottom and bolted the two 2x4's with 1/2in x 5in bolt with lock nut. Drilled two other holes through the pieces of wood and ran rope through it and tied to the four wheeler about15 feet behind it. Did a dry run on the grass with the 4 wheeler and the kids had a blast - works awesome and the container holds up very well. Can't wait to try it out on the snow/ice. Let me know if you try it.
And the biggest outlet for them was a drugstore in Athens, AL through internet sales.
Totally inappropriate, both ofthat, since AL and MS aren't snow states.
I just tried googling, came up empty.
Apparently the paradigm has shifted, as paradigms tend to do.
Totally inappropriate, both ofthat, since AL and MS aren't snow states.
I just tried googling, came up empty.
Apparently the paradigm has shifted, as paradigms tend to do.
May have been the Flexible Flyer, manufactured in West Point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_flyer
Although, like Coach34, I'm never wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_flyer
Although, like Coach34, I'm never wrong.
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....the ice on the roads was so bad, they said it was free admission, ie, first come first serve. Turned out, you had a bunch of rowdy students cooped up too long and were ready to rumble. That's when Ken Harvey cold-cocked that Bammer center, he hit him so hard it sounded like a gunshot.
I had a horrible cold, and the fever broke when Harvey hit him.
I had a horrible cold, and the fever broke when Harvey hit him.
I was there with my cafeteria tray as well. I don't remember buying mine since everybody was taking them from the cafeteria but later bringing them back if they didn't demolish them. By the way, I had a buddy that skate-boarded, or tried to,down Hernia Hill. He almost made it. He didn't break any bones but he was skinned up pretty bad.
(late 80's or early 90's) and we got an ice storm in Vicksburg, my neighborhood friends and I got old stripped-down skateboard decks and turned them around backwards, stuck a bungee cord through the rail holes, and had instant snowboards for hours of fun.
When I was in Starkville for a WHITE DEATH ('95 or '96), it was all 4-wheeler pulling a tray, dumpster lid, piece of cardboard, or whatever else you could find, until the police came and shut us down. I think they even tried to take the rope from behind the 4-wheeler. We also got mountain bikes out and were riding those around; that was kinda fun.
I have to say though, as fun as those were, neither stacked up to last year's snow, and taking my kids over to my parents' house after our power went out at mine. My dad, who grew up in Kentucky, still has his old sho'nuff sled from when he was a kid about 60 years ago, hanging in the garage. Looks out of place down here in MS, but - for one day - it got to relive some former glory with a new generation of kids.
This will sound cheezy as hell to all you guys who aren't dads, but to those of you who are - I got a real kick out of seeing my two young boys sledding through the snow IN MISSISSIPPI with their grandfather. Yes, he was riding his old ancient sled too. Priceless, once-in-a-lifetime memories that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. If it snows, get off the computer, get out there and make some memories with your families, guys.
When I was in Starkville for a WHITE DEATH ('95 or '96), it was all 4-wheeler pulling a tray, dumpster lid, piece of cardboard, or whatever else you could find, until the police came and shut us down. I think they even tried to take the rope from behind the 4-wheeler. We also got mountain bikes out and were riding those around; that was kinda fun.
I have to say though, as fun as those were, neither stacked up to last year's snow, and taking my kids over to my parents' house after our power went out at mine. My dad, who grew up in Kentucky, still has his old sho'nuff sled from when he was a kid about 60 years ago, hanging in the garage. Looks out of place down here in MS, but - for one day - it got to relive some former glory with a new generation of kids.
This will sound cheezy as hell to all you guys who aren't dads, but to those of you who are - I got a real kick out of seeing my two young boys sledding through the snow IN MISSISSIPPI with their grandfather. Yes, he was riding his old ancient sled too. Priceless, once-in-a-lifetime memories that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. If it snows, get off the computer, get out there and make some memories with your families, guys.
The best sled I ever saw was some AGR's hooking a wooden pallet to a truck and pulling each other around Fraternity Row. I think it was during the ice storm in the mid-90's that shut down campus for a couple of days.
What really struck me as funny during that storm, was that at some point when we woke up and realized we were snowed in, we started getting hungry. Most all of the eateries were closed (OH NOES!!11! IT'S SNOWING!!11!) , but Shoneys was open. So we had a caravan of 4x4s out Highway 12 to go eat breakfast. Looked like a redneck rescue party. Hell we may have had one or 2 vehicles (total) in our parking lot that weren't 4wd.
From that same storm, here's a lesson: That hill coming down Blackjack to the stop sign at Hardy street was IMPOSSIBLE to navigate in the ice without sliding right through the intersection. My anti-lock brakes just gave up trying to control that ****.
From that same storm, here's a lesson: That hill coming down Blackjack to the stop sign at Hardy street was IMPOSSIBLE to navigate in the ice without sliding right through the intersection. My anti-lock brakes just gave up trying to control that ****.
Go buy a large deep sided metal wheelbarrow!!! Take the legs and wheels off, just use the pan.....it works great.
P.S. Good luck Clark!
P.S. Good luck Clark!
It would never be able to compete with a plastic child's pool, or car hood; but I believe that Western Auto (on Main Street) has sleds. Now I have not been in the store for nearly 12 years, but they carried them back in the 90's.
In fact I believe it was 97 when we started out trying to sled during the ice storm. We shortly gave up & broke into Shira for an epic football game on the indoor practice field. Beat the hell out of sleding anytime.
In fact I believe it was 97 when we started out trying to sled during the ice storm. We shortly gave up & broke into Shira for an epic football game on the indoor practice field. Beat the hell out of sleding anytime.
sliding down the hill on that. I lived in Suttle that year and we had a blast standing on the balconies watching people bust a$$.
