# How'd I Get HERE ????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373 "2008-10-10T20:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373/21 "2008-10-10T23:17:15Z")
Sorry to have slammed your town. Memphis was MY Personal Individual Hellhole when I lived there … an extremely psychotic alcoholic latched onto me and stalked me. Which is way I absconded to Alaska Without Thinking Clearly. And I LIKE snow! There’s certainly plenty in Chicago. I remember when Memphis was Iced Down once (early 990’s, I think), and I couldn’t get out of my driveway, much less go anywhere for two days. Nobody else could, either! No snowplows, no sand trucks, no HEAT. The lines were down. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr 🙂 OK, I promise. I’m thru ranting for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373/22 "2008-10-11T02:16:39Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Sorry to have slammed your town. Memphis was MY Personal Individual Hellhole when I lived there … an extremely psychotic alcoholic latched onto me and stalked me. Which is way I absconded to Alaska Without Thinking Clearly. > > And I LIKE snow! There’s certainly plenty in Chicago. I remember when Memphis was Iced Down once (early 990’s, I think), and I couldn’t get out of my driveway, much less go anywhere for two days. Nobody else could, either! No snowplows, no sand trucks, no HEAT. The lines were down. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr 🙂 > > OK, I promise. I’m thru ranting for the day. Hey, look out the window right now: beautiful, clear, sunny skys after a day of bad wind and driving rain. A lovely fall day. Of course, tomorrow will probably suck… ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373/23 "2008-10-11T15:19:05Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > Happy Birthday! > > I used to live in Achorage, and there are a few Dopers in Alaska as well. > > Go down to Chilkoot Charlie’s for a drink or three tonight. Get started on your passport there. > > Check into getting studded tires around Halloween (as I recall, snow on the ground on November 1st will still be there come April 1st). > > Catch the solstice party on Flat Top. It is a great time as well. > > After you have been around for a while, get over to Mr. WhiteKeys for the show. If you can, go with someone who has been around for awhile so that they can explain any of the in-jokes. > > I am envious. If I would not have married a SoCal girl, I would still be living up there. I used to live in Anchorage, too. 🙂 If the man had married me, I’d still be living there. ☹ I miss it! I keep looking up for aurora here, and I don’t see any… No termination dust on the Chugach mountains… no moose in the back yard… No astonishing, amazing, astounding beauty. Oh, it’s pretty enough here, but Alaska… damn. Lucky you, and happy birthday! ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373/24 "2008-10-11T16:49:30Z")
I just have to know - Can you see Russia from your bathroom? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howd-i-get-here/467373.md?page=1)