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Snow Storm Coming

Biscuits and gravy
Chicken and noodles
Fried tenderloins the size of a plate with a regular sized bun.
Biscuits and gravy are disgusting.
I’ve lived in Indiana for 35 years and never had a pork fritter. Oh sorry, pork tenderloin. Anyway I’ve never considered Indiana the Midwest. It’s more like Northern Kentucky.
 
Biscuits and gravy are disgusting.
I’ve lived in Indiana for 35 years and never had a pork fritter. Oh sorry, pork tenderloin. Anyway I’ve never considered Indiana the Midwest. It’s more like Northern Kentucky.
Biscuits and gravy are awesome. I sometimes get an order when I'm traveling there. As for the giant tenderloins, they're kind of gimmicky, but ok. If you cut it in half, you can freeze the other half and have another sandwich later or you can share it with the dogs.
 
When I think 'midwest food,' I automatically think casseroles and potluck. What else is good? (I've never been there.)

Not big on casseroles over here but love a good potluck.

Nebraska 'midwest food' edition:

"Runza" which is a baked pocket sandwich
Steak with mashed potatoes and corn
Reuben sandwich (invented in Omaha!)
Cheese frenchee (fried grilled cheese)
Chili with cinnamon rolls
 
As long as the power stays on. Weather that knocks out the power sucks.
Yup.
That’s why we invented 24kW back up whole house generators! 😁
Best money we ever spent.
 
Yup.
That’s why we invented 24kW back up whole house generators! 😁
Best money we ever spent.
Likewise although I had some issues initially with my Generac.
 
When working from home today, I noticed that the HOA hired people to shovel our front step. I opened the door and said thanks.

The probably would have preferred if you duked 'em a twenty! :p
 
So today I backed my truck out of the driveway, through the windrow the township plows had left at the entrance. We got about 11 inches of snow, and the windrow at the end of the drive was probably twice that deep. Then, I rode down the windrow behind my daughter's truck. Her Tahoe is 4WD but doesn't have the ground clearance of my 2500 HD. After she left, it was some time when I noticed I had been hearing something outside. I went and looked, just in time to see a guy on a tractor with a blade heading down the road. He had dragged away as much of the snow out of my driveway and entrance as he could with my truck in the way. Don't really know who it was. A neighbor, I suspect. Which could mean he lives anywhere from a quarter mile to 5 miles away.
 
That would have been the cam in the 69 Z/28 pictured earlier.

Yep. Good job, picking that up.

I never was in an original Z28, but I do have a Chevy OEM 30-30 in a stroked small-block. I'm blown away by this lumpstick! It has the most beautiful sounding idle I've ever heard, and it pulls strong through my self-imposed 6800 RPM redline. It wants to pull more, but I don't trust my bottom end (two bolt).

Given how it performs in a 383, I'm blown away that Chevy dropped this thing in a 302! Yow!

It's a little loud with the 30 thousandths gap, and the lash goes out of adjustment like nobody's business. But I wouldn't trade this cam for all the tea in China. Given it's an OEM I bought from a Chevy Dealer in the 70's, it's probably a collector item! At meets I've heard a lot of other guys' so-called "30-30's" from aftermarket manufactures, but none sound as sweet as my antique OEM.
 
Yep. Good job, picking that up.

I never was in an original Z28, but I do have a Chevy OEM 30-30 in a stroked small-block. I'm blown away by this lumpstick! It has the most beautiful sounding idle I've ever heard, and it pulls strong through my self-imposed 6800 RPM redline. It wants to pull more, but I don't trust my bottom end (two bolt).

Given how it performs in a 383, I'm blown away that Chevy dropped this thing in a 302! Yow!

It's a little loud with the 30 thousandths gap, and the lash goes out of adjustment like nobody's business. But I wouldn't trade this cam for all the tea in China. Given it's an OEM I bought from a Chevy Dealer in the 70's, it's probably a collector item! At meets I've heard a lot of other guys' so-called "30-30's" from aftermarket manufactures, but none sound as sweet as my antique OEM.

My brother put one in a 327 in a 'Vette he was messing around with several years ago. Yes, sounded great and made for a fun cruiser.

The 302 was an oversquare engine that really liked to rev. The displacement was necessary to compete in the Trans Am racing series. An option was a dual quad intake with two 4bbl Holleys that was shipped in the trunk and was dealer installed. I think steel tube headers were another such option. For 68 and 69 they were built on 4 bolt blocks. IMO, they had a bad rep as a drag car on the street. They just needed a driver willing to wring them out to where they could breathe well.

I've rode in a 69 Z/28 with 302 back in the day. A friend of mine was riding in that 69 Z/28 when the clutch blew apart at about 7000 rpm. He has fragments in one eye to this day. The owner of that Z and myself ended up doing a trade a month or so later, for the steel Lakewood bell housing that was in my 67 RS/SS 350. My engine wasn't going to see those sort of RPMs and I was getting money to boot. We worked on the two cars side by side in the garage of the guy who was injured in the clutch explosion. I ended up having to trade the Z/28 guy my 11" clutch and flywheel also, for some reason I no longer recall exactly. Probably wouldn't fit in the aluminum bell housing that was going in my SS as a consequence of the trade.
 
It sure as heck did! Our kids liked it too. Another opportunity, careerwise, took us to CA. It took a couple of years for us to acclimate, but ultimately it was the beautiful southern CA. weather that kept us here. I'll never forget my midwestern roots, and now, the grandson born in San Diego, who is going to play football in MI., is going to experience what he's been told. I can't wait to hear what he thinks about it all after experiencing some time there.

I am so looking forward to enjoying fall in the Midwest again, and pizza! Let's not forget the great food that comes from the Midwest.

No one will deny California is beautiful. It is. Property prices reflect the state's desirability.

But some of us like the rhythm of the changing seasons. It just seems to add more focus on the moment, as you have to navigate through the day as it stands in its place in the season. Every day is seasonally unique, as you look forward and plan for the changes to come in the days after. It's nature's a rhythm, and you are attune with and part of that rhythm - you commune with it! It literally becomes part of you.

A great aspect of where you grew-up, is you had the city at your feet, and farmland directly to your back! And to make it even better, you were surrounded by Forest Preserves! The Forest Preserves are a jewel - the best kept secret of the city!

I'm sure you bought corn at roadside farm stands at one time or another, too. Right? And, this was way before the "farm to market" movement and weekend urban "farmers' markets". My family revered those ears of corn in the husk with the silk still attached, that had come out of the field earlier that day.
 
One goes down and you step on it, you don’t step on the other until you’re ready to go. It’s like street roller-skating, cars will stop you. You need to aim them well, steering is a little tricky!

Wow! I thought I knew all the old-era city kids' games and shenanigan's, but never heard of this. Me & my buddies did do a lot of "skeeching", though! Got chased a lot for it, too!

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Kinda betting on the Uber driver being 'good enough' to handle snowed roads?
Hmm. Not sure I'd make that bet.

Find a snowed parking lot without any light poles or other obstructions, and let him play around spinning the car and recovering. Its the best way to learn.

Donuts!
 
It never snows here and I can remember watching Christmas movies when I was little, seeing all the snow, thinking how beautiful everything was over there. It was so magical to a kid in Australia.

I'm loving this thread. Glad everyone is safe.
 
66/67 was my first year in SW suburbs.
No doubt you remember that mother of all blizzards.
77/78 and 78/79 bad winters came on the sunspot cycle ?

I hope it wasn't Oak Lawn!

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If you want to hear a dramatic recounting of the tornado as it passes by a radio-announcer student recording (on reel-to-reel) of the event as it occurs, the article linked below has the student's recording embedded in it.

It was a stunning listen.

 
It never snows here and I can remember watching Christmas movies when I was little, seeing all the snow, thinking how beautiful everything was over there. It was so magical to a kid in Australia.

I'm loving this thread. Glad everyone is safe.

A soft snow falling on a still night. A fresh few inches already on the ground, painting everything in a reflected light. Yep. Wonderful. I once walked the streets of Furth Germany on such a night. It was very close to Christmas, might have even been Christmas Eve. A relatively balmy 30 degrees F or so. The old cobblestone streets and medieval looking buildings with Christmas trees visible in many windows made for a postcard perfect picture. Traffic was virtually non-existent. I've seldom seen anything that struck me so beautiful, and probably never felt more lonely in my life...but that's another story.

Now you consider a snow storm when the temp is in in the 20s Fahrenheit. The snow being driven by 30 mph winds well on its way to accumulating 11 inches. Beautiful? I dunno...visibility isn't great in the howling path of the wind. It's 2 AM and the old Labrador dog won't chance the snow drift covered steps to get off the porch, so you have to get a shovel and make him a path of egress. He shows his gratitude by depositing his load right at the bottom of the steps. Different sort of snow.
 
You play guitar too?!

Yep. Played seriously until my early-twenties, stopped live performing but played for myself and friends after that, then finally stopped altogether in my mid-thirties after my prized "constant companion" guitar and amp got stolen. I was super busy in life - so I never got around to buying another one and starting back over again.

Two of my old bandmates are still good friends (we were originally neighborhood child-hood friends), and the drummer of the two still plays & jams regularly, including some recording too. He's trying to get me back into it. And while I have no desire to gig or do open mics again, I decided to grab a guitar & amp and see if I can get back up to speed and have some good times again with my bandmate.

I'm a strat cat, and after playing a bunch I'm thinking one of the new Player II's or a Player Plus. I want a maple neck, but the Player II has gloss poly on the neck which I hate. The Player Plus has an absolutely fantastic satin finish neck, which I really like, but it's a 12" radius - which is unique in the Fender line-up. The fretboard feels flat, like a Les Paul's, and it's great for open & inside chords and lead, but felt odd and somewhat uncomfortable with rhythm barre chords. I do a lot of barre chords - E & A shape, maj, min, maj & min 7, etc - so I'm not sure what to do. I'm hoping my discomfort is from being way out of practice.
 
My brother put one in a 327 in a 'Vette he was messing around with several years ago. Yes, sounded great and made for a fun cruiser.

The 302 was an oversquare engine that really liked to rev. The displacement was necessary to compete in the Trans Am racing series. An option was a dual quad intake with two 4bbl Holleys that was shipped in the trunk and was dealer installed. I think steel tube headers were another such option. For 68 and 69 they were built on 4 bolt blocks. IMO, they had a bad rep as a drag car on the street. They just needed a driver willing to wring them out to where they could breathe well.

I've rode in a 69 Z/28 with 302 back in the day. A friend of mine was riding in that 69 Z/28 when the clutch blew apart at about 7000 rpm. He has fragments in one eye to this day. The owner of that Z and myself ended up doing a trade a month or so later, for the steel Lakewood bell housing that was in my 67 RS/SS 350. My engine wasn't going to see those sort of RPMs and I was getting money to boot. We worked on the two cars side by side in the garage of the guy who was injured in the clutch explosion. I ended up having to trade the Z/28 guy my 11" clutch and flywheel also, for some reason I no longer recall exactly. Probably wouldn't fit in the aluminum bell housing that was going in my SS as a consequence of the trade.

My brother put one in a 327 in a 'Vette he was messing around with several years ago. Yes, sounded great and made for a fun cruiser.

The 302 was an oversquare engine that really liked to rev. The displacement was necessary to compete in the Trans Am racing series. An option was a dual quad intake with two 4bbl Holleys that was shipped in the trunk and was dealer installed. I think steel tube headers were another such option. For 68 and 69 they were built on 4 bolt blocks. IMO, they had a bad rep as a drag car on the street. They just needed a driver willing to wring them out to where they could breathe well.

I've rode in a 69 Z/28 with 302 back in the day. A friend of mine was riding in that 69 Z/28 when the clutch blew apart at about 7000 rpm. He has fragments in one eye to this day. The owner of that Z and myself ended up doing a trade a month or so later, for the steel Lakewood bell housing that was in my 67 RS/SS 350. My engine wasn't going to see those sort of RPMs and I was getting money to boot. We worked on the two cars side by side in the garage of the guy who was injured in the clutch explosion. I ended up having to trade the Z/28 guy my 11" clutch and flywheel also, for some reason I no longer recall exactly. Probably wouldn't fit in the aluminum bell housing that was going in my SS as a consequence of the trade.

If your 350 is a 4 bolt, with forged rods and decent aftermarket valve gear, there's no reason you can't zing it into the high sixes. My stroke's 1/4" longer, and my turbo 350 is set to shift at 6600. This with a 2 bolt block. Never had a problem.

The 30-30 obviously idles higher, but will work with a slush-box with a decent stall speed. I played it safe with a 3500 stall, because it's in a full sized 4000 lb car with moderate gearing (4.11).

I'm envious, my friend. All my life I wanted a first gen Camaro, blue over black. I never fulfilled that dream. In my mind, it's the most beautiful pony car ever produced. Light in weight, and stunningly beautiful. But oh those dayem leaf springs! Argh!
 
It never snows here and I can remember watching Christmas movies when I was little, seeing all the snow, thinking how beautiful everything was over there. It was so magical to a kid in Australia.

I'm loving this thread. Glad everyone is safe.

It was my privilege Monday, to hang in this thread most of the day while multitasking on my other required real-life tasks.

It may have been the most calm, respectful, and supportive thread in DP in a very long time! The posters in this thread run the political gamut, from MAGA-Trumpers to Anti-Trumpers, Liberal to Conservative, Republican to Dem to Libertarian! Yet, there's been nothing but support and camaraderie. In a way, this thread gives me hope.
 
Lake Shore Drive was big downstate because of KSHE 95 in St Louis. I don't think I knew too many in those days who didn't have a copy of that Aliota Haynes and Jeremiah tape on 8 track or cassette in their car. I have the LP to this day.

I assume "Music Eye's" was big by you, too?

In the eighties, J.C. Hartsfield ended-up owning what was essentially a blue-collar neighborhood corner-bar on the Southside. He was a blue-collar guy, worked with his hands, and road a Harley. You'd never know in the decade before he had the top band in Chi-town, sold millions of albums, and toured the country as a headline act.
 
Biscuits and gravy are awesome. I sometimes get an order when I'm traveling there. As for the giant tenderloins, they're kind of gimmicky, but ok. If you cut it in half, you can freeze the other half and have another sandwich later or you can share it with the dogs.

I grew-up eating those fried patties. But by me, they're called "cutlets", and are served on their own in sit-down restaurants as part of a "hot plate", along with mashed potatoes and a veggie - with gravy "over all". Besides pork, veal is also popular.

It's basically like this below, but with a fried pork cutlet in place of the porkchops in the image (and a lot more gravy!):

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Not big on casseroles over here but love a good potluck.

Nebraska 'midwest food' edition:

"Runza" which is a baked pocket sandwich
Steak with mashed potatoes and corn
Reuben sandwich (invented in Omaha!)
Cheese frenchee (fried grilled cheese)
Chili with cinnamon rolls

I never knew that! Thanks!

(And yeah - Wikipedia agrees)
 
What a shame. Ahh, the memories. That and the Tinley Park roller skating rink. I still remember Hot Time, Summer in the city playing when it was so cool inside, and so miserably hot and humid outside.

Btw, Palos was still open when I met my life partner in 1970. My roommate at college, who was from Boston, wanted to go sledding so we showed her sledding the Chicago way.

I'm tellin' ya', those runs were a primo high school (or in your case - college) dating experience!

As a young man, you got to do all he masculine rubrics appropriate for the era:

- You picked the girl up in your car.
- You manly carried the heavy wooden toboggan up the hundred-odd ice covered steps through the wind and blowing snow.
- You positioned the toboggan in the chute, and got into the toboggan first to hold it from sliding-away down the chute.
- You helped the girl into the toboggan, and held her tight so she wouldn't fall out.
- And as the two of you slipped down the chute and she screamed, you held her even tighter to calm her, protect her, and allay her panic.

If that wasn't a great start to a date, I don't know what is?

And of course it was de rigueur to have a half-pint of brandy in your inside coat pocket, which only added to the revelry!
 
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I’ll never forget my driving instructor’s lesson in a large pole free parking lot. He’d get you up to 20 or so and told you to jam on the brakes, then right away he would tell you to turn the wheel. I still remember the feeling in my gut when the care kept going straight. He was a good instructor, there are three or four lessons that come back to me when I am in the situations. He was a dealer in town, BUICK, using his cars, so he was careful…
 
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