October Banter 2025

[Jebman]

Mammoth where it is now 34 degrees with about a foot of fresh snow on the ground ------ They have decided to pile up artificial snow right on top of the early natural snowpack!!!! IN MID-OCTOBER!!! DO ANY OF YOU REALIZE HOW EARLY IN THE SEASON THIS REALLY IS?!! They are gonna get some of those trails ready and likely be able to open EARLY! Let's hope they get demolished by another 4-7 feet later this month.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge

[RDM]

11 hours ago, Jebman said:

I remember that one too. That was back when I was only 23. I walked everywhere. That day was NO exception! I was blasting tracks on my headphones and walking much faster than anyone else. I might have been slightly excited about the weather that day. I was still working for Eagle Construction. We tried to work a couple of hours, they finally quit. I walked all up and down Jeff Davis Hwy all day. I was in pure Heaven. Back in those days I could walk around for hours and hours and hours. I helped people dig out. Later when i got home that night. I got to dig our place out too. Then I started on our neighbors who were elderly. Man I have never been so damn elated in my life. I WHOOPED OUT a few real loud Woooooooo-----Hooooooooos over getting to dig so much snow! There were some excessively embarrassingly tall piles of the stuff when I got done, too.

Thanks for chiming in Jebman.  That storm was a doozy!  Think we saw you walking on Jeff Davis Hwy before we migrated off it and over to I-95 (haha - joking!)  I was 25 att and did a lot more walking back then too. 

The ridicule in the media afterwards was intense.  There were a lot of pro mets on TV who had to endure some tough questioning from public authorities (DOT, school administrations, first responders etc.)  This was in the pre-Internet and pre-cell phone era when email and social media was not really a "thing" yet.  (Some people were connected or had early versions of cellular technology, but not many).  So most of the banter in the aftermath was in the news and newspapers.  That storm had significant influence on how DOT planned for events thereafter. 

Wish Wes would jump in with his recollection of that event.  From a meteorological perspective, it was a real fluke.    

  

[North Balti Zen]

As this forum's resident/only Bengals fan...thanks for Joe Flacco. That was neat. 

[CAPE]

19 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

As this forum's resident/only Bengals fan...thanks for Joe Flacco. That was neat. 

Love how Tomlin got burned after whining about the trade within the division.

Flacco can still throw the football and with those receivers he can keep the Bengals hanging around until Burrow gets back. Next 2 games are against the Jets and Bears. They could very well be 5-4. 

[North Balti Zen]

Bengals will definitely lose at least one of those - it's what they do - but they are back to being watchable and for that I am grateful. As for the Steelers, their schedule now gets hard and they kicked off the hard part of their schedule by losing to a team they should not have lost to. I still think the Ravens win this division...

[DanTheMan]

Being a Browns fan is so haunting sometimes. Seemingly every team has a former player that is excelling and letting the rest of the league (Rightfully) laugh at us