Post #66,735
12/4/02 5:41:33 PM
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Alex, the white stuff hitting you yet?
Last year drove to kentucky looking for snow, no plans this year and sploot.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #66,751
12/4/02 6:36:37 PM
12/5/02 8:18:04 PM
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Supposed to hit me tomorrow
But not badly.
Various others between here and there are likely to get more.
Cheers,
Ben
UPDATE: Totals of about 8 inches, but rather little inconvenience.
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
Edited by ben_tilly
Dec. 5, 2002, 08:18:04 PM EST
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Post #66,763
12/4/02 8:19:02 PM
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Yes, it's here. Can't make up its mind about snow vs. rain
that freezes on contact with ground. The temperature is well below freezing. Will be a mad house for folks heading home tonight or to work tomorrow.
I'm going to hang out around the house for now.
Alex
"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."\t-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
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Post #66,774
12/4/02 8:49:46 PM
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Re: Yes, it's here. Can't make up its mind about snow vs.
Good snow in Missouri, we got 3 to 5 locally, as much as 10 farther south. The first flakes melted and then immediately froze as the temperature dropped (fascinating thermodynamics problem), then that got covered with an inch or so of snow - the roads were snarled and the plows got caught in the rush hour traffic.
This is the year for snow.
-drl
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Post #66,783
12/4/02 9:46:04 PM
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I'd love some here.
Bushfire season is upon Australia. :-( Today in Sydney is very warm and extremely sunny. Forecast was 29C in the city.
A few days of drenching rain every 7-12 days would be absolutely wonderful and just like the summers of my childhood, but the global climate seems to discourage that for some reason.
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #66,786
12/4/02 9:53:10 PM
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Plenty here.
About 4". I know that doesn't sound like much, but it's pretty amazing here just after Thanksgiving.
We also tied the record low temperature here last night of 6F.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #66,788
12/4/02 10:00:45 PM
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watch out for global warming
el nino appears to have nailed you.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
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Post #67,024
12/5/02 10:41:03 PM
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Re: I'd love some here.
Summer in December. What a strange idea.
Metric temperature is very simple:
40 - Scorching
30 - Hot
20 - Warm
10 - Cool
00 - Cold
-10 - Frigid
-20 - Bitter
-30 - Brutal
-drl
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Post #67,027
12/5/02 10:57:40 PM
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Good summary :-)
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
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Post #67,068
12/6/02 8:46:32 AM
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The "grandpa scale"
Don't remember where I heard this, but take a typical Minnesota grandfather. Send him outside and ask him what it's like:
Pretty warm -- the mosquitoes appear on air-traffic radar
Nice enough -- pleasent and sunny down through 40F and raining hard
Brisk -- Below freezing and possibly snowing (he may start wearing a jacket)
Sorta chilly -- wind chill below minus 10
Right cold -- actual temperature below minus 20 and/or wind chill below minus 50
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Post #66,814
12/4/02 11:14:23 PM
12/5/02 8:06:51 PM
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Turned out pretty badly around here.
[link|http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021205/utilities_cp_l_storm_3.html|Storm leaves over 1.5 mln in dark in U.S. South.] In North Carolina, Duke Power said the storm, the worst in the company's history, left about 1.2 million customers, half of its total customer base, without power this morning. It's a bad time of year to be w/o power. My wife and I were lucky not to lose power. We did lose a couple trees, a cedar and a Bradford pear. Most of the Bradford pear trees in the neighborhood were damaged to some extent. In Charlotte [link|http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021205/nyth181_1.html|264,000 Duke Power customers] were w/o power this morning. Note that a customer often means a family. This is considerably more than lost power with Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Alex
"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."\t-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Edited by a6l6e6x
Dec. 5, 2002, 08:06:51 PM EST
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Post #66,991
12/5/02 8:17:50 PM
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You have bad storms, we have major bushfires...
So on average, the weather's fine :)
But seriously, good luck getting through it, folks.
John. Busy lad.
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Post #67,106
12/6/02 10:48:37 AM
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Horrifying white stuff here
OK so it's only 4-6 inches. But these Ohio people don't know how to drive.
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Post #67,108
12/6/02 10:51:29 AM
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We call it the "California effect" here.
At least, most of the native Seattlelites do. And they do it with rain, instead. In snow, almost everybody ('cept me) forgets how to drive. Don't ask me where I got my 1337 m4d h4x0r 5|<11lz when it comes to snow driving - I have no idea.
"...the middle of fighting a war against religious extremism is not the time to do something offensive to God." - Some idiot.
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Post #67,124
12/6/02 11:10:33 AM
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Snicker
Ohio drivers don't know how to drive in rain, also. At least when it rains, the interstates get very congested. Talk to me about why this phenomena occurs. Other than damn stupid drivers, that is.
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Post #67,127
12/6/02 11:12:43 AM
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We used to only have the problem when it snows.
Then 10% of California moved to Washington, totally obliterating the natives. You can tell who grew up here and who moved from out of state during the rain squalls - the ones who moved from out of state are the ones being pulled out of ditches by tow trucks...
"...the middle of fighting a war against religious extremism is not the time to do something offensive to God." - Some idiot.
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Post #67,131
12/6/02 11:18:33 AM
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That would be funny if it weren't only sooo true
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Post #67,116
12/6/02 11:02:36 AM
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Tell me about it
Thing is, this happens *every year*. And every year they forget how to drive in it all over again.
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