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Post by mari on Dec 31, 2006 23:22:01 GMT -5
We have storm too, but considering gusts of wind of about 120 – 140 km/h (I almost couldn’t get out of the car because I couldn’t open the door against the wind ), so far there hasn’t been much damage, apart from causing three forest fires together with the recent dryness and people trying to kill each other by throwing around fireworks like madmen in the 30 minutes before and after midnight (How I hate it , nothing for my jumpy nature . I guess that’s the reason why Germans feel the need to wish others that they make it well into the new year )
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Post by spikeloud on Jan 1, 2007 13:08:12 GMT -5
(of course now we are joking about them sailing along the Clyde in the mini and invading the nuclear sub station). could make a good movie i didnt know that mini's floated that well (we are talking about the car....right??)
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Post by mari on Jan 13, 2007 18:17:28 GMT -5
This time last year when coming out of the swimming pool my wet hair was frozen solid in the ten-minute bike-ride home (frozen curls, should have declared it to be a new trend ;D). Today we had 16 ° C / 60 °F, my hair was dry after a 12-minute walk to the station, and later in the car I drove home with the windows down. In January . This is just crazy . (Not to mention bad for the many people living from skiing-tourism around here, like my grandparents) So, according to the news earlier there’s unusually much snow in California? Strange world.
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Post by dzero on Jan 15, 2007 0:45:27 GMT -5
So, according to the news earlier there’s unusually much snow in California? Strange world. It's so f^cking cold I can't even believe it. Last thing I heard was that it's the coldest here since the 1930's! and it's suppossed to be that way for 3 or 4 more days .
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Post by shywriter on Jan 15, 2007 1:23:54 GMT -5
It's so f^cking cold I can't even believe it. Last thing I heard was that it's the coldest here since the 1930's! and it's suppossed to be that way for 3 or 4 more days . Good grief, dzero, you sound like the people down here in the Deep South who pull out arctic parkas when it hits 40 degrees! I rarely have to bother with a coat here in the winter and they think it's cold! (the really weird thing is that in the summer they air condition the buildings to about 20 degrees and don't bat an eye... )
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Post by Mia22 on Jan 15, 2007 2:52:36 GMT -5
(the really weird thing is that in the summer they air condition the buildings to about 20 degrees and don't bat an eye... )
AAAAAH that’s how it was in Florida this summer, every time I left the house to go somewhere I had to take a sweatshirt or sweater with me, everyone acted like I was insane!!!! Everyone also drove with their windows up and A/C on these perfectly not too hot at all days, which while we can’t all be as lucky as Shy with a convertible, we should all take as much advantage of the good (non-manmade) weather that we can. Last Saturday here everyone was out in Spring attire (shorts, skirts, no jackets) and windows down, Sunday it was freezing and we’ve since had flurries. Started doing the hibernating thing of canceling plans so I don’t have to go outdoors. Good news is the mountains can start making snow (which has been on EVERY news show there is, repeatedly…Your turn will come Mari). Bad news is, totally said I’d go skiing for the first time since high school. So how cold is cold Dzero? And let me tell you, we had one of the warmest winters here in decades (or something along those lines, longest without snow at least). So you know if you guys want to take a little of the cold for yourselves we certainly wouldn’t complain, we were enjoying ourselves and would like it back. I think we need to move you north for a winter (I’m sure Spike’ll be willing to swap) that way you'd appreciate just how warm a cold day is California.
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Post by spikeloud on Jan 16, 2007 18:53:27 GMT -5
I think we need to move you north for a winter (I’m sure Spike’ll be willing to swap) that way you'd appreciate just how warm a cold day is California. [/quote] deal!! ;D is your place by the beach?? or do you have one of those swanky high rise apartments?? ...with the pool on the roof??
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Post by dzero on Jan 16, 2007 19:56:29 GMT -5
I think we need to move you north for a winter (I’m sure Spike’ll be willing to swap) that way you'd appreciate just how warm a cold day is California. deal!! ;D is your place by the beach?? or do you have one of those swanky high rise apartments?? ...with the pool on the roof?? Sorry, not even close to the beach . Aerie on the other hand is much closer .
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Post by dzero on Jan 16, 2007 20:02:26 GMT -5
So how cold is cold Dzero? It's been in the 50's during the day, but what really got me on the day I wrote that post was walking my dog at 7:00 A.M. It was near freezing and not being used to that kind of cold I didn't think to take gloves jeeze my hands were hurting from the cold.
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Post by Reilynn on Jan 17, 2007 3:15:14 GMT -5
When you weather makes it on FARK you KNOW it is bad. forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2545026If you follow the links there is a video. I am safe at home, but I left my car at work and took a bus home. A bus has so much MASS that even if you hit something you will be fine. (Unless whatever you hit has even more mass, like a train or a building, but buildings tend not to have any acceleration at all, so the force is minimal.)
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Post by lisa316 on Jan 17, 2007 11:07:32 GMT -5
Fellow Portlander, huh? Cool. I'm just not leaving the house until April. I've decided it's just too risky...
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Post by mari on Jan 17, 2007 17:13:54 GMT -5
The Oregon weather was all over the news here, even before the Australian bushfires. A bus has so much MASS that even if you hit something you will be fine. (Unless whatever you hit has even more mass, like a train or a building, but buildings tend not to have any acceleration at all, so the force is minimal.) But wouldn’t a tiny Twingo have an advantage compared to a massy bus when slipping and hitting the guardrail separating the street from all those steep slopes ? Besides, between me and a bus-driver at least of me I know that I know how to drive in winter weather. Tomorrow we’ll get an intense low pressure system (or whatever storm-bringing weather is called) coming from the US east coast (tss, can’t you send us nice weather ), with wind up to 170 km/h 106 m/h, making me really glad that I don’t have to drive the forest-surrounded street to uni.
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Post by Mia22 on Jan 17, 2007 20:00:23 GMT -5
The Oregon weather was all over the news here, even before the Australian bushfires. The commercial for our news was something along the lines of, "Yes it's cold here, but it's worse everywhere else," followed by a picture of snow in Malibu. All of this is just filling me with dread because I know we're going to eventually get socked by the snow and I REALLY don't want to shovel. We have two snowblowers that are apparently anti the amount of snow you actually need a snowblower for. And yea I guess we'll go with buses are safer provided you're on flat land (those accidents are always in the mountains) and generally they do seem to be sensible (if not painstakingly slow) drivers, there is that whole no seat-belts thing, but I'm pretty sure you're all packed in like sardines... Of course I do have other questions about the safety of buses, but I'll wait until after winter to ask those. Less drivers on the road is always the safest and smartest route that's why they scream, "USE MASS TRANSIT" every single time there's inclement weather. Smiling?? The smiley lies!!!! There is no smiling.Tomorrow we’ll get an intense low pressure system (or whatever storm-bringing weather is called) coming from the US east coast (tss, can’t you send us nice weather ), with wind up to 170 km/h 106 m/h, making me really glad that I don’t have to drive the forest-surrounded street to uni. I swear to god we had good weather, we just don't know where it went!!!!
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Post by shywriter on Jan 17, 2007 20:30:45 GMT -5
It's all relative: on a statewide radio broadcast on my way home the local news was talking about the (I swear) "bitterly cold" weather we had today. ...it was 31 F (0 C) this morning, mid 40s by afternoon. (Although to be fair, the "northern" part of the state may have dipped down to 28F...)
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Post by lisa316 on Jan 17, 2007 21:13:37 GMT -5
This is funnier:
I was watching the local news last night. These are the brilliant scientists that failed to accurately predict the freak snowstorm that has pretty much disabled our fair city for the last two days. Anyway, they put up the ten day trend forcast and it showed temps in the 40s next week. Then the weatherman ACTUALLY SAID, "We keep putting 40 degrees up there, hopefully it will come true soon." Is it suppossed to be a hotline to God or something? Does nobody have a guess as to what the weather will REALLY be like in a couple of days? Can you become a meteorologist through the mail?
Sorry. I've been trapped inside for too long, I'm getting punchy.
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