Ice to Meet You (another weather related thread)

[Kat]

Alright, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will take 2-3ft of pure snow over any amount of ice.

Absolutely. That's partly why snow here is such a nightmare, it always turns to ice. Surprisingly it didn't at all this latest snow, so it was easy to deal with.

 

[finlandguy]

Stupid white stuff.

 

[shortkut]

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Stupid white stuff.

 

[Nae'blis]

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Stupid white stuff.

Your Finnish ancestors perkeles at you. This is prime Finnish summer.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Snow on the ground, more to come throughout the morning. Only a two hour work delay because people are too scared to say "we recommend teleworking today" because we must comply.

 

[Ben]

This was almost as satisfying as I thought it would be.


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[Nae'blis]

 

[Mark]

 

[Ben]

Basically freezing when I put my daughter on the school bus, and in the 70s by the time I pick her up again. Wtf weather.

 

[finlandguy]

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Basically freezing when I put my daughter on the school bus, and in the 70s by the time I pick her up again. Wtf weather.

By April there'll be another nor'easter and everything will be iced again. This hecking state man...

 

[Mark]

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Basically freezing when I put my daughter on the school bus, and in the 70s by the time I pick her up again. Wtf weather.

You can’t deny how nice it is, though…

 

[shortkut]

You can’t deny how nice it is, though…

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[Ben]

I 'bought' my 16 year old brother's Commodore 64 from him for £5 when I was 3.

It still stayed in his room, he just let me play on it sometimes. Seems like I just got swindled out of £5.

But I do remember playing The Last Ninja on tape.

The Amiga 500+ though? That shit was mine. And my dad's when he wanted to play Lemmings, but fuck that.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I had never heard of an Amiga until the last few years and never owned a Commodore.

Based on every Battle of the Ports video I watch that has an Amiga port, I'm perfectly fine with never owning one. Same goes for the Amstrad and Sinclair systems.

 

[Ben]

I had never heard of an Amiga until the last few years and never owned a Commodore.

Based on every Battle of the Ports video I watch that has an Amiga port, I'm perfectly fine with never owning one. Same goes for the Amstrad and Sinclair systems.

Amiga kicked ass, especially if you were 4 and didn't have any other comparison.



(I never did learn to sit in a chair properly.)

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Amiga kicked ass, especially if you were 4 and didn't have any other comparison.

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(I never did learn to sit in a chair properly.)

I don't know what you're talking about

That IS the proper way to sit in a chair.

 

[Kat]

I don't know what you're talking about

That IS the proper way to sit in a chair.

I still sit kinda like that in most chairs because my feet usually don't reach the floor.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Thunder storms are here, baby! Our political climate can't take away t-storms.

 

[shortkut]

Thunder storms are here, baby! Our political climate can't take away t-storms.

Need a few well placed lightning strikes

 

[BigDaddy]

Forecast for this afternoon then tomorrow night:

 

[Kat]

Yikes, that's windy!

I was driving home from the store the other day and had to pull over for a few minutes because everything (including my windshield) was covered in this:

 

[Ben]

Need a few well placed lightning strikes

You called for Thor?

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[shortkut]

You called for Thor?

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[Fool's Requiem]

You called for Thor?

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my heart would jump out of my body, but then I'd be like "that was so fucking cool" for the next hour plus.

 

[Mark]

my heart would jump out of my body, but then I'd be like "that was so fucking cool" for the next hour plus.

Closest I’ve ever seen myself was a strike hit a radio tower just off of the interstate as I was passing by, and that alone was blinding and shook the cars. I’d hate to see what it does to the electrical system of a car during a direct hit.

 

[Nae'blis]

Closest I've been to a lightning strike was when it struck the ground a street over from where my house was. It was loud as fuck, and knocked out some electrical things in the neighborhood. It also made a 1x2 inch hole in the asphalt. Nature be crazy.

 

[Ben]

Nature be crazy.

 

[Ben]

April 7th and I woke up to it snowing.

 

[Mark]

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April 7th and I woke up to it snowing.

Rain and wind here… along with a 20+ degree drop in temperature. At least the front weakened before it hit our coast, the Midwest got fucked.

 

[Nae'blis]

We had some weird snow/hail thing on Saturday. Man, it sucked.

 

[Ben]

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I decided to drive to the gas station for caffeine, and stepped out of my garage to this shit.

It wasn't doing shit but one or two flakes before I put on my sneakers. And by the time I left the gas station it'd stopped again.

Flurry ass mother fucker.

 

[Nae'blis]

 

[dimmerwit]

Meanwhile in the UK we have had endless sunshine. I feel like I've been transported to a different country.

 

[Kat]

Meanwhile in the UK we have had endless sunshine. I feel like I've been transported to a different country.

It's been pretty sunny here in Oregon too! It's weird but I'll take it.

 

[Gloom-is-good]

It was unseasonably cold this past weekend and it rained almost all last week. This morning, my heater was on... but now my a/c is on

 

[finlandguy]

 

[Ben]

Wtf, sky?

 

[Nae'blis]

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Wtf, sky?

 

[Mark]

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Wtf, sky?

That shit just won’t go away.

Nothing but rain down here in the mid-Atlantic, though. I think we took all of @Kat ’s Oregonian rain.

 

[Nae'blis]

Just to balance it out:

16°C or 60°F, but standing in the sun it feels alot warmer!

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Just to balance it out:
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16°C or 60°F, but standing in the sun it feels alot warmer!

60f is pretty nice for early April. Supposed to get to 65 here. 80s tomorrow though.

 

[finlandguy]

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Wtf, sky?

Damn. Further up here it's a nice sunny 45 today. Though earlier this week we did get a bit of snow a couple days.

Then again, we're not past Easter, so I'm still expecting another snow storm to hit. It's a north country tradition.