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.

 

[Jawneh]

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.

 

[Jawneh]

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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

 

[Jawneh]

 

[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.

 

[Jawneh]

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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.

 

[Ben]

This fuckin' rain, dude... I think the gutter over my balcony door must have been blocked up, because it just turned into a waterfall.

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[Fool's Requiem]

This fuckin' rain, dude... I think the gutter over my balcony door must have been blocked up, because it just turned into a waterfall.

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When I moved into my house, I found weeds growing out of the dirt in my gutters.

 

[Jawneh]

This fuckin' rain, dude... I think the gutter over my balcony door must have been blocked up, because it just turned into a waterfall.

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I'd love more of that rain up here. Canada is on fire again and its hazy as fuck thanks to it. Felt horrible just walking to the car.

 

[Ben]

Still coming down like a mother fucker.

And for clarity, this waterfall is on the screen with the door fully open. It's just creating enough of a barrier where it's so saturated none of the water is actually coming through to get inside wet.

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@Jawneh you want me to like, mail you a cup of water?

 

[dimmerwit]

Yeah, I presumed that must be the case especially seeing the bottom of the door but it's really confusing at first.

 

[Jawneh]

Still coming down like a mother fucker.

And for clarity, this waterfall is on the screen with the door fully open. It's just creating enough of a barrier where it's so saturated none of the water is actually coming through to get inside wet.

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@Jawneh you want me to like, mail you a cup of water?

I wouldn't mind a case of Polar Spring.

We actually got some rain and supposedly thunder too. Didn't hear the thunder, but its foggy and wet.

 

[Ben]

Garage started flooding. After sweeping the water out with a broom several times, I went to Home Depot and managed to get the last 3 sandbags.

Hopefully this keeps it out.

 

[Ben]

Also I'm pretty sure it's the gutters up on the roof that suck and are clogged, not just above the door. I went out with a brush thinking I'd clear the blockage above the screen to maybe stop so much coming down on the garage door (which is right below the balcony), but there ain't shit for me to clear.

Literally every app I have is going off with "Flash Flood warning!", so I'm not surprised there were only 3 sandbags left on the pallet.