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Man it could be a very long week with all the snow and ice that is predicted for us tonight and tomorrow. I really don't care for this type of winter weather, it seems to get worse every year, BONES MOUST BE GETTING OLD.
 
How was winter in your country side let say 10 years ago ?
 
I'd feel for ya man, but it was like (runs to check conversion rate) 104 degrees in American money here on Saturday (40c) and me without AC in my flat..

Wanna trade a few degree's? I reckon we could help each other out here.

On another note, the sweet irony is my 6L V8 fuel guzzling, ozone erasing car having bone chillingly effective AC..
 
The winters appear to getting worse at this point, still not like it was in my growing up days. We have better than an inch of ice on the ground this, it is still sleeting with more snow or rain today, tonight and tomorrow. Yes, it could get worse but I would settle for 65 degrees and then warm up to 80 in the summer.
 
I was watching a bit of the Australian Open tennis tournament last night and the commentators were showing the thermometer at courtside - 104 degrees F. It did appear that the humidity was under 30% though, which reminds me of that saying: "And the devil said yes, but it's a dry heat..."

I'm not the least bit surprised that the winter here in the States (and the whole northern hemisphere for that matter) is colder this year. If one has been following the information that the responsible climate scientists have been posting for the last several years, it is clear that the earth is returning to a cycle of colder weather. These same scientists predicted that the winter of 2008/2009 would mark the first year of the cool down (although the winter of 2007/2008 was a bit of a wake-up call as well). Even The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has always been a surprisingly accurate gauge of weather, predicted that this winter would be a cold one. The afore mentioned scientists are saying at this point that although the data indicates a cycle of colder weather, it's not conclusive enough at this point to determine if that means winters like in the 1940's and 1950's, or a Little Ice Age such as in the mid 15th through early 19th centuries.
 
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Street,

we're actually bracing for one of those ice storms that Strummy always jokes about tonight.

i'm supposed to be in court in one of my rural counties tomorrow and court's been canceled there, but i still have to brave the yahoos to get to court downtown...
 
Bring on the snow! It has been unseasonably warm up here for a few weeks, but we are finally back to some snow and colder weather, as it should be. I do live in the mountains in the middle of Idaho, and I did not move here for the sunny beaches. ;)


BTW, Blooz, I hope you are right.
 
i know this will sound ridiculous to those of you up north who are buried in the stuff, but when winter comes here, there's the little kid in me who keeps running to the window to see if it's going to actually snow.

it's doing something right now, just getting started. :)
 
Ice And Snow

Just starting to snow, albeit ever so lightly, up here in Philly. Supposed to snow overnite and then turn to ICE and hopefully rain. However, they are calling for a late change to rain and if the snow changes to a prolonged period of ICE, then we are up S--T's creek for sure. Nothing worse than I-95 turning into a skating rink.
 
Ah, I have fond memories of the ice storms in Kansas. :eek:

I don't know which I hated worse: the ice storms or the 110 degree weather in the summer. :rotflmao:

tung
 
Already no school tomorrow, its gonna be nice. get to actually practice a couple hours, might drum a bit too
 
Sunny and upper 70's here. Supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon and night, then cool back down. Upper 20's Saturday morning.
 
Childbride said:
i know this will sound ridiculous to those of you up north who are buried in the stuff, but when winter comes here, there's the little kid in me who keeps running to the window to see if it's going to actually snow.

it's doing something right now, just getting started. :)
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Doesn't sound ridiculous at all. Falling snow is magical to me, every time.



Now, I don't like getting caught out in sideways snow blown by high winds when I am unprepared, but you get the idea. It still can be magical if I am prepared.
 
Ice And Snow

Just woke up and .......a whole lot of ICE out there........accidents all over.....Philly public and parochial ( that means CATHOLIC around here) schools are closed.....lucky me, I take public transportation to work.
 
Brian Krashpad said:
Ice? Snow?

I am not familiar with these terms...

:confused:
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This may help you Brian...woke up to this mess this morning:D

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well, we didn't get it nearly as bad as they did to the west and just north of us, but most of the town was shut down until 10 am.

i ran outside shortly before 8 am to get to court downtown and my vehicle was a complete and total ice cube. i couldn't get into it. shiner had to come to the rescue. nearly busted my rear end several times in the de-icing/scraping process... that's a video someone missed out on... :rotflmao:

but the roads were pretty good and clear since no one was driving yet.

the icicles were beautiful this morning. i wish i'd had a camera and the time to take pics.

i just hate that it caused so much hurt and destruction north/west of us and in other states.
 
Childbride said:
the icicles were beautiful this morning.
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Be careful.
As children, my sister and I were knocking them from the roof overhang and I watched one break off and impale my sister's thigh... not so pretty!
I instantly acquired a massive respect for icicles and forever feared my own children would make the same mistake.
 
Rocket said:
Be careful.
As children, my sister and I were knocking them from the roof overhang and I watched one break off and impale my sister's thigh... not so pretty!
I instantly acquired a massive respect for icicles and forever feared my own children would make the same mistake.
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when we were younger, my siblings and i would break them off and eat them.

as an adult, i think of carcinogens that come from stuff in the air/off the substances they drape from, and this of course is much less appetizing.

i don't go near them. i just look at the beauty, the artistry.

things speak to people. a baby's heartbeat. the stars with no light pollution. a really trick lick on the guitar. the morning's sunlight beaming like a prism through jack frost's work this morning.
 
Childbride said:
...i just look at the beauty
...the artistry.
...a baby's heartbeat.
...the stars with no light pollution.
...the morning's sunlight beaming like a prism through jack frost's work this morning.
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Ack... do you freelance for Hallmark?
 
I just got a few minutes before heading back out- we are in emergency mode here , I have been working 16 hours on and 8 off . It is pitiful to see how bad it is , poles broke, wire down, homes destroyed by trees.
I will have extra help coming from UTAH sometime today, you take care and fretters are safe, gotta go.
 

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