Gog opened this issue on Jan 28, 2004 ยท 50 posts
Gog posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 11:33 AM
Quite a bit of it, time to leave the office and go home before southern england shutsdown :-)
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catlin_mc posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 11:47 AM
Isn't it great.........8) Bring on that Arctic blast any time.............anyone for a snowball fight. 8) Catlin
corys311 posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 11:50 AM
We've had ice here in Charlotte, NC the past 3 days or so, I haven't been able to leave the house since. Gotta be at work at 6 today though! Oh well, I had a nice reprieve!
RodsArt posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:07 PM
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Ockham's razor- It's that simple
RodsArt posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:10 PM
Oh btw, Connecticut, USA. Finish my lunch & go back & continue to snowblow it into the neighbors yard. ;)
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electroglyph posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:23 PM
Please scoop up a handfull and email it to electroglyph@yahoo.com. 23 deg here in Knoxville Tennessee and only a light dusting. What use is cold without snow?
vasquez posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 1:02 PM
snow also here in Italy in Bologna. Yesterday I woke up with 10 cm of snow!
chohole posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 1:06 PM
Yup my young dog got me out of bed at 6-30am this morning to go play in the snow, we so rarely get any here (SW London) and its actually only the 2nd time he has seen snow. This 2nd lot was a real bonus for him.
The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."
Sambucus posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 1:58 PM
Oh, woo bloody hoo! Snow! LOL
Ang25 posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 2:12 PM
Took this pic just now also, here in upstate NY. Why am I here again?
Ang25 posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 2:17 PM
kimpe posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 3:00 PM
Hey, I made 10 bucks yesterday blowing out the neighbors driveway. Who says snow sucks!
burgi posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 3:21 PM
i do, i came off my motorbike 3 times today. i was doing between 5 and 10mph each time. thank god for steel toecaps! here in manq its all washed out. i think the sludge is starting to freeze, i am not looking forward to that tomorrow... 4 inches and Britian grinds to a halt. the gritters were stuck in the depot, by the time the council had authourized their usage, it was too dangerous for the drivers to get out there. but then again, if i hadn't been at work i would have been sledging ;] John
haloedrain posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:08 PM
danamo posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:09 PM
It isn't snowing here(Portland,OR)now luckily. We had a hell of a snow and frozen rain mess two weeks ago, though nothing like they have in the Northeast U.S! The climate here is virtually identical to London, U.K.(Avg. annual temp is the same for both cities,11.7 C. though we get rainfall more like Manchester's. This was the first substantial snowfall I had seen in ten years. Great climate for roses and English Gardens.
Innovator posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:16 PM
danamo...where in Portland do you live?? Im in SE portland right near clackamas ...and yes, that was a hellluva storm we had (for us anyways), and I had to go deliver pizzas in it :)
Ang25 posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:18 PM
Sweet, I wanna live in either place mentioned above. LOL, about snowplow driver's. They most likely are all 4wheel dr truck driving men. And they start plowing before the snow gets too deep. Scary part is they sometimes have to drive all night long. Not a job I'd want to have. Plus the fear of hitting a disabled vehicle would drive me nuts. I hit a white out a couple of weeks ago and was lucky enough to see a side road. I couldn't tell where the road in front of me was so I turned up the side road. Good thing I did, while I sat there trying to figure out how I was going to get home a plow truck went flying by. If I'd stayed on the road crawling along I feel that he may have hit me, but then I might just be paranoid. I decided to take a longer but less traveled road home that night and I feel good about it though it was difficult too. Some of the road had over 1 foot high snow drifts. I have all wheel drive but I discovered today when I tried pulling into my driveway that when the snow is higher than the underneath of my car, it just would drive thru it.
Vile posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:25 PM
We had a 1 inch in a half hour saturday blizzards are not to common here but was a lot of snow when it finished! I have a cold now Achoo cough cough and all the snow melted from rain.
danamo posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:47 PM
Actually, Innovator, I'm currently living on the other bank of the Columbia in Vancouver, WA. Every time I tell someone I'm from Vancouver they assume I'm Canadian(eh?). It saves time and explanation to just tell 'em I'm from Portland, unless they get confused and ask me how the lobsters are, lol.
Erlik posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 5:34 PM
We've got about 3-4 inches of snow. It was great yesterday, while it was snowing. All the idiots kept their cars either in garages or under the snow. the roads were practically empty, no creetins speeding, everybody was polite... Still, 74 traffic accidents yesterday. :-) BTW, I've just returned from driving my girlfriend home. Fog. Thick. So, the snow is probably very soon gone. :-(
-- erlik
rickymaveety posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 8:31 PM
San Diego here too. It's more or less perfect here as usual. But we're praying for rain ... we've only had an inch and a half since June ... way below what we need. Meanwhile, it's sunny and the lowest the temp has been downtown is about 50. Most days it's 70. Melt some snow and send it here as rain ... ok??
Could be worse, could be raining.
bikermouse posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 8:42 PM
I miss living in the snow. It would snow sometimes in Lanham (DC area) and Boulder Creek, Ca but not as much as I would have liked. As much trouble as it is to go out and clear driveways etc, snow adds adventure and mystery to otherwise mondane existance. Any adversion to cold weather/cold water I had as a kid is pretty much gone. When I was in DC I'd be out there in -20 with an unlined jean jacket and a t shirt.(Gotta have warm shoes/boots though.) I think of the 110 degree plus summers in Phoenix and the 100 degree plus summers here in Fresno, and I ask "North to Alaska"? I'm ready! This time of year in Fresno it's a pleasent 50/35 daily with ocassional 'tule' fog or rain which is an adventure of sorts driving in I guess. - TJ
Ardiva posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 12:32 AM
rickymaveety posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 12:45 AM
I used to live where it snowed, and I often got called out to work in the middle of the night (medical emergencies). There is nothing quite like getting dragged out of your own sick bed (one time with walking pneumonia) and into a roaring blizzard in order to deal with someone else's illness. Snow is pretty when you don't have to work in it or commute through it. Otherwise, it can be a royal pain in the tush. On the whole, I'm feeling pretty smug about spending my later years working from home in warm weather.
Could be worse, could be raining.
pogmahone posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 2:38 AM
No snow here yet this year (Dublin, Ireland) :( The down side of getting snow so rarely is that when it happens, it's regarded as a national disaster, everything grinds to a halt and no-one goes to work for the duration. Or maybe that's the up side? We were hoping for snow today, but no luck - not even a frost :D
Svaelt posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 3:31 AM
orbital posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 3:37 AM
Complete chaos reigns when it snows here! I watched the news last night and people had been stuck in traffic on the way home for up to six hours, one woman had taken two hours to drive the two miles home from work!
catlin_mc posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 3:59 AM
I lived in Plymouth a few years ago and during one winter there were blizzards, which I thought was brill 'cos the moors were covered and sledging was a must. Now it generally doesn't snow like that in the SW of England and I found it hilarious that everywhere was closed and no one was out and about. What they had that year was as bad as we generally get in Glasgow, Scotland, in a good year, and folks here have no problems with manouvering in severe snow weather. 8) Catlin
Gog posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 4:31 AM
He HE, I love weather like that Svaelt :-) (spent quite a while in Norway, it was great.) Now I live just outside Bristol (SW England) and everyone panics when it snows, it's amazing how many bad drivers there are, So far today I've seen two crashes, three cars abandoned in ditches and one wrapped around a road sign :-(. All with only a couple of inches of snow. @Catlin, I worked at the Citadel in Plymouth for a while, very familiar with Union Street :-).
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pogmahone posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 4:48 AM
Hi Gog - I lived near Bristol for three years (just outside Bath) and went to and fro to the St. George area all the time - used to design paving systems for a concrete company there. That was what prompted me to buy my first pc and CAD program, got sick of using chipped rulers, wonky compasses, and pencils with blunt points LOL. whereabouts do you live? I love that area. When I become fantastically rich I'm going to get a house in that area, and spend 3 months out of every 6 there :) I can dream, can't I?
chohole posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 5:52 AM
Why does everyone always want to live somewhere else? I envy you pogmahone for living in Dublin, some really beautiful countryside round there. Plus of course my son and family live there, which is always a good reason for visiting. Love your nickname btw, one of the few bits of gaelic I can translate.
The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."
Gog posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 6:02 AM
I live in Yate, but in a really secluded spot (four houses in our road and protected parkland opposite) It's a lovely place, and the local school is brilliant, my daughters class is 19 children, they have a teacher and a class assistant. Yate shopping centre is ok and only a fifteen minute walk away. I actually work in Swindon though :-( - no more I can say about that really. House prices have flown up in the last couple of years round here (mine's gone up by 110,000 in 3 years)
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bikermouse posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 6:32 AM
The Weather in Fresno as per MSN Alerts: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 46F Cloudy Feels Like 46F UV Index: 0 Minimal Dew Point: 44F Humidity: 93% Visibility: 5.0 miles Pressure: 30.24 inches and falling Wind: calm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// How boring ! some Firestorms or tidal waves might spice it up a little - but nooooooooooooo! Oh well, maybe it'll rain soon. Ho-hum!
CryingWolf posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 8:39 AM
burgi posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 8:42 AM
i got my mum to drive me to work today. the car park was an ice rink. we slide past the entrance twice (once in reverse). John PS: i love where i live, could do with more/better public transport.
CryingWolf posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 8:45 AM
-- Loud Pipe contest (Thunder Thursday) summer 2003
"God I miss summer right now!!!"
Ardiva posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 10:57 AM
rickymaveety posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 12:00 PM
Heh .... froze my butt to an outhouse seat about 35 years ago in Norway. Sat there all night until someone came in the morning, then they had to take the outhouse door off and pour warm water around my poor little frostbitten butt to get me off the seat. Snow and cold can be lovely, but I draw the line at risking your life just to take a dump.
Could be worse, could be raining.
Ardiva posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 12:15 PM
rickymaveety posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 2:41 PM
35 years ago in Norway I was doing just that. And, let me tell you, it's embarrasing enough to be unstuck from one of those things when you are 52, but when you're 17 ... it's like your entire world has come to an end!! I'm still carrying around psychological scars from that episode (the frostbite scars on my fanny have long since healed). Heh ... problem is, when you are my age and have been as many places, met as many interesting people, had as many adventures and as many careers as I have, once you get me started talking, it's nearly impossible to get me to shut up.
Could be worse, could be raining.
Ardiva posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 3:43 PM
rickymaveety posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 5:09 PM
Sure ... IM me and we'll trade email addresses. Just wait until I tell you about the time my best friend and I went on a simple road trip and ended up with an all points bulletin out on us. Yes, it's true ... you can be on a most wanted list and never have done anything wrong.
Could be worse, could be raining.
burgi posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 5:25 PM
thats not fair i wanna hear about your APB escapade. i'll recount my 1 mile police helicopter chase in exchange. not to mention the Shopping Trolley of Doom 1, 2, 3 & 4 (the revenge!) quadrilogy. John
rickymaveety posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 6:38 PM
OK ... I'll post it in another thread in the near future. I'll title it (something like) share your strangest adventure. I'm pretty sure it would qualify as one of my strangest ... if not the strangest.
Could be worse, could be raining.
burgi posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 6:43 PM
groovy!
Ardiva posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 9:24 PM
Rayraz posted Fri, 30 January 2004 at 3:01 AM
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bikermouse posted Fri, 30 January 2004 at 4:23 AM
Rayraz, Thanks man - I needed that! Looks like the Art Dept at your university I'm guessing. - TJ
Rayraz posted Fri, 30 January 2004 at 5:32 AM
actually it's our back yard....
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burgi posted Fri, 30 January 2004 at 9:29 AM
Attached Link: Real Ale
those stoves are great! my friend's has one. in summer we sat in his garden drinking real ale, listening to good music and watched the stars wheel overhead. John