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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on December 02, 2005, 11:29:14 AM
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Kids are having a blast, no school today.
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4" close schools?
wussies
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Originally posted by Mustaine
4" close schools?
wussies
:p
I agree, but it has more to do with the school district not putting chains on the buses, we live in the foothills of the cascades, its anything but flat roads around these parts..think of the streets of San Francisco, then add 4 degrees more steepnes....
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oh i understand... trust me.
it is a bummer that i wasn't a kid now. even here they close schools with 4" nowadays, but when i was a kid we'd get 8+" of snow, and have to go to school, getting there 45 minutes late because the bus driver was an old lady that couldn't drive good.
i miss huge snow storms like that
the wussification of society in general makes me laugh though :lol
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Originally posted by Mustaine
i miss huge snot storms like that
What part of the earth do you live on where there are snot storms? :rolleyes:
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whoopsey :rofl
though they are cool too. :aok
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What the...
What is that stuff.... oh, yeah ... I've heard of that before, it's called snow.
It'll be around 80 here tomorrow... :huh
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Nice house Rip!
I use to HATE snow up until this year when my 14month old son saw snow for the First time. Now i can't wait for the snow to fall. Right now we only have a dusting on the ground.
I remember in Highschool it had to be -25 degrees for them to let us out of school. We had 2 highschools right next to eachother and had to walk between them. One day it was -23 degrees and they kept us at school.... BASTARDS!
but now i just laugh at the Highschool kids waiting for the bus while im inside a nice warm house.
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We got our third accumlating Snow last night, which made for another fun commute, Girlfriend ran off the road, on the way to her job this morning. Our first snow was before Halloween! Here comes the Ice Age.
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You have wayyy too much money Rip.
Living the American dream eh? :).
We're (my freefly team) going to the US this summer (Perris). Too bad you're kinda far from there. Wouldda love ta get drunk in your house and build a bonfire inside :D
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DJ i will be on lake austin for the game on sat. Snow Blows
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"pulls out small straw"
I'm going to Rip's house dude.
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Nice pics Rip. The first pic looks like a postcard. Very cool.
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Lucky bum. Wish we had weather like that.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Lucky bum. Wish we had weather like that.
I wish I had your problems ;)
In fact we don't have much snow in the streets here in Msk now, had two snow-falls already, but not too much, and it's quite warm now, only -4C. Had +6 two days ago...
Closing schools because of snow is something I never understood. I am a city kid... Studied in three schools, one of them was in the deep suburb, I lived in a military town 15km from Moscow, with nearest school 10km away, we were taken to school by a 4WD "PAZ" bus from the military unit based there. They used PAZ only because it was small, no more then 20 pupils had to be taken to school.
I only remember when I lived in Leningrad - they closed school once when it was -25C and windy, in a wet Baltic air -25C really hurts. In Moscow they said it needs to get to -35C, but I don't remember such coldth since I moved here in 1982.
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SHoot, here in NC inthe mountians/foothills they threaten that it might snow!....................and every thing shuts down...even if it doesnt!
Im from Michigan ,..... it had to be at least 8 " before we thought about it closing stuff.
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I Still prefer the Portland system for snow.
the occasional exception aside, we prefer the more civilized system of keeping our snow on a nearby mountain and visiting it when our schedule permits.
much preferred over dumping it all over town and then heading out on the road with a couple hundred thousand people who can barely drive on dry pavement.
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I'm walking around in a t-shirt & shorts.
What's it like to be cold?
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Originally posted by indy007
I'm walking around in a t-shirt & shorts.
What's it like to be cold?
I'm walking around nice and warm, if I get too warm, I take off a layer. Whats it like to be hot? ;)
This week-end will be>>>>
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Originally posted by StSanta
You have wayyy too much money Rip.
Living the American dream eh? :).
We're (my freefly team) going to the US this summer (Perris). Too bad you're kinda far from there. Wouldda love ta get drunk in your house and build a bonfire inside :D
You're welcome under my roof anytime StSanta. We *do* have a huge firepit but I'm sorry to say its outside :)
Incidently, this is Middle Class America. I can only wish I was rich but I have the richness of a very fine family.
You can stay in the guest house, the upstairs of my little tool shed out back :D
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I have still never been snowed on. Been to the snow but never when Snowing.
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I will be recieving about another 2 feet tonight. Makes grand total for my house about 5 feet. This is only our 2nd snowfall this season.
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No snow in Tucson either. I was out riding the motorcycle today in shirtsleeve weather. It got up to 77 today.
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Originally posted by Curval
"pulls out small straw"
heheh
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Snow... whats that?
The white thing which has hardly covered the ground this winter?
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4 inches closes schools?
Well....with this day and age of lawyers suing anyone and anything, I suppose that sounds right. Back when I was going to school, it had to be one helluva storm to force a snow day. These days, any hit of sleet,freezing rain or, gasp, flurries will do it. And of course the kids love it...up until they realize they wont be out of school until close to July!
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It is now has my permission to snow here as I FINALLY managed to get my last exterior job done for the year. (Damn Jewish holidays screwed up everything on me)
Nick of time too as we may be getting some this weekend. though unfortuately its not supposed to be alot IF we get it at all.
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Originally posted by Curval
"pulls out small straw"
I'm going to Rip's house dude.
;)
So its small and snipped?
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Originally posted by LePaul
4 inches closes schools?
Well....with this day and age of lawyers suing anyone and anything, I suppose that sounds right. Back when I was going to school, it had to be one helluva storm to force a snow day. These days, any hit of sleet,freezing rain or, gasp, flurries will do it. And of course the kids love it...up until they realize they wont be out of school until close to July!
a lot of it has to do with the area.
when I lived in the mid-west it took quite a bit to close the schools and gov't offices.
here in Portland everything shuts down if just a couple inches hits the valley floor. it's nothing to do with lawyers or insurance. we just don't get snow with enough regularity to make it worth the gov't owning or maintaining enough snow removal equipment to get the roads drivable very quickly.
plus most Portlanders can't drive worth a damn in the snow. I get around fine in the snow but stay off the roads to avoid being a target.
the last major snow storm (a couple years back, maybe 6 inches, people were acting like it was a blizzard) a news crew set up a camera at an intersection down the street.
new neighborhood, 500k+ houses, all new winding street carved up the side of the hill. it was fluff'n beautiful. one soccer mom after another in her brand new SUV comes sliding down this hill to slam into the pile of cars already there.
no chains, no studs, no snow tires "it was in 4WD. I don't know what went wrong with this thing."
I'm not talking a couple cars. the 'soccer mom slalom' went on for hours, until the city could get a crew there to put up barricades and a sign to warn that the steep hill that is covered in ice and snow should be avoided by those without proper traction devices.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I'm walking around nice and warm, if I get too warm, I take off a layer. Whats it like to be hot? ;)
Gets old quick :) I'm down to my only layer of shorts & a wifebeater. Some people think it's chilly right now, but they wear flipflops. Since you lose most of your body heat through your feet, and I never go without socks & shoes, I'm all good. Definately does suck in the summer though. I'll start sweating just heading to the mailbox... and I've got virtually zero body fat. I kinda feel sorry for the heavy people when we start hitting heat indexes of 110+.
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Originally posted by LePaul
4 inches closes schools?
Well....with this day and age of lawyers suing anyone and anything, I suppose that sounds right. Back when I was going to school, it had to be one helluva storm to force a snow day. These days, any hit of sleet,freezing rain or, gasp, flurries will do it. And of course the kids love it...up until they realize they wont be out of school until close to July!
thats about the size of it here.
We get a light dusting and ther is a delayed opening. No more then an inch or two will close the schools.
I hear it has more to do with the buss Companies not willing to drive the kids then the school system willing to open the schools.
And people that work for the buss companies tell me its the insurance companies.
Probably has more to do with the Buss companies bottom line then and not wanting insurance ot go up due to an accident anything.
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Originally posted by indy007
Gets old quick :) I'm down to my only layer of shorts & a wifebeater. Some people think it's chilly right now, but they wear flipflops. Since you lose most of your body heat through your feet, and I never go without socks & shoes, I'm all good. Definately does suck in the summer though. I'll start sweating just heading to the mailbox... and I've got virtually zero body fat. I kinda feel sorry for the heavy people when we start hitting heat indexes of 110+.
Just out of curiosity, were you born in a warm-weather climate? I'm curious in a psychology point of view. Personally, I really enjoy 4 seasons, but not extreme seasons like Minnesota where I was raised....we moved to Florida during a transition to N.J. back when I was 12. I loved Florida for about 4 months, then I got tired of a solid season of it after one year.
I see alot of Californians that move to the pacific Northwest and after a couple of season become pretty depressed, particularly in the winter, some eventually move home because they miss the mild climate.
I'm a true believer that your environment as a child shapes what you tolerate in your habitat when you become an adult. Sure, there are exceptions, but, if given a choice, I think we tend to acclimate ourselves to what were were raised with. We don't have the extreme cold winters that Minnesota had here in Wa State, and I do NOT miss that at all, I love the rain because I don't have to shovel it...but I love the turning of the leaves, the chill in the air in fall... the "Deadness" of everything except pines in the winter, and the "Rebirth" that occurs in spring. We get one or two snowfalls here in the Northwest in the lower elevations, then its gone a day or two later in most cases. The beauty of it all is if you want snow for a full season, its 1 hour away in the Cascade mountains where the ski resort are. Otherwise its just rainy here in the foothills. Alot like England in the winter.
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SE Pennsylvania is the best. They even accidentally say the word "Snow" on a news report, and everyone and their mother stocks their houses so full of food you'd think that it was the blizzard of the millenium coming.
Happened everysingle time.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
thats about the size of it here.
We get a light dusting and ther is a delayed opening. No more then an inch or two will close the schools.
I hear it has more to do with the buss Companies not willing to drive the kids then the school system willing to open the schools.
And people that work for the buss companies tell me its the insurance companies.
Probably has more to do with the Buss companies bottom line then and not wanting insurance ot go up due to an accident anything.
N.J. is pretty hilly too. Midwest is flat as a pancake, and prepared. States with hilly streets and predictable wet winters are not as prepared. I lived in Greenbrook for 2 years, Watchung hills. 1" of snow and they'd shut down everything.
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Another thing about getting snow here in the valley is that it generally never gets all that cold, so as the temp goes up and down, you invariably get a good amount of ice during the downswing. Plus, the dept of transportation won't use salt. They instead dump tons of pea-sized gravel all over the roads and highways...I'm guessing the gravel is supplied gratis from the local automotive glass shops.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Just out of curiosity, were you born in a warm-weather climate? I'm curious in a psychology point of view. Personally, I really enjoy 4 seasons, but not extreme seasons like Minnesota where I was raised....we moved to Florida during a transition to N.J. back when I was 12. I loved Florida for about 4 months, then I got tired of a solid season of it after one year.
I see alot of Californians that move to the pacific Northwest and after a couple of season become pretty depressed, particularly in the winter, some eventually move home because they miss the mild climate.
I'm a true believer that your environment as a child shapes what you tolerate in your habitat when you become an adult. Sure, there are exceptions, but, if given a choice, I think we tend to acclimate ourselves to what were were raised with. We don't have the extreme cold winters that Minnesota had here in Wa State, and I do NOT miss that at all, I love the rain because I don't have to shovel it...but I love the turning of the leaves, the chill in the air in fall... the "Deadness" of everything except pines in the winter, and the "Rebirth" that occurs in spring. We get one or two snowfalls here in the Northwest in the lower elevations, then its gone a day or two later in most cases. The beauty of it all is if you want snow for a full season, its 1 hour away in the Cascade mountains where the ski resort are. Otherwise its just rainy here in the foothills. Alot like England in the winter.
I hate Cali weather, 4 months of hot 2 months of really hot 4 months of medium and 2 months of semi cold and maybe rain.
I love WA weather, I love rain, like colder weather then hot.
Only think good about Cali weather is you can hit jeep trails for most of the year. ;)
6 months of never seeing a cloud depresses me.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
N.J. is pretty hilly too. Midwest is flat as a pancake, and prepared. States with hilly streets and predictable wet winters are not as prepared. I lived in Greenbrook for 2 years, Watchung hills. 1" of snow and they'd shut down everything.
LOL we have a bit of everything here depending on what part of the state your in you can find areas flat as a pancake or as hilly as West Va. and everything inbeween
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One thing about the climate I can say is this is the first year i a long time I can remember having a real spring and a real fall.
Typically springlike or fall like weather lasts about a week and a half then its on to either swealtering humidity or gray and freezing
This year Spring lasted about two months of gradually warming weather and fall gradually cooling.
Nice for a change.
Hope we get ALOT of Snow.
I hate winter without snow.
Snow at least looks nice and is winterlike.
but for it to be just bitter cold and gray all the time Yuck I hate that
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Dusted us up for about an inch on the way to your place rip.
great shot of your boy on the jump.
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Thanks Pongo. Heres the other warming up to a snowman he and I built:
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Hah Rip, yer "guesthouse" looks a lot more well maintained and comfortable than my former apartment.
Ya take yer lowlives, then ya remove the goodness that's left, then ya let what remains control a building with small rooms about 18 square meters each. On the plus side, there was always an ample flow of people, drugs and weapons :aok.
My new apartment is a nice one, which I am sad to say probably is a notch up from your tool shed. It even has warm water and I haven't been held at knife point or burglarized a single time yet.
Must say that your house is evidence that Americans have more purchasing power in general than just about any nation. Looks pretty upscale, your house.
Who knows, might drop by. Maybe my boss finally agrees with my whines about "overtime should be compensated". That'd easily make a few flights across the US affordable :D.
Since you decline the indoor bonfire party, I've opted for a hi octane outside BBQ/mass destruction at the outside facility. You DO have matches in the US, right?
Thanks for offer Rip, it's sincerely appreciated.
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Originally posted by NUKE
Nice pics Rip. The first pic looks like a postcard. Very cool.
Yeah, I was gonna say that, but the pink pickup gotta go ;)
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Nice place you have there Rip. Your kids looks like the kind that can give you gray hairs... if you had any. :p
I love snow, but the ammount you have there is more or less perfect, maybe just a couple of inches more would be just right. We only have a thin coat atm, but there is supposed to be abit more today and tomorrow.
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CAV58 - hell,
They used to cancel school if there was a chance of snow - I remember atleast 5 occasions growing up when that happened and the day of the 'snow' it was sunny and 50 * outside.
My town consisted of a bunch of ******* in 4WD who couldn't drive.
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Sasmox, great pics! That first one is priceless, almost like they're saying "You gonna put that camera down and pull us or WHAT?!" :lol Thanks for sharing those.
Moot, not nice posting warm weather pics! :mad: I have to wait until April for some warm Florida weather.:furious
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Just out of curiosity, were you born in a warm-weather climate? I'm curious in a psychology point of view. Personally, I really enjoy 4 seasons, but not extreme seasons like Minnesota where I was raised....we moved to Florida during a transition to N.J. back when I was 12. I loved Florida for about 4 months, then I got tired of a solid season of it after one year.
I was born in Charleston, S.C., and moved to Tampa, FL in first grade. I spent 10 years there before moving to Houston. Right now, it's 70 degrees in my office, and I'm sitting in front of a space heater for warmth. I'm about to take my laptop outside where it's a few degrees warmer. My shower water is hot enough to leave first degree burns on people with fair skin & my coffee should still be boiling when it hits my mug. The only problem here is the humidity. It's not uncommon to have a 100+ day with 100% humidity in the summer... but I'm stuck with it since I always have to live near a major port for business reasons (and it'd take a really big stick to beat our cost of living compared to most other major port cities).
If you want another fun fact, check out the correllation between an area's temperature and the spiciness of the food they eat. The hotter the climate, the hotter the food in general. iirc, it has something to do with how we get our antibodies in that region.