figmentPez
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The flooding in New York is crazy:
Nowhere to pull over since it was on a bridge. Awful.7 dead after 150-plus-vehicle pileup in New Orleans.
Why? Fog.
--Patrick
its -7°F in MN right now -_-I've been working nights lately. Yesterday I woke up late at 8am, it was 72degrees outside. I took my dog out an fed him. Then two hours later he wanted to go back outside.... it was 43degrees outside.
Holy Shit that was quick and I was out there with him in T-shirt and gym shorts....
I am worried about you guys because it is going to hit around 18 this week.
People from around here, East Texas, would absolutely be losing their shit with a temperature like that. This area is very prepared for weeks of 100°F plus temps, but anything under about 30°F just freaking breaks their heads. I’m seeing all kinds of people that are normally even headed about stuff showing all the signs of PTSD from the “Snowpocolypse” of two years ago. Usually snow around here is a dusting or an inch or so that lasts hours, that year we had 6 inches and it was around for days and left a ton of damaged people in its wake. We’re forecast for less than 48 hours straight below freezing, but looking at the grocery shelves around town yesterday you’d think that we were in the path of the worst hurricane ever and been promised they’d be without power or anything for more than a month. It’s just crazy.its -7°F in MN right now -_-
I plowed between 8-20in/20-51cm off our sidewalks (plural-we're a corner lot) and driveway (which is 4 cars wide and frequently gets plowed in by the city) yesterday. This morning I got plowed in again as I was getting ready for work and had to fire up the snow thrower real quick when I really should have been leaving for work. Had to fight the wind and the plows (and the people who put off getting new tires) to get to work. Ended up only one minute late BUT nobody else is here yet, soooo guess that means I made it on time...?I am worried about you guys because it is going to hit around 18 this week.
while it doesn't normally get 100+ here, we get high 90's in the summer with 100% humidity. So I get to live the nastiest of all worlds. I just like to remind that of people that have one extremes or the other but not a 6-month shift from one end of the spectrum to the other. The northern mid-west's real nastiness is not that it is extreme, but it can shift day to day depending on meteorological patterns. and thus we can freeze-thaw-freeze etc and it WRECKS EVERYTHING.People from around here, East Texas, would absolutely be losing their shit with a temperature like that. This area is very prepared for weeks of 100°F plus temps, but anything under about 30°F just freaking breaks their heads. I’m seeing all kinds of people that are normally even headed about stuff showing all the signs of PTSD from the “Snowpocolypse” of two years ago. Usually snow around here is a dusting or an inch or so that lasts hours, that year we had 6 inches and it was around for days and left a ton of damaged people in its wake. We’re forecast for less than 48 hours straight below freezing, but looking at the grocery shelves around town yesterday you’d think that we were in the path of the worst hurricane ever and been promised they’d be without power or anything for more than a month. It’s just crazy.
For those who don't live it, Bones is not being hyperbolic here. Everything here has to be built to withstand exposure to temperatures from -40 to 110F (-40 to 43C), to potential weeks of intermittent rain, to snowfall/ice that can add significant weight load per square foot/meter to roofs and other structures, to straight-line winds that can exceed 60-70MPH/90-105kmH, and to humidity that can get stuck anywhere from extra dry to extra sticky. And there's never any guarantee what you're going to get every year, so you can't really depend on any kind of schedule for it all.thus we can freeze-thaw-freeze etc and it WRECKS EVERYTHING.
You merely adopted the cold. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't feel the heat until I was already a man,
You get special consideration.
You merely adopted the cold. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't feel the heat until I was already a man,
A big rig already overturned on the highway, and we’re starting to see wrecks all around Houston. As soon as the wife and I get back from her dental appointment we’re buttoning up at home.
19 degrees would be great right now tbh. Sounds downright balmy.19 degrees this morning, roads are iced over. Unpleasant even by Colorado standards >_<
It's not going to get above freezing today. Businesses have closed down. I was working from home today anyway, so no big change for me.
We misted all day yesterday. The pic of the white stuff I posted wasn't snow either. It's pure iceThere's... white stuff on the ground all day today out here, but I wouldn't call it snow, also not quite sleet. Basically just a dusting of ice crystals. It didn't rain or snow or even sleet, but it just got cold enough for our ambient humidity to start crystallizing and sinking to the ground. If the clouds were actually in the sky instead of right down here on the ground, it probably WOULD have been sleet or even hail. As it is, it's just... extremely dry, extremely brittle quasi-snow. It doesn't pack, it doesn't build drifts... watching it blow around reminds me more of the sandstorms I used to see back when I lived in El Paso or Albuquerque.
Sorry man, that really sucks. I would offer to help, but my plumbing skills suck. Can you tell if you burst any pipes of joints yet?I screwed up and let my pipes freeze.
It was 19 today and I was, in fact, walking around in a sweatshirt like it was a nice fall day. Relative temperature is fun.19 degrees this morning, roads are iced over. Unpleasant even by Colorado standards >_<
It's not going to get above freezing today. Businesses have closed down. I was working from home today anyway, so no big change for me.