Snow!

[RhyssaFireheart]

Still ... the sun is nice.

POAD.

I hate when my friends in Southern California pull that warm and sunny while you are freezing your arse off crap on me.  It wasn't bad enough when my best friend told me about going to her family in LA and needing to take their suits so they could go swimming on Christmas Eve.  Or the other friend debating about getting some elaborate cover for his pool so that the kids could use it when it was raining.  Or the other friend talking about his hot tub.

Die all of you.

I'm up in Chicagoland like Slack is.  Not much snow this time around, but it apparently fucked up the trains on my line last night.  It's bad enough that the train portion of my commute is just over an hour on an express (grand total is 2 hours each way from door to desk), when you have a train down and people cram onto the one you're on, and dealing with all the crap needed for winter.. it's a PITA.  Plus it added over half an hour to my trip this morning.  I should have taken a local if I wanted to spend that much time on the train.  On the upside, the conductors can't get around when it's that crowded, so I got a free trip.  

At least it's in the 30s today and I dont' have to worry about my fingers falling off.

[Samwise]

Went to lunch with my friend's convertable top down.

I'll see your driving with the top down and raise you a pleasant stroll.

[Rasix]

79 degrees today.  I put the air conditioner on in my house yesterday.  I should have worn a short sleeve shirt to work.

Tucson doesn't deal well with weather.  Anytime it rains my commute is doubled because apparently water from the sky makes people retarded upon contact.  

I haven't seen actual snow on the ground in years. I'm actually afraid what the populace might do in that situation.

[kaid]

Heheh I saw schilds remark about wanting full northern michigan snow. Heheh I used to live up there land glaciers just about sums up when the lake effect snows hit. Having to repeatedly shovel off your roof is the suck but then again with 10 foot snow drifts its not like getting onto the roof is tough.


kaid

[schild]

I have a bunch of pictures on my phone of beautiful skies for those rainy days. Here's one of them:



IIRC, southern CA (yes, I'm picking on the O.C. again) is always a clear boring sky. I only went there like 3 times a year for the last 20. Anyway. Yea, beat that, bitches. Though - you could probably BUY a very pretty sky.

[Soukyan]

Convertible

I have brought eternal shame upon my myself, my ancestors, and my descendents.

Please keep me posted of further vowel inaccuracies.

'Tis but my humble lot in life to do so. I shall, good sir. I shall.

[schild]

Night.



I'm a professional cell-phone photographer. Do not try this without proper supervision.

[Paelos]

Ah the simple pleasures of being a mod.

[Signe]

It better not snow.  I have $200 worth of groceries coming tomorrow to avoid having to order nasty, greasy artery clogging pizza. (yes, I do my grocery shopping online.  It's much less dangerous)  

Nice pictures, by the way.  I love the sky.

[Ardent]

Don't envy us here in SoCal. Those of you who don't live here may actually be able to afford to buy a house someday, with, like, grass next to it and everything.

[kaid]

Heheheh I got a job offer from scal once long ago that was offering twice what I was currently making in Green bay. The only problem was it would need to have offered about 3 times what I was making to live at the standards I was living in GB.

Also other than crappy winters and a couple tornados a year in the southern part of the state WI is not generally afflicted with rapid fire natural disasters year after year like Cali is.


kaid

[Bunk]

We've had a little bit of snow here in Vancouver this month, and a whole shit load of rain. I however, just found out that I will be spending three weeks out of Feburary in Orlando on business.

A winner equals me.

(Note, I love my city and would never move - but its nice to get away from occasionally in the heart of winter)

[Mi_Tes]

I miss snow - watching it fall and to see everything blanketed.  Makes winter pretty, unlike the rain here - just cold, dreary, and ugly.

[Biobanger]

We've had a little bit of snow here in Vancouver this month, and a whole shit load of rain. I however, just found out that I will be spending three weeks out of Feburary in Orlando on business.

A winner equals me.

(Note, I love my city and would never move - but its nice to get away from occasionally in the heart of winter)

Oh, I thought all the totem poles up there were to measure how deep the snow was...

[RhyssaFireheart]

Don't envy us here in SoCal. Those of you who don't live here may actually be able to afford to buy a house someday, with, like, grass next to it and everything.

Yeah, I guess that's a point for anyone not living in SoCal.  I forgot about housing costs out there (which is one reason why my friend and her family live in Michigan now, even Chicagoland was getting too pricy for them).  Of course, I only hit that sort of disconnect hearing my brother in Southern Illinois talk about just getting the appraisal for his house back at $325000 for 3000+ sq. ft. and about 5 acres of land.  Hell, the land alone would probably cost more than that up here where I live.

Back on the topic of snow - it's going to flurry here all damn day, but the real stuff doesn't hit until Friday afternoon (yea for working at home on Fridays!) and isnt supposed to stop until Saturday sometime.  Good thing for me that husband gets pissy if I touch the snowblower, so that's something I can ignore until he gets home from work to do it.

[LordDax]

Snow? Bah. After living in Maine for a few years, you get to know what snow is. Schools aren't closed until there is at least enough snow to lose a small child in. The snow plows owned by the counties are modified halftracks with bull dozers. You can snowboard on the hill that starts at  the roof of your house. Now that is snow! Man I wish it would snow like that down here...

[Calantus]

Anyone want to trade their American winter for my Australian summer? I hate the heat. One day I'm going to be a professional surfer. But in reverse. Like I'll be chasing the winters and, yeah... I'll be quite now.

[Hanzii]

Anyone want to trade their American winter for my Australian summer? I hate the heat. One day I'm going to be a professional surfer. But in reverse. Like I'll be chasing the winters and, yeah... I'll be quite now.

I live in denmark. I've been to Sydney.
Right now I hate you with the power of a thousand burning suns.
(something, btw, we won't be seeing much of in the next months... and snow? We had some when I was a kid, but now it's just wet wet wet)
Did I mention I hate you?

[Ardent]

Anyone want to trade their American winter for my Australian summer? I hate the heat.

No thanks. I sleep much better in cold weather than warm. Two weeks ago, when it wouldn't stop raining, I slept like a hibernating bear. This week, I've barely been able to sleep at all, with this unnaturally hot and dry Santa Ana bullshit we've had.

The next logical question then being, "Then why do you live there?" Well, as I'm sure you've figured out if you've read any of my other 372 posts, I'm an idiot.

[Strazos]

Yeah, I lived in Central Cal (1hr south of SanFran) for 8 years before moving to new jersey, and i guess i ca see how the drivers are bad...but jersey drivers are simply obscene, what with the most-densely-populated-state stuff going for (or do i mean against) us. I have to proactively avoid accidents all the time in good weather, so anything wet on the ground just makes things infinitely worse. also, driving a mustang GT doesn't help me much.

It should be legal to shoot bad drivers on sight....ya know, to keep them from breeding and all. Maybe if american drivers, in general, had some actual skill, we could all drive fast like the germans.

Snow = teh winz0r for skiing, but the uberlose for driving.

PS: it always amazes me when i go up to vermont to ski, their roads are Always impeccably clean, while jersey roads are a national embarassment.

[Polysorbate80]

Regarding South Korea:  On the plus side, they don't normally very much snow (at least in Seoul where I lived), despite it getting really fucking cold.

On the negative side, I've seen them drive buses down alleyways you'd swear were narrower than the bus itself.  And bicycles everywhere, with a huge stack of junk strapped to the back.  Not to mention 500 trillion 'kimchi cabs' that charge for distance traveled (not time) so every single freakin' one is in a hurry.

[pants]

I live in denmark. I've been to Sydney.
Right now I hate you with the power of a thousand burning suns.
(something, btw, we won't be seeing much of in the next months... and snow? We had some when I was a kid, but now it's just wet wet wet)
Did I mention I hate you?

Dry and sunny. Light to moderate southwest winds, turning southeast in the afternoon. cloud.
Current Temperature: 23 C
Forecast Max: 29 C

Ner ner ne ner ner :)

The one thing I don't like about Sydney's weather is our lack of decent winters.  Winter is supposed to be cold - closest we get is daily minimums of around 5C, when people run around wrapped up like they are in Siberia or something.

[Ardent]

Americans use F. We don't understand C.

Besides, Celsius is a dumb system because there's not enough numbers. Fahrenheit gives you all kinds of numbers, all the way up to 100 and more!

37C doesn't impress me, but ONE HUNDRED DEGREES HOLY SHIT THAT'S HOT!

F your C.

[sidereal]

If you like F, you'll really love K.

310.  Now that's hot.

[Shannow]

I lived in Australia and now live in Massachusetts, USA.

I'll take the celsius. Fuck snow. Ow my back.

[SurfD]

Urban Legend has it that supposedly, the whole F and C thing started that whole bit about most Americans believeing that Canada is just one bigass glacier where everyone lives in Igloos and Dogsleads to work.

Appearently, at one time, maps listed temperatures in F on the American landmasses on the map, and C on the Canadian side, so you would be tracking temperatures across the map and suddenly get a massive drop in temperature as soon as you crossed the border.

Its not true though, we drive Snow-mobiles now, slead dogs are too hard to maintain.

As for snow, dont tell me about snow till you spend time up in Sudbury or North bay :P

[Samwise]

What is this "snow"?

[Hanzii]

Ner ner ne ner ner :)

The one thing I don't like about Sydney's weather is our lack of decent winters.  Winter is supposed to be cold - closest we get is daily minimums of around 5C, when people run around wrapped up like they are in Siberia or something.

The first thing I did when I arrived was go on a golftrip to somewhere near Newcastle. A friend (also Danish) and I insisted on a swim in september and the locals thought we were crazy.
Not because of sharks, crocs, box jellyfish, blue ringed octopi or the numerous other parts of Aussie wildlife that will bite and poison you - but because apparently 18C water is very very cold.
Fuckin' Aussie wuzzes ;-)

[Calantus]

Americans use F. We don't understand C.

Yeah, I hear metric is crazy voodooo shit too.

[Jayce]

This is my first winter in Ohio, and the snow is still a novelty.

Tomorrow we are supposed to get 3-5 inches, and I am excited about it.

Ask me again next winter though.

[Ardent]

The metric system is only for Jesus-hating Nazi Darwinists.

Enjoy using centimeters to measure the STALAGMITES IN HELL!!!

[Bunk]

Most of my customers are American, therefore I have a bookmark to a C to F converter since there is a mandated rule that every sales call involves small talk about the weather.

Right at the moment I kind of wish we had the snow back. We are in the middle of a tropical stream or some such thing - we've been getting 10C weather with nonstop rain for about the last week.  Mudslides killing people and such, its rather unpleasant.

[Soukyan]

...we've been getting 10C weather with nonstop rain for about the last week...

That'd be ~50F for you laymen out there.

[Righ]

The metric system is only for Jesus-hating Nazi Darwinists.

We call them scientists. The Satanic Interweb that you are using was among their achievements.

[Nebu]

We call them scientists. The Satanic Interweb that you are using was among their achievements.

Funny thing you mention it.  I actually started writing a lengthy post about why the British system is stupid... but figured the effort pointless.

Water freezes at 0C, boils at 100C... yeah, that makes no sense at all.  A scale based on the properties of the most common solvent.  As for those that fear the metric system, please continue to go about your business of converting inches to feet, feet to yards, and feet/yards to miles while I simply move a decimal place.