How’s the Weather?

by **Frances** Tue Nov 07, 2023 6:11 pm

Windy enough to lift you off your feet yesterday, but I learned you bound up and reset your feet when living in Idaho.
An umbrella is useless against the rain.

My bank is near courthouses, etc. and watching people try to get the block from Starbucks without getting knocked on their asses was a thing.

I'm told it might not be as snowy as last year and that is BS.

Snow, snow snowy, snow, snow!

And all the scary geese are back. :shock:

by **Low D** Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:53 pm

We went a couple weeks with constant weather alerts - first heavy snowfall, then extreme cold, then heavy rain and finally high winds.

Because we don't usually get snow in the Vancouver area, nobody has snow tires, but many insist on driving anyway, causing complete chaos, and people just generally panic and act like idiots. Those of us who grew up literally anywhere else in Canada get embarrassed. But i got up one morning to find that our second overnight snowfall had been 30+ cm (about a foot), and I was like "OK fine, that's actually a lot of snow". Then the Buffalo / western New York storm happened and I was back to being embarrassed by my city's reaction to a little bit of snow.

by **Frances** Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:20 pm

DzM wrote:Wow, San Diego sounds miserable.

I remember when it snowed in Temecula.
Family kids were attempting to sled on an inch of snow straight into a pile of rocks.

Isn't CA flooding 'n' stuff?

by **DzM** Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:53 pm

Frances wrote:Snow, snow, snow and no power when I got home from vacay yesterday.
After having the power out on vacay on New Year's Eve as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SudIOYwBW9c

Saw a truck somebody drove into a bar-side lake on the way to work this morning. Totally frozen solid.

Wow, San Diego sounds miserable.

by **Frances** Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:45 am

Snow, snow, snow and no power when I got home from vacay yesterday.
After having the power out on vacay on New Year's Eve as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SudIOYwBW9c

Saw a truck somebody drove into a bar-side lake on the way to work this morning. Totally frozen solid. :shock:

by **firehazard** Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:23 am

Over here we are currently awaiting the first storm of the winter season, Storm Arwen. The girls reckon they must be going with a "names from Lord of the Rings" theme this time.

by **Low D** Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:41 pm

Frances wrote:
The pets are the hard part.
Got their emergency supplies all ready.

They’ll be thrilled.

The helicopters lifted 300+ people. 30+ dogs, and 1 cat from Highway 7. I'm a fan of that cat.

People stuck on that highway made a FB group and were sharing resources, including dog food, diapers, etc (as well as a doctor & couple of nurses who walked up and down the road checking that everyone was ok) which was actually a very heartwarming story.

by **Frances** Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:04 pm

Low D wrote:Let's not even discuss the weather.

Don't know if it's made international news, but my home province of British Columbia is back in climate crisis. After a summer of wildfires that stripped much stabilizing vegetation from the hillsides, a series of storms (they call it an "atmospheric river") last weekend caused landslides that closed literally every highway - and 1 of 2 rail lines - in the lower mainland. Some people were swept away and killed, hundreds were trapped on Hwy 7 between slides, staring nervously up at the hillsides for 18-24 hours before they were flown out in helicopters. The Vancouver area was cut off from the rest of the country by road, so gas and food are running out.

Meanwhile, dikes broke out in Abbotsford, flooding a huge area, and - paired with slides out near Lytton, the town that burned to the ground in the summer - turned the city of Chilliwack into an island. Flooding has caused about 17,000 evacuations, including the entire town of Merritt.

The Trans-Canada Highway is out in multiple places. The big, serious-feat-of-engineering Coquihalla Highway is destroyed in multiple places, and will not open for months. The Nicola river has re-routed in multiple places and destroyed highway 8, washing away homes and washing away whole properties ie: land that was there is now a river.

The two smallest, longest-route highways have been partially re-opened, but another slide temporarily shut one. And there's a new atmospheric river on it's way starting later today.

Meanwhile, the worst part of the apocalypse is that we all still have to go to work every day.

Precisely.

The pets are the hard part.
Got their emergency supplies all ready.

They’ll be thrilled. :roll:

by **Low D** Thu Nov 25, 2021 4:44 pm

Let's not even discuss the weather.

Don't know if it's made international news, but my home province of British Columbia is back in climate crisis. After a summer of wildfires that stripped much stabilizing vegetation from the hillsides, a series of storms (they call it an "atmospheric river") last weekend caused landslides that closed literally every highway - and 1 of 2 rail lines - in the lower mainland. Some people were swept away and killed, hundreds were trapped on Hwy 7 between slides, staring nervously up at the hillsides for 18-24 hours before they were flown out in helicopters. The Vancouver area was cut off from the rest of the country by road, so gas and food are running out.

Meanwhile, dikes broke out in Abbotsford, flooding a huge area, and - paired with slides out near Lytton, the town that burned to the ground in the summer - turned the city of Chilliwack into an island. Flooding has caused about 17,000 evacuations, including the entire town of Merritt.

The Trans-Canada Highway is out in multiple places. The big, serious-feat-of-engineering Coquihalla Highway is destroyed in multiple places, and will not open for months. The Nicola river has re-routed in multiple places and destroyed highway 8, washing away homes and washing away whole properties ie: land that was there is now a river.

The two smallest, longest-route highways have been partially re-opened, but another slide temporarily shut one. And there's a new atmospheric river on it's way starting later today.

Meanwhile, the worst part of the apocalypse is that we all still have to go to work every day.

by **Frances** Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:14 am

Totally fucked.

Santa Ana’s give me PTSD.

Decided to cook the turkey after work because when they say they’re gonna turn the power off in the middle of the night I tend to believe ‘em.

Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a fiery hellscape this go-around.

That’d be nice.

by **Low D** Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:40 pm

firehazard wrote:It sounds apocalyptically grim out there. Keep safe, you guys.

Well if we look for the silver lining, despite drinking way more water than normal and even having a late dinner with 2 beer one night, I didn't get up to pee even once for two nights.

(Temperatures were not particularly coming down overnight, which is crazy and unprecedented, and i was seating in bed) (and not for good reasons).

Seems to have broken, and now just be the normal range of very hot, but also with a nice breeze. It's moved east, causing lightning with no rain, which means we can probably expect wildfire smoke coming soon. Welcome to the brave new world of climate change.

by **firehazard** Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:49 am

It sounds apocalyptically grim out there. Keep safe, you guys.

Low D wrote:
Frances wrote:
Ice cream sandwiches are the best, except those weird, round, oatmeal, mint & chip ones or Klondike bars... those are nasty.

I had a stroopwafel ice cream sandwich. I can't find a post-able image on line, but if you just google image search that you'll see i did quite well. Bought a box at Costco, along with a box of Häagen-Dazs bars on sale, which is what today's breakfast was. One advantage, i suppose, is that I downed two beer with my late-night dinner and still only got up to pee once in the night.

Frances wrote:Good luck.

Portland shut down its light rail yesterday due to the heat. It’s supposed to be below 100* today, so hopefully it’s back on because I planned to use the damn thing.

I saw pictures of Portland's melted power lines on IG this AM. Billionaires are paying no tax and flying to space on private aircraft, and our under-funded infrastructure is literally melting in what we can be sure is just the beginning of climate change. That's just great. I'm sleeping like a baby (I wake up every 2 hours, screaming).

by **Frances** Tue Jun 29, 2021 4:51 pm

Low D wrote:Billionaires are paying no tax and flying to space on private aircraft,

Sign the petition not to allow the fucker back on Earth, I did. :lol:

https://www.change.org/p/the-proletaria ... n-to-earth

Best joke since the storm Area 51 dealio but that was just a facebook event that went viral, I think.

Because it's only half in jest.

I don't like the "Make Him Buy and Eat the Mona Lisa" one. Steve Wynn already elbowed through his Picasso, copied on The Simpsons.
Already been done.

by **Low D** Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:38 pm

Frances wrote:
Ice cream sandwiches are the best, except those weird, round, oatmeal, mint & chip ones or Klondike bars... those are nasty.

I had a stroopwafel ice cream sandwich. I can't find a post-able image on line, but if you just google image search that you'll see i did quite well. Bought a box at Costco, along with a box of Häagen-Dazs bars on sale, which is what today's breakfast was. One advantage, i suppose, is that I downed two beer with my late-night dinner and still only got up to pee once in the night.

Frances wrote:Good luck.

Portland shut down its light rail yesterday due to the heat. It’s supposed to be below 100* today, so hopefully it’s back on because I planned to use the damn thing.

I saw pictures of Portland's melted power lines on IG this AM. Billionaires are paying no tax and flying to space on private aircraft, and our under-funded infrastructure is literally melting in what we can be sure is just the beginning of climate change. That's just great. I'm sleeping like a baby (I wake up every 2 hours, screaming).

by **Frances** Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:09 am

Low D wrote:We had a high of 40c (104f) over the last couple days. It's almost 10pm and it's 30.5c (86f) inside our apartment right now, and apparently I'm one of the luckier ones. I just had a cold shower, and now I'm laying here, sweating, and thinking about how Chevron, ExxonMobil, et al. knew about fossil fuel caused global warming for decades and fought to keep it hidden.

I had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast today, at 6am.

Ice cream sandwiches are the best, except those weird, round, oatmeal, mint & chip ones or Klondike bars... those are nasty.

Good luck.

Portland shut down its light rail yesterday due to the heat. It’s supposed to be below 100* today, so hopefully it’s back on because I planned to use the damn thing.

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