How’s the Weather?

[Niall]

The weather is rank

[firehazard]

First snow of the winter here today.

[Frances]

First snow of the winter here today.

Supposed to snow Thurs., Fri., Sat. here.

I need to go sledding or trash can lid sliding, whatever.

[DzM]

First snow of the winter here today.

Supposed to snow Thurs., Fri., Sat. here.

I need to go sledding or trash can lid sliding, whatever.

So how is Idaho treating you?

[Frances]

So how is Idaho treating you?

Huckleberry vodka.

I’m told there’s a place where you can see 25-50 bald eagles around these parts, so that’s something.

I mean, it’s Idaho.


When the Canadian borders open and COVID rates have dropped I am so there.
2022 is gonna be awesome.

[Low D]

Supposed to snow Thurs., Fri., Sat. here.

I need to go sledding or trash can lid sliding, whatever.

We don't get a lot of snow in Vancouver, so not a lot of people own tobaggans. I remember being surprised by an overnight snowfall when the kids were small, grabbing a couple large Rubbermade tub lids, and heading for the nearby embankment for the downtown viaduct for some urban style sledding.

[Frances]

We don't get a lot of snow in Vancouver, so not a lot of people own tobaggans. I remember being surprised by an overnight snowfall when the kids were small, grabbing a couple large Rubbermade tub lids, and heading for the nearby embankment for the downtown viaduct for some urban style sledding.

They had some very rare snow in a San Diego North County suburb in 2014. My nephews and a little niece went sliding down a hill behind their house onto a pile of rocks. It was a dusting at that point.

I was like, damn... no.

But then we went down in the sewer, under the freeway and onto a field that housed a freaking bull to go crawdad fishing when we were kids, so...

[Frances]

Uh... it might reach 116* in Portland today?
It’s only supposed to reach 108* in Vegas.

[Low D]

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.

[Frances]

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.

[Low D]

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.

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).

[Frances]

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.
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.

[firehazard]

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

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.

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).

[Low D]

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.

[Frances]

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.