Dear God:
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Topic: Dear God:
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Subject: Dear God:
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 3:06pm
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You've proven your point. Please turn the heat back on.
That is all. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 3:09pm
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Have you seen the price of natural gas lately? ------------- 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 3:16pm
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Apparently there is an ice storm coming, which is a terrible thing. I'm ready for warm again. |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 3:22pm
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Agreed. This every Wednesday storm thing is rather old.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:16pm
NPR just had a bit on the storm heading your way. I couldn't help but wonder how you'd be holding up by now. ------------- ? |
agentwhale007 wrote:Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:18pm
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You guys are a bunch of sally's ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:20pm
No kidding. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:23pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:29pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 4:56pm
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I can't wait for spring. Screw the cold.
------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 5:06pm
Your manliness on the Internet is judged upon how much you like cold, apparently. |
Posted By: God
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 5:09pm
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I've just been through a January month of average daytime highs in the 60 degrees.
Suckas. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 5:16pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 6:08pm
Because it's just one of the many aspects of being a rugged manly man, like having cut down a tree with an axe, or slept in a snow cave. Beards are a bonus multiplier. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 7:28pm
http://aviationweather.gov/adds/progs/ - UGETIPYLUT The charts pretty much speak for themselves. ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 7:33pm
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They're really making this storm out to be the apocalypse or something. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 7:55pm
No they don't. I failed earth science. to me it looks like my son took a couple of crayons to a map of the U.S.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 8:03pm
Every storm this year here has been the apocalypse. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 8:13pm
Sup?
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 8:21pm
My amateur interpretation is cold arctic air coming down, humid tropical air coming up, everyone dies. -------------
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 9:16pm
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Lol the other day I walked down to the movie store (about a klick) and when I got there, the water in my water bottle was half frozen and when I spit on the sidewalk it froze in like 45 seconds. -14 F FTW! EDIT: I guess it was at night. EDIT: EDIT: I've got a feeling we're not in Miami any more Toto. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 9:34pm
My local news treats every accumulation of snow to be just the worst weather ever...for an area that routinely gets a lot of snow. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 10:10pm
Pretty much. The blue lines are cold air overtaking relatively warmer air by forcing the warmer air up. This causes the bad weather (green lines). I incorrectly thought that it would be easy to determine this. The asterisks are snow. More asterisks, more snow.
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 10:11pm
I know. I hate this. My parents always watch local news and I swear, the only thing going on in the world is this snowstorm and egypt, and apparently the snow is more important. I want to scream every time I hear about how much snow is coming. I just want to be like "HEY GUESS WHAT? WE ARE IN OHIO!! NOW SHUT UP!" ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 31 January 2011 at 11:37pm
| We are wall to wall Steelers and Worst Storm Ever Of This Week coverage. |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 1:08am
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Damn. Because of this thread I realized my entire belief system is flawed--looks like I'm Christian again. From what everyone is saying, God decides the temperature of the area. Since everyone apparently prefers a higher temperature, the South consistently has the highest average temperature and the South consistently has the highest rates of religiosity, clearly God is real and he sees fit to reward the area that is the most religious accordingly. Thanks, Tippmann forum. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:06am
I did a 180 on my driveway this morning... just by tapping the brake.
Solid sheet of ice.
I love the snow, but the ice I don't appreciate. I hit a patch of ice last week and completely lost it in my MDX. Went sideways on the highway (luckily it was empty as it was so early in the morning). Hit the berm on the other side of the road and tapped the brakes enough to get the back end to whip around, and slid down the embankment backwards (just glad I didn't flip it!). Went about 80 feet through a field, and finally stopped.
Then drove back up onto the road and went on to work. My car had mud and grass all over it! Does that count as an accident? I had zero control, and went off the road, but there was no damage?
And since the cold is clearly global warmings fault. I found this article interesting.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/01/30/mad-meat-making-scientist-proves-climate-doomsayers-wrong/ - http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/01/30/mad-meat-making-scientist-proves-climate-doomsayers-wrong/
Paragraph number 8 was hysterical... ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 10:54am
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I was going to buy a snow blower, but this looked like so much better for snow removal...
------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 11:29am
------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 11:50am
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Well, the massive ice storm just turned out to be rain. Which, I mean, is fine. I'm used to rain.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 11:51am
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 11:54am
I got legit spooked yesterday. I stopped by the store on the way home to pick up taco seasoning (for dinner) and oven cleaner (because I am really tired of setting off the goddamned smoke detector every time I cook dinner) and the lines were insanity with people buying jugs of water, batteries and bread. For a second I thought I was back home and a hurricane was coming. It also made me quite nervous that I was underprepared for the impending ice-related doom.
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 1:19pm
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We got a few inches of snow last night, but none of the ice they were predicting. Shoveled my driveway and walks in case we get more snow or ice tonight. Very disappointed in my new shovel purchase. I may have to take it back. Bought one of the "push" types and unless I hunch over like a really old man the angle is too steep and I keep digging into the concrete. Already racked myself once. Wondering if I should just remove the metal tip as it seems to be the main culprit. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 2:45pm
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Our massive ice storm turned out to be a moderate ice storm. Maybe .5-1" of ice on everything. However, it is now sleeting and snow is coming in tonight. -------------
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 4:52pm
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Yay, it'll stop snowing about 24 hours from now! ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 5:34pm
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Got a bunch of rain out of this storm. I'm quite pleased we missed out on the snow and ice. I no longer head to work in the evenings when the streets have already been cleared by daytime traffic. I imagine morning rush hour will suck when we get real winter precip. ------------- 
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 5:37pm
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Icy crap is starting to come down now. I really don't see it ending well. Looks like another day at home with the wife and kids. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 7:23pm
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its -25 here, you guys cant complain. Oh, and the de-icing trucks for the planes are DOA, so no flights in or out of Minot. Anyone wana help a dude out and help me move south? ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:28pm
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I'm so ready for the summer. I'm done with this freezing weather, these crappy conditions, and getting sick every other week. ------------- 
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:44pm
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Ice storms suck. That big one we had two years ago had people w/o power and cut off from main roads for over a week, and all the dead trees and limbs on the ground have fed a few good-sized forest fires so far. I'll take the snow and cold over that any day. The snow is killing me financially since we don't need to make so much for skiing. Also, quite whining, I work outside at night in that cold. |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:50pm
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So, what do you guys wear when it's that cold? I have two hoodies, some sweatpants, jeans, and beanies to deal with the frigid, frosty, mind-numbingly-cold 30* that happens for four weeks total in Texas, and I can't imagine how many layers of clothes people in actually-cold places wear.
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:55pm
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I truly don't layer much unless I have to be outside for a length of time. Usually just jeans, shirt and a coat. Of course I have various coats depending on how cold it is ranging from a lined nylon athletic jacket to a Columbia jacket with a zip out fleece. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 9:02pm
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Im normaly never outside much, so its normaly jeans, skate shoes, t-shirt, a flanel shirt, hoodie, maby a coat if ima be outside for a long time. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 10:42pm
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Im in college....we wear hooded sweatshirts and jeans weather its 50* or 0*. If I have to scrape the ice off my car, ill wear my FreeCountry Soft Shell coat over a hoodie then eventually leave the coat behind when I get to class. -------------
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 10:54pm
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Heh, they already canceled classes for tomorrow. Sweet.
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 11:04pm
Gloves vary depending on how cold it is, ether choppers or just normal leather gloves. If it hits zero or less I'll bust out bibs and a carhart jacket. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 7:41am
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My boss told us to 'prepare to work from home' on remote issues and paperwork. For that to happen, its got to be really bad. The last couple of snow storms have seen me on the road all day. Snow and ice be damned. Well, they called off work today with the exception of ONE job, and its mine. I get to go out and set up a blackberry to retrieve emails for some surgeon. We've got a lull in the storm, but are expecting 9-12 inches today. With ice mixed into the pot as well. Overall though, its not really that bad (yet?) I'm usually found in jeans and a sweatshirt with an old heavy BDU coat when I'm out shoveling. Hat and gloves optional, mainly because I forget the hat and lost my gloves. I have 4 pairs. I left three of them in my hunting pack back home, and took the heavy winter ones back here with me- and lost them at a job. Something I saw yesterday though, with 1" of ice, that equates to 500 extra pounds of weight on power lines in each segment between poles. ------------- ? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 10:34am
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Ha, this is awesome. There are 6 foot drifts in my backyard. My dog couldn't figure out where to pee. I hope when they use the phrase once in a lifetime it is true. I have never seen this much snow in one day. I was up at 5:30 to start shoveling and there was only one other person in the neighborhood up and out. Thankfully he works construction and has a plow on the front of his truck. He did the street in front of my house so now I'm clear the one block drive to the state highway.
I'll look into getting some pictures in here. Thankfully I purchased a bag of coffee yesterday and some advil. I have a feeling I'll be needing both. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 10:45am
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No snow here at all. A little bit is falling right now but it doesn't look like it's sticking. However, if I look out of my office window, which overlooks the second-floor roof ledge, the wind is whipping the snow around and back up, so it looks like it's reverse snowing. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 10:59am
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Magoo
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 11:37am
| Greetings from Houston, Texas. The temperature is around 25*, and there have been rolling blackouts by various power companies. I don't like the cold. :( |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 11:51am
We got about a foot yesterday on top of what we already had. And that foot is according to weather.com's past 24hr info. It looks like more though. Ill go out there with a yardstick later because its still coming down. Here are some pictures looking out my bedroom window.  Most of my neighbors have been out a couple of times to snow blow their driveways already. -------------  |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 12:19pm
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We just started getting it. Its supposed to snow from now till night, then its flurries until tomorrow morning. Fun times. For those of you complaining about the temperature: its 9* F here. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 12:51pm
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This morning, amidst the paranoia, the news reported a lull in the storm, and told us to be prepared for 9-12" of snow by tonight on top of what's already on the ground. two minutes ago I checked the weather, since the lull seemed to be quite extended. "Winter Storm Warning Canceled" How the hell do you go from 9-12" expected to el-zilcho in just a few hours? I can see guessing an inch or two off, but I'm watching icicles melt out the window and nothing at all fall from the sky. I hate weather people. ------------- ? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 1:22pm
I deal well with the cold, when Im home and it's -40 I was still going out in a jacket, t-shirt, jeans, normal shoes, but I'd add my hat, gloves and thick socks and I was alright. A guy on our bar-crawl came in a hoodie/ t-shirt, that was insane. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 1:24pm
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It's after 1:00pm and I'm still waiting for my road to get plowed so I can go to work. The snow is now nipple-deep next to the path to the woodpile with some nice 7-8' snowbanks at the end of my driveway, so when I can leave it will be like playing Russian Roulette. If I go out and shovel I wear jeans and a hoodie since otherwise I'll sweat myself stupid. For being outdoors for a prolonged period, I'll do a base layer of synthetic long underwear (cotton is a terrible base layer) and undershirt, at least two shirts, sweatpants, flannel lined jeans, a hoodie, and a gore-tex/ thinsulate coat, two pair of wool or woll/poly blend socks, good gloves, a beanie, and possible micky-mouse boots. If I'm making snow I typically end up wearing a crust of ice over all of this since the water from the snow guns will freeze before it soaks into the jeans. That way I can just brush it off before coming inside. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 2:07pm
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I love watching hearsay BS spread through FB. The current rumor is that we are under a state of emergency (false) and that only emergency vehicles are allowed on roads (false) and if you are caught on the road you can be fined up to $500 (false). Doesn't anybody fact check anymore? -------------
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 2:55pm
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We got 20.2 inches between 2pm yesterday and like 8am this morning. Not too shabby.
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 5:15pm
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NE Ohio didnt get too much action it appears, at least by me. We got a lot of ice last night, but it melted off my truck already. The driveway is an ice skating rink, but the roads are fine. They closed my campus at 7:30am with a mass emergency text alert. Classes start at 8am for a lot of people, haha. Most people decided they were going to skip either way. -------------
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 5:28pm
Jeans, Sneakers, hoodie(unzipped), jacket(unzipped), tshirt, baseball hat. If it's really windy I'll throw on a beanie, and I don't even own boots. Gloves are only for shoveling. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 6:58pm
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Finally got around to trying to shovel the driveway and walks. What a monumental waste of time. About 1/2 inch of powder sitting on top of a sheet of ice. Yay. Now looking at day 3 of having the whole famn damily all cozy and at home together as they just sent the school cancellation out. Double yay! I guess planning the trip next week to visit my mother is Florida wasn't such a bad idea after all. We'll need the time apart after this week. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 8:56pm
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We are getting raped once again. Im tireing of the cold alot. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Magoo
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 8:59pm
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 9:43pm
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^ I knew the second I saw that quote what I was gonna see under it. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |