What's more current than the weather? - Page 88

xoxoxoBruce · 03-01-2018, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Looking at 12" to 18" from Friday morning on. Hmmm... ski Sunday?

Even Benny at :25 checking out a pole.

Gravdigr · 03-02-2018, 01:49 PM

I'm tired of rain. I will accept anything falling from the sky except aircraft. Snow? Cool. Ice? Cool. Frogs and fish? Fukkit, at least it ain't rain.

Griff · 03-02-2018, 03:39 PM

It's a 5? shear bolt day.

Carruthers · 03-06-2018, 02:03 PM

The snow which was dumped on us last week has now largely disappeared, but it's still being a damned nuisance up in Cumbria.
Some poor souls have been snowed in since last Wednesday and the RAF has been flying in food and fuel to cut off villages.
OK, it's not the high country of Montana with its extremes of weather, but it's still pretty bad if you're stuck in it.

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Jonas Ershov clears the snow outside his house in Nenthead, Cumbria. He has been snowed in since Wednesday.

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A week after the Beast from the East hit Britain, aid operations are continuing for stranded residents in Cumbrian villages where locals have been burning furniture to stay warm amid 12ft snowdrifts.
Even though snowfall has ceased in the affected areas, high winds are blowing snow from hilltops in the North Pennines and throwing it down on local villages and towns such as Nenthead and Alston.
A military operation involving the RAF and Royal Marines helped to deliver emergency parcels to 170 residents in Cumbria who requested support over the weekend and yesterday.
Cumbria county council said there were six homes still requesting support, while highway teams were out in force to keep major roads clear.

Nenthead Street View.

The Times

Happy Monkey · 03-06-2018, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I'm tired of rain. I will accept anything falling from the sky except aircraft. Snow? Cool. Ice? Cool. Frogs and fish? Fukkit, at least it ain't rain.

Careful. That attitude will get you oobleck.

Gravdigr · 03-06-2018, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Careful. That attitude will get you oobleck.

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"Rain, always rain. Why can't we have something different for a change?"

~Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Suess

Thank you for that, HapMo.

Gravdigr · 03-06-2018, 02:18 PM

Winter is lovely, but it can suck.

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xoxoxoBruce · 03-06-2018, 02:36 PM

They're saying we'll get a 6 to 12 inches tomorrow. At least the power should stay on, all the weak trees were weeded out last friday. I lost power at 8PM Friday, no heat, 51F inside, no water, no phone. Came back on 7:30PM Saturday. Went off at 2AM Sunday, on at 1AM Monday.

glatt · 03-06-2018, 02:58 PM

Were you burning your furniture like the folks in the UK?

Or did you put on a jacket?

xoxoxoBruce · 03-06-2018, 03:04 PM

Had the fireplace going but that's a pisshole in a snowbank heating the house.

Gravdigr · 03-06-2018, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Winter is lovely, but it can suck.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

They're saying we'll get a 6 to 12 inches tomorrow. At least the power should stay on, all the weak trees were weeded out last friday. I lost power at 8PM Friday, no heat, 51F inside, no water, no phone. Came back on 7:30PM Saturday. Went off at 2AM Sunday, on at 1AM Monday.

That's the 'suck' part I was talking about.

Gravdigr · 03-06-2018, 03:08 PM

As you say, maybe the problem trees have been weeded out, and you'll get through ok from here on.

Glinda · 03-08-2018, 02:42 PM

Rainy, windy, 48 degrees. Bah.

Gravdigr · 03-08-2018, 03:21 PM

Kinda nasty here, too.

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DanaC · 03-08-2018, 03:54 PM

There's a video on youtube about the internet laughing at brits for being perturbed by a little snow.

Have you seen that picture Carruthers posted of the massive fucking snowdrifts in Cumbria?

My village got 15 inches of snow and windspeeds high enough to create snow drifts as tall as I am.

Full on blizzard conditions - a gritter truck got buried in snow in Wales - one couple spent hours buried in their car and a motorway full of people were stranded for 12 hours - heavy snow, deep drifts and 90 mph winds

I realise we have a tendency to over react to snow over here - given we don't get anywhere near as much as elsewhere and it doesn't last as long either - but the combination of the 'Beat from the East' and Storm Emma was full on.

03-02-2018, 01:49 PM	#2
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I'm tired of rain. I will accept anything falling from the sky except aircraft. Snow? Cool. Ice? Cool. Frogs and fish? Fukkit, at least it ain't rain. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-02-2018, 03:39 PM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	It's a 5? shear bolt day. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-06-2018, 02:18 PM	#7
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Winter is lovely, but it can suck. If it makes it better, it's 65 degrees and beautiful in South Central today. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-06-2018, 02:36 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	They're saying we'll get a 6 to 12 inches tomorrow. At least the power should stay on, all the weak trees were weeded out last friday. I lost power at 8PM Friday, no heat, 51F inside, no water, no phone. Came back on 7:30PM Saturday. Went off at 2AM Sunday, on at 1AM Monday. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Had the fireplace going but that's a pisshole in a snowbank heating the house. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-06-2018, 02:58 PM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Were you burning your furniture like the folks in the UK? Or did you put on a jacket?

03-06-2018, 03:08 PM	#12
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	As you say, maybe the problem trees have been weeded out, and you'll get through ok from here on. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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Glinda Fucktard Resistance League Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: 1.14 acres of heaven Posts: 1,512	Rainy, windy, 48 degrees. Bah.

03-08-2018, 03:21 PM	#14
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Kinda nasty here, too. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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