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Post by El Marsh on Nov 11, 2019 22:22:18 GMT
Dear Canadians,
Please keep your abhorrent winter shizzle up there, away from us in the breadbasket.
Yours,
Marsh, Lord Emperor of Mo-Kan
:P
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 22:29:44 GMT
Speak for yourself. I'm actually jealous of you guys that get snow. We rarely have that around here, but then our winter is usually more like Fall 2: The Freezening than a proper winter.
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Post by Zealot on Nov 11, 2019 22:41:08 GMT
I'm actually jealous of you guys that get snow. This guy.... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 23:51:09 GMT
Hey, you at least have more traction on snow than you do on ice.
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Post by BakFu on Nov 12, 2019 1:06:17 GMT
Dear Canadians, Please keep your abhorrent winter shizzle up there, away from us in the breadbasket. Yours, Marsh, Lord Emperor of Mo-Kan :P Deal. Keep your shitty poisonous bugs and snakes south of the 49th and we’ll hang onto the snow and sub zero crap, your most royal excellence. 🤴 |
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Post by BakFu on Nov 12, 2019 3:26:58 GMT
Speak for yourself. I'm actually jealous of you guys that get snow. We rarely have that around here, but then our winter is usually more like Fall 2: The Freezening than a proper winter. As much as I bitch, I do like having four, actual seasons. My other half lived in Texas for years and although she loved the weather, the abundance of track and field events, and the availability of great Latin food and BBQ, she really missed seasons. There’s lots of fun shit to do here in winter, and you can embrace and enjoy it, or be miserable five to six months of the year. If I didn’t have to drive to work with all of the other savages every day (if public transit was worth a half a shit here), I’d love winter a lot more. 🙂 |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Nov 12, 2019 7:03:51 GMT
Winter has struck early and I still have bad memories of last winter.
I am somewhat (58%) convinced that winter is going to bludgeon me this year. It commands many elements.
The usual routine is for Fall to last for a while and then the true winter occurs after New Years when holidays (read: vacation time) are over and there's nothing on the horizon for months. The weather gets worse and "Seasonal Affective Disorder" causes the Gooses to preemptively hibernate together in one bed.
I understand and mostly enjoy the appeal of seasons and there's a lot to enjoy about winter but I wanted more Fall this year. For various reasons (🤧) , summer to now was kind of a blur in the amount of outside time I got to enjoy. Heck, I want more Spring and that seemingly unreachable goal will do nothing but drive me mad until mid April.
In short:
30 days hath September
Winters cold will slice me in its blender.
All the cold will spare no one.
Time for 5 months of inside e-fed fun 🎮
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Post by El Marsh on Jan 2, 2020 15:15:02 GMT
If we have any Australians on the board, I sincerely hope that you've made it out of the path of the wildfires that are apparently consuming much of the continent.
When the news was talking about wildfires in Australia a few weeks back, I figured that they'd eventually burn out or get contained within a week or so as is usually the case when the American Southwest has its annual outbreaks. Unfortunately, I grossly underestimated just how much of the southern continent was aflame and several weeks later, it seems to be getting worse, reaching heavily populated areas such as Perth, the capital Melbourne, and the largest city Sydney. The intense summer heat (104F on average, over 120F in places effected by the fire) is making any semblance of containment nigh impossible. Last I saw, 18 people had been killed in the fires, hundreds of homes had been destroyed, and perhaps most alarmingly, an estimated 500,000,000 animals have been killed in the flames, including a few species that are now thought to be extinct.
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Post by BakFu on Jan 2, 2020 15:47:35 GMT
Yeah, every time I see the footage of the fires down in Australia, the stuff in California, or fires anywhere I feel for everyone affected and pray for their safety. Where I am in Canada, we’ve had two bigger population centres almost wiped out by fires, Fort McMurray was lightning and bone dry forest, unfortunately Slave Lake was arson that ended up out of control again due to the more common drought like conditions we’ve been experiencing over the past decade or two. The smoke here can be horrific when the fires are bad and the wind is right, limiting visibility and making breathing nearly unbearable for people without any respiratory issues never mind children or elderly people. The smoke is nothing compared to having your city flattened or your life threatened, so I hope something can be done to stop those fires from spreading.
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Post by Nth on Jan 3, 2020 6:24:05 GMT
We're actually really lucky right now. It's like early spring here, not even snow on the ground anymore. I've got about seven weeks to go to vacation and by the time that is over it'll pretty much be spring.
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Post by BakFu on Jan 13, 2020 2:24:38 GMT
So winter is here, it’s -30 C (-22F) right now, -40 C (-42F) with wind chill. The highest it will get all week is -23C (-9 F) with no end of this bullshit cold snap for the next ten days or more, so hooray for us! 🥶 Update: driving home from work tonight/this morning, thermometer in the car up here on what is apparently now the dark side of Pluto read -34 C...  |
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Post by El Marsh on Jan 17, 2020 4:32:35 GMT
Mechanics are probably cleaning up right about now, eh?
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Post by BakFu on Jan 17, 2020 5:16:33 GMT
Mechanics are probably cleaning up right about now, eh? You know it. AMA here is quoting 48 hrs for routine tow truck service here and won’t even bother coming out to do boosts or anything. We’re on the tail end of this bullshit, it’s a balmy -29 C today, better than the -37 C ( without wind chill factored in, so that was around -45C that night I think) I had on my car thermometer on my way home from work Tuesday evening. There are abandoned cars waiting to be towed scattered everywhere, it’s kind of surreal. We’ll have a day or two in the -30’s here a few times every winter, but I don’t remember ever having over a week straight of extreme cold warnings where it never gets much above minus thirty. In the Hart’s home town of Calgary, the zoo moved the penguins inside because of the cold. That has to tell you something (I’m 300 km (186 miles) north of Calgary) www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5427919 |
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Post by BakFu on Mar 3, 2020 9:32:22 GMT
Odd thing I just read about but haven’t actually experienced, it’s weather learning time at C!C, kids!
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Post by Zealot on Mar 3, 2020 17:07:54 GMT
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