The Weather Thread

[FoolKiller]

No travel is advised in the entire city, with talks about arresting people who are out, and yet here I sit at work.

Yippee!

I would love to see this argument in court.

DA: We charge TB with driving to work.
Judge: And?
DA: Well, it was dangerous snowy conditions.

 

[YSSMAN]

Either that or it won't come until May. Or maybe we're just having it here in Michigan. It feels a lot like Seattle outside right now.

Things should be more back to normal ish by Friday, when I leave Michigan where it should be snowing and land in Seattle where it should be 55 and sunny.

Even if it does snow, I'm doubting that it will stick... Or if it does, it won't last for long. It seems like that by this time of year, we hover around 40F for a bit, and the sun actually shows itself on occasion. Its actually fairly pleasant, minus the absurd amounts of rain that we receive.

 

[TB]

I would love to see this argument in court.

DA: We charge TB with driving to work.
Judge: And?
DA: Well, it was dangerous snowy conditions.

Turns out that they were just giving out $100 fines.

Final tally - my driveway had a minimum of 8" and up to 40" of snow, not counting the 36" of hard pack the plow left at the end of the driveway. My snow blower doesn't like me very much right now.

I like this forecast much more than the last one:
Thursday - 23°
Friday - 33°
Saturday - 41°
Sunday - 41°

 

[Philly]

Apparently we're back to snowing here. It was windy all last night and most of yesterday, and apparently that wind brought some cold with it, which I found out as I was blasted by an arctic wind while walking out my dorm.

It's also been snowing lightly for the last few hours. And it's still pretty windy so we're looking at temperatures in the 20s with a wind chill of 8.

 

[TB]

Looks like you have the crap we had yesterday.

 

[Philly]

Except you guys stole all the snow.

 

[TB]

I would have gladly shared, but unfortunately it's not up to me.

 

[High-Test]

After all the news about Fargo getting hammered by fluffy stuff, I actually miss the place.

It's 29 degrees Fahrenheit right now, and people are complaining that they're cold.

I felt nothing. Good to know that I haven't melted away that extra layer of winterization I built up last year.

OH! it was 17 degrees this morning. Some pansy plugged his 2000 Ford ranger in. I can't claim to understand North-Dakota-isms, but 17 is not cold enough to need a block heater.

Though it was a Ford Ranger, they are excrement

 

[Thiele]

OH! it was 17 degrees this morning. Some pansy plugged his 2000 Ford ranger in. I can't claim to understand North-Dakota-isms, but 17 is not cold enough to need a block heater.

Though it was a Ford Ranger, they are excrement

I would be in front of my heater if it was that cold. (C) Mind you, it doesn't get much colder than that here.

 

[TB]

Now - 34°
Today - 44°
Tomorrow - 54°

FINALLY!

 

[Cap'n Jack]

What's this clear liquid falling from the sky?

 

[TB]

Vodka?

 

[Kylehnat]

It's 🤬 snowing here again. Enough, I say! Where is spring?

 

[Sureboss]

Quite warm here. About 14c outside. Windows are open, I'm still fairly warm (am set beside window).

 

[YSSMAN]

We're hovering in the upper 50's today, which is nice for a change. Its good enough to drive around with the windows down, top open, which means that spring must officially be here!

 

[Philly]

I woke up to.... Snow? In the middle of March? In Seattle?

I was pretty sure Seattle isn't in Michigan. We also had huge dousing of hail a few hours ago and now it's sunny and 40 degrees. It's supposed to get windy today and then be 40-ish and rainy for the rest of break.

 

[Rykon Zero]

It sure was windy as hell here. Still is, actually.

 

[Philly]

Well I was out for another drive last night. And it started snowing again. It's pretty scary when you're in a performance car like the GTI and you're 25 miles from home and it's snowing really hard and sticking. Fortunately it couldn't make up it's mind if it wanted to snow or rain so the roads never got very bad.

 

[Nicko]

Well, we've got some storms going on here in South-East QLD at the moment and I must say it's a pretty good show.

 

[Mad94d]

Well, we've got some storms going on here in South-East QLD at the moment and I must say it's a pretty good show.

Paulie was saying that.

We haven't had a storm for ages, its just perfect weather here at the moment. In the 20's(C) every day.

 

[Slick6]

The only warning missing is the hail that's pouncing on my car this fine morning. 👎

 

[TB]

I take it you're not in class.

Currently: Sunny, 42°, wind is 22mph, gusting to 33 which will just melt more snow. Exactly what we don't need right now.

 

[Slick6]

Nope, spring break last week. Just about ready to head back that way though to resume class tomorrow.

 

[TB]

So much for a nice day of sandbagging.

 

[High-Test]

Wow. How are you guys holding out up there?

I got an email from my friend Yuki, he's had no class since Monday and has been sandbagging every day at the Fargoloaf.

I wish there was something I could do to help out.

 

[TB]

Wow. How are you guys holding out up there?

Two of my posts merged together from Tuesday night taken from the Premium section:

I spent all day sandbagging and will likely be out again all day tomorrow. Sadly, it feels like we haven't even made a dent in what needs to be done. I felt like punching one of the homeowners in the face, too. We were in his backyard placing sandbags and he was on the phone to a landscaper yelling at them that he had better be on the top of their list to get his yard repaired after the river goes down.

So I stomped on his shrubberies. Actually it was less stomping and more not caring about where I was stepping to get the job done more efficiently. Juvenile? Hell yes, but it made me feel better.

I guess the reason I'm so fired up about it is because if you have 90 volunteers in the backyard of your $950,000 house with sandbags and the best thing you can come up with to do is to be on the phone planning to have your yard fixed, I don't have a lot of sympathy. Especially when we had left another house an hour before and that homeowner had dug up a bunch of his small plants so we could sandbag through the yard.

Prepared > Ungrateful any day of the week.

Still better than in '97 when a homeowner was standing in the window in their bathrobes drinking coffee watching us sandbag their house.

New thoughts:

The generosity of most of the homeowners is incredible. Opening up their garages for you to come in and warm up, Non-stop supply of food and drink, etc. Whatever it takes to keep people going. The part that almost makes you want to stop is you're working your ass off to get the sandbags up to 42' (projected crest was 40') and then they announce that the new crest, because of the snow, is 41' (which no one has ever seen - it hasn't been that high for the 115 years that the records go back) and now we need to go up to 42', which will take 500,000 more sandbags.

And since this is the weather thread, I'd better say that we received around 7" of snow yesterday while sandbagging. Right now it's 19°, high is supposed to get to 32. I don't know if any of you have ever tried to pass and place frozen sandbags, but it's not exactly the funnest thing in the world to do. Especially the placing. With them frozen, they don't interlock together to form a tight wall which could quite possibly fail.

Sobering thought, especially when you're the one placing the bags. *fingers crossed my section of the wall holds*

Pictures of the aftermath of the flood in '97. No one wants that to happen again, obviously, but it's a very real possibility.

 

[UnoMOTO]

I watched a story on the news last night about youz up there TB. The effort did look massive. Good luck to you! Is your home in any danger?

We are going to get slammed with some snow over the next 24 hours. Spots near me are looking at up to two feet of snow. They think its going to be so bad that schools were cancled this morning with no snow actually on the ground. Thats the first time I can recall that happening. The news guys are not so good at predictions so lets see what today brings.

 

[kikie]

Typical Belgian weather!

 

[TB]

I watched a story on the news last night about youz up there TB. The effort did look massive. Good luck to you! Is your home in any danger?

Thanks, Brian.

Two days ago, I'd say no, my house is just fine. Today, though, after we finish getting the important things out of the basement, we're leaving for a few days. Being my wife is emergency personnel, she might have to stay here, though.

Needless to say, I'm scared out of my mind.

 

[Philly]

And it's snowing!

I knew good ol' Winter still had some left in her!