General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: jocelyn on January 15, 2007, 01:34:13 pm
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Post by: ds673488 on January 14, 2009, 09:36:51 am
-22 wind chill right now
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Post by: Rickey Roux on January 13, 2009, 11:38:53 pm
Al, nice to know it\'s warm somewhere. 65 degrees warmer than here, hasn\'t been above freezing in at least a week, a foot of snow since Friday, 3 to 5 inches tomorrow and temps not getting out of the single digits on Thursday and Friday. Dreaming of Spring. (Read signature)
Signed, Freezing In Chi-Town. ;)
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Post by: skalnbyc on January 13, 2009, 02:54:39 am
66 degrees at midnight in January ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................not complaining at all!....................................................................
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Post by: bezerker on December 24, 2008, 09:20:10 am
snow all day today rain all day tomorow. hmmm
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Post by: jocelyn on December 21, 2008, 06:54:59 pm
Eww that\'s too cold. I\'m ok with anything down to about 10, but anything below that is too cold for me. Unless I\'m working/snowshoeing/getting some other form of exercise.
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Post by: Rickey Roux on December 21, 2008, 05:59:08 pm
After a power outage on Friday due to an ice storm (which doesn\'t scratch the surface of what Jocelyn went through), the temperature here in the Midwest has not gotten above zero today. Dress warm, it\'s coming your way.
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Post by: ds673488 on December 19, 2008, 07:58:32 pm
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wow that must haev been a rough week
Nah, it wasn\'t bad at all. I read a lot and played a lot of Scrabble. If I hadn\'t had a woodstove it would have sucked, but I was plenty warm here. My barn clothes are pretty gross though... really looking forward to washing them.
its funny you sid scrabble, b/c for the first 2 months i was in my aprtment we had no cable (still dont) and no internet, and we played a ton of scrabble, good times
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Post by: jocelyn on December 19, 2008, 07:49:49 pm
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wow that must haev been a rough week
Nah, it wasn\'t bad at all. I read a lot and played a lot of Scrabble. If I hadn\'t had a woodstove it would have sucked, but I was plenty warm here. My barn clothes are pretty gross though... really looking forward to washing them.
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Post by: SlimPickens on December 19, 2008, 07:38:22 pm
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Post by: ds673488 on December 19, 2008, 07:31:02 pm
wow that must haev been a rough week
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Post by: jocelyn on December 19, 2008, 07:10:30 pm
Well, after a full week, I finally got power yesterday, and running water this morning. Very exciting!
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Post by: tyzack on December 17, 2008, 10:27:00 am
My home town has out of power since thrusday, but my parents did get to meet Deval. He asked them what he could do for them and they said "Turn the power on." He said "We\'re working on it."
Teh video:
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Post by: FrankZappa on December 14, 2008, 01:45:34 am
The Archimedes\' screw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_screw), Archimedean screw, or screwpump is a machine historically used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. It was one of several inventions and discoveries traditionally attributed to Archimedes in the 3rd century BC.
I know you\'re not going to do any of these as you\'d have power well before you\'d need it but Archimedes was still pretty damn brilliant.
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Post by: jocelyn on December 13, 2008, 11:25:31 pm
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So now we have to lug water by bucket from a brook that\'s through the woods and down a hill. I cannot tell you how much this sucks.
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Ever tried pulling a sled uphill through the woods when there is no snow on the ground? Also, how do you propose I keep them from spilling?
:?: wouldn\'t the buckets be empty when you were going uphill though? Anyway, I would have gone to walmart and gotten a couple of those big tubs like todd carries merch around in and filled them up and put the cover on. Also I was going on the assumption that because you said there was an ice storm the ground would be covered with ice and that\'s what you\'d be able to drag it on.
[BANANA]love you[/BANANA]
No. The river is down a hill. So you go down the hill to get to the water, fill the buckets, then have to carry them uphill to the barn.
Believe it or not, there\'s not much ice on the ground. It\'s weird. Most of it melted, and it was windy, so it dried up a lot. There are patches here and there, but hardly any remains. A lot of the ice has melted off of the trees too, which is good, hopefully limbs will stop coming down soon.
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Post by: FrankZappa on December 13, 2008, 09:28:48 pm
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So now we have to lug water by bucket from a brook that\'s through the woods and down a hill. I cannot tell you how much this sucks.
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Ever tried pulling a sled uphill through the woods when there is no snow on the ground? Also, how do you propose I keep them from spilling?
:?: wouldn\'t the buckets be empty when you were going uphill though? Anyway, I would have gone to walmart and gotten a couple of those big tubs like todd carries merch around in and filled them up and put the cover on. Also I was going on the assumption that because you said there was an ice storm the ground would be covered with ice and that\'s what you\'d be able to drag it on.
[BANANA]love you[/BANANA]
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Post by: jocelyn on December 13, 2008, 08:31:48 pm
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put the buckets on sleds and drag them rather than carrying. :strong:
Ever tried pulling a sled uphill through the woods when there is no snow on the ground? Also, how do you propose I keep them from spilling?
The horse pulling would be a nice idea if we had a horse that was trained to pull, a wagon, a harness, and a trail.
The zip line would be a real pain to attach big water buckets to. Seems like more effort to construct than it\'s worth. Easier to just carry them.
Thanks for the ideas though.
It\'s not all bad. It\'s pretty fun at my house. Sucks at the barn though... pretty stressful.
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Post by: sallyalli on December 13, 2008, 07:17:18 pm
i guess the state of nh is sold out of generators.
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:chin: or perhaps zip lines and pulleys ;)
or maybe i dunno, a **** horse.
HaHa
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Post by: Igziabeher on December 13, 2008, 12:42:46 pm
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:chin: or perhaps zip lines and pulleys ;)
or maybe i dunno, a **** horse.
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Post by: SlimPickens on December 13, 2008, 12:21:55 pm
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So we got really slammed by this ice storm. Giant old trees down everywhere, no power obviously. I talked to a policeman yesterday who said we would be without power for 3 days minimum, probably more like a week. I guess all of the main power lines coming from Milford, NH, are completely destroyed, and the little ones aren\'t in much better shape.
I don\'t mind this at home really. It\'s kind of fun. I have a wood stove, so I can keep warm and cook food. But this really sucks at the barn. We have 25 horses who go through a LOT of water, and now that the power\'s out the well doesn\'t work. We have gone through all of the water on the farm now. So now we have to lug water by bucket from a brook that\'s through the woods and down a hill. I cannot tell you how much this sucks.
rent a gas generator, water pump and run some hoses up from the creek
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Post by: FreeSpirit on December 13, 2008, 12:09:09 pm
:chin: or perhaps zip lines and pulleys ;)
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Post by: FrankZappa on December 13, 2008, 10:31:09 am
put the buckets on sleds and drag them rather than carrying. :strong:
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Post by: krispy on December 13, 2008, 09:58:15 am
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So we got really slammed by this ice storm. Giant old trees down everywhere, no power obviously. I talked to a policeman yesterday who said we would be without power for 3 days minimum, probably more like a week. I guess all of the main power lines coming from Milford, NH, are completely destroyed, and the little ones aren\'t in much better shape.
I don\'t mind this at home really. It\'s kind of fun. I have a wood stove, so I can keep warm and cook food. But this really sucks at the barn. We have 25 horses who go through a LOT of water, and now that the power\'s out the well doesn\'t work. We have gone through all of the water on the farm now. So now we have to lug water by bucket from a brook that\'s through the woods and down a hill. I cannot tell you how much this sucks.
Damn! welcome to 1750.. Good luck Joc.
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Post by: jocelyn on December 13, 2008, 09:24:56 am
So we got really slammed by this ice storm. Giant old trees down everywhere, no power obviously. I talked to a policeman yesterday who said we would be without power for 3 days minimum, probably more like a week. I guess all of the main power lines coming from Milford, NH, are completely destroyed, and the little ones aren\'t in much better shape.
I don\'t mind this at home really. It\'s kind of fun. I have a wood stove, so I can keep warm and cook food. But this really sucks at the barn. We have 25 horses who go through a LOT of water, and now that the power\'s out the well doesn\'t work. We have gone through all of the water on the farm now. So now we have to lug water by bucket from a brook that\'s through the woods and down a hill. I cannot tell you how much this sucks.
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Post by: wildcoyote on August 08, 2008, 04:23:29 pm
Another thunderstorm. It\'s beautiful all day while I\'m working, and everyday when I\'m about to get out...
No love for the motorcyclist. None at all.
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Post by: skalnbyc on April 20, 2007, 01:59:49 pm
A major earthquake occurring here is a risk that I have assumed and I will not be surprised the day it occurs (let\'s hope one doesn\'t happen soon). Same can be said about South Floridians living in the path of hurricanes....and so on.
However, in any region, you can often mitigate the risks by wisely choosing your homesite.
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Post by: Todd on April 20, 2007, 02:38:55 am
Meh, New York city sits on top of a major fault line as well. Predictions are that in 10-30 years there will be a devastating earthquake that will level most of the city. My personal prediction, just to note it, is 12 years. **** happens everywhere. You can\'t live your life worrying about the "what ifs"!!
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Post by: stefpav on April 19, 2007, 04:26:00 pm
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Though it isn\'t considered weather, I must admit that I currently live directly on the Hayward fault, frequently cited by geophysicists as long overdue for a major quake. The cute little term someone coined for it is "locked and loaded", as it is due for some slippage.
no offense, but you\'re insane for moving there!! granted their predictions of earthquakes isn\'t really great, but still...i would be a nervous wreck living in a fault zone. i\'m taking a geology course right now and we talked about the California earthquake that caused all the fires, and how the fires were caused by broken gas lines, but they couldn\'t do anything about it because the water lines were also broken...so many deaths...so sad. although nature is wonderful to observe. still wouldn\'t want to live there..just visit :)
thanks to all for your thoughts. i did a pretty good job keeping sebastiane warm. i wrapped her in a fleece blanket, put her on her bed and shoved her in front of the oven (which was jacked up to 500 degrees). then i boiled some water put it in my nalgene bottle and laid it next to her on top of the blanket...she had no idea what was going on anyways..i swear she could sleep through anything! haha...my funny little lizard.
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Post by: skalnbyc on April 19, 2007, 02:37:34 am
Though it isn\'t considered weather, I must admit that I currently live directly on the Hayward fault, frequently cited by geophysicists as long overdue for a major quake. The cute little term someone coined for it is "locked and loaded", as it is due for some slippage.
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Post by: Todd on April 19, 2007, 02:31:18 am
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I always take extreme weather as a reminder to choose my future homesite wisely:
Places to avoid include:
-low-lying areas that are prone to floods
-sites located right alongside a river or ocean with no elevation to buffer from floods and hurricanes/tsunamis
-steep hillsides that are prone to landslides during extremely soggy ground conditions
-rural or hilly places in CA that are prone to brush fires during the dry season.
No doubt!! That\'s one of the reasons I chose my house. It sits on top of nothing but gravel. Never get any water in the basement, except for the little that seeps in through the old as hell bilco door.
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Post by: skalnbyc on April 19, 2007, 02:18:07 am
I always take extreme weather as a reminder to choose my future homesite wisely:
Places to avoid include:
-low-lying areas that are prone to floods
-sites located right alongside a river or ocean with no elevation to buffer from floods and hurricanes/tsunamis
-steep hillsides that are prone to landslides during extremely soggy ground conditions
-rural or hilly places in CA that are prone to brush fires during the dry season.
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Post by: Todd on April 19, 2007, 02:07:18 am
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congrats jocelyn, for making back to your abode.:thumbsup:
the wind sucked the most for me. apparently i have a rotted tree behind my cottage and the wind decided to rip a branch off the tree and ram it, vertically, into my roof! then the water proceeded to pour through the attic, through an electrical socket in the ceiling of my bedroom and onto the majority of the carpet in there. had the firemen out here and everything and they couldn\'t do diddley for me. said i needed a lumberman. not to mention the power outage and having to worry about keeping my poor iguana warm enough throughout the night. at least i didn\'t have school the next day cause i only had maybe 2 hours of sleep. but whatever, it was fixed (for the most part) the next day. still have a hole in my attic and no tiles for the drop ceiling in my bedroom, but at least the limb is gone and some shingles were put on the roof. just wish i took a picture of it before they removed the branch cause it did kinda look cool sticking straight up and all. :shrug:
OUCH!!! Glad you made it through ok!!
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Post by: cookiekidmonster on April 19, 2007, 12:36:30 am
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I\'m just hoping that 4/21 isn\'t canceled or brought inside.
For ser, i can not wait for the 4/21 show in Keene!
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Post by: jocelyn on April 18, 2007, 11:56:23 pm
ugh, what a mess.
Whenever I lose power here (pretty often, it\'s a cottage in NH, kind of to be expected) it is really stressful... I\'m always worried about keepinbg the reptiles warm. So I know what a miserable night you must have had...
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Post by: stefpav on April 18, 2007, 10:03:14 pm
congrats jocelyn, for making back to your abode.:thumbsup:
the wind sucked the most for me. apparently i have a rotted tree behind my cottage and the wind decided to rip a branch off the tree and ram it, vertically, into my roof! then the water proceeded to pour through the attic, through an electrical socket in the ceiling of my bedroom and onto the majority of the carpet in there. had the firemen out here and everything and they couldn\'t do diddley for me. said i needed a lumberman. not to mention the power outage and having to worry about keeping my poor iguana warm enough throughout the night. at least i didn\'t have school the next day cause i only had maybe 2 hours of sleep. but whatever, it was fixed (for the most part) the next day. still have a hole in my attic and no tiles for the drop ceiling in my bedroom, but at least the limb is gone and some shingles were put on the roof. just wish i took a picture of it before they removed the branch cause it did kinda look cool sticking straight up and all. :shrug:
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Post by: Spacey on April 18, 2007, 07:54:45 pm
glad to hear the moat went away.
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Post by: Todd on April 18, 2007, 07:53:18 pm
I just got an e-mail today from my buddy up in NH. He was the one that had his house flooded last year. Thankfully his house was lifted 8 feet over the summer. He\'s not even done rebuilding yet and they had 4 feet of water come through again.
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Post by: jocelyn on April 18, 2007, 07:44:46 pm
Just finally made it home. Haven\'t been here since 6:30 AM the day before yesterday. Home sweet home....
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Post by: Spacey on April 17, 2007, 05:21:19 pm
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I\'m just hoping that 4/21 isn\'t canceled or brought inside.
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Post by: Spacey on April 17, 2007, 04:53:04 pm
I\'m just hoping that 4/21 isn\'t canceled or brought inside.
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Post by: skalnbyc on April 17, 2007, 04:00:31 pm
I heard the L.A. area has only received two inches of rain since last July. The southwest could use a good soaking (but not one that will force landslides).
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Post by: Stephengencs on April 17, 2007, 04:00:00 pm
It could always be worse........
But you have to expect rain/snow/locusts/apocolyptical conditions when The Breakfast plan on coming to town......
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Post by: Spacey on April 17, 2007, 03:56:11 pm
the rain sucks for sure. makes working inside a little more bearable not much.
hope that we get a break for the 4/20 run especially on Saturday.
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Post by: booztravlr on April 17, 2007, 03:54:25 pm
i hear ya. central new york got anywhere from 6-16" of snow between sunday evening and this morning. most of it should melt before the shows later on this week but that will just result in pooled water and floods as well. weird month of weather for sure.
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Post by: jocelyn on April 17, 2007, 03:51:22 pm
**** this ****. Seriously. Rain. Go. ****. Yourself.
I have not been to my house since I left yesterday morning at 6:30. My house is a damn island. There is no possible way to get there. Every road is flooded and blocked off. The people I stayed with last night got evicted this morning, so I can\'t stay there tonight. I miss my animal friends. I think they probably miss me. My clothes, hair, etc are looking not-so-clean. (meh... nothing new there.) It is supposed to rain off and on until like Friday.
God knows when I am going to be able to get home.
This... definitely.... blows.
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Post by: jocelyn on February 24, 2007, 09:06:04 pm
Incredibly beautiful day today. The sun was so bright.
Went for a little (maybe 2 hour) "hike" with Sadie and was bummed I didn\'t chose a longer trail.
It was nice to be outside without a jacket, but still have that brisk fresh air.
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Post by: FreeSpirit on February 24, 2007, 05:04:05 pm
:beerban: hoping for a snowday on Monday!!!
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Post by: SkyePrizm on February 06, 2007, 07:40:11 pm
I think i have officially hibernated till spring.
I only go out when i have to, need to, really really want to. It\'s just too damn cold for my blood.
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Post by: bdfreetuna on February 06, 2007, 06:33:36 pm
^^ there\'s a fine line between invigoration and frostbite!
That line was definitely crossed these last two days up in the western mass hilltowns.
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Post by: jocelyn on February 06, 2007, 06:06:02 pm
The cold can be quite invigorating.
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Post by: antbach on February 06, 2007, 05:54:21 pm
<--- must be the only one that actually ENJOYS cold weather. guess i\'m a little weirder than I first assumed. but I\'d much rather it be -5 out than 95.
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Post by: derickw on February 06, 2007, 12:09:35 pm
yah, my girls dogs won\'t even go outside unless they REALLY need to. they stand there and look back at you like you have 6 heads and they want to bite them all off
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Post by: omn8prdctns on February 05, 2007, 05:22:14 pm
even a snow dog looked at me like i was crazy this morning when i went out with her. i think she was pissing ice.
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 05, 2007, 11:47:23 am
usually the reasoning is winds pushing bad emissions in from another city.... boston.
It happened back in the early 90\'s also when I think stamford had one of the worst pollution record in the country and they found that it was all of nyc\'s pollution on tradewinds crossing the test zones in connnecticut.
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Post by: jocelyn on February 05, 2007, 11:06:23 am
5 degrees when I went out the door at 7:15.
God knows what the windchill was.
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air quality wise, I would rather live in Amherst (http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/county.tcl?fips_county_code=33011#air_rankings) than San Diego (http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/county.tcl?fips_county_code=06073#air_rankings) though.
Hmm... I\'m suprised to see the emissions are so bad here. We don\'t even have that many cars, with the exception of the one road that goes into Nashua.
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Post by: Rickey Roux on February 05, 2007, 10:56:49 am
I here ya. -9 this morning when I went to work, about -5 now. The heat wave is coming, supposed to get up to around 3 degrees today.
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 05, 2007, 10:55:03 am
air quality wise, I would rather live in Amherst (http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/county.tcl?fips_county_code=33011#air_rankings) than San Diego (http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/county.tcl?fips_county_code=06073#air_rankings) though.
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Post by: kindm's on February 05, 2007, 10:43:44 am
10 degrees in White plains at the moment.
1st day I felt really cold when starting the car
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Post by: leith on February 05, 2007, 12:38:59 am
is pretty nice. Breezy 70\'s during the day and nippy 50\'s @ night.
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Post by: Rickey Roux on February 04, 2007, 10:47:08 pm
At least if there was snow. it would look more wintery than it does. It\'s just effin\' cold.
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Post by: Drew_Kingsley on February 04, 2007, 10:43:44 pm
Good Ol\' CT Weather:
Winter doesn\'t actually show up until late January and when it does, I have already had my pipes freeze three times, including one breaking (which, thanks to being a renter rather than an owner, I didn\'t have to pay for). And, for the record, if it\'s going to be eight **** degrees, I would at least like some snow so my Physics of Sound and Music class is canceled every once in a while.
Though maybe I\'m just bitching because a botched Indy extra point ruined my chances at hitting a square (not the dotINFO squares).
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Post by: Rickey Roux on February 04, 2007, 10:34:14 pm
Wish we had snow. Here\'s our forecast after two days with a high of 5 degrees. No wonder I\'m posting about Summer Camp. http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/sports/tenday/60477?from=36hr_topnav_sports
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Post by: FrankZappa on January 15, 2007, 09:19:18 pm
3000 posts and you\'ve never seen a single show by your show count.
NEWB!
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Post by: FreeSpirit on January 15, 2007, 01:43:59 pm
There\'s nothing but clear skies here in N. Branford... which really bums me, since I was hoping for at least a delay @ work tomorrow am! :(
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Post by: Mamalakabubadaya on January 15, 2007, 01:43:17 pm
it\'s pretty much just cloudy (with chance of meatballs) and dreary here. i was worried about the ice storm coming through this way, but i guess we\'re okay!
sorry it\'s so shitty out joce...i hate being stranded in rough weather conditions but can\'t really complain since i haven\'t seen more than like a 1/4 inch of snow so far this year. at least you stll have the world wide web to get you by...
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Post by: jocelyn on January 15, 2007, 01:34:13 pm
... is **** godaweful. Are you guys getting a huge icestorm down there? Thank goodness I left New Haven at 6 yesterday instead of opting to continue drinking beer there for no reason. That would have been a terrible drive home when the rain turned to ice.
Every couple of minutes there is a big crash as branches come down. (Then my dog barks for 10 minutes.) I lose power like once an hour. This will continue until tomorrow from the looks of things. Ugh. Great day off. I can\'t even go anywhere.