Gotta hate winter

[VE7NOT]

Uh Oh (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/15/building-collapse.html#skip300x250)

Full Story this far (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/11/15/bc-storm.html#skip300x250)

As of now we have a calm in the storm with 52F and 88% humidty and winds from the S at 13mph

[kc7jty]

It was 80 here today. I grilled a New York steak.

[w8cbc]

Wet and windy - reminds me of the ex.
She was often both. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (w8cbc @ Nov. 15 2006,17:42)]Wet and windy - reminds me of the ex.
She was often both. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Don't you have a computer to fix or something? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[w8cbc]

Nah, they're all wor*&^%#G}H)W^%[@#;^$%87]6^#?^{$%^#(%&T%

no carrier

[nz3m]

Quote[/b] (w8cbc @ Nov. 14 2006,19:42)]Wet and windy - reminds me of the ex.
She was often both. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
That would make some of us happy http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (w8cbc @ Nov. 15 2006,17:42)]Wet and windy - reminds me of the ex.
She was often both. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
HA! I was just thinking the same thing.

Well not about your ex.. about... err.. nevermind.

[w8cbc]

Hee. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[VE7NOT]

Funny http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

On the original topic:

ALL roads to the other side of the island are blocked by flooding or downed trees.

We woke up to this:

Morning on the other side (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=13d626b0-de6e-4574-aca0-689b08d69529&k=41201)

[WF7A]

Here in lush, exotic, tropical Northern Idaho the wind's gusting to 40 knots (considerably less than the other night) with rain and temps in the low 40s. Just your average, Fall day on the prairie.

Now, if only a house would fall on my neighbor...

[VE7NOT]

Quote[/b] (WF7A @ Nov. 15 2006,19:22)]Here in lush, exotic, tropical Northern Idaho the wind's gusting to 40 knots (considerably less than the other night) with rain and temps in the low 40s. Just your average, Fall day on the prairie.

Now, if only a house would fall on my neighbor...
Well your EAST of the Cascades... you probably won't notice this.

Cape Flattery had 25 foot waves or more

[w8cbc]

Would that make it Cape Flattened?

[KG6YTZ]

I think I've done enough gloating about L.A. weather for this month... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[VE7NOT]

Quote[/b] (w8cbc @ Nov. 15 2006,20:09)]Would that make it Cape Flattened?
Want to see Cape Flattery in a storm? Surfer everywhere. Half come back http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[w8cbc]

Now THAT would make for an amusing spectator sport!

[K8MHZ]

You haven't been through a REAL winter unless you have looked out the second story window of your house and wondered which lump in the snow was your car.

[VE7NOT]

Well im glad we rarely get snow here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif What we have now is considered bad weather. Frost and ice on a cold night bring havoc in the morning from fools who think ice is gravel. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[w8cbc]

Any snow or ice around here turns the usual highway panic into a metropolitan spaz attack. I can't speak for Kentucky or Indiana, but attempting to get anywhere in southwest Ohio during a snowstorm is futile at best. May as well just shut Cincinnati down and give up on it until spring.

I returned home to Wahnapitae, Ontario one January after a trip to New York to see family. There was a two-foot slushbank across my driveway. Tired from the 700-mile drive, I just stomped on it to try and break through. That 5400-pound Buick was stuck there for two days. Warm weather in January wasn't something I appreciated - the stuff that partially melted would just freeze up hard soon after. As had that ridge.

[kc7jty]

Quote[/b] (WF7A @ Nov. 15 2006,20:22)]Now, if only a house would fall on my neighbor...
I'll gladly trade your neighbor for mine.

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (kc7jty @ Nov. 17 2006,08:59)]Quote[/b] (WF7A @ Nov. 15 2006,20:22)]Now, if only a house would fall on my neighbor...
I'll gladly trade your neighbor for mine.
There is probably a story behind this comment. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (k8mhz @ Nov. 15 2006,20:49)]You haven't been through a REAL winter unless you have looked out the second story window of your house and wondered which lump in the snow was your car.
I've been through a number of real winters by that measure, as well as a number of unreal winters where the first floor windows were drifted in, creating a little snow cavern that the arctic foxes would tunnel into so that they could sit in the window and watch what we were doing.

[WB2WIK]

L.A. forecast is sunny, warm, clear and more of the same forever.

http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPa....av=none (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=klax&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none)

Supposed to be 85 this Sunday 11/19. I'll be playing golf.

WB2WIK/6

[w8cbc]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ Nov. 17 2006,17:17)]I've been through a number of real winters by that measure, as well as a number of unreal winters where the first floor windows were drifted in, creating a little snow cavern that the arctic foxes would tunnel into so that they could sit in the window and watch what we were doing.
I had one side of the house drifted-in one winter in Wahnapitae.
No foxes though. I think they all got ran over by snowmobiles.

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Nov. 17 2006,09:24)]L.A. forecast is sunny, warm, clear and more of the same forever.

http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPa....av=none (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=klax&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none)

Supposed to be 85 this Sunday 11/19. I'll be playing golf.

WB2WIK/6
The times I have been in Southern California, I have become ill, with my eyes crusting, my sinuses getting irritable and my lungs causing me to cough up a great deal of phlegm.

I am sure that I could become acclimatized to breathing the exhaust of tens of millions of cars, but I just don't want to as I hate crowds anyway. In the winter, if I stand at just the right spot in my yard, I can see my nearest neighbor. For this reason, winter sucks.

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (k8mhz @ Nov. 16 2006,00:49)]You haven't been through a REAL winter unless you have looked out the second story window of your house and wondered which lump in the snow was your car.
Not! You haven't been through a REAL winter until you look out your second story window and realize the snow level is just below your window!

Been there, done that. Colorado, blizzard of '72, left 12' drifts against the back of the house.

[WF7A]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ Nov. 17 2006,04:57)]Been there, done that. Colorado, blizzard of '72, left 12' drifts against the back of the house.
Woo-hoo! You can build one helluva snow fort tunnel system in that.

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ Nov. 17 2006,10:35)]
>The times I have been in Southern California, I have become ill, with my eyes crusting, my sinuses getting irritable and my lungs causing me to cough up a great deal of phlegm.<

::It must be difficult to live with such afflictions.

>I am sure that I could become acclimatized to breathing the exhaust of tens of millions of cars, but I just don't want to as I hate crowds anyway. In the winter, if I stand at just the right spot in my yard, I can see my nearest neighbor. For this reason, winter sucks.<

::I never wanted to be a hermit, but it sounds like you picked the right place for that. I love my neighbors, especially the cute number next door...if I stand at just the right spot in my yard, I can do a lot more than see my neighbor! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Nov. 17 2006,12:01)]::I never wanted to be a hermit, but it sounds like you picked the right place for that. I love my neighbors, especially the cute number next door...if I stand at just the right spot in my yard, I can do a lot more than see my neighbor! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
There you go Steve. I don't want neighbors staring at me while they stand in their yard doing that!

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[K0RGR]

It's a balmy 36 here in Bugtussle...the foot of snow we got last week is melting nicely. It's supposed to get cooler this weekend with temps in the low 20's.

Those Pacific storms can be really exciting, though, perhaps even more than our lovely winter weather.

I've never seen it rain anywhere the way it rains in Vancouver!

The raindrops are the size of grapes and there's not much space between them. I remember standing on a steep street when the rain started. By the time I got to the other side, the water was several inches deep - on a steep incline!

I would think that concrete would be the preferred construction material there.

[KI4PEQ]

Whatever you do, don't think you can outrun winter by coming to Florida.
It's 38 degrees just after midnight at my QTH.
There are too many tourists, the restaurants are crowded, and all of the citizens are packing heat. Florida is terrible, don't come here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[KD7ZRT]

I love winter! Wet and windy is why I live in Oregon.