Bad weather

[Beirut]

Is anybody else on the Canadian or US east coast about to get the Christmas s***kicking from Mother Nature we're about to get?

Three days ago it was -30 and windy. Then it snowed. Today we're supposed to get 10 to 15cm of snow, followed by freezing rain followed, by heavy rain.

Tomorrow morning is supposed to be down to -20 again.

By 6 PM, it should be one hell of a mess around here. By tomorrow morning it should be... interesting.

Two hundred miles north of here it was -49 the other night. The wind chill brought that into the -60s. That's when it stops being fun. Almost.

[Hetman_Koronny]

-30?? Dont envy you. Well, at least you get snow.
It is +10 in Poland now. Ridiculous.

[King Edward]

Its wet and windy here on my little rock.

[IrishMike]

Yup, I got it. Sitting here looking at an foot of snow. Got over a 1000 people stranded on the highways in surronding counties.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

More snow than we've had for about 8 years.

[Efrem]

You get a white christmas and your complaining, there are many people who have Christmas in the middle of a sweltering summer.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I honestly can't imagine having Christmas is the summer heat they do in Australia. I'm fairly sure that it would unhinge me, and I'd spend most of the festive season in my room rocking back and forth.

[LittleGrizzly]

I would love it to be warm as christmas, all year round would be best.

[PanzerJaeger]

I live in the "cotton pickin" south and weve got a couple of inches!

[DemonArchangel]

Hell, I get to go to Cleveland tommorow
(Visiting friends)
Hopefully, my nose stays on my face and doesn't get cut off due to frostbite.

In maryland
the snow=RAIN (REALLY POURING). (damn hard to snow when it's 55 degrees outside)

[Beirut]

Turns out we didn't get any snow at all but it's been raining all day. It's a world of ice and slush. The streets and just sheet ice.

Spent a few hours shoveling a roof for a lady today. It was heavy like cement. She was afraid the place would collapse. What a ballbuster. Did the whole thing in the rain then walked a mile and a half home in the rain. Could barely stand up on the bloody road.

Got in, had a lobster shower, then a shot of bourbon and a cup of tea. And I'm not going anywhere tonight except the couch.

It's supposed to drop to -20 tonight. This place is going to be the world's biggest skating rink and all that wet snow is going to be solid like granite. Not sure how good the roads will be on the 25th.

Australia sounds pretty sweet right about now... "Ahhhhhh"

[Byzantine Prince]

Wow King Eduard you live on that Island? That's amazing. Do you guys have your own goverment. I checked my atlas and you apear to be independent.

[Ironside]

Actually we seem to get a nice christmas (it's celebrated on the evening the 24:th here). The sub -20 C missed us by two weeks, all snow had melted away at the 20:th, but new snow has came, and the storm passed the 22:th.
But only three hours of sunlight though.

[King Edward]

Wow King Eduard you live on that Island? That's amazing. Do you guys have your own goverment. I checked my atlas and you apear to be independent.

Yup Lived here for the best part of 19 years! Population here is about 60,000.

Our governing body is the States of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (Guernsey, Alderney, sark and Herm) We have our own laws and regulations but are affiliated to the crown (well to be exact the crown of Normandy). We don't have to answer to the UK Government.

Our flag is the cross of St George with the yellow cross of Normandy in the middle.

We are not Part of the EU. Hooray!! (lets us keep our dodgy tax laws and off shore finance industry going)

[Byzantine Prince]

Hehe that's very rare. You living on that island/country. And you play this game, lol.

[King Edward]

Im English by Birth, thats why they were my favorite county in MTW, and i always make sure i conquer the british Isles in RTW as well.

I know about 10 people who have MTW on Guernsey but dont know of any who have played online.

[jayrock]

Is anybody else on the Canadian or US east coast about to get the Christmas s***kicking from Mother Nature we're about to get?

Three days ago it was -30 and windy. Then it snowed. Today we're supposed to get 10 to 15cm of snow, followed by freezing rain followed, by heavy rain.

Tomorrow morning is supposed to be down to -20 again.

By 6 PM, it should be one hell of a mess around here. By tomorrow morning it should be... interesting.

Two hundred miles north of here it was -49 the other night. The wind chill brought that into the -60s. That's when it stops being fun. Almost.

i almost feel your pain mate, its currently 8 F, thats -13 C , with a 15 mph wind gust, brrrr... we had a nice mix all week of snow, then rain, then the mix, and then for the last two days its been 45 F here so everything melted, and then froze, the streets look like a skating rink.

ive been in the - 60's before and man, dont go if you can avoid it, when i was younger i worked in prudhoe bay on the oil fields, and i remember a few times we had like -60 F with 60 to 80 mph winds, that was as close to death i ever came btw. got lost on the road in white out and had to park the truck for three hours before they found us...

keep your chin up and enjoy the weather as best you can, btw my personal fav for frigid weather is cinnamon or fire schnapps... give a nice fire in the belly.

[Tachikaze]

That snow is so you will have water to drink for the next 12 months. The British Isles get a lot of rain. They also have a very lush, green countryside.

Why complain about the weather? It is there for you. Snow is precious water. If you want a warm Christmas, you can move to San Diego, where the natural landscape is dry and barren.

Of course, we steal water from areas where they get lots of snow to water our lawns, 82 golf courses, and millions of trees, none of which are native here.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Well Tachi, you can have the water I bailed out of my basement, what's your mailing address?
The weather has been fickle here since early on the 23rd. We had six inches of snow till early that morning when a "chinook wind", warm south wind, blew into the area with heavy rain and melted it all. The sudden influx of water overwhelmed the drainage ditches, and my poor little sump pump pumped it's guts out, but had no where to pump the water to because all the ditches were full. It froze later that night and on the morning of Christmas Eve we had ten inches of fresh snow. I did some shoveling and cleared the drive way. When I got near the main road I jumped off the tractor to get the newspaper and mail from the box. I stepped onto a hidden patch of ice, my feet flew out from under me so hard one of my boots came off, and I did a half flip and landed on my shoulder blades a millisecond before the back of my head slammed onto the blacktop. After the faded to I retrieved my boot and the mail, then put the tractor away. Since I have just survived brain surgery for an anuerysm this past summer, my wife insisted that she take me to the emergency room to be checked out. The prognosis, extreme clumsiness with mild concussion, sore muscles and bruises. Fortunately I learned how to fall during all those UDT training sessions and apparently did so instinctively, which lessened the damage. My daughter saw the whole episode from the living room bay window. She only scored it a 9.4 because I missed the landing, kid. That's my girl.