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.

[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.