They just called this a "FrankenStorm" on the radio since it's likely to be more like a winter storm, powered by hurricane winds as opposed to the usual "warm" hurricane.
But of course, there's no such thing as global climate change........ just keep on telling yourself that.
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Yup, we're sure to get at least a swipe of that.....
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Even though the landfall will blunt the storm by the time it hits here, there's going to be a lot of rain and wind next week. It's a beautiful, record setting near 80F here today. It's going to be in the 40's by Monday....
Curious how this storm seems projected to hit hardest in the northeast, and (according to what I heard on the radio just now) might go as far in land as Ohio. If this had happened a week later, I'd be going into Phil The Stalker HAARP weather machine mode about this being a plot to disrupt the election.
Actually this could work out for the best though..... if there's a massive power outage resulting from this storm, the first priority should be to get the roads open. Then start printing paper ballots, and leave the goddamned fraud machines inoperable.
Damn, I just realized that....Originally Posted by FORD
Might be millions without power....
Well there's frozen rain forest under Antarctica so this climate change thing is nothing new. The dinosaur age ended the human age will end sometime. Maybe the insects will take over next. I mean we can't even make a five year budget and people expect the government to fix climate change?Sorry. Politicans are only good at buying votes and looting. They aren't very good at fixing the planet.
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Well it just snowed about 3 inches here last night and we're expecting more - which of course, my paranoid delusional self thinks was HAARP-related due to the heavy (and I mean heavy) chemtrail activity two days before. Be interesting to see if "Frankenstorm" slams New York and paralyzes election day there.
It's going to fuckup Halloween for the kiddies for sure...
I miss the simple days of when people just worried about nukes. Now they worry about all sorts of stuff.
Oh for fuck sake...
And I'm the conspiracy theorist ??
yep.
we hit 83 or so today. that high pressure front is supposedly going to collide with the remains of Sandy and fuck things up here.
you are in the mountains, isn't it supposed to snow there? you guys get all panicked and shut everything down...and here we just keep goin'.
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Yes, you are. And Kristy is correct, this could throw a wrench into the election process in certain locations.
FORD, how do you think these paper ballots you speak of are printed? What powers those printing machines? Electricity. There's not enough of the manual hand-crank mimeograph (smell the ink) machines in existence.
Let's just hope that they're being proactive for a change....
Looks like that thing is gonna hit with a week to spare before the election.... I could certainly see power being out for more than a week in the hardest hit spots....
Yes. And No. And no one here panics except for assholes Texan and California transplants oh and dipshits from the east coast.
Oh behalf of all East Coast dipshits, fuck you.....
No, fuck you and your $80,000 SUV's, that you're too pussy to take out when there is just a trace of snow on the roads, your $6 lattes and Blue Tooth headsets. Oh, and not mention you cant find a "good pizzeria" anywhere in the state. East coast people are the biggest complainers on the entire planet.
(And they're F A T, too)
Moved to the Front Line, 'cause I think it's looking likely it's gonna impact the election in some sort....
Holy hell, stereotype much ??
[Although I'll give ya the "driving in the snow" part, growing up next to Lake Erie this area kills me...]
East coast people (especially New Englanders) pretty much stereotype themselves. I went to school with loads of rich east coast people and every one of them complained about, well, anything!
Typical east coaster: "I just spent $74,000 on my new Mercedes SUV! Because, shit, you know, this is Colorado and EVERYONE here drives an SUV! Can't wait until it snows so I can take it up to the mountains and go skiing because, shit, you know, EVERYONE in Colorado goes skiing!"
Then it snows less than an inch or two.
"Well, it looks bad out there better keep my overpriced pile of shit SUV in the garage because, you know, don't want to get it dented or scratched if a pine tree fell on the road and somehow fucked up the paint because, shit, you know, pine trees fall over ALL THE TIME in Colorado!"
And then go back back to their latte-sipping, moronic one-sided conversational Blue Tooth CAN I TALK ANY MORE FUCKING LOUDER in public assholeness about not being able to find a good pizza joint.
Who says "pizza joint" anymore?
Granted I'll take and east coaster over a Texan or worse, a moron from Wisconsin any day of the week.
You seem bitter...
Hey, you spend a summer in Wisconsin and live to tell about it.
I must have missed the memo saying that if you live on the East Coast you're rich, much less have the kind of money to buy a $74,000 SUV or have the money to go cross country to go to college with out-of-state tuition....
Don't paint so broad a brush because of some obviously wealthy kids.....
Really? I left it on the fridge.
At least be thankful you don't live in or come from Wisconsin (or Texas).
Are Buffalo and Cleveland "rich" cities? There certainly is money here along with a fading middle class. But stereotyping people is sort of the first step towards herding them into murder-showers...
I live on the east coast and all of my rich friends are the nicest people you could ever want to meet.
And they're all thin.
Seems like you complain a lot though.
Never complained much until the east coasters showed up.
You're like the Jimmy Page's of America.
Now who`s that babe with the fab-u-lous shad-ow?
I should clarify that most of the obese people I know are not very well off (not that I'm keeping score, it's all relative anyway) and they live off high fructose corn syrup and genetically modified food and unfortunately can't be told anything, and that's fine I guess. I'm not trying to generalize though or imply someone else's experiences are invalid.
Exactly.....
Rich people who are fat are only that way because they choose to be. They can afford to eat better and avoid high fructose corn poison and other chemical additives in crap food which make you fat.
Now as far as people who can't drive in snow, the obvious answer to that would be Californians. Hell, some of them haven't learned to drive in the RAIN yet!
Seriously, I remember one heavy snowstorm here a few years back. Traffic moving ridiculously slow under these conditions. I'm on a three lane road and I see the cars in all three lanes in front of me have "foreign" license plates.
Lane 1 - California. Oh shit.
Lane 2 - Arizona. Crap.... well maybe the dude's from Flagstaff or somewhere else up north, where it actually snows, but why chance it..
Lane 3 - Colorado....... yeah Rocky Mountains.... this guy knows what he's doing.
Sure enough..... me and the Colorado dude got way out ahead of the rest of the snow-phobic pack.
I've lived in ski resort towns most my life and then I lived in upstate New York in the snow belt. So I have done a fair amount of driving in the snow. The scariest snow driving experience is when we were going to Seattle to spend the holidays with my wife's family. Snoquamie pass was solid ice and people were doing 80mph down it! Cars sliding and crashing everywhere. The Seattle area was so bad. My sister lived up in Pine Lake on the Redmond plataue just east of Lake Samamish and the road was so slick I was spinning my Goodyear Wranger tires in four wheel drive. I locked the brakes and the my truck was just sliding down the hill backwards.
I'm going to Bellevue to the mall there to buy some Christmas presents and people are just driving fast as hell on I-90. People have chains on and they are driving like 70-80 MPH and on some cars the chains had come loose and they were just beating the wheel well. I was just happy I didn't get in pile up that day. The problem is in Seattle it rains, that freezes and then it snows on that. Then of course there is no sand for traction and lot's of idiots on the road and it's hellish winter driving.
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I was driving home from San Fransisco and I'm going through Sacramento. On I-80 if you get in the left lane thinking that is going to go straight it doesn't. The right lane goes straight and the left lane goes to Placerville and the Sacramento business loop. So I'm on the Sacramento business loop in rush hour traffic and it's raining cats and dogs. Cars are sliding and crashing all over the place. I want to get up and over Donner's pass and to Reno before dark and now I'm stuck with a bunch of idiots crashing all over the place because they don't understand fresh rain on a oil covered road can be slick as ice. Slow down assholes!
Yeah... when it snows in the Pacific Northwest, there's always some amusing footage on the news of idiots who think they can drive on hills that haven't been plowed, sanded, or anything. In Olympia, they don't even bother with the worst hills. People who have lived here long enough know better than to drive on those streets, but they started putting up barricades for the benefit of the newer residents.
But compact ice.... there ain't nothing that makes that easy to drive on.
It doesn't cost anymore to eat healthy. It can actually save you money. The processed foods are actually more expensive than the healthy food is. Of course you can spend premium for the so called organic stuff but a lot of that is marketing. Gardens are pretty cheap. It's all about being informed and knowing where to get your food. Dirt and shit and some seeds are pretty cheap.
But to get back on topic.....
I agree. Wisconsin sucks. What a painful place to ever live. And not painful in a tie me up daddy and spank me with your belt because I've been a naughty girl painful kind of way, but more of a toothache in your heel (to quote a Dylan line) kind of way.
Wisconsin has certainly taken a turn for the worse since the KKKoch Brothers took over the state.
Here, the money doesn't live in Cleveland. The money lives AROUND Cleveland. Sure, the new owner of the Browns bought a house on the lake not far from the stadium for $4.1 million, but most of the players live on the west side, mostly in Westlake. Others have lived just south of Cleveland proper, in Chagrin Falls and Moreland Hills, and a few further out in the sticks where I used to live.
The only reason I'm looking forward to snow this year is so I can try out the new tires on my Jeep. My little village does a good job with the snow removal, and if they didn't it wouldn't stop me.
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