Topic: Weather (Read 64871 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #840 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:25:57 AM »

No buses, no power, no emergency lighting in the building (fun!), trees falling down as I durdled down the street due to the inch-thick cuirass of ice covering everything. Amusements abound!

Friday · « **Reply #841 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:30:02 AM »

something something color pie something something wotc bring back land destruction at 3cc something something power creep

Mongrel · « **Reply #842 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:35:29 AM »

No counters, no LD, no discard.

Mongrel · « **Reply #843 on:** December 22, 2013, 01:36:55 AM »

Oh and I was up until 4 watching power vaults literally (for true values of 'literally') explode in or near adjacent buildings. THAT was interesting.

Büge · « **Reply #844 on:** December 22, 2013, 09:59:08 AM »

Yep, I heard on the radio that it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Mongrel · « **Reply #845 on:** December 22, 2013, 10:24:02 AM »

Yeah, probably be a day or two before power comes back. Luckily the balcony will work as a freezer for a few days and we can cook on the BBQ if need be. WE HAVE THE FACILITIES.

Büge · « **Reply #846 on:** December 22, 2013, 11:31:52 AM »

Assuming the barbecue isn't also frozen.

Luckily, I picked up a bunch of candles.

Joxam · « **Reply #847 on:** January 04, 2014, 10:13:01 PM »

It's cold as bawls up here.

Mongrel · « **Reply #848 on:** January 05, 2014, 01:29:37 AM »

-75?!?!

That's getting close to the lowest temperatures ever recorded on earth. IN ANTARCTICA (-89C).

EDIT: Oh that's F and not C. Right durr hurr. Not that that isn't cold as fuck. That's close to -60C

EDIT2: Oh and they're including wind chill, which is sorta cheating. Booooo. Still pretty bad though.

Smiler · « **Reply #849 on:** January 05, 2014, 03:29:09 AM »

The reason they're including windchill is because it's still going to be cold as balls without it. The windchill just tops it off as "Don't fucking go outside ever." A few retail store chains are even closing their stores for the day on Monday.

Lottel · « **Reply #850 on:** January 05, 2014, 01:57:21 PM »

It's so cold outside my toilet seat feels warm. Let that sink in.

Mongrel · « **Reply #851 on:** January 05, 2014, 03:31:19 PM »

One thing is that really, once it goes lower than -25 or -30, you stop feeling the difference that much.

Because, you know, you're going to freeze to death very quickly if you stay out in that shit.

TA · « **Reply #852 on:** January 07, 2014, 08:36:10 AM »

This story is probably not real. But I can wish it was.

Silversong · « **Reply #853 on:** January 07, 2014, 10:38:45 AM »

I skipped work this morning due to waiting at bus stop in actual -15 F, windchill -30 F with like 20 mph winds.

Saturday, it is supposed to be 40 F and raining.

Lottel · « **Reply #854 on:** January 07, 2014, 02:18:07 PM »

A few people died yesterday in town. One guy was walking from the bus stop home and was found frozen one the ground.

I was a delivery driver yesterday. My car got stuck in a pile of snow due to a guy parking in the middle of a one way street and just leaving his car. So I walked the rest of the way to the delivery. Not far, a few blocks. But the snow was up to my knees and by the time I got to the house, I could no longer feel pain. I warmed up in their house for a minute (they were a very nice, half naked family) and by the time I got back my car, I was just thinking over and over "Yup. This is how I die. In a shitty t-shirt advertising a company I hate."

Actually the "So this is how I die" thought happened a lot in the last few days. Driving with morons has made life fun.

Mongrel · « **Reply #855 on:** January 07, 2014, 03:46:11 PM »

Wait, so the guy walking home... did he fall and black out? Was it an older guy?

I mean, cold is cold, but even that seems a little extreme. Even in totally crazy freezing temps it takes some time for a whole human body to completely freeze.

Lottel · « **Reply #856 on:** January 07, 2014, 04:07:28 PM »

My mother told me they brought him to the hospital she works at and the doctor said he was frozen and had been for hours.

I don't know more than that. But most of the people who died yesterday were pretty old.

Mongrel · « **Reply #857 on:** January 07, 2014, 04:38:32 PM »

Well, that is shitty either way. :/

Mongrel · « **Reply #858 on:** January 10, 2014, 07:16:57 AM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #859 on:** January 10, 2014, 07:17:21 AM »

Oh cool

Evaporating Water in -30C in Yellowknife, NWT

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