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Bad Spellir		2012-12-25 07:27:16 PM

17,000 without power in Mobile.
And here comes round two!

mr lawson		2012-12-25 07:27:19 PM

Shadow Blasko: Honest Bender: Global warning, amiright?

Could well be...

I mean, I know you were being facetious, but the current jet stream separation and moisture content of the air is due to higher than normal temps at certain levels.. thus increasing moisture levels and overall storm energy and ...

Oh.. wait .. you were trolling.

that..or it is just winter weather
/snow in december?..get outta here!

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:28:46 PM

Honest Bender: Global warning, amiright?

no no. this is global "cooling" which is way different...

just stay on the thread and a whole bunch of experts will pipe in citing Jesus and blame the left wing...

i got the popcorn poppin!

generator...oiled!

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 07:29:01 PM

mr lawson: that..or it is just winter weather
/snow in december?..get outta here!

I was referring to the amount of severe weather associated with the storm, like the tornadoes .. etc.

7th Son of a 7th Son		2012-12-25 07:30:52 PM

For the past 7 days it looked like Oklahoma was going to get blasted. We didn't get a goddamn thing. I'm glad though, I hate hate hate hate driving in this crap.

dryknife		2012-12-25 07:31:32 PM

Hold my beer and watch this.

No Time To Explain		2012-12-25 07:32:15 PM

Shadow Blasko: No Time To Explain: So how much snow/ice will drop?

/less than 3cm/1 inch and I call you guys sissies
//but I'll accept if you don't have the infrastructure to clear the roads

For my area... 6 to 8 .. With Blizzard conditions regarding wind speeds.

This is the latest from my buds at Ohio Valley Weather net... They have been dead on for this whole event, even when the models started getting wonky.

"Blizzard"

/worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level
///silly yanks, not knowing what a real snowfall is

mr lawson		2012-12-25 07:32:33 PM

Shadow Blasko: mr lawson: that..or it is just winter weather
/snow in december?..get outta here!

I was referring to the amount of severe weather associated with the storm, like the tornadoes .. etc.

lived in the south for all of my life. It really nothing has changed except for the increase of media coverage, to include the internet.

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 07:34:12 PM

No Time To Explain: "Blizzard"

Do you know what that term means? Without Googling it?

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:34:37 PM

you know, if only there were some good tornadoes with guns to fight off the bad tornadoes with guns...

/too soon?

Nothing To See Here		2012-12-25 07:35:02 PM

♫ stuck in Mobile with the Memphis blues ♫

mr lawson		2012-12-25 07:36:11 PM

Haliburton Cummings: you know, if only there were some good tornadoes with guns to fight off the bad tornadoes with guns...

sounds like the plot of a SyFy original movie directed by Michael Bay.

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 07:36:30 PM

No Time To Explain: /worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level

Here is a hint. You can have a blizzard with 0 falling snow.

ravenlore		2012-12-25 07:38:46 PM

Shadow Blasko: No Time To Explain: /worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level

Here is a hint. You can have a blizzard with 0 falling snow.

wellllll...some would split hairs and refer to those conditions as "ground blizzard"

/unless that nomenclature is out of date

WippitGuud		2012-12-25 07:39:26 PM

So what your'e saying is the Mayans were a few days too early in their predictions.

Radioactive Ass		2012-12-25 07:39:37 PM

Shadow Blasko: No Time To Explain: /worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level

Here is a hint. You can have a blizzard with 0 falling snow.

Sure... Just go to your local Dairy Queen. Blizzards in July!

Nothing To See Here		2012-12-25 07:43:19 PM

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:44:54 PM

mr lawson: Haliburton Cummings: you know, if only there were some good tornadoes with guns to fight off the bad tornadoes with guns...

sounds like the plot of a SyFy original movie directed by Michael Bay.

GUN-NADO: Freakstorm

Christian Bale as "Eff Five"
Nathan Fillionz Rainbow as "The Finger of God"
Scarlotta Blowhanson as "Method Actress"
Kirsten Dunst as Julie "Tits" McGee CLIMOLOGISTZ"

yeah i can see this...

Uakronkid		2012-12-25 07:44:57 PM

No Time To Explain: "Blizzard"

/worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level
///silly yanks, not knowing what a real snowfall is

If that's the worst you've had, you guys have it easy. The Great Lakes snowbelts can get pretty nasty.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:46:26 PM

Uakronkid: The Great Lakes snowbelts can get pretty nasty.

with icepants on they are even worse

Bad Spellir		2012-12-25 07:47:47 PM

Haliburton Cummings: mr lawson: Haliburton Cummings: you know, if only there were some good tornadoes with guns to fight off the bad tornadoes with guns...

sounds like the plot of a SyFy original movie directed by Michael Bay.

GUN-NADO: Freakstorm

Christian Bale as "Eff Five"
Nathan Fillionz Rainbow as "The Finger of God"
Scarlotta Blowhanson as "Method Actress"
Kirsten Dunst as Julie "Tits" McGee CLIMOLOGISTZ"

yeah i can see this...

Set the whole thing at an oil refinery, and you have a winner.

kmmontandon		2012-12-25 07:49:02 PM

No Time To Explain:
/worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level
///silly yanks, not knowing what a real snowfall is

That's ... not very much, actually.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:53:38 PM

Bad Spellir: Haliburton Cummings: mr lawson: Haliburton Cummings: you know, if only there were some good tornadoes with guns to fight off the bad tornadoes with guns...

sounds like the plot of a SyFy original movie directed by Michael Bay.

GUN-NADO: Freakstorm

Christian Bale as "Eff Five"
Nathan Fillionz Rainbow as "The Finger of God"
Scarlotta Blowhanson as "Method Actress"
Kirsten Dunst as Julie "Tits" McGee CLIMOLOGISTZ"

yeah i can see this...

Set the whole thing at an oil refinery, and you have a winner.

YES!! THEN!

The Bad Tornado can hid by one of those awesome american nerve gas stockpiles that are rotting away due to budget cuts!

OR an asbestos factory!

who woulda thunk Fark would be a great place to write fan fiction???

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 07:54:17 PM

yes i typed "can hid"

cantsleep		2012-12-25 08:01:44 PM

Haliburton Cummings: Uakronkid: The Great Lakes snowbelts can get pretty nasty.

with icepants on they are even worse

O.K., that was funny.

Bad Spellir		2012-12-25 08:01:51 PM

Oh, you have got to be kidding me: Reports of a gas leak at Mobile. That will be lovely with all the downed power lines.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 08:05:55 PM

Bad Spellir: Oh, you have got to be kidding me: Reports of a gas leak at Mobile. That will be lovely with all the downed power lines.

and the inbreds with those methlabs and moonshine stills....

it's going to be more exciting than fathers day around there!

No Time To Explain		2012-12-25 08:07:46 PM

Uakronkid: No Time To Explain: "Blizzard"

/worst we've had under blizzard was a dumping over 50cm in less than 2r hours
//get on my level
///silly yanks, not knowing what a real snowfall is

If that's the worst you've had, you guys have it easy. The Great Lakes snowbelts can get pretty nasty.

Hometown gets lucky, also, some family lives in Ottawa

And my definition of blizzard is so much snow, cold and wind that it makes going outside not worth it/suicide, minus forty and no snow and no wind doesn't count, cold alone is bearable

/I remember sister sent pic of her place being snowed in
//she was living in a duplex at the time
///picture showed her window, top floor, covered in snow, and the other pictures were of house covered
////to be fair, the proximity of the other buildings helped make the snow get to cover the place, but still the snowfall was over around the meter point

Mister Peejay		2012-12-25 08:17:09 PM

Bad Spellir: Oh, you have got to be kidding me: Reports of a gas leak at Mobile. That will be lovely with all the downed power lines.

....

How the hell does that even happen?

We're too cheap to clear the roads here, or do much of any infrastructure maintenance (except for reactive "maintenance") and we don't explode shiat at random because of some snow.

Sometimes trees will take out power lines, okay, I can see that, but one would think that Sandy took out all of the weak ones already.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 08:17:32 PM

No Time To Explain: Uakronkid:

/I remember sister sent pic of her place being snowed in
//she was living in a duplex at the time
///picture showed her window, top floor, covered in snow, and the other pictures were of house covered
////to be fair, the proximity of the other buildings helped make the snow get to cover the place, but still the snowfall was over around the meter point

if these are euphemisms, you just invented blizzard porn

+1

lethological_lassie		2012-12-25 08:17:36 PM

cantsleep: Headed our way tomorrow, Blasko.

Yeah-- I'm in Dayton and just heard about this. What the heck? Did this really come up out of nowhere, or was I just in too much of a Christmas cookie stupor and missed the fore-warning?

lethological_lassie		2012-12-25 08:21:24 PM

Shadow Blasko: No Time To Explain: So how much snow/ice will drop?

/less than 3cm/1 inch and I call you guys sissies
//but I'll accept if you don't have the infrastructure to clear the roads

For my area... 6 to 8 .. With Blizzard conditions regarding wind speeds.

This is the latest from my buds at Ohio Valley Weather net... They have been dead on for this whole event, even when the models started getting wonky.

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Ugh. My father in law from Florida is gonna bail on his visit if your prediction comes true. :(

OddLlama		2012-12-25 08:22:22 PM

Lionel Mandrake: Has Pat Robertson blamed gay people yet?

My gay friend just fractured his sternum in a wreck on his way here for Xmas dinner. I'm sitting here in the emergency room getting a kick. Didn't think it would actually snow...

quickdraw		2012-12-25 08:23:01 PM

Haliburton Cummings: Uakronkid: The Great Lakes snowbelts can get pretty nasty.

with icepants on they are even worse

I giggled

OddLlama		2012-12-25 08:23:15 PM

/ft. Smith

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 08:24:09 PM

lethological_lassie: cantsleep: Headed our way tomorrow, Blasko.

Yeah-- I'm in Dayton and just heard about this. What the heck? Did this really come up out of nowhere, or was I just in too much of a Christmas cookie stupor and missed the fore-warning?

*Some* media outlets and the NWS Scientific Discussion page have been talking about it for almost a week.

The reason most of the mainstream outlets have not said much until today is because this is a very VERY hard storm to call. In some places the difference between nothing/a little rain and 8 to 10" of snow will be less than 20 miles.

Couple that with a huge travel holiday, and forecast models that have been showing vastly different estimates all week (They only really finally started to agree on a snowfall path/wind path this morning) and it would be difficult to stake your reputation on this one.

I don't blame the media this time. This is a hard storm to track and a rough call to make for a holiday.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 08:24:39 PM

Bad Spellir: 17,000 without power in Mobile.
And here comes round two!

if they are mobile, why don't they move out of the way?

bad dum bum! TISH!

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 08:26:24 PM

OddLlama: Lionel Mandrake: Has Pat Robertson blamed gay people yet?

My gay friend just fractured his sternum in a wreck on his way here for Xmas dinner. I'm sitting here in the emergency room getting a kick. Didn't think it would actually snow...

damn near killed 'im?

old rectum joke nevermind...

yingtong		2012-12-25 08:26:59 PM

A General Disdain For All Of Humanity: I was in Springdale, AR a few years back. They had a inch of snow and the town just about shut down.

Being a Northerner, I was amused.

As an Iowan now living in the area, I know what you mean. It makes more sense when you get out on the roads which have 40 curves per mile and grades that approach 50%.

I've had my wheels break loose from the road at 15 mph with less than a quarter inch of snow on the ground.

Granted the local driving rules of "keep the yellow line directly under your right foot" and "obey all traffic rules you can with your foot pressed firmly to the floor" don't help..

hershy799		2012-12-25 08:27:13 PM

I'm flying from DCA to MSY (New Orleans) tomorrow (and the plane is coming from Syracuse), so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...
Actually, I'm a meteorologist (seriously) and I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

At any rate, this storm is cool, but I want to be able to get to the Big Easy and get my drink on!

/Priorities

Mister Peejay		2012-12-25 08:27:20 PM

OddLlama: My gay friend just fractured his sternum in a wreck on his way here for Xmas dinner. I'm sitting here in the emergency room getting a kick. Didn't think it would actually snow...

That's not very fabulous.

Tealeaf		2012-12-25 08:28:35 PM

I live about an hour south of St. Louis and this is terrifying. I have a 45 minute commute to work, and we're supposed to get between 3 to 6 inches, last I heard. If I can't make it in tomorrow, I lose out on two days of holiday pay. I really want those two days of holiday pay, I just hope I can get out of my driveway without wrecking my car.

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 08:29:14 PM

hershy799: I'm flying from DCA to MSY (New Orleans) tomorrow (and the plane is coming from Syracuse), so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...
Actually, I'm a meteorologist (seriously) and I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

At any rate, this storm is cool, but I want to be able to get to the Big Easy and get my drink on!

/Priorities

There was a confirmed touchdown in SW NOLA this afternoon.

//Would love to be sipping on a hurricane down by the river right about now.

lethological_lassie		2012-12-25 08:29:58 PM

Shadow Blasko: lethological_lassie: cantsleep: Headed our way tomorrow, Blasko.

Yeah-- I'm in Dayton and just heard about this. What the heck? Did this really come up out of nowhere, or was I just in too much of a Christmas cookie stupor and missed the fore-warning?

*Some* media outlets and the NWS Scientific Discussion page have been talking about it for almost a week.

The reason most of the mainstream outlets have not said much until today is because this is a very VERY hard storm to call. In some places the difference between nothing/a little rain and 8 to 10" of snow will be less than 20 miles.

Couple that with a huge travel holiday, and forecast models that have been showing vastly different estimates all week (They only really finally started to agree on a snowfall path/wind path this morning) and it would be difficult to stake your reputation on this one.

I don't blame the media this time. This is a hard storm to track and a rough call to make for a holiday.

Thanks for the info. I thought I was somewhat in touch with the real world! :/
Glad I have lots of groceries and new footed jammies! Bring on the storm, just don't let anyone get hurt.

Haliburton Cummings		2012-12-25 08:30:27 PM

"Dear Weather Channel,

I never thought something like this would happen to me...
and writing letters makes my lips hurt...
anyway...

I was out in the yard with my snow blower when the recently widowed young lady from next door was having trouble starting her car...

I offered to jump her, she said "what an honourable offer"

and all night I been on her and off her..."

TISH!

crickets

Solid Muldoon		2012-12-25 08:42:10 PM

My girlfriend is expecting 8 inches tonight.

hershy799		2012-12-25 08:43:04 PM

Solid Muldoon: My girlfriend is expecting 8 inches tonight.

Certainly not from you...

kmmontandon		2012-12-25 08:43:09 PM

Solid Muldoon: My girlfriend is expecting 8 inches tonight.

I hope she keeps up a brave act at the thought of four inches twice.

Shadow Blasko		2012-12-25 08:44:22 PM

Solid Muldoon: My girlfriend is expecting 8 inches tonight.

Yeah, about that, my car doesn't drive well in snow, so ... tell her I might have to take a raincheck on that "holiday cheer"

/Will still make Friday night at your moms though...

OddLlama		2012-12-25 08:45:42 PM

Mister Peejay: OddLlama: My gay friend just fractured his sternum in a wreck on his way here for Xmas dinner. I'm sitting here in the emergency room getting a kick. Didn't think it would actually snow...

That's not very fabulous.

Same thing he said about the neck brace and hospital gown.

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