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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 03:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It was just too much fun not to go outside.
Even the strippers were out having fun.

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Boney95
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 07:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Come to Wisconsin in the winter. Right now its 4degrees with wind gusts up to 41 mph. Wind chill is -14, with about 2 feet of snow on the ground.

I'm sorry, its -1 with a wind chill of -24.

(Message edited by boney95 on December 21, 2008)
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 11:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yuck !!! What's the normal annual snowfall amount for Seattle ?
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46champ
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 11:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm in McMinnville Oregon and I've got 10 inches in my front yard and the last stuff that fell was the freezing rain. The normal annual snow fall west of the Cascades is zero, This only happens every few years, so the road departments are a little short on snow removal equipment. A lot of the county roads get cleared with road graders so it takes a while.
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Ferocity02
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 12:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Damn... I'm flying into Seattle in a few hours, better not be any airport delays!
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 01:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Normal amount for Seattle proper in a full winter is like maybe half an inch. the town is closed down. The governor and the mayor have been on tv... if you dont have to leave your house, by all means stay home....
Even with all the SUV's in this town, very few know how to drive in it.
The body shops are going to be buzy for months.
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Ulywife
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 07:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Snow is pretty, but I don't miss having to be in it each day for work and school.
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Mikethebike72
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 11:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

This is a cam of where I used to hop on I-5 when I lived in Bellingham. I am glad it never got that way when I lived there.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Traffic/Bellingham/I5_Bake rviewRd.htm
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Hooligan620
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 11:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have about 10 inches at my house in Ballard ( a neighborhood just north of downtown.) Drove to the Seahawk game yesterday and parked a block away for free! That's never happened before. Those people who took the train to the game got jammed up when the switches on the tracks froze and the trains couldn't go anywhere.

While snow and cold may be the norm some places we panic at a half inch, heck we panic at the threat of snow! I grew up on the east side of the Cascade Mountains so winter snow is not a big deal, but people here are clueless. Watching them drive funny and scary at the same time.

For a city of 600K we have 28 snowplows who's drivers are lucky to get practice every 10 year. They are working very hard but it just won't stop snowing!

I've got to drive across town today to do my payroll otherwise the guys don't get paid! On Christmas Eve we're suppose to fly to New Mexico. Hopefully the airport will get things together by then. Last I heard the tanker full of deicer is stuck in all the snow east of the mountains and can't move!

Isn't winter wonderful?
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No_rice
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 12:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

last few days here its been 2-3 below with -30+ windchill. this morning it was -12 without the wind...
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Bcordb3
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 12:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Great pictures, look a little grainy however; )
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 12:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Damn global warming.....I guess since it's so cold in North America and Europe there must be above average temps somewhere else in the world..haha
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Prof_stack
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 01:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Seattle shuts down with this kind of snowfall:


Nine inches


This reminds me of the Seattle Supersonics, er, I mean the Oklahoma None-der:

Hoops
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Cochise
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 02:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Stupid work web-filter!
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M2nc
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 03:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It's about the same here. Growing up in Cincinnati we got snow every year, but here it is rare to see any. If you do see snow it's the good stuff. You know when the temperature is barely below freezing so the roads are wet but the grass is covered. The few times in the past 16 years we have lived here that snow actually stuck to the roads, it was priceless watching the folks trying to manage themselves in it. I will never forget the two guys on the back of a DOT dump truck shoveling sand out at intersections.

(Message edited by M2nc on December 22, 2008)
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 - 08:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Nice to see the Lusty Lady still has the lights on for ya ; ) they are better than Motel 6
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 05:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Some more snow related humor tonight. While out on my walk I came upon one of our new $500k Hybrid articulated busses jackknifed up against the curb.
I guess the engineers at New Flyer (and GM) never thought a rear engined bus with the drive axle on the rear trailer section to be handling nightmare. The poor driver attempted to move up the gentle slope, but the bus could not straighten itself out.

So they called in a giant tow truck, and a separate push truck. Both attempted to pull/push the bus up the hill.

Finally the tow truck operator let out all of his cable (80ft or so) in an attempt to tow it up the hill to better ground.
Of course all this did was drag the tow truck back down the hill to the bus.

I watched them work on it for a good 45mins. Finally with several buckets of sand, a fresh set of chains on the bus they got it free.
Isn't snow fun?

(Message edited by CorporateMonkey on December 23, 2008)
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 05:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)








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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 05:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Thanks for that. It's wet on't diagonal of the pond - but tee shirt weather.

(Message edited by danger_dave on December 23, 2008)
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Corporatemonkey
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 05:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Of course it is... The southern hemisphere will do that for you. : )

I did summer one month down under, I have decided I need a winter flat near Sydney. Anyone want to loan me $?

(Message edited by CorporateMonkey on December 23, 2008)
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I am wintering over next year. There must be a place to rent Buells down there.
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Dbird29
Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 03:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)




A bit of snow here in Portland.




Streets were deserted last night




Pioneer Courthouse looking festive.
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Dbird29
Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 03:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)




Pretty, pretty




We did the news from the street.





Merry Christmas!
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 03:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

9 inches of snow !!....Damn, I wish I had 9 inches
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