HOLY CRAP!
Sep. 22nd, 2004 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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catrysa, who is quoting the the Weather Channel, Ivan is coming back to smack Texas and Louisianna as a tropical storm. I am flabbergasted. That is one HELL of a determined storm! If I weren't a heathen, and I were a Southerner, I'd be wondering what the hell my states did to piss off the Powers That Be!
catrysa, who is quoting the the Weather Channel, Ivan is coming back to smack Texas and Louisianna as a tropical storm. I am flabbergasted. That is one HELL of a determined storm! If I weren't a heathen, and I were a Southerner, I'd be wondering what the hell my states did to piss off the Powers That Be!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-09-26 10:14 pm (UTC)bb
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Date: 2004-09-27 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:41 pm (UTC)And it makes me think of Newfoundland in a way, and how the B'ys on the Great Big DVD talk about how all the folks in Newfoundland have developed this rather ironic way of looking at life, just because of the climate THEY have lived in. *grins* Not like it's hard to make me think of Newfoundland, but hey.
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:48 pm (UTC)at some point you learn to laugh, cuz it's also a stress reliever, and well, a sense of humour can carry a person a LOT further than tears can (tho tears do work well in the shortterm)
and canadians as a group are generally rather gallows' humoury! not just the newf's! we gotta be w/ our weather! :)
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Date: 2004-09-27 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 11:20 pm (UTC)and when you have your (n+1)-th storm? laugh just a little bit harder!
or when it's supposed to be summer, and you are still wearing woolies, sleeping under flannels, etc., you laugh, and say that somewhere else in canada, some poor suck is swatting skeeters (and they that swatteth laugh and say some poor sucker's still freezin' their bits off)... :)
it's IS the canadian way!
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Date: 2004-09-28 01:39 am (UTC)(Dara and I have both mused lately that we look forward to the possibility of more snow now that we live a little bit farther north.)
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Date: 2004-09-28 03:54 am (UTC)gotta move EAST to get more snow... case in point, her leafiness lives muchos north de vous, and gets little snow (just enough to freak the living shit out of all lower mainland drivers and cause real traffic snarl-ups that us real-winter folks find RIOTOUS!)... check w/ the folks east of the rockies for REAL snow :)
heck, even juneau, AK doesn't get THAT much snow, cuz of the mediating effects of le pacific!
bb - mangling english, french AND spanish, all in one post :)
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Date: 2004-09-30 12:24 am (UTC)You'd be surprised, perhaps, as to the effect a small change in location can make on whether or not it snows around here. In the U-district, we've seen the top of the hill MurkSouth is on get snow when the bottom doesn't. And snow has fallen in Bothell and Kenmore when none has fallen in Seattle--the difference being, apparently, location in relation to Lake Washington. (Though again, I'm talking about snow on the local scale, which is light dustings versus any serious accumulation.)
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:43 am (UTC)and i SO agree w/ you, even a LIGHT dusting is SOOOOOOOOOO much less depressing that rain, rain & oh yeah, RAIN! heck, even ICE is less depressing in some ways, the more hellacious
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Date: 2004-10-01 09:54 am (UTC)My snow needs are very modest, though. Just enough to brighten up the city and to put a taste of actual winter in the air, and to make coming home and putting on warm socks and hanging out in front of the fireplace all the more cozy. :) Just enough to let me know it's actually WINTER, as opposed to gray rain, rain, rain, rain, rain rain. :)
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Date: 2004-10-01 10:12 am (UTC)we had a couple of 3-foot'rs last winter, looking forward to more of the same this winter :) :)
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Date: 2004-10-03 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-04 08:05 pm (UTC)we were only out of commission for a couple days for the 63" storm, and only one day each for the 3foot'r's last winter :) we've got this down to a science!
hehe.. can't even BEGIN to imagine what Starbuck's City would be like w/ no coffee in its citizens! that's just too scary to contemplate!
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Date: 2004-10-13 10:30 pm (UTC)And I'm going to take a minute to shudder now at how the driving gets around here with six or seven inches of snow on the ground, and never mind 63. ;)
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Date: 2004-10-14 04:38 am (UTC)and after thee roads are plowed, we have these THINGS on the corners of intersections that make driving and ADVENTURE for the brave (and possibly fool-hearty) b/c they're often 10-12 feet high, or higher, and unless you are driving some kickass ebastie that's REALLY f-ing tall, you can't see OVER those beasties (which means that almost every intersection becomes a 4-way stop (even those w/ 2way, or yields) unless it has lights, and green light means count to 5 b/c some poor guy couldn't stop on the yellow and will sail thru after it turns red)
yeah, winter driving is NOT for the faint of heart! i've done the "walk to the intersection, peek out, and then wave the car thru, hopping back into it" routine more times than i care to admit! cuz well, a corolla is just TOO SHORT to see over much of ANYTHING!
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:29 am (UTC)Hell, I have trouble just WALKING on snow and ice. ;) I used to be better at it, while living in Kentucky, but I've sort of lost the knack here in the Pacific Northwest.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:33 am (UTC)i've rattled my cage a few times landing a bit harder than i should on ice, but never severe damage! i have friends who used to break SOMETHING every year till hey figured out that you just LET yourself fall and only use arms/hands to protect your face/neck/head from damage by rolling your arms AROUND your head, NOT sticking them straight out to 'absorb' the impact, b/c they DON'T you just end up damaging things further up the line.. like collarbones (OUCHIES FROM HELL) and dislocated shoulders, etc!
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Date: 2004-10-16 07:58 pm (UTC)Oof about those broken things! I've fallen on ice a couple of times, and once recently--last year when I was working on my last contract, I took a couple of slips walking from the bus stop to the building where I worked. Nothing too bad, though. Just a hard fall and 'ow' and bruises. :)
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Date: 2004-10-16 10:19 pm (UTC)and yeah, bruising is par for the course, but it's a far cry better than having broken something (esp legs/feet/hips) and having to cope w/ an unwieldy cast in the winter conditions - ICK!
but ya know what? talking about all this ice & snow has got me AN-TI-CI-PATING winter! :) :)
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Date: 2004-10-19 02:13 am (UTC)But as for anticipating winter, I'm kind of there myself! Dara opened up the patio door yesterday afternoon while dusting, and this cool breeze came in--and it smelled like, well, WINTER! Possibly because of being a breeze down off the surrounding mountains, and the snow levels are starting to come down to lower altitudes. :)
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Date: 2004-10-19 04:16 am (UTC)"first fireplace fire"
"crisp autumn leaves"
"spring mist"
"winter rain on ice" and
"summer rain on hot pavement"
hehe... lemme guess, there's a scent that just went thru your sense-memory for each of those :)
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:41 am (UTC)i thought that one would be so ingrained into your psyche that it would be the most evocative of the lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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