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Dinsdale wrote:great bowlers

That's like saying "Smart retard"

Mikey, Bushey, be careful smacking on the bowling, consider their feelings. While we may consider the bowling alley as the bastion of meth-addled freaks and a place to get randomly shot by a gang banger, the rest of the nation uses it as their source of physical activity whilst not hibernaten, sloggin thru snow banks or swimming to the corner market for milk.

atomicdad wrote:Mikey, Bushey, be careful smacking on the bowling, consider their feelings. While we may consider the bowling alley as the bastion of meth-addled freaks and a place to get randomly shot by a gang banger, the rest of the nation uses it as their source of physical activity whilst not hibernaten, sloggin thru snow banks or swimming to the corner market for milk.

There is still skiing, ice skating, hockey, racquetball and swimming at an indoor pool to choose from before bowling as a form of hibernation prevention.

BTW: What's meth?

sin

Western NY

Btw, it's 32 degrees here and raining, hard.

And the hits are just gonna keep on comin on Sunday. Fucking lovely.

Freezing rain with lightning is a nice touch. Good thing I don't have to rely on the Weather Channel for information. God forbid they interrupt "100 Biggest Weather Moments" or whatever bullshit "show" they seem to love, to actually report on the weather.

atomicdad wrote:Mikey, Bushey, be careful smacking on the bowling, consider their feelings. While we may consider the bowling alley as the bastion of meth-addled freaks and a place to get randomly shot by a gang banger, the rest of the nation uses it as their source of physical activity whilst not hibernaten, sloggin thru snow banks or swimming to the corner market for milk.

Yes, be careful smacking on the Bowling, since you don't know of what you speak.

Take a nice walk on the beach the next time your favorite pro football team sucks. I'll go bowling intent on kicking some ass and seeing how many pitchers of Bud Lite we can drink in a 3 game series. No meth addled freaks or gang bangers where I bowl, just a bunch of good peeps out for some competition.

Go fuck yourself with the stereotypes, Dan.

"Flooding rare?"

Check...

"Tornados virtually nonexistant?"

Check...

"Rarely snows?"

Few flakes yesterday, supposed to have a few inches accumulation tomorrow.

Memo to U&Lers -- you might wanna avoid being in proximity to any volcanoes in the coming days. Just a PSA from Dinsdale's Prognostications Incorporated.

Dinsdale wrote:"Flooding rare?"

Check...

"Tornados virtually nonexistant?"

Check...

"Rarely snows?"

Few flakes yesterday, supposed to have a few inches accumulation tomorrow.

Memo to U&Lers -- you might wanna avoid being in proximity to any volcanoes in the coming days. Just a PSA from Dinsdale's Prognostications Incorporated.

Yes, but you recently imported my church lady maternal Grandmother and Aunt from NoCal.

Bode L&R. :D

OCmike wrote:Yes, but you recently imported my church lady maternal Grandmother and Aunt from NoCal.

Bode L&R. :D

What? No presents from Grammy and Auntie?

No, they give presents to the nieces/nephews and great-grandkids.

We stopped doing the "give everyone a present" gimmick years ago when there were just too many of us in NoCal at my parents house in the woods.

Now if there's going to be a big crowd at Christmas we draw a name from a hat a few weeks earlier so we only buy one present for one adult and let Christmas be about the kiddos.

Anywho, less presents needed from the two of them. When I was a kid those two were the relatives who always gave snowflake sweaters and striped, collared shirts. :D

Yeah, karma snowflake sweater bode to you I guess. But do you think it wise to pimp them to Dinsdale? Isn't sending skanks to the U & L like floating some spare change to a junkie panhandler? It won't change his life or anything. And he'll still be there tomorrow.

Now if you give him a screwdriver and some square-headed deck screws...you know, the whole teach a man to fish thing.

OCmike wrote:Yes, but you recently imported my church lady maternal Grandmother and Aunt from NoCal.

Oh, and let me tell ya... bible-thumpers go over really well around here...

No, really.

OK, not really -- lowest church attendence in the country, or so I'm told. Actually, I've seen it written that Portland has the lowest per-capita church attendence of any mojor city, and the most churches per-capita to go with it... I guess that works out to plenty of elbow-room for thumpers.

But I imagine they'll eventually move back or move along, once they get a load of our heathen-act.

We're talking about the city, not the burbs...

In the city proper, it's all about the heroin and club-drugs. Can't be all spun up walking around the city -- the vagrants will bonk you on the head and steal all of the scrap aluminum you just stole, long before you can get it to the scrapyard.

Dinsdale wrote:supposed to have a few inches accumulation tomorrow.

Reinforced by the NWS, even --

Portland: Snow Warning For Thursday
The National Weather Service has issued a heavy snow warning for the Portland area, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.

It's 35 with a light drizzle. But... I have to head into the hills today... where it might be 34 and raining.

Jeebus -- gotta barren down the hatches again today.

Supposed to be 50MPH winds here inland, and 80+ gusts on the Coast.

Damn -- over about the last 7 weeks, the nearest NWS station to me has logged over an average years' worth of precipitation. 19 freaking inches for the month of December, well over half a year's worth of rain.

Late Novenmber through late January is usually a pretty freaking soggy time of year around here, but dang -- it's extra-soggy even by local standards.

And "they're" saying it's a really bad idea to try and drive between Oregon and california today, since the pass might get 10 freaking feet of snow today. You don't wanna get stuck in the Siskyou/Cascades when there's 10 feet of snow falling -- can lead to chinkciclation.

Pretty sunny and warm right now -- 'round there parts, when it gets sunny and warm in January, you don't need no stinkin weatherman -- you know something dramatic is about to happen. "Sunny and warm" translates to "Mother Nature is taking a break to really load up the cannon."

The Portland Airport NWS recorded their second-ever 3+ inch day since they started keeping track.


Up on Mt Hood, the total snowfall so far on the season is 25 feet (about 9 feet of which remains as snowpack), with many more feet coming over the next few days.


Been a pretty wild ride so far. La Niña will do that, I guess. Hopefully, the faucet gets shut off in the next few weeks, as per usualm.

We're supposed to see up to 5 inches here...more than the annual total for the past few years it seems.

Haven't seen shit yet, though.

Mikey LAGOS wrote:We're supposed to see up to 5 inches here

That should make your day.

Hadn't seen that latest sat-pic yet...

Looks like we've found some common ground -- looks like every Left Coaster between BC and SoCal is about to get tittyfucked in the ass.


Never been in a storm in SoCal. I've been told by a buncha people that on the rare occasions it hits, it ain't fuckin around.


BTW -- if you get 5 inches in a day, it will be more than this rainy ol' place has ever seen since they strated keeping records. Since they moved to NWS Station from downtown to the airport (an absolutely asinine location for it, since that's way too close to the Gorge, and probably represents the windiest, rainiest microclimate around, which gets up to 25% or more precipitation than some of the western burbs), 3.99 was the wettest day ever (I think it moved about 55 years ago, or thereabouts).


Wow, that's some fancy numbers... Dins must have recently come across a site with the NWS database or something.

And you can count on your fingers (of one hand, I believe) how many times it's snowed more than 6 inches here.



But that pic... that's one honkin-huge storm. Often times, after something like that, the jet stream can straighten a bit and start up the Pineapple Express/Pacific Firehose pattern. And whoever ends up on the receiving end of that generally ends up floating down some river on the national news. I hope it's not us again. We've already got it once so far, but now we've got a shitload of low-elevation snow to supplement any warm rains that come. Couple that with high rivers and saturated ground, and the stage is absolutely set for some monster flooding problems right now. The last time we saw similar conditions, a thing called "The Great Flood of 96" happened. And frankly, the disaster-relief/FEMA/Red Croos and all that stuff is still fairly tapped. Just as soon send our people to help others, rather than others sending help here.

But landslides are sure a hoot. SoCals are familiar with "landslides," I'm pretty sure. Last winter, we had one drop right on a major freaking highway during rush hour, right in town. That always makes the commute a pleasant experience.


But right now, it couldn't be much nicer outside. SAunny, warm, blue skies... had a few clouds and a couple of small gusts come through, but went back to sunny and warm. Just starting to see it darkening up just a hair over the Coast Range. Let the games begin.

But looks like if you live within about 80 miles or so of the Pacific, it's time to barren down the hatches, big time.

Dinsdale wrote:Since they moved to NWS Station from downtown to the airport (an absolutely asinine location for it, since that's way too close to the Gorge, and probably represents the windiest, rainiest microclimate around, which gets up to 25% or more precipitation than some of the western burbs), 3.99 was the wettest day ever (I think it moved about 55 years ago, or thereabouts).

Now why would the airport be in the windiest and wettest place in town? Who the fuck signed off on that idiocy?

mvscal wrote:We're about to get buttfucked in the mouth.

Well, it is Friday, after all.

Sin,

BSmack wrote:
Now why would the airport be in the windiest and wettest place in town? Who the fuck signed off on that idiocy?

That's a damned good question.

It's at least far enough west from the Gorge it doesn't get the frequent inches-of-freezing-rain that plague the mouth of the Gorge which is, I dunno, maybe 8 miles east of the runway. The small-plane airport (no small plane traffic at PDX) is in Troutdale, which is pretty much the first burb in from the Gorge. The other small-plane airport is in Hillsboro, about 8,000,000 miles to the west of the international airport, which seems like another stroke of pure genius.

Maybe they put it there because being alongside the river was easier to navigate back in the Old Days? Maybe they figured there was less population right along the banks of The Creek to annoy? Maybe it was the last flat spot available to build a runway when it was decided an airport was a good idea?


Whoever came up with the original plan isn't in a big hurry to claim credit. Although in fairness -- PDX very rarely closes for weather. Very rare.

Still cold here today, but not as cold as yesterday, and no snow falling (although a decent amount on the ground). I'm told that by next Tuesday we'll be up to 65 degrees, albeit with heavy winds.

If the temperature's warming up that fast, I'd better make sure the dehumidifier in my basement is working.

BSmack wrote:

Dinsdale wrote:Since they moved to NWS Station from downtown to the airport (an absolutely asinine location for it, since that's way too close to the Gorge, and probably represents the windiest, rainiest microclimate around, which gets up to 25% or more precipitation than some of the western burbs), 3.99 was the wettest day ever (I think it moved about 55 years ago, or thereabouts).

Now why would the airport be in the windiest and wettest place in town? Who the fuck signed off on that idiocy?

Just speculating here, but maybe they put it where the wind direction is the most consistent. Airplanes can handle wind. They would just prefer to be going into it when landing or taking off.

Mikey wrote:Just speculating here, but maybe they put it where the wind direction is the most consistent.

Meets that definition. Always coming from due east in winter, and due west in summer. Runway runs east-west.


First wave of black clouds just popped the Coast Range and came inland. Blue to the east, black to the west. Winds still really light on the leading-edge, but I kinda doubt the light winds last long.

On the plus side, the limbfall makes for readily avaliable firewood for next winter... whatever weak limbs didn't come down last time. With saturated soils, it might be whole trees rather than limbs.


Let'er buck, Mother Nature.

Starting to gust.

And I just saw a relese that said they expecting gusts up to 200MPH in upper elevations in the NoCal Sierra/Siskiyous?


Sounds like a nice day to be out on the freeways. I guess there was already a 150+ gust in Southern Oregon/NoCal somewhere.


Winds over 150MPH really ain't messing around. 35 foot seas aren't too terribly nasty, but aren't chump-change either.

I'm glas the drunk-douchebag I occasionally work for didn't ask me to go to the Coast today. I fell for that shit a few years ago in devastating storms... never again. Even managed to get home that night... but not by much.


Good drama this weekend.

200 MPH? Well I have a new motto for your Department of Tourism:

“Nothing blows like the U & L.”

Goober McTuber wrote:200 MPH? Well I have a new motto for your Department of Tourism:

I was thinking they'd go with


"200MPH and monster storms... great day to climb a mountain, Texans and New Yorkers!"


Would at least make a good ad campaign to get the foreigners to pony up the $5 for Mountain Locator Units.

Goober McTuber wrote:200 MPH? Well I have a new motto for your Department of Tourism:

“Nothing blows like the U & L.”

Maybe you should head up there and go for a walk in the woods.

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:200 MPH? Well I have a new motto for your Department of Tourism:

“Nothing blows like the U & L.”

Maybe you should head up there and go for a walk in the woods.

Sweet comeback, ZZ Mikey.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:200 MPH? Well I have a new motto for your Department of Tourism:

“Nothing blows like the U & L.”

Maybe you should head up there and go for a walk in the woods.

Sweet comeback, ZZ Mikey.

Coming from the king of lame hit and run "smack" one-liners, that's almost funny.

And brave the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain...

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

Mikey wrote: Maybe you should head up there and go for a walk in the woods.

Sweet comeback, ZZ Mikey.

Coming from the king of lame hit and run "smack" one-liners, that's almost funny.

Sounds like someone got their little feelings hurt somewhere along the line. Ironic comment considering your previous post in this exchange.

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote:And brave the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain...

That actually warms my . A truly magical moment in my show-going days, when some rain came through to open a 3-day stand, and They busted out a whole slew of rain tunes... and then it magically cleared up... you would have had to have been there. Pure magic. The kids they danced and shook their bones, and the clouds burned off.


And, the leading-edge seems to be upon us. I'd ask the other Lefties how things were looking, but I'm heading out on this afternoon-off to go play some disc golf...seems prudent.

I saw Q, West Coast's name online -- I'm guessing he should enjoy his internet access, since that's probably a done-deal pretty quick-like... along with his electricity.

Goober McTuber wrote:
Sounds like someone got their little feelings hurt somewhere along the line. Ironic comment considering your previous post in this exchange.

I guess you're too self-absorbed to recognize my spot-on imitation of your own style.

My little feelings aren't hurt at all BTW, but I'm starting to think that you take this board way too seriously.

Dinsdale wrote:

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote:And brave the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain...

I saw Q, West Coast's name online -- I'm guessing he should enjoy his internet access, since that's probably a done-deal pretty quick-like... along with his electricity.

An associate of ours working from home in East Bayarea has lost his as of an hour or so ago.

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
Sounds like someone got their little feelings hurt somewhere along the line. Ironic comment considering your previous post in this exchange.

I guess you're too self-absorbed to recognize my spot-on imitation of your own style.

My little feelings aren't hurt at all BTW, but I'm starting to think that you take this board way too seriously.

I'm beginning to believe that you are a closet homo with a fat ugly hog of a wife who sucks mucho black cock.

BTW, I have a grudging admiration of your use of an old shutyomouth tactic. That is, recognize a shortcoming of your own (ie., a propensity for posting lame one-liners), and then accuse someone else of the same thing. Hard for them to point out the truth without coming across as IKYABWAI. Fucking brilliant.

The Republicans were doing that a long time before 'Spray (or you) ever thought of it.

Dinsdale wrote:

BTW -- if you get 5 inches in a day, it will be more than this rainy ol' place has ever seen since they strated keeping records. Since they moved to NWS Station from downtown to the airport (an absolutely asinine location for it, since that's way too close to the Gorge, and probably represents the windiest, rainiest microclimate around, which gets up to 25% or more precipitation than some of the western burbs), 3.99 was the wettest day ever (I think it moved about 55 years ago, or thereabouts).

As of 9:30 am the La Jolla Indian Reservation had 6.5 inches since last night and nearby Palomar Mountain 4.4. Those are both about 25 miles east of here, and normally the location of the highest rain amounts since they are on the western slope of the mountains. The reservation was heavily damaged in the October Poomacha fire. I think I remember reading that something like 80% of their land had burned. I'd hate to be them right now. I think they have highway 76 closed out there in anticipation of mudslides. The San Luis Rey River should be nice and full about now.

Sandia creek road was reported to be 6 inches under water from the Santa Margarita River. That's about 10 miles north and in the bottom of a canyon. Here it's just been a steady rainfall, nothing particularly special, and it's even stopped right now.

Was pretty darn windy yesterday, but not to the point I saw any trees down or anything.

And it poured after midnight, but for the 4th, there was 0.6 inches of rain -- thoroughly unimpressive considering how big the system was.


Although through the first 4 days of the month, we're up to about 2/3rds of an average January's rainfall. When someone spending their 41st winter in the U&L says "it's been a really wet winter"... go ahead and assume they ain't bullshitting, since they probably know a thing or two about rainy winters.

And it's been a rainy winter. Sure, starting around Thanksgiving or thereabouts, there's a nearly-constant light rain/drizzle, and every couple of weeks or so some storms blow through and make some downpours... but there's been some obscene numbers hitting the rain gauge. Well over a year's worth in the last couple of months.


March is sounding pretty good about now.