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[ChargerMike]

Current conditions as of 1:51 pm PST

Fair: 93
Feels Like: 94°
Barometer: 29.88 in and falling
Humidity: 10%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dewpoint: 29°
Wind: S 7 mph
Sunrise: 6:19 am
Sunset: 4:55 pm
94°High: 93° Low: 60°

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[Mikey]

Nice and sunny, but a little warm and dry right now.
I'd be enjoying it more if I had time to sit by the pool with a six pack.

[Cuda]

Mostly Cloudy and Windy

73 F
Feels Like
73 F

UV Index: 1 Low
Wind: From West at 23 Gusting 27
Humidity: 23%
Pressure: 29.76
Dew Point: 34F
Visibility: >10 miles

At my closest airport:

KAPA 072053Z 30009KT 10SM FEW080 SCT140 BKN250 22/00 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP099 T02220000 56019

[Mikey]

90.5 °F / 32.5 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 12%
Dew Point: 31 °F / -1 °C
Wind: 5.4 mph / 8 km/h from the West
Wind Gust: 9.0 mph / 14 km/h
Pressure: 29.82 in / 1009.7 hPa
Heat Index: 86 °F / 30 °C
Visibility: 7.0 miles / 11.3 kilometers
UV: 3 out of 16
Clouds: Few 20000 ft / 6096 m
(Above Ground Level)

[Dinsdale]

So, how's that ark-building going, motherfucker?

[Dinsdale]

[Mikey]

At least you don't have a water shortage.

[YD]

bwahahahaaa!

raining like hell here too.

no floods though

[YD]

if you have to swim for it, eyepatch to the water and flounderstroke

[Dinsdale]

Stopped raining here...for now.

I thought I heard some weatherbitch saying something about the possibility of more heavy storms in the coming week.

The super-soaker party is getting started awfully early this year.

Doubt I'll be swimming anywhere, since I live on a little hill. All the little creeks in my neighborhood are over their banks, which gets to be quite the pain in the ass if they go over the roads.

And on this, the proper side of the mountains, we have there things called "deciduous trees," and they drop a bunch of these things called "leaves" about this time of year, which tends to render the storm-drains fairly useless.

Chehalis, WA was pretty much underwater. There were 3 places on I-5 where water had made it up to the freeway, with lanes closed in a lot of spots. A little more water, and I-5 will be closing...no big deal, since that isn't a very busy road or anything.

Fun times.

[YD]

all your junipers and pondos are belong to us

[Dinsdale]

Matter of fact, the weather has been so dramatic last few days, it seems like everybody has already forgotten that at the absolute peak of the heavist deluge, which was sunday night around here, there was a freaking little-bitty earthquake...the third centered right underneath Portland proper in the last couple of years...a spot where there has never before been an earthquake, since they came up with seismographs anyway. Nifty. House was shaking so hard from the massive amounts of rain hitting the roof, it was hard to notice.


But hey...at least there's people stranded in their neighborhoods and whatnot on election day. They need to start a "Get out the boat" campaign or something.

[Dinsdale]

all your junipers and pondos are belong to us

I'll bet the ponderosa in my backyard is bigger than any freaking tree on your whole side of the state...bets?

[ChargerMike]

...and this just in from K.C.

[Dinsdale]

Excellent.

[YD]

all your junipers and pondos are belong to us

I'll bet the ponderosa in my backyard is bigger than any freaking tree on your whole side of the state...bets?

okeydokey , do you have the stats complied already in one of your volumes of Dinsdales Ultimate U&L Encyclopedia or maybe Dinsy's "special" Nature Books of the NorthWest

I'll bet a whole set of those against a few bottles of dryside liquors and beers

[YD]

I'll go double or nothing that your side of the state has less juniper trees than my block

[Dinsdale]

We have another name for junipers around here -- we call them "weeds." And they're cut down as such.

OK...running "your trees suck" smack is pretty tardly...but guy who lives in the desert running it...priceless.


Hmm...looking out over the hills, out towards the ocean (that's this very large body of water that's across the country from you, timbo), it would appear that this brief bout of blue sky is about done, and it looks like it's ready to bust loose some more.

[YD]

OK...running "your trees suck" smack is pretty tardly...but guy who lives in the desert running it...priceless.

so you thought that whole thing was funneh too

Hmm...looking out over the hills, out towards the ocean (that's this very large body of water that's across the country from you, timbo), it would appear that this brief bout of blue sky is about done, and it looks like it's ready to bust loose some more.

barren down the hatches dinsdart!!!

[Diego in Seattle]

Had a Patriot Guard Riders mission in The Dalles on Sunday. It was ok getting down there, but coming home was a royal biotch. 80% of the ride home involved heavy rain. And going down Hwy 84 a vehicle going the other way hit a large puddle that sent a solid wave of water at me. Sometimes I wonder how I made it home that afternoon/evening.

[Derron]

6.9 inches of rain since Friday morning at the crib on the lee side of the Coast Range, about 35 miles west of Portland.

12 inches at Lees Camp up in the Coast Range. Fucking unreal, but nothing like 1996.

[Mikey]

Had a Patriot Guard Riders mission in The Dalles on Sunday. It was ok getting down there, but coming home was a royal biotch. 80% of the ride home involved heavy rain. And going down Hwy 84 a vehicle going the other way hit a large puddle that sent a solid wave of water at me. Sometimes I wonder how I made it home that afternoon/evening.

Maybe you should check the weather report next time.

[Dinsdale]

And going down Hwy 84 a vehicle going the other way hit a large puddle that sent a solid wave of water at me. Sometimes I wonder how I made it home that afternoon/evening.

This is/was a Pineapple Express system, so it was warm. But on a serious note, once we get to this time of year, nobody has any business riding a motorcycle through the Gorge. Your shit can go real bad, real quick in a car, pretty deadly on a bike. That whole region can get covered in several inches of freezing rain with little notice, starting, oh...right around this time of year.

Take a car/truck with chains next time(preferably 4 chains, if there's ice).

Just because there's a major interstate running through it, it doesn't mean driving through the Gorge in winter is a good idea.

Coolest motorcycle ride on the planet the rest of the year, though, or at least damn-close to it.

[Jimmy Medalions]

6.9 inches

12 inches

Yes??? Go on.......

- IL II

[jtr]

6.9 inches of rain since Friday morning at the crib on the lee side of the Coast Range, about 35 miles west of Portland.

12 inches at Lees Camp up in the Coast Range. Fucking unreal, but nothing like 1996.

Dude!

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

freezing rain

Few things make me laugh harder than seeing Cali, Texas, or Florida driver up here trying to "negotiate" down the road in freezing rain. Or snow, for that matter.

They're idling with their flashers on, while Ford Festivas with balding tires are cruising by at 75 mph.

Pure hilarity.

[Dinsdale]

Oh dude...try living next door to california. You'd think the stupid motherfuckers have never seen a wet road before.

And when we get the once-every-few-years snow (in the Valley) -- comedy GOLD. And auto body shops love it. Every freaking license plate frame on every freaking stuffed car at the body shop is from california after a heavy rain or freezing rain.

[Mikey]

California has huge weather bode.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Bode?

Michigan - 4 seasons
SoCal - 2* seasons

And by most any standard, "scoreboard" is quantified by the higher integer.



*being generous

[Dinsdale]

I'll take the weather here, thank you very much, two seasons and all.

[Mikey]

Bode?

Michigan - 4 seasons
SoCal - 2* seasons

And by most any standard, "scoreboard" is quantified by the higher integer.



*being generous

You mean like more days below 32 deg?
More days with freezing rain or snow?
More tons of salt dumped on the road and rusting the guts out of your car?

[Dinsdale]

Hey Mikey...in your honor, I might just have to go put a sprinkler on my lawn...even though it's been raining. Might just let the water run for days on end.

Might run the water bill up like $0.03, or something.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

More tons of salt dumped on the road and rusting the guts out of your car?

Actually, we have these things called "car washes" ... helps prevent that sort of thing.

But anyway...let's review:

Michigan's Seasons -

Summer...



Fall...



Winter...



Spring...



SoCal's -

Summer...



Fall...



Winter...



Spring...

[Mikey]

MB-LS = m2?

Who woulda thunk it.

[Mikey]

I thought we were talking about integers, as in:

More days of opressive heat and humidity
More current Governors who were raised in California

But if you want to talk seasonal natural beauty, I'm pretty sure you know squat about CA:

CA Winter:



CA Spring:




CA Summer:



CA Autumn (yes Martha we do get fall color here):

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

You're reaching prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay badly, Mikey.

Do you really think a picture of a ski hill exemplifies "California Winters?"

That's cute.

[Dinsdale]

Colder than a witch's tit.

But I'm sure everyone could have guessed that.

Good buddy of mine just went to Anchorage for a couplefew months to help a friend do some work(how the hell do you side houses in Alaska in winter, anyway?). First day there, he says "it's cold as all fuck here. Holy shit."

Gee, and this time, I though that whole thing about Alaskan winters was some sort of urban legend or something.

Yeah, thanks for that. Never would have guessed. How much in the way of drugs do you need to be doing to be siding houses when it's 15 degrees?

I just told him that it was "still resonably warm here, enjoy your winter, bro. FORE!!"

[Atomic Punk]

Beautiful deck though. I'll bet they listened to you and used square-headed deck screws in that wood. Hopefully they didn't use that fraudulent Thompson's Water Seal brand that doesn't do shit.

[Dinsdale]

that fraudulent Thompson's Water Seal brand that doesn't do shit.

Ah, but that's where you're wrong -- it does plenty.

Like makes the wood crack and check much faster.

I guess it's "new and improved" now. Then again, substituting water for whatever it was in the can before would have been an "improvement," so I think the jury's still out.

[Mikey]

You're reaching prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay badly, Mikey.

Do you really think a picture of a ski hill exemplifies "California Winters?"

That's cute.

The point is that in CA you can drive from that ski "hill" (hill is something you have in MI, here we have these things called mountains) to a sunny beach in a couple of hours.

You losers are stuck in the ice and slush for 6 months with no escape other than a flight to LAX.