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Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:00 pm
by Mikey
Flood Advisory
High Wind Warning
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severe thunderstorm warning?
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Where the fuck are we - Oklahoma?
Almost dark as night out there right now...
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... IKIYFMrKUn
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:11 pm
by Dinsdale
Up here, we call that "winter."
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:25 pm
by trev
Mikey, it's windy, rainy and cold! We aren't prepared for this kind of thing. Clothing wise.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:32 pm
by Dinsdale
trev wrote:We aren't prepared for this kind of thing. Clothing wise.
Yeah, well, we weren't prepared for last week. Snowplow wise.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:47 pm
by trev
I'm enjoying the storm. I love it. I just won't go outside in it. Unless I have to.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:49 pm
by Dinsdale
I'm about to go out into a snowflake storm, while it's 50 degrees.
Wish me luck.
If it gets really good, I'll PET that bitch. But I'm going to try and avoid the unwashed asses.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:57 pm
by trev
Dinsdale wrote:I'm about to go out into a snowflake storm, while it's 50 degrees.
Wish me luck.
If it gets really good, I'll PET that bitch. But I'm going to try and avoid the unwashed asses.
We'll miss you if you get taken out. Be careful. Post pics.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:13 pm
by Mikey
Papa Willie wrote:You shouldn't let weather scare you so much, Mikey. You'll live. :grin:
Who's scared? The rain is welcome and a little erosion is easy enough to deal with.
The thing that worries me is that our roof is tarped because of a couple of leaks we sprung during the rain in December, and we haven't been able to get the roof fixed yet. The indoor work is almost done but if it leaks again we're fucked. Those tarps aren't really meant to hold up under 60 mph winds.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:58 am
by BSmack
Papa Willie wrote:You shouldn't let weather scare you so much, Mikey. You'll live. :grin:
Said the man from a state whose entire economy shutdown over 3 inches of snow.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:03 am
by Diego in Seattle
BSmack wrote:Papa Willie wrote:You shouldn't let weather scare you so much, Mikey. You'll live. :grin:
Said the man from a state whose entire economy shutdown over 3 inches of snow.
How do you expect their economy to run if they can't run down to the Piggly Wiggly to get their Moon Pies?
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:05 am
by Dinsdale
BSmack wrote:
Said the man from a state whose entire economy shutdown over 3 inches of snow.
Yes, because areas that get a snowstorm every ten years should spend millions on snow removal equipment.
Thought that one through, did you?
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:33 am
by BSmack
Dinsdale wrote:BSmack wrote:
Said the man from a state whose entire economy shutdown over 3 inches of snow.
Yes, because areas that get a snowstorm every ten years should spend millions on snow removal equipment.
Thought that one through, did you?
What they should do is stockpile salt and buy spreaders for their already existing dump trucks so they could better de-ice their roads. Then they might only be shut down for half a day.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:25 pm
by Dinsdale
BSmack wrote:
What they should do is stockpile salt and buy spreaders for their already existing dump trucks so they could better de-ice their roads. Then they might only be shut down for half a day.
Being in the same boat, and having a big snowstorm very recently, this has been a very public discussion. The relevant transportation departments have laid out the numbers for just what you describe... and it doesn't make any sense, at all.
Way better things to spend the money on. And if the people who still need to get around all invested a few bucks in a set of tire chains, a snowstorm wouldn't be an issue... well, if it piles up higher than the average car, maybe. But it's not like they're going to plow and de-ice ever neighborhood street.
Re: Barrening down the hatches...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:47 pm
by War Wagon
Dinsdale wrote:Up here, we call that "winter."
Here, we call it "May".