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I made it to and from work without incident but boy am I mad at the lack of any sort of road maintenance. I'm in SE King County and the freeway wasn't plowed, the arterials weren't plowed, and even the road in front of the hospital wasn't plowed by the time I came through at 9am this morning. I left around 4pm and the highway was in better shape but the side streets save for the hospital were all in really rough shape still. Word on the street is we're down something like 200 snowplow drivers due to the vaccine mandate because of course we are.
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Dog Case posted:The real danger of the cold weather is having to drive in traffic. Passed a ton of people on the way to work just riding the rear end of people that were actually driving safely for the conditions. Like less than a cars length on plowed but not bare roads I had an extremely localized surprise few inches of snow Christmas Eve day and had to make a planned trip to the grocery store for some lobsters and yeah, roads were awful and people had no concept of distancing, it was absurd. People in awd vehicles don't understand braking at all
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the safest way to travel in snow in places where it doesn't snow is to ride a bicycle as far away from the road as possible.
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shame on an IGA posted:the safest way to travel in snow in places where it doesn't snow is to ride a bicycle as far away from the road as possible. it's kind of a necessity to travel in the road so I would say "as far away from moving cars as possible"
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All the rich people who went to lake tahoe for xmas are now snowed in hard enough from a winter storm that the area is completely isolated - every road is closed "indefinitely" https://twitter.com/CHP_Truckee/status/1474824778414317576 Apparently some areas are now under nine feet of snow
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Minecraft Holmes posted:All the rich people who went to lake tahoe for xmas are now snowed in hard enough from a winter storm that the area is completely isolated - every road is closed "indefinitely" It's pretty impressive how much snow the Sierras get in a decent winter and how they're just a big net for water in the air which then gets used to grow almonds that are shipped out of the country.
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Dec 28, 2021 04:58
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Well they are literally the “snowy mountains” in Spanish.
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https://twitter.com/Asuka_Shiromaru/status/1474944370235568131
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Platystemon posted:Well they are literally the “snowy mountains” in Spanish. I can still be just as amazed today as the Spanish were centuries ago.
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Minecraft Holmes posted:All the rich people who went to lake tahoe for xmas are now snowed in hard enough from a winter storm that the area is completely isolated - every road is closed "indefinitely" "Donner, party of six." "That's five, actually...you know, we're not really hungry anymore."
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SirPablo posted:It's pretty impressive how much snow the Sierras get in a decent winter and how they're just a big net for water in the air which then gets used to grow almonds that are shipped out of the country. No no, per the highway signs on I5 and 99, Gavin is dumping all the water (and the jobs) directly into the bay. End the man made drought, build more dams! Dam water is farm water!
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nikosoft posted:Dam water is farm water!
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nikosoft posted:No no, per the highway signs on I5 and 99, Gavin is dumping all the water (and the jobs) directly into the bay. End the man made drought, build more dams! Dam water is farm water! Sorry I couldn't see that sign behind the "stop high speed rail" sign.
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Dec 28, 2021 06:46
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Dam the rivers drat the fishes drat, these profits 
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blatman posted:its fuckin nippy outside uhhh
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ELTON JOHN posted:uhhh a tid bit nipply
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ELTON JOHN posted:uhhh lol i thought the same thing, right after that other post
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blatman posted:its fuckin nippy outside Is it enough to freeze the bollocks off a brass monkey or just a bit parky ? Helith has issued a correction as of 09:26 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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shes fuckin brisk, bros
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Epic High Five posted:a tid bit nipply The cold front brought through a very dong'ie air mass being replaced by some vags weather later in the week as a high pressure system moves in. Expect heavy poos and farts on monday and Tuesday, easing to some light piss, Wednesday and some pleasant butt pee-pee gently caress for the rest of the week. This has been your grade eight weather report for today, stay tuned turd burgers if you want to hear about sports, or whatever. I don't care.
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Mola Yam posted:lol i thought the same thing, right after that other post just barely left some room for plausible deniability 
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Good, they need the snowpack. Things are still screwy in the Pacific Northwest. I've seen sustained cold like this on the east side of the Cascades (for those who don't know, it's the eastern 2/3rds of Washington and Oregon), but not on the west side. My normal cold weather clothing leaves my fingers and toes feeling numb. Yes, that means I need to bundle up more, but it also means I (and a lot of others) are experiencing a lot more cold than normal. I spent a couple of hours yesterday running around looking for de-icer because my small supply ran out; one store was out, then suggested I buy one of those propane torch flamethrowers. I eventually found some and snagged a bag, then snagged a second when I noticed literally everyone else at checkout had some. We're supposed to get more snow next week and I'm genuinely worried. Bob Socko has issued a correction as of 20:28 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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whew the water crisis is solved
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Cool, so appropriately spaced seasonal precipitation has been replaced by huge dumps so we still get drought conditions but the numbers taken as a whole are such that people will still say "global warming my rear end!!"
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Futanari Damacy posted:Cool, so appropriately spaced seasonal precipitation has been replaced by huge dumps so we still get drought conditions but the numbers taken as a whole are such that people will still say "global warming my rear end!!" *snaps leather belt* Well, if you insist . . .
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Futanari Damacy posted:Cool, so appropriately spaced seasonal precipitation has been replaced by huge dumps so we still get drought conditions but the numbers taken as a whole are such that people will still say "global warming my rear end!!" While this is a larger storm series than normal, the Sierras tend to get their snow in large, multi-foot blizzards. Especially in La Nina year I've been in the Sierras for much bigger single day blizzards than any in this series of storms, the difference is they had about 2 weeks of blizzards in a row The Glumslinger has issued a correction as of 00:02 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Well that's reassuring. More and more often especially where I am there are long spells without any rain and then it all comes at once and washes away the dried, dusty soil. I'm spending money on water and topsoil just to preserve what is alive when I never had to before.
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Futanari Damacy posted:replaced by huge dumps but enough about ur posting
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Due to climate change, dumps are projected to become 140% more massive.
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It'It's from all the beans goons are stocking up on
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I know a lot of folks are saying "hey, Sierra snow, drought is over, global warming my rear end." Boy boy are you folks missing out on some peak lmaos at the capitalist drama playing out in Tahoe. First off, a huge chunk of the west slope of the sierras is burned. Some of the Eastern slope too (caldor fire et cetera). A bunch of south lake tahoe burned too this summer. Record snow falls and higher than average temps in the spring is going to be devastating in terms of mudslides, avalanches in new areas also because there is nothing to do slope stability in a lot of places. Floods in weird places, etc. In terms of Tahoe, that lack will be mid brown for a minute. I have friends there who have been getting ving me the play by play and wow. So all the roads in and out have been closed for days. They finally got 50 open and before the let any trucks or ems have priority to get supplies in, they caved to local business interests (casinos, ski resorts) who complained about losing revenue over the past week from the closures and they just...opened 'er up So now, stores and fuel stations were already on fumes and whatever was left got gobbled up by like 4 routes worth of traffic being slammed into the shittiest of them much of it two lane and has been gridlocked the whole day, as people that were stuck there from out of town try to leave and a whole bunch of bay area tourists are scrawling in for epic pow pow. Since the fires, a lot of the power poles burned and like an entire half of the areas grid was hastily and temporarily strung up as a stop gap and much of it has failed under the snow load. All this together has lead to the only way through the area is grid locked, they are finding people dead in their cars under feet of snow. Local residents are without power, empty stores and gas stations with no gas and no gas for residential generators to stop pipes from freezing because the power is out. Residents are pissed because the city demanded they reopen for tourism for the closures already ongoing, and hosed the residents who are going to have their homes likely hosed up for like 5 casinos and 5 ski resorts on that side. Oh and Google maps has been offering unpaved forest service roads as route alternatives over literal mountains in this mega storm. So tech bro in his "all wheel drive" Mercedes...lol. Lmao.
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Basic Poster posted:Oh and Google maps has been offering unpaved forest service roads as route alternatives over literal mountains in this mega storm. So tech bro in his "all wheel drive" Mercedes...lol. Lol, this happened earlier in the year, too. Good to see the tech companies didn't do anything to prevent it from happening again https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/tahoe-snow-rescue-truckee-highway-49-15925066.php
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Snow forecast for Western Washington over the next couple of days. https://twitter.com/nwsseattle/status/1475965591710154753?s=21
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hobbesmaster posted:that looks like today's forecast for minnesota It’s what normal snowfall is for this part of the country. We get a couple-ish of inches, maybe school and work get a snowday, then it melts and that’s the end. The problem is the prior snow still hasn’t melted, and that scares and confuses us. Bob Socko has issued a correction as of 13:52 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Bob Socko posted:It’s what normal snowfall is for this part of the country. We get a couple-ish of inches, maybe school and work get a snowday, then it melts an that’s the end. The problem is the prior snow still hasn’t melted, and that scares and confuses us. Ah, well, yes, that'd be a problem. Here the snow that fell today might melt in... march?
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