July 07, 2005

• Well, it's winter there, innit? Every long once in a while it snows in Pensacola, FL, too. Where I live, however, it's a five month a year deal on snow; so, no offense Chy, but BFD.
• I was in Perth in November a couple years ago. It was freezing. The only coat I own I bought there, because it was so cold. NOVEMBER!!! wtf Perth!
• Yeah, I know. It was never like that when I was a kid.
• The truckies were saying there was a mix of snow and rain, or sleet are they any relation to trekkies?
• Long distance truck drivers. They are similar to Klingons.
• It snowed here in Sacramento the first year I was at this job. It also snowed in Memphis the first year I was there. I grew up with lotsa snow, so while everybody else was awestruck, I was peeved. I seem to be cursed...
• Perhaps you're the snow god.
• You don't know what cold is. Put on a sweater fuck.
• Seriously, man. You don't know cold until you're in Quebec City a week after Carnivale, hurtling down an ice-toboggan run directly into a stiff wind coming off the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and you've lost your toque so your wet hair freezes and pulls at your scalp. Now THAT was cold. (Which I leave to be bested by Koko in the Peg, obviously.) Perth. Freezing. Whatever. Pfft.
• Yeh, but it's supposed to be cold there. I moved back to Perth because I was sick of freezing me' nads orf.
• I moved to Las Vegas once for 1.5 years, during which time it snowed twice. first time in eight years! like minda, I was underwhelmed, having grown up in new jersey.
• Sometimes it's so cold that my breath freezes in my throat and I choke on my own breath. But yeah, it's not supposed to be that cold down under. I remember the few times in San Francisco it got cold enough to snow a little, and people went nuts. Why did I move here? I don't know, shut up.
• Perception of temperature is relative of course. The fastest temperature change ever recorded happened in Spearfish, South Dakota USA back in '43. I went to school 30 minutes from there in the early 90's. While I didn't experience a temperature change that dramatic, there was an occasion when the temperature went from -30°F [-34°C] to 32°F [0°C] in a 24-hour period. Freezing point, yet it felt like bloody summer. I ran outside in shorts and a t-shirt for the day...
• Spent a winter in North Dakota, which I guess must be like Winnepeg Jr. Worked on a dairy farm for my relatives. We'd milk the cows & let the milk freeze on our arms instead of milking into a bucket. Rolled it up & stored it in the barn. When Aunt Martha wanted some for the kids, she'd send me out to the barn to "fetch a couple feet of dairy." Used to keep a log chain nailed to a post to check how hard the wind was blowing. When it was standing straight out, that was a fair breeze. But when the links commenced to snapping in the wind, we knew we might be in for some weather.
• The winter before last, we had an inch and a half of ice on the inside of our windows.
• Last winter, it rained so bad that we had flash flooding. We actually had lightning and thunder a couple times. It also got down to like 70 degrees. WORST WINTER EVAR
• What I find really interesting are the temperatures in the tropical areas of Australia. At latitude 20 degrees, Port Hedland, at sea level, on the ocean, was 13C. That's like Honolulu dipping to 55F. A little further south along the coast and it gets even colder... 6C (43F) at Learmonth... and we're nowhere near Perth yet.
• Koko, where do you live? If you ever said so I missed it.
• Winnipeg.
• brrrrr... snow + Perth = odd
• Well, this got rather more posts than I thought it would, seeing as I posted it just to get away from talking about death & mayhem.
• Lived in South Texas for many years, and HATED HATED HATED the heat and humidity. Moved to Montana three years ago and never happier: four seasons -- hooray! Well, "summer" isn't too long, but you get the point. And not to take too much away from South Dakota, but Montana holds the record for 24-hour temperature change: from -54 to 49. And the National Weather Service states that Montana holds the record for rapid temperature change -- not sure if SD or MT is the true "winner." Weather is just fascinating - why do we love it so?
• The wording on NOAA's website is a bit confusing with regards to records. They seem to contradict themselves in numerous instances. The wording for SD says that the difference of 49 degrees in two minutes was the most dramatic ever recorded in the world. Perhaps the difference is that the MT record was registered and the SD record was not? Not sure what that means exactly, but obviously a change of 49 degrees in two minutes is more dramatic than a change of 47 degrees in seven minutes. Regardless, both would have been freaky to experience! Why do we love it so? For me, I've been fascinated with raw fantastic weather since I can remember. When a tornado ripped through town, what did I do? I jumped up on the roof to watch while the rest of the family cowered in the basement. Seeing nature's fury reminds me of how we are not the controllers of the world in which we live. A force that still manages to be unpredictable and amazing no matter how hard we try to understand and manipulate it.
• Holy Moley! Snow levels are 11,000 ft in the John Muir Wilderness area! Snow was falling all spring and I forgot to posT. aaaaarrrrgh!!!
• OK, I'm bringing death & mayhem back into the discussion. We just watched The Abyss. Man, that bathyscaphe implosion was scary.
• I love how this is posted to an emergency preparedness website. Temperatures of -1 to -2! Horrors! The shorts will have go in the closet! People will wear socks with their sandles! Sorry. It's the whole gowing-up-in-Edmonton thing. I'm done now.
• Pffft- we got a metre of snow in 24 hours a couple of years ago. Wheee!
• Yes, but people, remember, I AM THE MOST ISOLATED MONKEY ON THE SITE. So this means something.. or other for me. Check the map. Now send me money.
• Looks like Mr. Hilter, Dr. Livingstone, Skrik or sugarmilktea could argue about that.
• SANTABASHI PWNZZZ JU!!!11!!!
• Ho ho ho!
• Snow in West Oz! FUCK YEAH! It got really cold and there was some snow! Snow in West Oz! FUCK YEAH! It doesn't usually happen, so suck on my balls!
• C'mon everyone knows Skrik ain't real.
• HO, HO, HO! MERRY JULY!
• Chyren, FUCK YEAH! Bitches and moans because he's cold and isolated! Chyren, FUCK YEAH! Send him some money, and suck on my balls!
• Wot? Koko has balls??
• suck on my balls dammit!!!
• o do the seldom snows of Perth fall on the desiccated earth and on the man who flees from hence as flakes and falls and drifts commence?
• Chy, I'm the most isolated monkey. More like you send me money.
• Hmmm.