Some Nice Weather
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The Establishment
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 16:52
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About two weeks ago now, I parked in a two hour zone. It was about lunch time and I had to go move my car. Anyway, it started to rain as I was going to my car. Just as I got there, it started to pour very hard. So I moved my car and waited for ten minutes. It seemed the rain was letting up so I stepped out and noticed I was ankle deep in water. The rain then started to pour even harder, so I decided, "You know, the ramp is like $4, but I think I'm gonna go there". About an hour later this photograph was taken about 1/4 mile from where I was parked:  Best $4 I ever spent. Anyone else have any bad weather stories? -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Veteran*
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 17:05
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My best weather story is being in Oklahoma after all those tornados struck a few years back. I was in Moore, Oklahoma, and I was driving through the city, just taking in all the damage. The strangest thing I saw was a Corvette that had been thrown into a swimming pool. Needless to say, I contacted the owner and made a fair offer. :o Posts: 455 | Registered: Tuesday, May 17 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 17:46
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I lived in monsoon rain areas and have had some flooded streets where the water poured over the curbs (greater than 6 inches or 15 centimeters for the rest of the world), but nothing like that. I have driven in heavy rain where the lighting was so bad I could see the street. There was one time some friends and I were watching the rain come down. One asked if that was my roommate waiting at the bus stop when a truck drove by send a wall of water 6 feet (1.8 meters) high and 10 feet (3 meters) back from the curb. As my roommate got drenched, I said "yes." He came in later and wanted to know why there was so much rain in a desert environment. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 18:08
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The worst weather I've seen around my area in Sydney was one day about a year ago when it simply poured and poured. I was going home from school and I accidentally caught the wrong train, and had to change trains somewhere else. Unfortunately, there were train delays all over the place, even the train indicators had stopped working, and there was a thunderous drumming on the roof of the undercover waiting area. When I finally got on the right train, it started going in the wrong direction, stopped, started still in the wrong direction, stopped again, and finally got going the right way. At the station I got off at afterwards, the streets on the opposite side to where I got off was ankle-deep in water. The underground tunnel of the station was flooded waist-high, I saw some people attempting to swim through it. I've never had any worse weather than that. Posts: 587 | Registered: Tuesday, April 1 2003 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 18:19
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Last year I got hit pretty bad by one of the hurricanes. It was quite loud and windy during the night, when we woke the next morning the power was out, and we found that the banging noise we heard at night was the screen room getting ripped away. Half of it was lying in the pool, the rest was scattered across the neighborhood. Pretty much everyone where I live needed a new roof, and trees and fences were down all over the place. About a week later we got our power back for half an hour. Then they switched it back off and the entire neighborhood was going door to door "Did your power flick on and off too? Wow this sucks, what's happening?" They quit messing with us about 5 hours later, when we got the power back for good. -------------------- Guaranteed to blow your mind. Frostbite: Get It While It's...... Hot? Posts: 900 | Registered: Monday, August 8 2005 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 18:42
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We've had some heavy freezing rain episodes where thick layers of ice collect on everything. For one last year some people were without power for a week because of all the downed trees and powerlines. It didn't affect us much though. About a decade ago, hubby (bf at the time) was out chasing tornados (he likes that kind of thing) and came home without his car. He didn't catch the tornado, but he broke a tie-rod tryin. -------------------- "Even the worst Terror from Hell can be transformed to a testimony from Heaven!" - Rev. David Wood 6\23\05 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley Posts: 1001 | Registered: Tuesday, August 19 2003 07:00 |
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Councilor
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 21:17
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I haven't lived through too much terrible weather. There's been plenty of windstorms, snowstorms, and floods, but nothing outrageous. Although the house Dikiyoba lives in tends to get water in the basement every winter. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 22:35
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Although I live in the bad weather capitol of Europe, Holland, I didn't have any real damage of storms or floods. What I did see were heavy showers that one could not go outside, hail that was so large that if it got on your skin it would seriously hurt, and snow that was over 20 cm. But no, I don't have any real bad weather stories. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 22:42
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All my weather stories involve it being sunny and mild. :D -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 22:47
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I can't say I have any really good weather stories. The only really bad weather (appart from roads icing a couple of times) was when the snow was around 30 cm where I live and we got my friends car out on the road and tied a boogy board to a rope and attatched it to the car. We were flying along on snow covered roads. It kicked ass. Posts: 776 | Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00 |
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Dollop of Whipped Cream
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written Saturday, August 12 2006 22:59
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The worst weather I've seen has got to be the 26 inches of snow we had back in February. It got me out of school, and it was pretty cool. Other than that it's been the crazy one non-stop snow during winter and burning during the summer in NY, and before that sunny and hot all year in dr. There was a hurricane in dr once (I think I was like 12 or something), but I remember it didn't even get close to where I lived. -------------------- "Tyranicus is about the only one that still posts in the Nethergate Forum." —Randomizer Spiderweb Chat Room Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 562 | Registered: Friday, December 14 2001 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 00:45
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About four years ago there was an overnight heavy storm around where my dad lives. The next morning he woke up and noticed that much more light than usual was coming in through the back windows. He looked out, and discovered that the neighbour's great pine tree, twice as high as the house, had come down during the night. It had fallen over the row of back gardens, destroying a few fences and bushes but nothing worse than that. If it had fallen in any other direction it would have hit someone's house, quite possibly killing whoever was inside. (Incidentally, that same night was my birthday and I went out for the evening. My flatmates decided to have a party, for other reasons - I didn't want a birthday party - and they hired a smoke machine. The neighbours saw smoke emerging from our flat and rang the fire brigade. I returned at 2am to find fire engines surrounding our building and my [female] flatmates chatting up the firemen.) -------------------- I think this is really wonderful. Posts: 147 | Registered: Tuesday, October 18 2005 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 01:14
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I've got nothing that bad, but once when I was travelling to Lapland, there was so much snow outside we had to dig out the door to our cabin(?). Also, it was fun doing tunnels all around, with a little work you could stand straight in them. The snow was to my neck at some places. I was only 8, though. EDIT: The next day, it had been piled to two HUGE piles near the camping area. You can guess how fun it was to make two forts and have a snow war. [ Sunday, August 13, 2006 01:15: Message edited by: Bestrafer_fin ] -------------------- Visit the www.monkkonen.net and if you like, be the member of the forums. Posts: 76 | Registered: Sunday, July 20 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 06:03
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I don't mind the rain and the snow too much. What I really mind is the heat. Especially when I'm working on campus and living in a non-airconditioned dorm when the heat index is over 100 degrees... -------------------- Lt. Sullust Cogito Ergo Sum Polaris Posts: 2462 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 06:39
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Somebody needs to slap an "OWNED" on that picture. :P -------------------- He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. Posts: 586 | Registered: Saturday, October 20 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 11:08
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   My mother was driving my family from my grandparents' house in Port St. Lucie, Florida, to Disney World, along the highway. Suddenly, it began pouring to the point where we could not see anything. We were driving at about 65 MPH on a Florida highway (which, by the way, don't have guardrails, but rather, water-filled ditches), and we couldn't see. We also couldn't stop or slow down because we'd get hit by another car. It was rather terrifying. [ Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:15: Message edited by: The Almighty Do-er of Stuff ] -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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? Man, ? Amazing
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 13:23
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Now someone needs to edit in a shark jumping out of the water. -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 13:26
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In 1999, there was a huge rainstorm and although my house didn't flood because it was at the top of a hill, I looked out the window in front of the stairs and the park across the road and saw that the park was flooded!  EDIT: I left the bedroom window open and the wind blew the rain into the bedroom. The floor, pillow and bed were all soaked by the rain. In 2003, there was a cyclone just north of South East Queensland causing strong winds and heavy rain in Brisbane. I live in Brisbane and when I walked home from school, I was wearing a raincoat but I was freezing and it took half an hour to get home. Now we are having a severe drought.  EDIT: If Brisbane city was any further south, it would be close enough to the South Pole to snow. [ Monday, August 14, 2006 00:30: Message edited by: AussieAvernum-Ihrno ] Posts: 42 | Registered: Friday, April 28 2006 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 16:28
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We really don't get bad weather here, being on a mesa and all but last year about this time, a monsoon storm flooded part of my house. It flooded the part of the house with the wood floor, piano, and leather sofa naturally. After cleaning most of it up, I went to the school and helped dry out the fine arts building. Half the band room was soaked and the choir room was like a swamp. The water also almost reached our wool uniforms but I vacuumed it up. Then, water ran down the courtyard and flooded the auditorium and deposited six inches of water in the pit. We later found out that the cafeteria had also been struck. This was only a week before school started, but only about 200 people knew anything had happened. Having half the school be below ground level is a bad idea. -------------------- You acquire an item: Radio Free Foil Posts: 1169 | Registered: Monday, September 23 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, August 13 2006 21:08
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Hm... going backpacking in New Mexico in the middle of July once, we got dumped on for about 10 of 12 days. Oh, and four times hailed on. Then there was the float trip in South Dakota that tried to kill me and my group. Again, middle of June... we were sorta hypothermic at the end of that one, after paddling through a cold, dreary mist-filled series of reed banks which we couldnt see over for a whole day. Then there was the tornado that just missed our campsite (same trip)... a tent with two of my friends in it rolled away... finding that out at about 6 am is interesting. Particularly when you're stuck in a tent with the one guy in your group who's not really firing on all cylinders, and is hogging the center of the tent, leaving you to keep thetent from collapsing in on itself because all of the stakes have been ripped up. We were the trial run for the place we did the trip through. They took pity on us and took our soaked gear in to the local laundromat, and gave us some non-ruined food. They also took us to our next site by truck, since we were all freezing. Oh, and then there were all the fun, fun storms that more or less torched St. Louis a few weeks ago. Amazingly, our house only lost power for about 8 hours, while others went without for over a week. And in St. Louis, that could be deadly... fortunately, the storms had cooled down the city a bit. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Monday, August 14 2006 15:43
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quote:Yeah, NM weather can be unpredictable, especially in the Jemez Mtns. near Bandalier. On my last day out there this June, it hailed out at the townsite and it appeared as if there were snow on the ground. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Monday, August 14 2006 16:53
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Well, in the past few years, we've had snow in April and June here in New Jersey. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, August 14 2006 17:03
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Nothing too exciting happens where I live. No tornados, flooding or anything like that. The most amazing thing I can tell is that my mother once got struck by lightning at my parents' cottage. It was not very bad, fortunately, she just felt odd for some time after it. Snow in April is not uncommon here in Southern Finland. It usually melts away that month. (Snow in september would be rare.) [ Monday, August 14, 2006 17:06: Message edited by: Milu ] Posts: 259 | Registered: Saturday, June 1 2002 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Monday, August 14 2006 17:30
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Wisconsin snow in April is fairly common, just melts after a few days. Snow in June is a bit unusual, but I've seen it although I have yet to see it stick around. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Monday, August 14 2006 19:52
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Pfft. Canada has four seasons: winter, winter, winter, and construction. Let's see: about seven years ago we had a couple of feet in early June, made humourous because there was chilren's festival in town that operated solely out of big-top tents. Sitting outside during a tornado watch and gazing at two cloud fronts moving towards each other is pretty nice too. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will have my fortress exorcized regularly. Although ghosts in the dungeon provide an appropriate atmosphere, they tend to provide valuable information once placated. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |