Donivanp
Major
And that's why I live in Houston, hey wait a minute, get down here a take your drunken weather back home.
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And that's why I live in Houston, hey wait a minute, get down here a take your drunken weather back home.Drove to PG yesterday to make sure I wouldn't miss appointments today and a good thing I did. Drove through a snowstorm and its still snowing. Whiteouts for a few seconds whenever a semi went by. Only one vehicle was in the ditch, a 4 x4 and it was upside down
Here in VT we have a rock band that memorialized our winter roads by taking the name "Driving Sideways".For some reason I could not convince my wife to take her new Subaru AWD out to see if their advertisements were true!
And that's why I live in Houston, hey wait a minute, get down here a take your drunken weather back home.
Had an Uncle and Aunt who lived there and it's about the same as Oregon. Beer makes , well beer and bacon makes everything better.The weather here in Redding (Northern California) has been typical:
Cold and clear
Cold and rain
Cold and foggy
Cold and foggy with rain
Cold and overcast
Cold and...clear - wait, snow???
Cold and who knows
Cold and I have beer, I don't care anymore
More cold...
That would be closer to our normal.I have no clue what you guys are all talking/bitching about...
77F and foggy this AM:
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Yes, the view from my office is terrible...
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Actually, those are our beach webcams, but my office is right close to them.
You can have it! I'll settle for my 2°F. Ever since Miss Agnes visited us in the keys in '72, palm trees and I don't get along.I have no clue what you guys are all talking/bitching about...
Hurricanes... BAH!! The last one to hit Tampa Bay was in October 1921, so I say "Humbug" to all that.You can have it! I'll settle for my 2°F. Ever since Miss Agnes visited us in the keys in '72, palm trees and I don't get along.
When I lived in Orange County (southern California), we used to suffer through brutal winters where we actually had to wear a flannel shirt over our t-shirt.I have no clue what you guys are all talking/bitching about...
77F and foggy this AM:
View attachment 613057
Yes, the view from my office is terrible...
View attachment 613058
Actually, those are our beach webcams, but my office is right close to them.
Hurricanes... BAH!! The last one to hit Tampa Bay was in October 1921, so I say "Humbug" to all that.
That's Dallas! This is Houston!Pardon me? Were you not alive in 2004? We lost power for four days due to one of the hurricanes. I forget which one. We got hurricane winds three times within a month and a half. Of course, none of them were "the big one," so we did get pretty lucky.
1) Charley hit Fort Myers (south of Tampa Bay area) as a cat 4, so we -were- in the northern part of the cone of hurricane force winds.
2) Frances had been downgraded to a tropical storm, in the south part of Polk County (part of the "Bay Area"), just before the eye went over Tampa itself, so we did get hurricane force winds.
3) Jeanne was still a cat 1 when it went directly over Plant City (Tampa "suburb").
Now, speaking of CURRENT weather, this whole winter has sucked. The overnight lows are what the daytime highs are supposed to be (50s-60s), and the highs are in the mid to upper 80s more often than not. Now, this is in the middle of the coldest part of winter, mind you. I don't want to know what this summer is going to be like. When I was growing up here (I moved to the Tampa Bay Area in the middle of 1965.), we had several freezes every winter, a couple of them being "hard freezes" (under 20 degrees F). Conversely, it never got above about 96 or so, during the hottest part of the summer.
I don't think it's gotten below freezing where I am (Lutz (pronounced "Loots") - NE suburb of Tampa) at all, this year. I know it came close (34?) but never made it. And this is not the first winter it's been this way, although this has been the worst. Here's the reading (very accurate thermometer, btw) from our van, from December, a couple years back, then one from the summer after it, on an average day (not the hottest part of the day).
December
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Summer
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-Irish
p.s. WTaF are the Texans doing complaining about snow? I see it all over the news, with them acting like they've never seen the stuff. I spent a few months (winter & spring of 1969/70) in the suburbs of Dallas, living with my older sister and her family. There was snow on the ground all winter, then it got above 120 degrees every day for two weeks straight, in late spring. I can take one or the other, but that much cold then that much heat within the same six month period, no thank you! My dad and I left as soon as the school year ended. We came back to Florida and never looked back.
PSHAW! Those were mere inconveniences for such cosmopolitan individuals such as myself.Pardon me? Were you not alive in 2004? We lost power for four days due to one of the hurricanes. I forget which one. We got hurricane winds three times within a month and a half. Of course, none of them were "the big one," so we did get pretty lucky.
1) Charley hit Fort Myers (south of Tampa Bay area) as a cat 4, so we -were- in the northern part of the cone of hurricane force winds.
2) Frances had been downgraded to a tropical storm, in the south part of Polk County (part of the "Bay Area"), just before the eye went over Tampa itself, so we did get hurricane force winds.
3) Jeanne was still a cat 1 when it went directly over Plant City (Tampa "suburb").
Now, speaking of CURRENT weather, this whole winter has sucked. The overnight lows are what the daytime highs are supposed to be (50s-60s), and the highs are in the mid to upper 80s more often than not. Now, this is in the middle of the coldest part of winter, mind you. I don't want to know what this summer is going to be like. When I was growing up here (I moved to the Tampa Bay Area in the middle of 1965.), we had several freezes every winter, a couple of them being "hard freezes" (under 20 degrees F). Conversely, it never got above about 96 or so, during the hottest part of the summer.
I don't think it's gotten below freezing where I am (Lutz (pronounced "Loots") - NE suburb of Tampa) at all, this year. I know it came close (34?) but never made it. And this is not the first winter it's been this way, although this has been the worst. Here's the reading (very accurate thermometer, btw) from our van, from December, a couple years back, then one from the summer after it, on an average day (not the hottest part of the day).
December
View attachment 613172
Summer
View attachment 613173
-Irish
p.s. WTaF are the Texans doing complaining about snow? I see it all over the news, with them acting like they've never seen the stuff. I spent a few months (winter & spring of 1969/70) in the suburbs of Dallas, living with my older sister and her family. There was snow on the ground all winter, then it got above 120 degrees every day for two weeks straight, in late spring. I can take one or the other, but that much cold then that much heat within the same six month period, no thank you! My dad and I left as soon as the school year ended. We came back to Florida and never looked back.