I just loved the above image borrowed from one Susan Madrak. I can only think of one time we got a snow day from school sometime in the early 60s. I believe it was a Sunday afternoon when it started snowing and it didn't stop until late the next day with something like 26 inches. Again it was one of those fluke weather patterns similar to today's events. How quickly we forgot those record breaking heat wave temperatures we had that killed people and the draught that's hit the midwest for the past few years. And the fires and heat that hit Australia just a short time ago. I'm hearing that such shifts in climate will be a boon to Canadian farming that is if the water doesn't dry up. So instead of oil pipelines maybe we should be installing water lines. Makes sense to me.
It's laughable that people complain where other people live when there's a disaster. Shouldn't have built so close to the ocean or river is the cry never realizing that things change and there really is no "safe" place to live. Live in a valley and risk flooding. Live in the mountains and risk an avalanche. Or maybe on a fault line that nobody knew about until recently. Pick a coast or the flatlands of the midwest and there'll be some problem. Don't like tornadoes then don't live in Kansas Dorothy. If you want stability then go live on an astroid but don't come crying to me it it should hit something.
So there it is I'm to lazy to blog. Now go do something productive like find that lost pen cap. And that sock you lost in the washer still needs a mate.
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I don't think people understood how ODD it was that hurricane Sandy made a left hook. that's NOT supposed to happen; it generally goes out to sea.
I'm still waiting for our big shaker. It should be interesting, yes?
Scoff at Cleveland, go on, scoff. No tidal waves, no Richter scaling, no avalanches, no tornadoes, no lava, no drone testing ranges. I still might trade all that for one lousy championship.
In 97 we got four feet of snow dumped on us overnight, it wasn't no big deal.
Roger our weather here has gotten weird. Mainly warmer winters and so far this year no snow.
Randal Clevlanistan doesn't have enough money to buy a championship. Thought you knew that.
Billy that must have been over on your part of the sound because I don't remember that.
I moved here in 98, I was in Montana when we got that big dump. But they got it here in Port Angeles also, it took down a number of boat houses and wood sheds and other week buildings and roofs.
I had a pickup camper on five acres near Thompson Falls and it caved in the roof.
This huge snow storm proves once and for all: global warming is a hoax, invented by Barack Obama and his moonbat minions so they can stage a government power grab and ruin the Greatest Country In The World.
We humans have gotten pretty good at controlling or reshaping things around us to suit our needs and preferences. We create great cities and sprawling suburbs, build streets and highways, airports so we can take to the skies I think it comes as a nasty surprise when Mother Nature sends us reminders we don't control the weather or climate
While we can't control weather and climate, I do think we've interfered with with both, and that the result is more and more-severe storms, droughts and such.
What's laughable is how utterly lacking in common sense climate change deniers show themselves to be. On it's face, the notion we could spend a couple of centuries pumping out ever increasing amounts of carbon and other pollutants into the atmosphere without that having an effect just seems preposterous. Just as ridiculous as some guy claiming that he can spend years downing a sixpack every evening without damaging his brain, nervous system and liver.
In both cases there's a wealth of scientific evidence that what common sense would tell you is liable to happen in fact can happen and is happening.
BTW, if you're interested, I finally published another post. Things have been really hectic lately and will be for awhile, but I haven't given up on posting completely.
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