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fermun posted:Plastic with candy of some kind inside. I hope beyond hope that they pop one open and one jelly bean gets away. Just knowing that somewhere on the ISS floats a lone piece of secret candy would fill my cold heart with joy.
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Noni posted:It looks kinda like Crow's country cousin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fKab9XpW0
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I sent those pictures of Raleigh to my sister who lives there, with "Learn how to drive, you guys." Her response: "You don't even know. It took me 3.5 hrs to drive home from work. It normally takes me 15 minutes. I wanted to get out of my car and punch every single person in the face."  This is how Ohioans deal with snow when they're relocated to the South.
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cowboythreespeech posted:That's ridiculous. I have snowpiles taller than me here, and have for months. My car has been literally buried in snow. I chipped off an inch of snow that was coating my entire car (to go to the beer store...). It's not that hard to drive in the snow? Like, I realise they don't have many plows/salt trucks down there, but... just drive like you would in a really lovely downpour. In closing, I'm a boy and I'd wear the poo poo out of that sweater
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Ishamael posted:Who knows?! My parrot has been replaced. But since I didn't want the parrot to begin with, it's a wash. A truck divided against itself cannot drive. Oh right, picture: 
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Present posted:I'm a boy and I'd wear the poo poo out of that sweater I don't get it. Blog Free or Die posted:A truck divided against itself cannot drive. The C in MC Escher stands for Carpenter
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Pharmaskittle posted:babytime hurricanes like Sandy. Sandy wasn't that bad wind wise, but going from 0 to 8 feet of water in fifteen minutes in some of the most urbanized areas on earth kinda sucked. Not sure how the south would have dealt with that any better. Upstate got loving wrecked by Irene the year before, and that wasn't even a hurricane by the time it hit mountain country, just an absolute poo poo-ton of rain. Hurricane Gloria did have the eye pass right over my house, that was kind of neat.
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Pharmaskittle posted:It's just a regional thing. I lived in Canada for a minute, but now I live back on the gulf coast and folks aren't used to driving in wimpy amounts of snow, just like people in the northeast get their poo poo wrecked by babytime hurricanes like Sandy. Yeah, Sandy wasn't a huge hurricane in the sense of wind speed but it was loving gigantic and sat on the Northeast like a fat person who fell off their Rascal at Wal-Mart. Everyone here spent a week preparing for that poo poo and we still got our poo poo kicked in. I know it's tempting to try and slander the Northeast when we poo poo on you guys for not being able to handle a light dusting of snow, but for real it's not a fair comparison. By comparison, the damage with Sandy wasn't from people being dumbasses it was from the massive amount of rain and standing high winds knocking down trees. You don't see infrastructure in Atlanta falling apart because a few inches of snow fell on it-- you see people loving things up from not being prepared.
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Freezing my god drat balls off because there was no power absolutely sucked. Especially when we had that two week gas shortage. Hard to run a generator when there is a two hour wait for gas every god drat day.
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Smiling Jack posted:Sandy wasn't that bad wind wise, but going from 0 to 8 feet of water in fifteen minutes in some of the most urbanized areas on earth kinda sucked. Not sure how the south would have dealt with that any better. Oh yeah, I'm not trying to do some dopey region supremacy thing, I just mean different places are more prepared for different disasters. I live less than a mile inland and nobody here does much more than cover windows and bring their pets inside for a category 3 hurricane, but those same people were causing hilarious twenty car pileups a couple weeks ago just because of a couple inches of snow. I've had both kinds, but I'd probably absolutely flip my poo poo and wreck my car in, I dunno, an earthquake.
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 If you live in an area where it's theoretically possible to get snow, you have absolutely zero excuse for not knowing how to drive in it. Be prepared, goddamn.
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Some places recovered faster than others in Sandy, but it took almost two goddamn weeks for me to get power because all of our substations were literally underwater. A friend of mine about 30 miles away had power after 4 or 5 days though. Half my town had power a few days before me as well. It wasn't a lack of handling or preparing, our seawalls just got overwhelmed in a matter of minutes, it was pretty crazy. Then again I live right next to the coast, I know people who were more inland didn't have it as bad in a lot of areas. The next town over, despite being further from the coast, had a small creek that overflowed and caused something like 90 houses to be condemned or something. Sandy was weird.
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MotU posted:Some places recovered faster than others in Sandy, but it took almost two goddamn weeks for me to get power because all of our substations were literally underwater. A friend of mine about 30 miles away had power after 4 or 5 days though. Half my town had power a few days before me as well. It wasn't a lack of handling or preparing, our seawalls just got overwhelmed in a matter of minutes, it was pretty crazy. Then again I live right next to the coast, I know people who were more inland didn't have it as bad in a lot of areas. The next town over, despite being further from the coast, had a small creek that overflowed and caused something like 90 houses to be condemned or something. Sandy was weird. Embrace hydroelectricity.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I hope beyond hope that they pop one open and one jelly bean gets away. Just knowing that somewhere on the ISS floats a lone piece of secret candy would fill my cold heart with joy.  Apparently someone got told off for clipping their fingernails and not cleaning up after themselves when someone else discovered all these fingernail bits stuck to the air vent mesh. Might actually have been Hadfield, I forget. 
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Would that work? Could be kind of cool, never have to back out of a parking spot.
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Pharmaskittle posted:but I'd probably absolutely flip my poo poo and wreck my car in, I dunno, an earthquake. Now, let's see what I have in my funny images folder... ah, here we go (click for mega-giant): 
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Probably not, my experience with earthquakes has typically been someone coming up to me and saying "hey, was that an earthquake"? I tell people that earthquakes feel like standing next to the road when a big truck rumbles by. But unlike snow, they just show up with no warning.
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Khazar-khum posted:I tell people that earthquakes feel like standing next to the road when a big truck rumbles by. Well stop talking out of your rear end. It's really not like that at all.  To make this image amusing, hold F11. Zesty has a new favorite as of 10:34 on Feb 13, 2014 |
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These people just need to come live in Savannah, which has some kind of inclement weather force field. Literally storms will entirely surround us, but with nary a drop on us. Even hurricanes do a loopdeloop around us. It's bad because I kinda want to experience snow and fun stuff because I'm from Australia where nature is usually trying to kill us with fire.
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Khazar-khum posted:I tell people that earthquakes feel like standing next to the road when a big truck rumbles by. But unlike snow, they just show up with no warning. I was on the 25th floor of a building when the east coast earthquake hit a couple years ago. You don't feel any trucks up there, but when the floor starts to feel like you're standing on top of a giant quivering jello mold, its time to get out.
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We can handle wind and rain here in Vermont, but when Irene came, the town I live in had over 6 ft of water running down main street. In lower laying areas it was even higher. Lots of people had the river running through where their basements used to be. I don't know how people in hurricane zones "deal" with water up to or over your head. That being said, I think we handled it pretty well. People really pitched in to help each other. A day or two afterwards, people were still without power and water - and a local gas station put this ad up outside:  Meanwhile, we're about to get a foot+ of snow today and tomorrow and most people just call that "February in Vermont." And I have snow tires on my car now, but it's not 100% necessary here in VT. I drove up the steepest paved road in Vermont in balding all seasons in a Hyundai Accent during a snow storm. It wasn't pretty, but I made it up - and back down.
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Edit: ^ ^ ^ Hey, Vermont buddy! Where in VT do you live? You said 6' of water from Irene, so I'm assuming southern VT, Brattleboro area? ^ ^ ^
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tiananman posted:We can handle wind and rain here in Vermont, but when Irene came, the town I live in had over 6 ft of water running down main street. In lower laying areas it was even higher. Lots of people had the river running through where their basements used to be. This is one of the things that's important to keep in mind. The places that are 'used' to Hurricanes also tend to be fairly flat. But when you get inland, especially in the north you get a lot more hills and valleys that result in water being funnels into areas, making it worse there. Remember, the flooding of New Orleans from Katrina was more due to the seawall failing than just the rain coming down.
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The PSO GameCube keyboard controller was one of those pieces of specialty hardware that always made me  as to why anyone thought that was a good idea to make.
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Captain Trips posted:
Mmm yes all those people who have literally never seen snow stick to the ground in their lives have no excuse for not knowing how to drive in it, I agree
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Captain Trips posted:If you live in an area where it's theoretically possible to get snow, you have absolutely zero excuse for not knowing how to drive in it. Be prepared, goddamn. Yes, goddamn people living in cities where it hasn't snowed in over a quarter of a century. What the gently caress are they thinking, having the audacity to be old enough to drive whilst having never seen snow in their lives. 
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If you have never seen snow, you probably deserve to die.
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When I lived in New Zealand I actually missed the snow we had in the UK :<
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A much better analogy than hurricanes is heatstroke deaths. Somehow people in the north manage to up and die just from a little heat wave. "No A/C" is equivalent to "No snow plows/salt trucks". Since that's not funny, here's a cat eating watermelon. 
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Climate nationalism is the worst.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Edit: ^ ^ ^ Hey, Vermont buddy! Where in VT do you live? You said 6' of water from Irene, so I'm assuming southern VT, Brattleboro area? ^ ^ ^ I lived in Waterbury at the time. The name of the town should give you a hint about what happens when we get lots of rain. Also, one of the roads that runs parallel to town is called "River Road." And yet, people are still shocked when the river floods its meager banks. We have these "100 year floods" that seem to happen every 40-50 years. The last one was in the 70s, and the one before that was in the 20s. Ok, enough boring weather talk, here's Fox News giving us that hard-hitting journalism with their usual flair and attention to detail: 
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Southerners could just as easily mock northerners for putting un-raised homes on the ocean in the path of a hurricane.
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Equally you could mock any flooding victim who lives on a flood plain.
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Captain Trips posted:
By moving to the South... Just like everyone else from Ohio.
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My sister lives in Raleigh.
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MrXmas posted:A much better analogy than hurricanes is heatstroke deaths. Somehow people in the north manage to up and die just from a little heat wave. "No A/C" is equivalent to "No snow plows/salt trucks". By 'up north' you must mean, like, the Yukon or Alaska or something because as someone living in Ontario I can tell you that poo poo gets drat hot here every summer. The analogy stands though - heat waves with no AC can be devastating as poo poo - walking outside without knowing that you should keep covered, bring water, etc, can kill you sure as walking outside without adequate snow protection. 
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Boiled Water posted:Equally you could mock any flooding victim who lives on a flood plain. Does this also work for Sudanese war orphans?
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D.N. Nation posted:Southerners could just as easily mock northerners for putting un-raised homes on the ocean in the path of a hurricane. ...the worst hurricane disaster in recent history happened in a city in the south that was built below sea level. 
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D.N. Nation posted:Southerners could just as easily mock northerners for putting un-raised homes on the ocean in the path of a hurricane.  This is a good comic.
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