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Retired
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fantasyland
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I see plenty of it when I travel. It's nice to come home and know it's generally going to be nice, that I can throw the football with the kids or go for a bike ride and generally enjoy the outdoors. Quote:
It'll take one big damn hurricane to blow my house away. It's rated to 150 MPH (that's not a safe room, that's the whole house) and sits 34 feet above sea level. The roof is wrapped to the frame, it's ICF (insulating concrete form) construction and I have storm shutters. If my house blows away, almost no one in south FL will be left alive.  Last edited by Blackadar : 11-10-2014 at 01:09 PM. |
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11-10-2014, 01:10 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: calgary, AB
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Snow and -20's are fine for a bit but I'd be way happier if winter was a third of the year instead of the 6 months a year of garbage we get now.
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11-10-2014, 01:22 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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I hate winter... i hate very hot and humid.... I'm not sure this whole temperature thing is for me.
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11-10-2014, 01:26 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Just never check out the La Palma doomsday tsunami theoretical event. You may have trouble sleeping. |
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11-10-2014, 01:53 PM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I have the same view. Unfortunately, I have been in the snow belt now for 44 years, and don't look to escape any time soon. Or ever.  |
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11-10-2014, 01:54 PM
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Retired
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fantasyland
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I'm on the Gulf Coast. The wave heights here aren't projected to get over 20 feet even on the worst case scenario. It doesn't mean that a natural disaster couldn't wipe out my house. I just don't have the same risk that the houses built 30 years ago do or the ones close to the beach (like I could afford one of those anyway!). Last edited by Blackadar : 11-10-2014 at 01:56 PM. |
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11-10-2014, 01:58 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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In the north metro of the Twin Cities, they're getting 10-14 inches of snow today and tonight. Lows below 0 in a night or two. |
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11-10-2014, 02:01 PM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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11-14-2014, 01:07 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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6 inches of snow on November 14 in Boise is definitely not supposed to happen. That's more than our average for an entire December. And I was supposed to drive up to Ketchum tomorrow. In my younger days, I wouldn't think twice about jumping on a snowy road if I had plans. Now I spend hours going back and forth thinking about it.
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11-17-2014, 07:22 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Woke up to about 5 inches of very heavy snow this morning. School is cancelled for the first time this year. It's the earliest I can remember it being cancelled. Looking at the long range forecast it might be the last snow we get until late December.
Tomorrow is my anniversary and the high is going to be 20 degrees and windy on top of the snow we just got. According to the long range forecast it's not supposed to be this cold the rest of the year! Great timing.
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11-17-2014, 08:08 AM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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About 3 inches and still snowing pretty heavily. The ground has a layer of slush, which will be fun when it gets down to 10 tonight. Roads weren't too bad coming in at 6.
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11-17-2014, 08:15 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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We're supposed to have a high of 74 today...and then 49 tomorrow with lows in the 20's next two days. Brrrr!
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11-17-2014, 08:34 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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5 inches of snow here just south of Dayton, and still going. Odd to get so much so early, but sounds like we're not in line for more anytime soon.
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11-17-2014, 09:17 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Nice coating of ice on the roads here this morning.
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11-17-2014, 09:25 AM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: non white trash MD
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This makes me less irritated about the 40 Degree rain we are getting.
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11-17-2014, 09:54 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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-13c here right now, 'feels like' -21. Snowed a few inches over the weekend. Looks like January already. Yay.
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11-17-2014, 02:04 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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Got a millimeter or so of now last night. Even with that tiny amount of accumulation my (4yo) son was still begging me to go out and play in it this morning...
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11-18-2014, 08:33 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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There has been some incredible pictures/videos of the "wall of snow" falling in parts of Western NY-some areas under it could get up to 60 inches.
Time-lapse shows why New York state is getting pounded with snow Last edited by Thomkal : 11-18-2014 at 08:36 PM. |
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11-18-2014, 08:44 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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And they're playing hockey there tonight! It's incredible, there aren't many people in the stands but there are more than I would've expected (I assume they walked). They're playing San Jose, I'd love to know what those poor souls are thinking... |
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11-18-2014, 09:05 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Yeah I saw that-I have to assume the arena is in the "less snowy" part of Buffalo, but the governor has declared a state of emergency in the state and its still snowing there. Kind of foolish to be playing with all that going on-dangerous for the fans to be there-just getting to and leaving-adding to the traffic. But probably would be hard to reschedule a team coming all the way from California. |
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11-19-2014, 05:17 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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I was supposed to be up there this week. My customer cancelled when they were supposed to "only" get 2 feet of snow.
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11-19-2014, 05:52 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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Just saw a blurb on CNN 6 people killed in the Buffalo storms.
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11-20-2014, 11:56 AM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Lynchburg, VA
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Are they still laughing? |
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11-20-2014, 02:51 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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11-20-2014, 07:04 PM
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Solecismic Software
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Canton, OH
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I'm sure they're proud of it, other than feeling sad for those who died. I was seeing someone who lives in Buffalo for a couple of years, so I traveled there a lot a few years back. They love their snow and take pride in how quickly they can move it around. What would shut pretty much everyone else down for three days they can take care of in less than one.
And here I am, less than 300 miles away, complaining about the 3-4 inches I just had to shovel. Doesn't feel like November. |
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11-21-2014, 01:05 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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LOL......I'm guessing school's going to be out for a few more days in western NY.
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11-21-2014, 02:39 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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Good grief that's nuts.
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11-21-2014, 02:56 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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I agree. I grew in arguably the snowiest city in the US (Syracuse) and only once do I recall that much snow (blizzard of 66) but that was three days of constant snow. |
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11-21-2014, 03:00 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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Probably took that person hours to shovel just that little bit. I have a big garage and would even worry about the driveway. |
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11-21-2014, 03:13 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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How the hell do you even shovel out of that?
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11-21-2014, 03:16 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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I have a picture of my dad shoveling about 4 feet of heavy, wet snow but I don't remember if you shovel the top then snowblow or vice versa. |
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11-21-2014, 03:21 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Utah
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It was definitely a crazy event.
Where Render, Telle and I live we received maybe 18" of snow, but 15 minutes away they received 84" of snow. As for School Days, you will see them all back on Monday. The big fear is flooding now. As rain and temp rises (to 40's and 50's) will help melt some of that and way to fast.
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11-21-2014, 03:33 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Old adage is 10 inches of snow for 1 inch of rain, so that's a storm producing 8.4 inches of rain when considering the effects of flooding. Obviously it's not all melting at once but that could be really scary.
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11-21-2014, 03:47 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Only for the East and Midwest. In the Mountain West, it's about 24 inches = 1 inch of rain. |
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11-21-2014, 03:50 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Last night I hit snow around 730pm just south of Conneaut Ohio. I proceeded to spend the next 5 hourhours of driving barely cracking 30mph as I finished my route across rt6 in Pennsylvania. I'm pretty much over snow already.
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11-21-2014, 04:53 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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And where did it go? There's a little from snowblowing that can be seen, but most of the snow that's been removed isn't in the picture.
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11-21-2014, 04:57 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Not Delaware - hurray!
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the worst is when the plows come and re-bury you with the hard, compacted snow.
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11-21-2014, 07:44 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Yeah, I remember that too. I recall looking out of my front window when I was a kid waiting for one of these behemoths to come down the street. To my child's eyes, these were 2-stories high blades that obliterated everything in its path (but don't think they were that big in actuality). However, I remember them creating a road block at the end of the driveway that was deeper than anything we had gotten. |
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11-21-2014, 08:08 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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I remember a heavy snow in the 80's and we had a snow blower.. that thing was still hard to push and had to be fluffy snow. |
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11-21-2014, 08:41 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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The boys and I were out shoveling out 6 inches of snow this week and we were just finishing up our driveway when the plow came down the street blowing snow, ice and water all over. The driver actually slowed way down and went slow past our house so it minimized the damage done to our just finished work. Yay for courtesy.
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11-24-2014, 09:25 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Looks like he has a snow blower (in the picture). Quote:
Two things. One, I suspect some of it is out of the picture to the right. Two, the angle the picture was taken obscures this, but I would guess the areas with the disturbed snow (around the cleared areas) are much higher than the surrounding undisturbed snow, but you can't see that due to the picture angle. |
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11-24-2014, 09:44 AM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: non white trash MD
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71 today, snow on wednesday....
just glad i dont live in buffalo
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11-24-2014, 09:47 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Don't worry. That guy who shoveled out his driveway likely has two feet of water running into his garage/basement today since the water had nowhere to go but his shoveled area.
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11-26-2014, 05:35 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: calgary, AB
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Winter is back, -20's (-5F) for a high for the back end of this week and heavy snowfall warnings. Lovely.
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11-27-2014, 10:04 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Yep, same here. Woke up to -27 this morning. High for Monday is -22. Throw in some nice prairie winds and it all adds up to serious bullshit. I went for a run at lunch yesterday, -21. Wind was low but still made it 'feel like' -29. My face felt like it was going to burn off for the first 15 minutes until I could work up a sweat. Ugh.
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11-27-2014, 12:02 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Edmonton, AB
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I've permanently shut the blinds at my office...probably won't open them again until March.
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11-27-2014, 12:54 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: calgary, AB
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I'm just glad the weather was good for the west final. I think the players are pretty jacked to be playing indoors for the Grey Cup. |
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11-27-2014, 04:44 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: NJ
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Wait, wasn't the Grey Cup just a few months ago?
Edit: Guess not. Where the hell did my year go. Last edited by Suicane75 : 11-27-2014 at 05:01 PM. |
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11-28-2014, 10:26 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Edmonton, AB
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As a fan, though, I kind of like watching the crazy weather games...from my couch, of course. |
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01-08-2015, 09:44 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Schools closed in Portland, ME today (and apparently Boston & Chicago, probably other places), due to extreme cold. It was -10F before wind chill here at 6:00 AM, as I was walking the dog.
On the bright side, with weather this cold the poop you have to pick up freezes solid very quickly. |
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