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  • mb625
    DJ2K
    • Jan 2012
    • 5016

    #1276
    Re: Off Topic 2014

    Originally posted by Watson
    You mean to tell me people living in different areas of the world are not used to certain conditions? Get the entire **** out of here.

    This whole thing is ridiculous. I don't recall a lot of southerners laughing at how northerners weren't ready for a Cat 1 hurricane. A Category One. A step above tropical storm.

    It snows once every four years here, don't give me this "we should know how to handle this" bull****. It would be a waste of money to have snowplows and salt trucks on standby all winter.

    If you have a problem with how Atlanta ignored the issue until literally the last second, I understand that, but you can't be surprised that it's an issue.
    There's a difference between not being used to it and not being prepared for it, to me. In the midwest we have plans for pretty much everything, barring hurricanes, which are pretty much a scientific impossibility here. We even have plans in place for earthquakes, despite the fact that there have only been 13 here in Iowa in the state's history, the two most recent being 2004 and 1948 (Not so much in north central Iowa as there's not a fault line close enough to do much damage, but certainly in eastern, southern and severe northwestern Iowa). So, I just think it's a tad ridiculous to not be prepared for something that is possible. Same goes for the Northeast when they got hit with that hurricane. It's a possibility, so you should be prepared for it just in case. Just because something doesn't happen often doesn't mean it will never happen.
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    • slickdtc
      Grayscale
      • Aug 2004
      • 17125

      #1277
      Re: Off Topic 2014

      Hurricanes are natural disasters. 1-3 inches of snow is nothing. Plows or not. Snow really isn't that hard to drive in. It's not like I have much experience driving in it either, it only happens a few times a year. Just don't be an idiot ... But we know that's asking too much.

      The ice is the main concern. That's what makes me nervous. You hit a patch, you're at gravity's (momentum? Burgh help me out here) mercy.

      It's not fair to say Southerners can't deal with the snow, it's the idiots who don't respect Mother Nature that crash into everyone else and lock up the ****ty traffic system especially in a place like ATL.
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      • Dog
        aka jnes12/JNes__
        • Aug 2008
        • 11846

        #1278
        Off Topic 2014

        A hurricane is extreme weather. 2 inches of snow is not.

        Sandy was mostly a structural problem. 2 inches of snow causing chaos is a people problem.

        And no one is surprised that it happened, but it doesn't make the ATL thing any less funny


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        Last edited by Dog; 01-29-2014, 02:05 PM.
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        • VTPack919
          We Go Again
          • Jun 2003
          • 9708

          #1279
          Re: Off Topic 2014

          Originally posted by slickdtc
          Hurricanes are natural disasters. 1-3 inches of snow is nothing. Plows or not. Snow really isn't that hard to drive in. It's not like I have much experience driving in it either, it only happens a few times a year. Just don't be an idiot ... But we know that's asking too much.

          The ice is the main concern. That's what makes me nervous. You hit a patch, you're at gravity's (momentum? Burgh help me out here) mercy.

          It's not fair to say Southerners can't deal with the snow, it's the idiots who don't respect Mother Nature that crash into everyone else and lock up the ****ty traffic system especially in a place like ATL.

          Yep, ATL's infrastructure certainly didn't help.






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          • mb625
            DJ2K
            • Jan 2012
            • 5016

            #1280
            Re: Off Topic 2014

            Even in cases of extreme weather, there need to be plans in place as long as it's possible. That's the point I was trying to make there. Wasn't trying to offend anyone.
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            • Fresh Tendrils
              Strike Hard and Fade Away
              • Jul 2002
              • 36131

              #1281
              Re: Off Topic 2014

              QOTD: How many days do you go without heat before you ask for a reduction in your month's rent?



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              • jmood88
                Sean Payton: Retribution
                • Jul 2003
                • 34639

                #1282
                Re: Off Topic 2014

                Originally posted by bigbob
                I just seen arguments on Facebook about people from the South saying that they deserve the cancellations because they get a special kind of ice down there. Black ice.

                Come on now. Some of them refused to believe that we get it up here.
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                • VTPack919
                  We Go Again
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 9708

                  #1283
                  Re: Off Topic 2014

                  Originally posted by jmood88
                  Did Gotmadskillz take over your account?


                  Dead. I'm literally dead.
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                  • Gotmadskillzson
                    Live your life
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 23441

                    #1284
                    Re: Off Topic 2014

                    Originally posted by Fresh Tendrils
                    QOTD: How many days do you go without heat before you ask for a reduction in your month's rent?
                    1...........

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                    • ImTellinTim
                      YNWA
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 33028

                      #1285
                      Re: Off Topic 2014

                      Originally posted by Fresh Tendrils
                      QOTD: How many days do you go without heat before you ask for a reduction in your month's rent?
                      1 hour.....

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                      • VTPack919
                        We Go Again
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 9708

                        #1286
                        Re: Off Topic 2014

                        Originally posted by Fresh Tendrils
                        QOTD: How many days do you go without heat before you ask for a reduction in your month's rent?


                        In the winter, when it is this cold? 3 days.


                        I am basing that off of nothing, mind you.
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                        • SuperBowlNachos
                          All Star
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 10218

                          #1287
                          Re: Off Topic 2014

                          Originally posted by Fresh Tendrils
                          QOTD: How many days do you go without heat before you ask for a reduction in your month's rent?
                          1.... hour. Need to have it documented and proof that the landlord knew the heat was out.
                          Last edited by SuperBowlNachos; 01-29-2014, 02:17 PM.

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                          • TracerBullet
                            One Last Job
                            • Jun 2009
                            • 22119

                            #1288
                            Re: Off Topic 2014

                            Originally posted by Watson
                            You mean to tell me people living in different areas of the world are not used to certain conditions? Get the entire **** out of here.

                            This whole thing is ridiculous. I don't recall a lot of southerners laughing at how northerners weren't ready for a Cat 1 hurricane. A Category One. A step above tropical storm.

                            It snows once every four years here, don't give me this "we should know how to handle this" bull****. It would be a waste of money to have snowplows and salt trucks on standby all winter.

                            If you have a problem with how Atlanta ignored the issue until literally the last second, I understand that, but you can't be surprised that it's an issue.
                            Originally posted by Gotmadskillzson

                            I do, it was happening right here on OS, in OT.

                            I remember all the, "kicks feet up on top of the generator, drinking iced tea, oh what you guys don't have generators ? " You doing it wrong posts. Along with all the hurricane parties posts. So yeah, it happened.
                            For once, GMSS actually did get you with this one Watson:
                            http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28138

                            http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28144

                            And much like people in here right now would tell you guys, stay safe was still the overall sentiment. Well besides Kingkilla:

                            http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28146

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                            • Dog
                              aka jnes12/JNes__
                              • Aug 2008
                              • 11846

                              #1289
                              Re: Off Topic 2014

                              Watson just got DUNKED ON son


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                              • kingkilla56
                                Hall Of Fame
                                • Jun 2009
                                • 19395

                                #1290
                                Re: Off Topic 2014

                                Originally posted by TracerBullet
                                For once, GMSS actually did get you with this one Watson:
                                http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28138

                                http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28144

                                And much like people in here right now would tell you guys, stay safe was still the overall sentiment. Well besides Kingkilla:

                                http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ostcount=28146

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