Tendo City

Why dont we make a tendocity Cow edition? With black and white patches and of course the lovely cow a tendocity cow in the back ground.

:cow:

No that's.... wait... that's actually a GOOD idea! I'm scared Weltall!

The horror! THE HORROR!!

Genius, pure genius.

Yeah, that would be cool!

Bessy 1.0

alien space marine Wrote:Why dont we make a tendocity Cow edition? With black and white patches and of course the lovely cow a tendocity cow in the back ground.

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We all better repent our sins. A good idea from ASM is surely a sign of the apocalypse...

Another sign is geese flying upside-down...UNDERWATER! But so far I've haven't seen any of that.

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Quote:"This town has the best time I've ever seen people have on a daily basis, and the weather doesn't stop them at all. People don't complain about it. I find that pretty amazing."

Chicago weather is nothing to complain about. :D

For Dusty Baker it is. He's used to Bay Area weather. I guess he's just lucky he didn't end up managing the Red Sox.

Isn't Chicago cold though?

Cold, windy, and usually overcast at this time of year.

A Black Falcon Wrote:Isn't Chicago cold though?

Yeah, it's cold, but not as cold as the East Coast has been the last few weeks.

Ugh, yes, that sounds like it has been horrible weather. We only have rain and -7 degree weather here. The roads are like skating rinks, there has been so many car accidents in the last couple of days.

Cold? ... well okay, it has been near-record cold here for the last few weeks ... but it's not so bad, just wear a coat, hat, and gloves and walk fast. :)

DMiller Wrote:Yeah, it's cold, but not as cold as the East Coast has been the last few weeks.

It's absolutely frigid here. Maybe it's not unusual but I'm a good 90 pounds lighter than I was last winter, and it sure as hell FEELS colder. A lot colder.

Global warming my ASS. :confused2

If it would get as cold here as it has been up in New England we probably wouldn't have school...

Quote:It's absolutely frigid here. Maybe it's not unusual but I'm a good 90 pounds lighter than I was last winter, and it sure as hell FEELS colder. A lot colder.

Global warming my ASS.

As I've said a million times global warming means a messed up weather pattern -- more wild weather, more extreme temperatures, more heat waves... but also colder winters. More extremes in both directions.

Quote:If it would get as cold here as it has been up in New England we probably wouldn't have school...

And you'd cancel school for like two inches of show, right? I know they do that in parts of the south and it's hillarous...

Quote:And you'd cancel school for like two inches of show, right?

Of course. It's because we have it so rarely, maybe once a year, so people aren't used to driving in it.

The city of Houston has like one snowplow which is less than a small village would have...

Totally right about global warming ABF. Everyone thinks it means the weather is always warmer than usual, but it just means there are crazy weather patterns and extremes. For example, it got up to 55 degrees during the first week of January here in Chicago, and the next day it was 25 degrees. I think Weltall was just making a joke, but so many people have no idea what global warming actually means.

School being cancelled for two inches of snow is retarted...anybody who can't drive in weather like that (and where you're probably from it'll just melt in about an hour) is a shitty driver.

It was -35 the first day back from Christmas break, but they still didn't cancel school because there are strict, -40 degree weather only for school to be cancelled (not including wind chill). It's retarted.

Quote:I think Weltall was just making a joke

I very much doubt it. Not given what he believes.

Quote:School being cancelled for two inches of snow is retarted...anybody who can't drive in weather like that (and where you're probably from it'll just melt in about an hour) is a shitty driver.

It was -35 the first day back from Christmas break, but they still didn't cancel school because there are strict, -40 degree weather only for school to be cancelled (not including wind chill). It's retarted.

Yeah, I don't understand it at all either. It seems so idiotic to cancel school because of a few lousy inches of snow...

And those temperatures... F, right? That'd be pretty cold in Celcius... ;)

I know global warming exists, I also know that it's a natural pattern that has repeatedly occurred countless times in history, this being but another cycle.

But let's not turn this political again. It was a joke, honestly. The use of the smiley should have tipped you off.

Once upon a time, here in Virginia, school would be canceled for less than just a few inches of snow. I remember two seperate occasions when I was in the sixth grade (ten years ago, whew!) when we had school canceled (once after we had already gone!) on the suspicion of snow. One of the two times we got nothing.

When the Blizzard of 96 hit, we were out of school two weeks... most of the roads were clear after about five days, but they would not re-open school until they ALL were.

Today they aren't nearly so snow-scared, but if there's an inch on the road, school's out. Thing is, usually when it snows here, it doesn't accumulate on the road because the ground temperature is still too high.

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Once upon a time, here in Virginia, school would be canceled for less than just a few inches of snow. I remember two seperate occasions when I was in the sixth grade (ten years ago, whew!) when we had school canceled (once after we had already gone!) on the suspicion of snow. One of the two times we got nothing.

When the Blizzard of 96 hit, we were out of school two weeks... most of the roads were clear after about five days, but they would not re-open school until they ALL were.

Today they aren't nearly so snow-scared, but if there's an inch on the road, school's out. Thing is, usually when it snows here, it doesn't accumulate on the road because the ground temperature is still too high.

There was this one time in elementary school they cancelled school when we only had like three or four inches... I still remember it because I was so surprised that school was cancelled. They thought it'd snow more obviously... or maybe there was ice or something... but other than that snow days are only called when it actually snows. So most winters you get maybe four or five... and given that they build five into the schedule, five is usually the max. :)

Quote:I know global warming exists, I also know that it's a natural pattern that has repeatedly occurred countless times in history, this being but another cycle.

But let's not turn this political again. It was a joke, honestly. The use of the smiley should have tipped you off.

A lot of people of your persuasion still don't understand that...

Several times, under the old and forgotten school superintendent, we'd had entire weeks off for dustings.

A Black Falcon Wrote:A lot of people of your persuasion still don't understand that...

Humans didn't start the Ice Age. We didn't end it either. Obviously great shifts in global temperatures can happens without our input.

Quote:Humans didn't start the Ice Age. We didn't end it either. Obviously great shifts in global temperatures can happens without our input.

Certainly. But there is incontrivertible proof that humans are warming up the planet. Even Bush admitted it. The question is, what will the effects be... and we don't know that part for sure. But if it goes too far we definitely will speed global warming and most probably have done that already.

Quote:Several times, under the old and forgotten school superintendent, we'd had entire weeks off for dustings.

silly southerners...

Snow on roads = cancelled school here. Generally I had always wondered how people up north where it snows much more often manage to even get to school, but it would seem they have no problem putting kids at risk of death except in very extreme situations. Oh well. So, they still have the buses that are COMPLETELY outdated and TOTALLY unsafe? We have seatbelt laws in this state here, and yet school busses STILL go utterly without belts in all but the driver's seat (there's also the COMPLETELY vertical hard back of the seats 2 inches from one's face).

Weltall Wrote:I know global warming exists, I also know that it's a natural pattern that has repeatedly occurred countless times in history, this being but another cycle.

But let's not turn this political again. It was a joke, honestly. The use of the smiley should have tipped you off.

Once upon a time, here in Virginia, school would be canceled for less than just a few inches of snow. I remember two seperate occasions when I was in the sixth grade (ten years ago, whew!) when we had school canceled (once after we had already gone!) on the suspicion of snow. One of the two times we got nothing.

When the Blizzard of 96 hit, we were out of school two weeks... most of the roads were clear after about five days, but they would not re-open school until they ALL were.

Today they aren't nearly so snow-scared, but if there's an inch on the road, school's out. Thing is, usually when it snows here, it doesn't accumulate on the road because the ground temperature is still too high.

Were I used to live everytime it would snow we pretty well didnt have school.Even sometimes their was just 2 cm of snow but because the news said their would be a foot of snow they would cancel school regardless if it was true or not.

We hardly ever had school cancelled for snow when I was in high school. It would have to snow like 5 or 6 inches overnight for them to even consider cancelling school. It's not really putting kids in much danger, though. When you live up north you learn how to drive in the snow; it really isn't all that hard.

Risk of death? Are you insane? Who dies just because it snows two inches?

Oh, and as for school busses, yes, they don't have seatbelts. They aren't required in any busses... but we have "snow plows" and "sand trucks" that dump sand or salt on the roads if it's icy, so you don't have to worry about busses sliding off the road or something. :) Oh, but if there's a morning snowstorm or something which puts a bunch of ice on the road school might be cancelled. They won't have school if there isn't time to plow or sand the roads... usually there is, but a few times a year snow or ice gets school cancelled.

Buncha pussies, school cancelled for 'supsicion' of snow? It's not really hard to drive in the snow...I'm only a learner and that's how I'm learning how to drive, there really isn't much of a choice. The last time school was cancelled up here was...in May two years ago. It snowed like a motherfucker, and I dont' really know how it happened, but all power was knocked out. Days where it is -40 and snowing extremely hard, where you can't even see and the buses can't even drive, then school is cancelled. I wish they'd cancel school more often, like on days where it is -20 with a cold-ass wind chill and having bucketfuls of snow, but nooo. We all gotta learn.

DJ, if the buses didnt' come pick up all the kids where the roads are dangerous (most of the roads are...plows and salt-trucks never do the country roads), they'd only go to school for about half the year. And there hasn't been a bus accident around where I live for 20-odd years.

I don't think our ENTIRE COUNTY even has a snow plow, and at most we have maybe 3 of 4 sand trucks. So if there's snow on the road it'll usually stay there until it melts.

Last year a huge chunk of our municipal highway budget was routed by the rather tame winter weather. People here are very afraid of winter weather, and there are always bug runs on grocery stores, 90% of the time for nothing. And people here REALLY need to learn how to drive in the stuff.

ABF: I will not be baited by your liberal propaganda, using incredible worst-case scenarios and warnings of armageddon created by hack scientists to scare the common sheep into believing such improbable drivel.

Weltall Wrote:ABF: I will not be baited by your liberal propaganda, using incredible worst-case scenarios and warnings of armageddon created by hack scientists to scare the common sheep into believing such improbable drivel.

Its a good thing people didnt have that attitude when we baned DDT, If you want proof , All you have to do is see that are ozone layer has huge ass holes that it didnt have just 10 years ago and skin cancer is way up.Did the Ozone layer suddenly decide to rip itself apart? Why is the rain so toxic that fish are dieing and trees are being turned into fire wood.

I've read multiple articles about this before. If Global Warming progresses the loss of the Gulf Stream is very possible, and would cause irreprable harm, and massive problems (unsolvable, possibly), to North America and Europe... but because it hasn't happened yet, you doubt that it could. As ASM says with that attitude we would never have banned anything until it caused a major disaster... which is the absolute wrong way of going about things...

Ozone is a big part of it obviously. We've taken action now that we know but a lot of third world nations still use aerosols... but that's just a small part of the problem...

But hey, as Midwest coal power plants say, better them than us! (in that case 'them' being us in New England... but it's easily changable to 'them' being 'the people in the future who will be doomed to live in a ruined environment'...)

Quote:Last year a huge chunk of our municipal highway budget was routed by the rather tame winter weather. People here are very afraid of winter weather, and there are always bug runs on grocery stores, 90% of the time for nothing. And people here REALLY need to learn how to drive in the stuff.

Foolish people. Driving in snow isn't THAT hard...

I hope OB1 doesn't see this thread. As I recall he has some strong opinions on the issue of global warming.

Man, this shit is crazy.

On Monday it was -39 celsius (thats' minus 38 F, folks) and school wasn't cancelled, and for the past two days it's been -40 Celsius (-40 Farenheit!) and school's been cancelled! Whoo, this is great because it's finals week.

btw with the wind chill it feels like it's -55 (celsius, of course)

That is really, really cold.