Two "bitterly colds" and TWO "bitterly, bitterly colds" in the BBC1 6.30pm national weather forecast. Fantastic! =)
In the whole English language is there not one single word that means bitterly cold?
It's ridiculous round here. 18 inches of snow so far at Pendraken HQ, with more to come apparently. It's delayed our metal delivery as well, so we're currently running on empty, melting down spare stock just to get some orders out. It also means the resin won't set properly, so I'm gonna have to bring the whole resin setup into the house tomorrow to be able to do any Dungeons.
>:(
Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow!my Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Argh! This weather is getting serious - I was going to put an order in tonight but the idea of you melting your spare stock melts (sorry) my heart :'( I'll hang on till you get your metal delivery. There's nothing urgent about my order.
By the way have you heard the story about the Donner party of 1846/47 who had to resort to cannibalism after being snowed in!
Cheers
Sorry about the lead supplies, but according to the forecast I just looked up you are talking lows of -2 to -5 C, which is at worst "a bit nippy". One of the lads from the Moscow team is here and he is talking -20C, which certainly rates as "quite cold".
So how many Pendraken minis can I get for my son's gently used parka and a Canadian Tire snow shovel?
Took me 5 hours to dig my car out and get it onto a main road today.
Damn near killed me.
Curse my bad back and dicky ticker
Riding my motorbike today was a bit hairy, with snow stcking to visor and wheels spinning in the slush. But office closed tomorrow so I get to work from home, a nice lie in - perhaps I may even login from my bed :D
We've only had a dusting of snow so far.
And this evening I got an email to say that my Pendraken order has been dispatched.
I feel rather guilty about starting this subject. :-[
Quote from: lentulus on 30 November 2010, 07:51:41 PM
Sorry about the lead supplies, but according to the forecast I just looked up you are talking lows of -2 to -5 C, which is at worst "a bit nippy". One of the lads from the Moscow team is here and he is talking -20C, which certainly rates as "quite cold".
We do seem to be consistently underprepared for this kind of weather I must admit. My car battery died yesterday as well, refusing point blank to be jump started. No good at all.
;D I had to today, we had a "cold front" blow through today and I saw several people running around with parkas on!!!! For God's Sake, it was only 15c !!! And they were wearing parkas!!!!! :o
Tonight it is gonna drop to -1c or -3c but it is very very dry and should bounce back up by the afternoon to 18c - 20c ! :D
I was still wearing short and sandals today, I guess I will have to put some socks on tomorrow morning ;)
yall stay warm and dont use up too much surplus lying around :)
Quote from: Blaker on 01 December 2010, 02:42:27 AM
;D I had to today, we had a "cold front" blow through today and I saw several people running around with parkas on!!!! For God's Sake, it was only 15c !!! And they were wearing parkas!!!!! :o
Tonight it is gonna drop to -1c or -3c but it is very very dry and should bounce back up by the afternoon to 18c - 20c ! :D
I was still wearing short and sandals today, I guess I will have to put some socks on tomorrow morning ;)
yall stay warm and dont use up too much surplus lying around :)
The metal should be here tomorrow, but it's been on the delivery van both Monday and Tuesday, so in theory we should be one of the first to be done on Wed.
Quote from: capthugeca on 30 November 2010, 06:41:58 PM
In the whole English language is there not one single word that means bitterly cold?
Baltic!
We've had barely a dusting in Bristol so far :(. However the wind chill is pretty impressive when cycling into work.
Anything that dsiscourages bloody cyclits has to be a very GOOD thing, form a bruised pedestarian and frustrated driver.
IMPROVE THE GENE POLL - CRUSH A CYCLIST. :d
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 December 2010, 04:45:55 PM
IMPROVE THE GENE POLL - CRUSH A CYCLIST. :d
IMPROVE THE GENE POOL - CRUSH A BENEFIT-SCROUNGING, NO-JOB-GETTING, POP-OUT-A-KID-A-YEAR-JUST-FOR-MONEY, LAZY-ARSE SCALLY!
Fixed...
:D
Being both a driver and a cyclist as well as pedestrian, I see way more bad and dangerous drivers than cyclists, by a significant margin. Bad cyclists annoy me as much as anyone else, but having nearly been crushed to death by a bad bus driver three years ago, as well as numerous close calls with vans and cars dangerously undertaking and overtaking , I very much resent the 'crush a cyclist' attitude >:(.
Friend of mine just facebooked in that this morning they had 60 cms of snow, and temperatures dropped down to -25° C in Honefoss. Now that's freezing.
Quote from: Leon on 30 November 2010, 06:48:24 PM
It's ridiculous round here. 18 inches of snow so far at Pendraken HQ, with more to come apparently.
Leon:
How much snow do you normal receive? I'm not making light of it. It's easy for some of us to forget not everyone gets burried in snow for a 1/4th of the year.
Here is Syracuse, New York, 18 inches is an average storm and probably doesn't close anything unless there is some ice too.
You can always plot Summer/Autum birth spikes to major Winter storms. Everyone go have some fun! ;)
Quote from: MooseDontBounce on 02 December 2010, 06:07:01 PM
How much snow do you normal receive? I'm not making light of it. It's easy for some of us to forget not everyone gets burried in snow for a 1/4th of the year.
We don't normally get anywhere near this much, although last winter we had about 5 weeks worth. The average year we probably get only a few inches, some years none at all really. They take bets on there being snow on Xmas day, and the odds are usuall pretty poor. When it does come though, we always seem to be underprepared, and the whole country grinds to a standstill.
My car battery died on Monday morning, so I've got it charged back up now and am quite happily running about in 4x4 heaven!
Quote from: Steve J on 02 December 2010, 08:00:33 AM
Being both a driver and a cyclist as well as pedestrian, I see way more bad and dangerous drivers than cyclists, by a significant margin. Bad cyclists annoy me as much as anyone else, but having nearly been crushed to death by a bad bus driver three years ago, as well as numerous close calls with vans and cars dangerously undertaking and overtaking , I very much resent the 'crush a cyclist' attitude >:(.
I was considering cycling to work earlier this year, but the country roads I'd have to travel on puts me off slightly. Plus a mate of mine got wiped out by a truck and broke most of his face. :(
When the bus knocked me off my bike I was 1' away from having my head crushed by the back wheels! After leaving A&E badly bruised and shaken, all my son wanted to know was what type of bus it was :o ???. I now cycle on the side roads to avoid idiot drivers in a hurry to queue at traffic lights.
Well I work nights in a warehouse complex so lots of walking inbetween them (Supervising) got to -16 in Jan :o, not as cold yet but the brass monkeys are cupping their bits ;D
Quote from: Steve J on 02 December 2010, 08:45:55 PM
When the bus knocked me off my bike I was 1' away from having my head crushed by the back wheels!
:o
I hate buses.
Bit of a thread-jack, sorry.
Pass the popcorn. :D
I want to see compulsory insurance fior cyclists who use public roads. At the moment when a cyclist damages a car scraping past or knocks over a pedestrian, who pays? Additionaly some kind of driving test, to prove they actually understand that they have responsibilities toward the rest of us.
All road users to retake test every 5 years if failed banned until they pass
"Additionaly some kind of driving test, to prove they actually understand that they have responsibilities toward the rest of us."
I find car drivers who are also motorcyclists and/or bike riders are much better drivers than those that are not. I would love to see say, basic moped riding, introduced into the standard driving test. I believe it makes you a better and safer driver and so do motorbike instructors/examiners that I know.
It is a rare occurance that a car overtakes a cyclist leaving a safe distance between them (it was 6' when I took my test in '82) as written in the Highway Code (then). Few drivers are aware that a cyclist is allowed by law to be 3' from the kerbside when riding on a public highway, yet I am often forced out into the road by illegally parked cars or into the gutter by careless drivers! Now who is at fault? Everyone always blames the cyclist!
What about pedestrians having insurance? I have lost count of the amount of times I have had to swerve at the last minute to avoid pedestrians who have stepped into the road without looking (and don't get me onto cars pulling out at junctions without looking). A colleague of mine was knocked off her bike by a pedestrian stepping into the road and was hospitalised, but did not get a penny for loss of income etc.
cars
Spot on Steve.
I used to be a motorcycle courier in central London and many a time pedestrians would step out in front of me, then hurl abuse as if it was my fault. People with pushchairs are worse, many step out into traffic expecting vehicles to stop instantly, I narrowly missed one once, got off my bike and hurled verbal abused at the idiot. I was doing less than 20 mph but would have still injured the kid badly if I had hit it. the woman looked at me as if i was mad. She was only about 10 metres from a zebra crossing as well. Should be a parent test too >:(
Quote from: Sandinista on 03 December 2010, 01:52:51 PM
Should be a parent test too >:(
Yes! But that's another thread entirely... :D
i've generally found it useful to classify the world into two types of people. There are those who are ignorant, inconsiderate, ungrateful, thoughtless f**wits. And there's me.
;D
It's a nice 72 degrees F here in Texas. (Don't know what that is in celcius). Although it's expected to get near 42 degrees here this weekend.
Just sayin'...
enjoy your snow.
Hello from Sunny Queensland,
Hahahaha,I got my A/C turn right up #:-S ,it time for a swim :D
Big Paul182
Ps;We did have rain all this week
well it has not stopped snowing since I came to work I may be digging the car out to go home in the morning :-\
We've had about 6" of snow in Southport. Which really is practically unheard of. It might be the NW but being on the coast normally keeps things mild.
5 inches in 4 hours in sunny Surbiton :(
Just plodded past your house Sandanista. Loverly out!
Soft southerner :P
Quote from: Sandinista on 18 December 2010, 11:57:16 AM
5 inches in 4 hours in sunny Surbiton :(
There's a pun in there somewhere.....
;)
We've had snow at last - six inches!
Woohoo! :-bd
We've only had about 1" to 1 1/2" but the side roads are just ice rinks now, which means the cycle to work on Monday in predicted -8 C temperatures will be interesting.
We've not had anymore yet, maybe a slight dusting overnight. Saying that though, my garden is still at least a foot deep in solid ice from the lot three weeks ago...!
just been out and gritted the path between my house and local shop #:-S, can have the wife slipping if she need to go out. Cant believe the council stopped gritting our street we have a primary school in the middle and a high school at each end :-\
I expect that's because they all broke up for the Christmas holidays yesterday, right? ;) :P :D
In sunny Wales we had about 9 inches on Friday during the day and then it did another 9 inches overnight was most unimpressed with that as it was meant to be our Christmas game and Meal at one of our venues and as I could not move the car that got cancelled never mind get to have the party in January now instead just got to hope I can get out on Monday.
Tom H :d
aka Bilbo
Another inch overnight up here, and a further 6" due for this afternoon.
:(
"which means the cycle to work on Monday in predicted -8 C temperatures will be interesting"
-12 here in Manchester at 8am this morning! However, the roads weren't too bad for my 2 wheels but my moustache was frozen. Anyway for us mancunians all this snow makes a change from the rain. The forecast for tonight is -10 to -16 :'( Gosh!
Keep warm
Snow? ya want snow? Take ours, please. 3 feet before the last 'thaw', 2 feet now and more on the way. Sub zero all day every day, I don't want to know what happens to the temperature after dark. British Gas will be paying good dividends next year. :'(
It's not cold, you wimps, just walked from mine to ASDA at Woodchurch - 21/2 miles, taxi back, it's only 10.5 below.
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 December 2010, 10:31:56 AM
It's not cold, you wimps, just walked from mine to ASDA at Woodchurch - 21/2 miles, taxi back, it's only 10.5 below.
IanS
Hmm...anyone else see the tension here? ;) :P ;D
Quote from: nikharwood on 20 December 2010, 10:39:06 AM
Hmm...anyone else see the tension here? ;) :P ;D
:) It's probably from working down tup mine :D
It's -14 on my way home from work just now!
Global warming can lick the icicles off my ass. >:(
oddly its milder now than it was today at home, sure it will not last BTW it 02:00 ATM :-\
Well it was dashed chilly this morning whilst feeding the horses. I didn't muck them out as it was frozen solid :(
The car temp gauge said it was -9 at 09:45 so was a bit colder last night. It will by hypothermic tonight when I have to sort out the Turkeys.
Spare a thought for my wee brother; he's one of those stuck at Heathrow. Looking like he may not get home for Christmas at the minute :(
sorry to hear about your bro, but must be warmer my pipes have thawed and burst >:(, fixed now but lost all my painting time tonight. :'(
I have a colleague who is trying to get home to Iran: his connection would be through Heathrow. I'm not sure if he will make it - he could be in Toronto for a while.
Quote from: clibinarium on 21 December 2010, 06:11:09 PM
Spare a thought for my wee brother; he's one of those stuck at Heathrow. Looking like he may not get home for Christmas at the minute :(
They mentioned earlier that one of the terminals had reopened at Heathrow, no idea which one though? :-\
Quote from: Leon on 22 December 2010, 12:30:41 AM
They mentioned earlier that one of the terminals had reopened at Heathrow, no idea which one though? :-\
It is probably some Kafka-esc performance art where people start rumors that another terminal is open, but never the one you are in.
Of course, if you gave every trapped passenger a shovel and a bag of salt you would have the thing going again in a couple of hours.
Quote from: lentulus on 22 December 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Of course, if you gave every trapped passenger a shovel and a bag of salt you would have the thing going again in a couple of hours.
Now there's an idea! Discounted flights for a bit of labour.
its piggin snowin again in Cheshire looks like being a s***e sorry white Xmas here ;D
started thawing here
And we're snowing again at quite an alarming rate! Gonna attempt the drive to work now.
2" more this afternoon.
'I'm dreamin' of a white Christmas...'
Quote from: Luddite on 22 December 2010, 05:39:02 PM
'I'm dreamin' of a white Christmas...'
I think you're dreams are quickly coming true!
Another 4" now.