The whole region from the mountains to the plains (and I live in that tiny little area between the two called the foothills) gets pretty much every single kind of weather there is barring hurricanes.
We get blizzards, ice storms, rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes, blistering heat, bitter cold, high winds (sometimes exceeding hurricane force), hail, lightning (sometimes lightning happens with snow!), sometimes all happening in the same day! (though not all in the same exact spot)
Phobo:
We have had a couple of meteor events over the last 15 or so years (no Tiberium), but no veins or ion storms. QUICK_EDIT
Just cause your young doesn't mean I wont bash you for ignoring me.
Call me grumpy and whatnot people, but snow is useless, all its good for is throwing at people, and these days you get arrested for that kind of thing (over in Birmingham anyway), I used to love snow when I was three years old, now It's all cold and horrible and very very white. o_O
Snow isn't practical useful, but it's fun to have around. You have many activites you can do:
-Snowball war (do it somewhere private and the cops won't take ya)
-Snow cave
-Skiing (which is actually more effective than walking)
-It's good to have variation to regular weather and seasons
-Snow is beautiful
-Ice skating
-Keeping the world from overflooding and overheating QUICK_EDIT
Sometimes I wonder if we had snow here but the thought of a snow day immediately comes up...reality is the best, I guess. _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
Snow isn't practical useful, but it's fun to have around. You have many activites you can do:
-Snowball war (do it somewhere private and the cops won't take ya)
-Snow cave
-Skiing (which is actually more effective than walking)
-It's good to have variation to regular weather and seasons
-Snow is beautiful
-Ice skating
-Keeping the world from overflooding and overheating
rawr! we got a tiny bit of snow last night. It was ztyping colder than hell for a football game night. The wind was extreme and annoying too. Then what started out as a couple drops of rain here and there turned into a bit of snow. Not much...not even enough to stay on the ground. But it was there. Then later it turned back into a slushie like thing and started pissing me off more.
but yea...there was a bit of snow.
I kinda agree with Aro on the whole snow bit. It's just not as fun as it used to be when we were kids and now is just pretty much annoying for the most part. _________________ Kalistia Crestland (2)
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And you see grown men doing half the things that you mentioned like playing with snow-balls and making caves out of snow?
Not fully grown men, but the young men do in fact enjoy snowball fights and dig snow caves. Don't tell me that 13-20 years olds don't throw snowballs at eachother ...
Fully grown men can also enjoy sports such as skiing and ice-skating, right?
We Norwegians really have more of winter traditions than you probably, though. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:
Crash wrote:
It wouldn't melt if it wasn't for global warming.
Bringing that up? Wow. Just letting you know, it's part of the planet's natural climate shifts, it's only being made worse by us being here. _________________
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climate change is a natural part of the world, but it is being both sped up and pushed to extremes because of human activity.
I just raked the yard yesterday, so I'm giving the snow gods my permission to let it snow. _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
And you see grown men doing half the things that you mentioned like playing with snow-balls and making caves out of snow?
Not fully grown men, but the young men do in fact enjoy snowball fights and dig snow caves. Don't tell me that 13-20 years olds don't throw snowballs at eachother ...
Fully grown men can also enjoy sports such as skiing and ice-skating, right?
We Norwegians really have more of winter traditions than you probably, though.
You're clearly not just going to let this argument drop and admit I'm right so I'll just stop and stick to the point at hand: Snow was fun when I was 5 Years old. QUICK_EDIT
You're clearly not just going to let this argument drop and admit I'm right so I'll just stop and stick to the point at hand: Snow was fun when I was 5 Years old.
Ohh, grumpie is in grumpie mood today, eh? (joking, of course ) Who said this is an argument? I personally only voiced out my opinion on why snow isn't useless and annoying. You firstly said you hate snow because it's, well, in the way. Then I say that snow has some uses and doesn't have to be nothing but troublesome. Here comes the change; you disagree in that and still say that snow-fun is only for 5 years old and it grows a basis of a debate. Remember there's no truly correct answer here, because it's what you call debateable.
To me, and most Norwegians, snow is deep in our culture and isn't useless white slush that lie in the way. I do, however, understand that snow may be in the way and only be impractical. Especially if you live in city areas where it only causes chaos and kids to throw snowballs at eachother, which is not fun for the elders.
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Bringing that up? Wow. Just letting you know, it's part of the planet's natural climate shifts, it's only being made worse by us being here.
What? You said Global Warming is natural? Today's temperature is due, for the most part, to Global Warming. Look here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/CO2-Temp.png
Sir Modsalot, I'm getting the feeling you're trying to make me go red in public. Don't do that. Last edited by Crash on Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:01 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
Ohh, grumpie is in grumpie mood today, eh? (joking, of course ) Who said this is an argument? I personally only voiced out my opinion on why snow isn't useless and annoying. You firstly said you hate snow because it's, well, in the way. Then I say that snow has some uses and doesn't have to be nothing but troublesome. Here comes the change; you disagree in that and still say that snow-fun is only for 5 years old and it grows a basis of a debate. Remember there's no truly correct answer here, because it's what you call debateable.
By argument, I mean't debate. Also I never stated that it was for Five year olds once in this thread, I just said that I'd find it fun if I was five again. All snow is to me is something that's cold, causes more traffic, an excuse to have to buy more clothes that you'll only wear about 2 times where you think that snow has many uses cause it can be thrown at people (As funny as seeing someone moan about getting snow in their face I still think its immature), sure you can ice skate and ski but that doesn't take away the fact that snow is useless. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:
I agree with Aro. Especially in Upstate New York, we get all kinds of snow from Lake Ontario.
Not to mention the occasional ice storm.. imagine EVERYTHING coated in ice from freezing rain.. yup _________________ The Fall of Hammerfest - Epic Tiberian chain story
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@ God of Gamers picture. (Even if it does go from 35,000 to 45,000 pirates first.)
*gets popcorn for the debate on global warming*
this oughta be good.
[announcervoice]In the first corner you have the Icy Norwegian Season Crashking and in the other corner you have Idaho Potato Sirmodsalot!
Will sirmods make crashy red? Find out when this debate heats up the world. [/announcervoice]
(meh not as good as I wanted it to be....but meh...lol)
yea i'm staying out of that debate for now. _________________ Kalistia Crestland (2)
In Soviet Russia, grass grows on tiberium! QUICK_EDIT
You guys are going to fight over if global warming is a natural process accellerated by human hands, or if global warming is a human accelerated natural process? QUICK_EDIT
Althrough I must admit that the weeaboo Naruto fagets screwed up the ninja bigtime. Last edited by Ixonoclast on Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:45 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
5.56 NATO round! I don't want snow, I find it more problematic than anything. _________________ Comcast: Yo dawg we herd yo were downloading, so we put fail in yo modem so yo cant download while yo failin! QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:
Crash wrote:
What? You said Global Warming is natural? Today's temperature is due, for the most part, to Global Warming. Look here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/CO2-Temp.png
Sir Modsalot, I'm getting the feeling you're trying to make me go red in public. Don't do that.
Go red in public? No reason to do that. Just try reading this, and you'll see what I'm getting at. Yes, I know it's almost 2 years old, but look past that. Want to know what's even worse? The planet's entire magnetic field is entering a reversal cycle. There's already a gigantic weak area over South America where point-to-point satellite communications are basically worthless. Why's this important? The magnetic field helps protect against cosmic radiation. Try comparing that to global warming. _________________
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Yes, yes, the world is in trouble, one way or another.
What we need to do is not argue of how, the true problem IMO is to make more people care enough of the Earth and its issues to then care about solutions. QUICK_EDIT
You guys are going to fight over if global warming is a natural process accellerated by human hands, or if global warming is a human accelerated natural process?
Global warming is just a natural process.
Were just observing with records for the first time and trying to figure out why.
35 years ago, there was predictions coming for a major Ice Age.
150 years ago, it was a micro Ice Age.
700 years ago, it was warm enough to grow grapes in England. (and there was minimal pollution going on then)
They do, apparently. Also it explains freak chrono vortexes that appear in-game. _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
You guys are going to fight over if global warming is a natural process accellerated by human hands, or if global warming is a human accelerated natural process?
Global warming is just a natural process.
Were just observing with records for the first time and trying to figure out why.
35 years ago, there was predictions coming for a major Ice Age.
150 years ago, it was a micro Ice Age.
700 years ago, it was warm enough to grow grapes in England. (and there was minimal pollution going on then)
Think about it.
My kids will thank you and those that propagate that when we make a sailtrip over the sunken ruins of Amsterdam. QUICK_EDIT
BTW, you as a Coloradorean or whatever you guys are called...
Why don't you guys make houses out of stone, instead of wood? I mean, those people in Tornadoland that have their houses destroyed always have wooden houses...
Stone buildings would be a lot stronger, plus they stay warm in the winter... QUICK_EDIT
But if a stone house does get hit by a tornado, the stones make more dangerous flying debris. Plus a stone house is more expensive to build and repair for tornado damages. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Wait till you see tin roofed wooden beam support houses that become flying missiles -.- Of course here we have zero natural disasters so I can't comment about it...
Wait, do Tornadoes even occur during winter? O.o If that's the case...Snownado? _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:
Phobonaut wrote:
BTW, you as a Coloradorean or whatever you guys are called...
Why don't you guys make houses out of stone, instead of wood? I mean, those people in Tornadoland that have their houses destroyed always have wooden houses...
Stone buildings would be a lot stronger, plus they stay warm in the winter...
It's because they can't build good foundations like we have here in Holland. For a brick structure to be stable you need some beams in the ground, which is possible in the muddy Dutch ground, but very hard to impossible in the rocky US ground QUICK_EDIT
lol, people in tornado ally have their houses ON WHEELS. If they don't move out the way, I'm afraid it's their fault. Wood is alot cheaper than cement/brick is though, so out in there (I am from new england, the rest of the country seems foreign to me) they probably go for the economy package. There's other factors to consider too. Availability of building material, cost, water table, etc etc. IN New england there really isn't any emminent disaster waiting to happen. No tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, really just just get a bit more cold and snow than the rest, but a plow truck can handle that.
I think there is a flaw in the way people design cities. The presence of snow is a pretty obvious thing that's gonna come every year (to quote SNL "Oh my god, who could have predicted another winter!"). So people should have taken that into consideration. Take into account the cost of plow trucks, employing the drivers, buying melting materials (sand and salt), pothole repair, delays due to snow (plus lose of tax revenue due to said delays), plus injuries due to any of the above, it's amazing that cities still have streets! "But people have to get around!" you say. Well, consider have the streets underground, where they can be kept clean and dry at a constant rate. True it would cost alot to build, but it is a much safer alternative. Or if they don't want to do that, imaging they put roofing over the roads. Of course things of either scale are probabloy far from practicle, but I like to dream....underground cities. Think of that too. Instead of a sky scrapper, imagine a "core scraper". A building put into the place of a large hole dug into the ground. You could probably fit alot more volume into one, it seems easier to go down than up. Supports can be created at any given floor simply by expanding into the surrounding earth. The building has the potential to be energy efficent too due to geothermal stuff. _________________ Please, read the signature rules of the forum. QUICK_EDIT
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) Who said this is an argument? I personally only voiced out my opinion on why snow isn't useless and annoying. You firstly said you hate snow because it's, well, in the way. Then I say that snow has some uses and doesn't have to be nothing but troublesome. Here comes the change; you disagree in that and still say that snow-fun is only for 5 years old and it grows a basis of a debate. Remember there's no truly correct answer here, because it's what you call debateable.
@ God of Gamers picture. (Even if it does go from 35,000 to 45,000 pirates first.)
