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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9 |
It's 25° and we're getting freezing rain. The ground and streets are coated with ice but it hasn't started accumulating on the trees and power lines yet, but when it does we'll probably lose power.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9 |
Where I grew up in Central Oregon, there was a myth (that every student knew) that 18 inches of snow would trigger a SNOW DAY. The only time we got a snow day was when the heating system at the high school was flooded.
Yesterday the roads were a solid sheet of ice and even emergency vehicles were mostly parked. Today we are melting and are getting liquid rain.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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Did you fall and hit your head? He's a disinformation troll who wants to see the world burn.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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The plan is to incentivize greener technologies, so farmers could see tax credits for purchasing hydrogen or electric powered equipment when they become available. You could see grants and subsidies going to companies that are designing and manufacturing greener technologies. And remove all subsidies and tax incentives from oil, gas, and coal industries and put them on wind and solar and energy storage. They already make billions in profits and it's way past time for them to pay their fair share of taxes.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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Wow! Brilliant, that must be it.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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Not winter weather, but a powerful typhoon hit Guam a few hours ago. My grandson is stationed there at Andersen AFB. The roofs of his barracks apartment collapsed. His wife is in month 7 of a high risk pregnancy so she was admitted to the base hospital to ride out the storm and my grandson was there with her, so they are both safe.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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It seems that discussion is still futile with Dredge the Pedo Cult Cheerleader.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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I know lots of people have much more extreme winter weather than we do in the Pacific Northwestern U.S. but we are getting hammered right now.
Here where I live we are having ice pellets, with about 2 inches on the ground and 18F. I feel fortunate, because last night they were predicting freezing rain which brings down lots of trees and powerlines. The Portland/Vancouver area is getting heavy snow and winds. The Columbia Gorge east of Portland is getting heavy snow and ice and 80-100 mph wind gusts. We have Anna's Humming birds that over winter here so I am rotating feeders inside to thaw so they always have liquid in the feeders.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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I feel like the tropics here at 21F. Lots of trees down especially in the Portland area and lots of power outages. We got about 2 inches of ice pellets here on Saturday that was a solid sheet of ice on Sunday. Walking across the yard to refill the bird feeders is treacherous! Wind is predicted today and then slowly warming and getting up above freezing Wednesday. A power outage is the only thing that would mess up riding this out...
We bring our 3 hummingbird feeders inside over night and swap them out about every 2 hours or so when they start forming ice. My wife was up at 4AM yesterday and herd an odd tapping on the patio door. It was a hummer, so she put the feeders out then. It's still astonishing to me that we have hummers overwintering here. They can only survive because people put out feeders all year long. As far as we can tell there are 3 hummers for each feeder and the continuously fight and try and dominate the feeder.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9 |
Well, this looks like it's going to be nasty. 28F and raining hard on top of 2 inches of solid ice. Power lines are going to be coming down tonight!
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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37F this morning and we have had power the whole time. It seems like it rained all night but with everything frozen there is a lot of standing water on top of ice. I'm hoping to be able to go over to my lab and check for any damage and also refill the bird feeders, etc. I took down the hummingbird feeders over there in the Fall, so there were no hummers relying on those feeders for survival. There were ice cycles hanging everywhere when we went to bed last night and now they are gone, whew!
I used to put studded snow tires on our vehicles before Thanksgiving and only took them off in April, but since we retired and with some Winters not even giving us any snow I got rid of the snow tires. I'm ready for Spring!Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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