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Everyone came around here
Everyone else got sick
And watched the clock tickin' slowly
Everyone knew the ending
Opened a bag of tricks
And stumbled over their own
They blew minds away
Sort of the cripplin' just like thunder
And it's gone today
I'm so happy that it's on
It's the end of the world
All frozen
Under snow and ice
Mammoth with flowers in its belly shivers
Ain't that just nice?
So far, I'm seeing Spring into the next week. Time to put away the balaclava and the woolen hat and do some scooter tuning. I'm thinking I may need to go down a skosh on the main jet.
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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
We've got the same exact thing going on, along with winds around 30mph gusting to 50.
Temps just dropped to 1C above freezing, going back into the deepfreeze tomorrow 2 to 4 inches snow again temps -7 to -12 C next week, just had 17 above 0 and sunny weather...
65 and sunny here.
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
That's what she said last night.
61 degrees. Snow should be a distant memory soon.
Sitty tree.
You guys aren't even supposed to GET snow south of the Mason-Dixon line. It's supposed to be all Magnolia Blossoms 24/7 365. :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
Magnolia Bosoms?
Send some bossoms over ;)
Snowing at the moment...... yuck
Here ya goQuote:
Originally Posted by PA5COR
Huh, I never really noticed that Mellisa had a mustache.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
Thanks, needed some eyebleach...
Saturday we flirted with 60 degrees, Sunday was ever so slightly cooler. That storm in the central US is supposed to be an all rain event. I can only hope so. It's like April and I like April. Cold bracing rain makes you feel alive. There's something unique about the smell of a wet bus that cannot be unforgotten like that image above.
http://jschumacher.typepad.com/photo...1/bus_rain.jpg
it was 65 here.. then rained. now were going down.... to the 40s
You mean like a wet wild boar?Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
60's over the weekend, and into today. Later in the week, it'll get colder, with some wintry mix. Spring is coming (Nothing nearly as cold as it has been), but not quite here.
Um, soot and dirt fallout from the rainstorm, water on rubber carpeting combined with the heating system (which was actually better on the older buses) and the fogged up windows. Usually the other passengers have good hygiene or else you will get sick to your stomach from the putrid wet human smell while being held captive to your destination.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
http://i45.tinypic.com/30v2k9u.jpg
Nice old bus. I used to race one of those on XBOX. Burn Out 3: Takedown. 80 hours in three weeks and I realized I was wasting my time. I was fun making the bus jump and trying to create a massive damage assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
I used to drive one IRL. Too slow to be much fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
As of 4pm, it was 78º in Key West FL.
I used to ride those to Macy*s from Times Square. 1/2 mile took at least an hour in those days. They were really comfortable, but in summer with no air conditioning, they were really hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
The best part was a carboned up Diesel engine and an exhaust under the rear bumper. When the driver hit the accelerator if you were in the car behind you'd sit there choking until the air cleared enough to see where you were going.
- 5C here, sunny weather.
The wadden islands 30 miles above me had 4 inches snow and with the gale force wind snowbanks of 20" were reported on the Islands.
Southern Netherlands, Belgium, Northern France see a blizzard pass by giving 4 to 20" snow with gale force wind, lots of people stranded in their cars, stuck in the snow, in freezing temperatures.
Belgium reported about 1000 miles of traffic jam, and people are called up to help stranded automobilists.
It has not been this cold sinc 1929 on the 11th of march, here i'm looking at another freezing day and no temps above 0.
No snow though, just bitterly cold with the wind blowing from the North East.
Germany also reports lots of snow and problems with the traffic as does Luxembourgh.
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Originally Posted by PA5COR
That is cold. I wonder if it is tied to the Gulf Stream?
We're 53ºF (12ºC) with rain showers. About where we should be a month from now. Hope it clears to I can get a look at Comet Pan-STARRS this evening.
We had some weird winters the last few years in a row, coldr, more wet = snow and weird summers too.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
Since the ice at the Northpole is dwindling fast we see changes in the Jetstream and in the development of the high and low pressure area's that linger longer as ever before, bringing wet summers to the UK and the EU, the jetstream is slowing down and meandering more, bringing in winter more cold from the north as it does now, the splitting of the cold on the Northpole by pools of warmer weather brought storms there that made the ice even disappear more and faster and splitting the cold bubble on the northpole brought some more cold down here.
Snow and frost isn't uncommon here in March, but seldom enough to let yesterday be the coldest and snowiest day since 1928, today will be another day without teemperatures above 0 ( half past 1 here and still - 2 C) so another new record with the blizzard over Germany, Blgium South Netherlands UK and France.
Just 4 days ago it was 18 C here sunny and almost summer like.
We had 5 different cold spells here from December 3rd till now, all from weird unusual behavior of the Northpole weather according the weather buffs.
That forced unusual cold and wet weather down here, giving lots of snow, and freezing cold, far above the normal winter temps.
Normally we see the cold come over Germany from Russia but this and the last winters it dropped from the northpole directly south over Sweden etc, shorter rounte, more cold and moree over the sea, so picking up lots of moist from the sea.
The normal pattern is over the land and it can be quite cold ( last year -28C in some places) but always dry air.
With the normal pattern we just get snow when the winter starts and ends, or an attack comes from the Northsea on the cold weather.
The blizzard now is just such an attempt of an depression that comes from the UK over the North sea headbutting the cold air that dropped down from the northpole.
Good for lots of moist and force 7 gales from the north east always good for some road chaos and snowbanks...
I think almost all of these were gone in NYC by the time I was 14. There might've been a few in Brooklyn or The Bronx, but not where I went to. They were pretty comfortable unless you had to stand. They even had the leather straps for straphangers (a dead term).Quote:
Originally Posted by kb2vxa
And here I aways though straphangers were tits.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
Strap hangers, more like rider hanger straps, when they figured out frustrated riders couldn't hang themselves with metal hoops they were replaced. Same thing in the subway, plus the ceiling fans were eliminated when riders frustrated with the hoops leaped up into them. As for buses, things only got worse in Jersey when the old late '40s GM coaches with stick shifts were replaced with automatics that made the engines rev to the max. You guessed it, exhaust still under the bumper so you didn't DARE tailgate a bus! By the time they decided to change them to stacks they came with higher efficiency engines, far less smoke and stink, too little too late for drivers suffering from coal miner's disease, black lung.
"And here I aways though straphangers were tits."
Right, and the Germans are the only ones to properly describe the straps, büstenhalter. Really big titties are hängebusen, pendeln; schlaffes herabhängen; freies schwingen. I am particularly fond of the last one, picture Dolly Parton doing the Twist.
Over the shoulder boulder holders.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
These are later versions of those leather straps. Stronger and they didn't break like the straps did when they got old.
http://www.rachelleb.com/images/2004...p_hanger_1.jpg
Hah, I used to think that when I was a kid. The south is always hot ;) Of course when I finally spent time in the south I found it is always hot, but not in terms of weather and especially if you are from the New York City area and are a college educated liberal.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
I remember those old buses well. Think I even rode in one maybe once or twice. Kids loved those buses. You hop up on the rear bumper and ride for free top your destination... or until the bus driver or the cops kicked you off.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
I saw more than a few guys who fell off of the bumper. If they didn't get run over by a car behind the bus, they usually got pretty banged up. One guy fell on his head and discovered his hidden love. He filled every nook and cranny of his hospital room with her. Orange Juice. It smelled like crud in that room after a week. And nobody had Orange Juice for 3 days too.Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ize
Those buses were nice, but I'd hate to drive one. No power steering, and no air conditioning. Rode pretty good though. The Macks were like trucks. They'd shake every time you stopped for a red light.
http://i48.tinypic.com/35d9qvr.jpg
Luckily I never saw anyone fall off the bumper. But my Mom and Dad were always afraid of that happening, especially when kids were riding the bumper and my folks were the first car behind the bus. Kinda glad I never saw it happen either.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
Bout the most risky things I did were to ride the subways between cars. I always rode in between cars. Also crossed the tracks a couple of times and one time ran along the tracks between one station to another.
"Of course when I finally spent time in the south I found it is always hot, but not in terms of weather and especially if you are from the New York City area and are a college educated liberal."
Nope, Southerners didn't take kindly to Freedom Riders especially those arriving on buses with New York plates.
"The Macks were like trucks. They'd shake every time you stopped for a red light."
In an offhand way that reminds me of the buses in Toms River, NJ. I don't know who makes them but they have jake brakes that roar like trucks as they slow for a stop.
"Bout the most risky things I did were to ride the subways between cars. I always rode in between cars."
You must be mad! The system is a bit smoother now but not long ago they did the shimmy shake and swayed like belly dancers. Unlike heavy rail coaches there is no flexible "tunnel" between cars to protect you from the weather or falling off the train which is why it's illegal and these days you'd get busted in a heartbeat by the cops or the train whichever comes first.
"Also crossed the tracks a couple of times and one time ran along the tracks between one station to another."
Now I'm sure you're mad! That's a good way to get run over by a train rounding a blind curve or get a 700VDC third rail jolt. I knew a ham in Middletown, NJ who was a motorman for the NYCTA and we had a standing joke about hissing poodles. Rain poodling in the yard often comes in contact with the third rail energizing the ground over a wide area so when it rains beware of hissing poodles.
Oh, those metal hoops may be more durable than straps but they're dangerous. Spring loaded, when released they snap back to the resting position toward the aisle. Hopefully you're not standing next to one when a strap hanger lets it go, you could get a whack upside da haid bro.
Shorts and T-shirts yesterday.
Coats and hats today.
7" of snow forecasted. Starts just in time for the early evening rush in the city. I wonder how the geese and ducks will weather it.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
Sunny and 90s. I'd like to lounge around the pool, but all we have is a cesspool. Maybe I'll put a diving board on it and.....................nah. Too much work.