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Serene Repose
Saanen Freight Service
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Posted - 2014.01.29 15:52:00 -
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Did you know CCP has offices in the Atlanta Metro area? (Kennesaw - Stone Mountain) Did you know Atlanta is frozen solid today??? Oh my goodness! I-285 is a traffic jammed block of ice! Some of CCP's employees may be out there freezin' their hinies off!
Remember guys: It's not called Hot'lanta for nothin'. Sure, it's not that hot today! But, you'll thaw out - guaranteed.
"Our" sympathies are with you.
(From a former Atlanta resident of 16 years. Now in South Florida where it'll hit 80 degrees today!)
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man.-á |
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
Boarderline Cartel
1741
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:06:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:Did you know CCP has offices in the Atlanta Metro area? (Kennesaw - Stone Mountain) Did you know Atlanta is frozen solid today??? Oh my goodness! I-285 is a traffic jammed block of ice! Some of CCP's employees may be out there freezin' their hinies off!
Remember guys: It's not called Hot'lanta for nothin'. Sure, it's not that hot today! But, you'll thaw out - guaranteed.
"Our" sympathies are with you.
(From a former Atlanta resident of 16 years. Now in South Florida where it'll hit 80 degrees today!)
I'd be disappointed in a game company that forced its programmers (or indeed any of its staff) to have to commute all the time, and not be able to work from home. Hell if my wife can do it as a marketing research manager, I'd sure as hell expect a coder in a technology company to be able to do it. No one from CCP should be sitting in a car stuck on a highway. |
Morganta
Peripheral Madness
1950
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:07:00 -
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didn't they shutter the Atlanta office after greed-is-goodgate? |
Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
887
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:08:00 -
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My company's HQ is just outside of Atlanta. We got an email this morning from the CEO stating that none of them are going to work because of a winter storm warning.
I live up in the Northern Plains so I thought about replying all saying, "***** you don't know what a winter storm is!" but then thought better of it.
"You should just create one thread and put all of your complaints in it instead of littering the forums with multiple threads." ~CCP Falcon
[Member of The BrownCoat Syndicate] |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
2966
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:10:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:Did you know CCP has offices in the Atlanta Metro area? (Kennesaw - Stone Mountain) Did you know Atlanta is frozen solid today??? Oh my goodness! I-285 is a traffic jammed block of ice! Some of CCP's employees may be out there freezin' their hinies off!
Remember guys: It's not called Hot'lanta for nothin'. Sure, it's not that hot today! But, you'll thaw out - guaranteed.
"Our" sympathies are with you.
(From a former Atlanta resident of 16 years. Now in South Florida where it'll hit 80 degrees today!)
Eh. It was 10(f)* here this morning. With a light coating of fresh powder snow. Everything ran on time,and no one had any issues.
Atlanta needs to HTFU.
*(Minus 12(c) )
Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
887
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:13:00 -
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Ptraci wrote:I'd be disappointed in a game company that forced its programmers (or indeed any of its staff) to have to commute all the time, and not be able to work from home. Hell if my wife can do it as a marketing research manager, I'd sure as hell expect a coder in a technology company to be able to do it. No one from CCP should be sitting in a car stuck on a highway.
That would be like being stuck on one of the gates to Jita yea?
"You should just create one thread and put all of your complaints in it instead of littering the forums with multiple threads." ~CCP Falcon
[Member of The BrownCoat Syndicate] |
Angelica Dreamstar
Epic Boo Bees
393
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:14:00 -
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Celsius. The word is Celsius. And your numbers are wrong.
*puts on 1337 face*
EVE ONLINE: The universe is ours!- Join the Epic Boo Bees! (RP,PvE/PvP,wardecs,new players!)You're at it from day 0! |
Serene Repose
Saanen Freight Service
914
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:21:00 -
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Oh, it's the Deep South, now (y'all). Chicago would look at it as a nice day. Seems the city fathers didn't take the warnings seriously, or didn't understand they were meant for THEM. Not many Southerners even own a pair of mukluks, for Chrissakes!
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man.-á |
Felicity Love
Whore and Peace
Forsaken Asylum
1491
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:24:00 -
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Should move that office in Atlanta to like, YELLOWKNIFE... woosies can learn some proper manly survival skills like BBQ'ing in sub-zero temperatures and knowing how deep to bury your beer in snow without it freezing. 
... and I was just saying the other day, "Damn, I miss Soundwave"....
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Morganta
Peripheral Madness
1950
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:29:00 -
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best part is they got about 1.5 inches of snow  |
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Pok Nibin
Filial Pariahs
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:35:00 -
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+1 for Yellowknife...with a caveat:
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow!
Don't fight it.-á Rejoin your Amarrian patriarchs.-á You know you want to. |
Morganta
Peripheral Madness
1950
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:36:00 -
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Pok Nibin wrote:+1 for Yellowknife...with a caveat:
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow!
Nanook no no
don't be a naughty Eskimo.....
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Baljos Arnjak
Dark Praetorian Order
62
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:54:00 -
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Yeah, I sorta feel for them as they don't have the road equipment down there to deal with that kind of weather. I used to live in Oklahoma City and the plows they have down there are something we'd use to plow our diveways here, if Atlanta is similar, they're going to have a hard time for a few days.
But, I'm from Minnesota, it gets cold here, and I mean COLD! We just had a couple of days where the high was around -10 F, that's -23C. That's as warm as it got, lol. The low was -22F (-30C) IIRC. You gotta love it when you go outside and the moisture in your nose freezes 10 seconds after leaving the door! |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
2970
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Posted - 2014.01.29 16:55:00 -
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Pok Nibin wrote:+1 for Yellowknife...with a caveat:
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow!
Say hello to Dyan Bergen,* eh?
She found the negative 10(f) temps to be a bit warm.
*Yukon Quest Red Lantern winner (last to finish) - A damned tough place to be and one to accept with a wry pride.
Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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MatrixSkye Mk2
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
725
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Posted - 2014.01.29 17:06:00 -
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Baljos Arnjak wrote:Yeah, I sorta feel for them as they don't have the road equipment down there to deal with that kind of weather. I used to live in Oklahoma City and the plows they have down there are something we'd use to plow our diveways here, if Atlanta is similar, they're going to have a hard time for a few days.
But, I'm from Minnesota, it gets cold here, and I mean COLD! We just had a couple of days where the high was around -10 F, that's -23C. That's as warm as it got, lol. The low was -22F (-30C) IIRC. You gotta love it when you go outside and the moisture in your nose freezes 10 seconds after leaving the door!
Minnesota's infamous for its winters. But it's just crazy how people can adapt to these conditions o0. |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.01.29 17:23:00 -
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I have never seen so much red before. Snapshot for posterity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CLlTV8bSxNVGlaY2hBdHV4d0U/edit?usp=sharing
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Batelle
Komm susser Tod
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Posted - 2014.01.29 17:46:00 -
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CCP's Atlanta office is/was the development center for World of Darkness, and afaik its currently a skeleton crew, so to speak.
Eve Devs are forced to actually live in Iceland.
"CCP is changing policy, and has asked that we discontinue the bonus credit program after November 7th. So until then, enjoy a super-bonus of 1B Blink Credit for each 60-day GTC you buy!"
Never forget. |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
2970
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Posted - 2014.01.29 17:49:00 -
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Atlanta is the eye of Sauron..?! 
Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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Felicity Love
Whore and Peace
Forsaken Asylum
1492
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Posted - 2014.01.29 22:12:00 -
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Batelle wrote:CCP's Atlanta office is/was the development center for World of Darkness, and afaik its currently a skeleton crew, so to speak.
Eve Devs are forced to actually live in Iceland.
Sooooooooooo... no great loss then. Gotcha.
... and I was just saying the other day, "Damn, I miss Soundwave"....
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Billy McCandless
The McCandless Clan
Turing Tested
150
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Posted - 2014.01.29 22:16:00 -
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theirs no such thing as atlanta
its a mith liek shangryla and the amolo |
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Frostys Virpio
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
990
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Posted - 2014.01.30 00:21:00 -
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They call that a snowstorm? WTF? |
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
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Posted - 2014.01.30 00:29:00 -
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I love hearing the whiny crap from my southern neighbors every time they get a little weather.
Here I am sitting through a ball busting cold spell that'll freeze your pee before it hits the ground and feeling no sympathy at all. I'll be thrilled when it gets above -40 -¦C again.
Mr Epeen 
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass! |
Mario Putzo
Welping and Dunking.
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Posted - 2014.01.30 01:01:00 -
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Dear Atlanta,
-10 celsius isn't cold, and an inch and a half of snow isn't a snowstorm.
Felt like -42 here and there is 2 feet of snow in front of my house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8UAtJTP8fE (do not watch alone if you live south of Ohio)
HTFU <3 Canada. |
Pok Nibin
Filial Pariahs
206
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Posted - 2014.01.30 10:35:00 -
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Fun fact: "Minnesota" is Native American for "The weather sucks here. Let's move."
The entire point of living in the south is ice avoidance. Sure, you get nine foot drifts and still feel all warm and fuzzy. We get snow flakes that usually melt upon touching the ground - and rarely. It should be no surprise, therefore, that when this climate change that isn't really happening drops a few metric tons of ice on us down here, we are hardly prepared for it.
We are quite prepared to sit on the front porch sipping mint juleps on those sultry summer evenings, however. We can also withstand 99 degree (F) days with 99 percent humidity - something I daresay would have you northerners sobbing. In fact, though I'm originally from Boston, I've lived in South Florida for so long, if the temperature drops to 54 degrees (F), where you'd be outside bare-chested (you, too, ladies), I'm grabbing a sweater and thick socks.
You see, one of the conveniences of living in the sultry south is your blood thins. Whereas, up in yankeeland, your blood thickens. You'll never see me shirtless at a late-season Packers game puffing steam like a locomotive. No no no. And, I'll probably never see YOU getting a year's perfect tan by just walking out to the mailbox one day.
So, have a heart. The last time I scraped ice from my windshield was in 1979.
Don't fight it.-á Rejoin your Amarrian patriarchs.-á You know you want to. |
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CCP Punkturis
C C P
C C P Alliance
4781
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Posted - 2014.01.30 10:41:00 -
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sending warm thoughts to all my bros in Atlanta from sunny Iceland!
G˙ŕ EVE User Interface Programmer G˙ŕ
GÖŃ Team Super Friends GÖŃ
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Nyla Skin
Maximum fun chamber
294
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Posted - 2014.01.30 12:00:00 -
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Meanwhile, in Finland
In after the lock :P -á
- CCP Falcon
www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies |
mr ed thehouseofed
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
416
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Posted - 2014.01.30 12:06:00 -
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100 degrees here  110 next week sigh
real gamers only need one toon-á |
Decaneos
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
95
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Posted - 2014.01.30 13:44:00 -
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CCP Punkturis wrote:sending warm thoughts to all my bros in Atlanta from sunny Iceland!
Looks out of the window......sunny....right.... |
Felicity Love
Whore and Peace
Forsaken Asylum
1493
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:06:00 -
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Could be worse.
You could have been ordered to huddle in the Superdome to wait for water.
... and I was just saying the other day, "Damn, I miss Soundwave"....
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CCP Punkturis
C C P
C C P Alliance
4781
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:11:00 -
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Decaneos wrote:CCP Punkturis wrote:sending warm thoughts to all my bros in Atlanta from sunny Iceland! Looks out of the window......sunny....right....
obvious joke is obvious
G˙ŕ EVE User Interface Programmer G˙ŕ
GÖŃ Team Super Friends GÖŃ
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GM Nythanos
Game Masters
C C P Alliance
113
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:27:00 -
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We got some snow and the roads were rough in a lot of places. I drove around yesterday and today, but I also grew up in Pittsburgh so ice and an inch or two of snow isn't new to me and I have a lot of experience with it. Had I grown up down here it'd be like seeing a tornado in western PA. It can happen, but rarely, and not often enough you'd really get used to it.
It's been warmer in Reykjavik recently than it has been here. 
e: Even having experience with this kind of weather it's never good to be out on icy roads and still plenty dangerous.
GM Nythanos | Senior Game Master |
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
2985
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:32:00 -
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There are a whole slew of those meme-images...
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Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
Initiative Mercenaries
4512
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:33:00 -
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It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
Come summer time we get the last laugh when it's 100 degrees F (38c) down here which is good spring time weather for us, yet up north people start literally dying of heat stroke when it reaches 90 degrees F (32c)....... |
Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
Initiative Mercenaries
4512
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Posted - 2014.01.30 17:34:00 -
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double post |
Mel Lifera
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Posted - 2014.01.30 19:19:00 -
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I spent most of my life in Cleveland where feet of snow is not a particularly rare occurrence. We could deal with it because it snows every year and we expect it, so we'd all have bags of salt and snow shovels for our driveways and brushes for our cars, and the city begins salting the streets before an anticipated storm and keeps a fleet of heavy plows running for the duration.
I can't fault Atlanta for having trouble with an inch of ice covering all the roads; how often does it happen? Even in Cleveland, I've seen the city brought to a virtual standstill for a day or so by a sudden and very heavy snowfall or a salt shortage. Who the heck in Atlanta would even have a snow brush, shovel, and a bag of driveway salt? |
Toriessian
Helion Production Labs
Mildly Intoxicated
206
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Posted - 2014.01.30 19:21:00 -
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Its cold in northern California. A couple days ago I thought people were going to start freezing to death when it hit 14 C. Right now its a chilly 18 C. I'm not looking forward to the summer. We could get up to 30 C or even 35 C! and we'll all be dying from the heat... Those temp changes are killing us
On a side note if any of you perhaps got too much snow we could really use a little water. Theres some space on the beach to chill at if you deliver...
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Mario Putzo
Welping and Dunking.
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Posted - 2014.01.30 19:45:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
Come summer time we get the last laugh when it's 100 degrees F (38c) down here which is good spring time weather for us, yet up north people start literally dying of heat stroke when it reaches 90 degrees F (32c).......
Only sissy Americans without free health care!
In Canada we open all our hockey arenas so people can lie down on the Ice and cool off. Then again in Ontario where I am 20 degrees of that is just moisture in the air. Really the temperature only hits like 30(~90F) then its 50(~120F) with humidity...it sucks monster balls if you have to go outside for anything, If I wanted to go swimming id go to the pool, or the lake.
Weather up in the North East is whack. ~80 degree temperature swings every 6 months. Which is why its Too fecking cold. or Too fecking hot depending if its December or June.
I hate people who complain about the cold though. Come summer you can only get so naked before you get a fine. At least in the winter I can uncomfortably wear my entire wardrobe and stay warm....and if I want to run around naked no one says anything to anyone other than "That guy must be some kind of nutter." |
Killian Redbeard
Ironhand Research and Industrial Corp
SoulWing Alliance
26
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Posted - 2014.01.30 19:49:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
Come summer time we get the last laugh when it's 100 degrees F (38c) down here which is good spring time weather for us, yet up north people start literally dying of heat stroke when it reaches 90 degrees F (32c).......
90? I have a heatstroke when it gets over 70. I live in Minnesota and may have to migrate north as it is getting to be too warm in this state. |
Kerrec Snowmane
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
17
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Posted - 2014.01.30 20:00:00 -
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Baljos Arnjak wrote:You gotta love it when you go outside and the moisture in your nose freezes 10 seconds after leaving the door!
If I go outside, take a deep breath and my nostrils freeze shut, then I know it's time to put on a winter jacket.
This thread reminds me of a trip to Bermuda I made over Xmas holidays several years ago. It was a beautiful 20 deg. C so we went swimming in the ocean. The locals were walking their dogs on the beach and wearing big down filled jackets...
But yeah, someone from Atlanta probably doesn't know what an "all season" tire is, let alone a "winter" tire. Add some ice on the road and I get it, not hard to understand they aren't prepared for that kind of situation at all.
As for me, the snowbank I made by shovelling my driveway was already 6 feet high in early December. I'd be more than willing to trade with Atlanta. You can have the slow moving plow trucks throwing down dirty sand or corroding salt, the swapping of winter tires, the shovels or snowblowers, the scrapers, the constant filling of windshield washer fluid in exchange for one or two days of icy roads. Please. :) |
Felicity Love
Whore and Peace
Forsaken Asylum
1494
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Posted - 2014.01.30 20:23:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
And those of us further north than them "damn Yankees" just have a good giggle.
But we still send utility/hydro crews and snow plows across the border, south of "The 49th", to help out anyway.
... and I was just saying the other day, "Damn, I miss Soundwave"....
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Serene Repose
Saanen Freight Service
918
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Posted - 2014.01.31 09:37:00 -
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You ain't lived till you've "gotten used to tornados." Ice is so infrequent, or has been so in the past, buying all-weather tires isn't something one would do. Neither would one buy a bag of driveway salt, or keep a wide, scoopy shovel. This kid I knew had a snowsled hanging on the garage wall, next to it a pair of ice skates - both rusting. We wouldn't say anything but we all wondered what it'd be like to use things like that.
As far as complaining about the cold. We don't. Our lips turn blue and our teeth just sort of chatter. I do have a fireplace. It's not like we don't get winter at all. When things get out of hand, I just light that up, make some hot cocoa, grab a good book and read from beneath a large, fuzzy blanket. Call in sick, if they haven't closed the roads, and wait it out.
No sense in being prepared for something that happens once in a blue moon. Far more practical to invest in your tornado escape kit and be glad you only get those, instead of having to scrape ice off your windshield every morning pretending you LIKE it! Yes. You can get used to tornados. I could never get used to blue lips.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man.-á |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1208
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Posted - 2014.01.31 09:47:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:Did you know CCP has offices in the Atlanta Metro area? (Kennesaw - Stone Mountain) Did you know Atlanta is frozen solid today??? Oh my goodness! I-285 is a traffic jammed block of ice! Some of CCP's employees may be out there freezin' their hinies off!
Remember guys: It's not called Hot'lanta for nothin'. Sure, it's not that hot today! But, you'll thaw out - guaranteed.
"Our" sympathies are with you.
(From a former Atlanta resident of 16 years. Now in South Florida where it'll hit 80 degrees today!)
while htat.. here in south of brazil we have 40C degrees at 6 am .. for the IS challanged that is 104 F
"If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1208
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Posted - 2014.01.31 09:52:00 -
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Kerrec Snowmane wrote:Baljos Arnjak wrote:You gotta love it when you go outside and the moisture in your nose freezes 10 seconds after leaving the door! If I go outside, take a deep breath and my nostrils freeze shut, then I know it's time to put on a winter jacket. This thread reminds me of a trip to Bermuda I made over Xmas holidays several years ago. It was a beautiful 20 deg. C so we went swimming in the ocean. The locals were walking their dogs on the beach and wearing big down filled jackets... But yeah, someone from Atlanta probably doesn't know what an "all season" tire is, let alone a "winter" tire. Add some ice on the road and I get it, not hard to understand they aren't prepared for that kind of situation at all. As for me, the snowbank I made by shovelling my driveway was already 6 feet high in early December. I'd be more than willing to trade with Atlanta. You can have the slow moving plow trucks throwing down dirty sand or corroding salt, the swapping of winter tires, the shovels or snowblowers, the scrapers, the constant filling of windshield washer fluid in exchange for one or two days of icy roads. Please. :)
On the other hand.. du you think you can survive walking in the sun at near 50C (120f) temperatures with zero wind and 90% air humidity? you know... when the sun is so hot that its simply incidence on the roof of the house, over the water storage make the water of your bath come boiling from the shower?
"If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
Alastair Ormand
Badger Badger Badger
Apocalypse Now.
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Posted - 2014.01.31 09:53:00 -
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Meanwhile in Australia *Cooks egg on sheet of tin left in sun*.
Its about 105-110 F here.
40-45 degrees Celcius 7 days in a row. I work in a big warehouse, spare a thought for the suffering I will endure
Edit: Oh already posts about Aussie land :( |
Serene Repose
Saanen Freight Service
918
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Posted - 2014.01.31 10:07:00 -
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Alastair Ormand wrote:Meanwhile in Australia *Cooks egg on sheet of tin left in sun*.
Its about 105-110 F here.
40-45 degrees Celcius 7 days in a row. I work in a big warehouse, spare a thought for the suffering I will endure
Edit: Oh already posts about Aussie land :( OMG yes! The Australian Open was just held. Tennis shoes melting to the court surface. Several players passing out from heat prostration. The countryside around spontaneously erupting in flames. That is really something down your way. My sympathies there from the other end of the thermometer!
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man.-á |
Alastair Ormand
Badger Badger Badger
Apocalypse Now.
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Posted - 2014.01.31 10:14:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:Alastair Ormand wrote:Meanwhile in Australia *Cooks egg on sheet of tin left in sun*.
Its about 105-110 F here.
40-45 degrees Celcius 7 days in a row. I work in a big warehouse, spare a thought for the suffering I will endure
Edit: Oh already posts about Aussie land :( OMG yes! The Australian Open was just held. Tennis shoes melting to the court surface. Several players passing out from heat prostration. The countryside around spontaneously erupting in flames. That is really something down your way. My sympathies there from the other end of the thermometer!
<3 Thanks |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1208
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Posted - 2014.01.31 10:26:00 -
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I am selling heat. I will pack and send 10 Mega Joules of heat directly from South America for 1 plex + mailing costs.
"If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
Tarpedo
Incursionista
590
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Posted - 2014.01.31 11:33:00 -
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Global warming is actually very cold. I wonder how cold will be global freezing? -1000C? |
Doc Severide
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.01.31 11:37:00 -
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Bah...
Come spend a winter in Western Canada where you can sit at -40 for weeks in a row. I've seen storms that covered an entire side of a houe that was facing the wind. The owners had to create a tunnel from the door to get out, the kids went on the roof to toboggon down... By buddies 12 year od sister died 6 feet from the back door of the house when she fell in the snow and couldn't get up... It's brutal... |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1208
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:01:00 -
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Tarpedo wrote:Global warming is actually very cold. I wonder how cold will be global freezing? -1000C?
No its not... here temperatures are the highest in 115 years. Just in case you are not trolling global warmign is the average world temeprateure not the temperature where you live, and the more extreme temperature son both ends are supposedly related to the resulting unbalance in atmosphere.
"If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
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Kerrec Snowmane
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
17
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:11:00 -
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Kagura Nikon wrote: On the other hand.. du you think you can survive walking in the sun at near 50C (120f) temperatures with zero wind and 90% air humidity? you know... when the sun is so hot that its simply incidence on the roof of the house, over the water storage make the water of your bath come boiling from the shower?
It's always greener on the other side. I mountain bike in the summers (our summers). It gets plenty humid here too, but when the thermometer reaches 35 deg. C, I'm pretty much done. My body can't handle it.
I could probably get used to it, but it doesn't happen often enough for me to say "F&&k it, I'm going riding anyway!". |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1208
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:21:00 -
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Kerrec Snowmane wrote:Kagura Nikon wrote: On the other hand.. du you think you can survive walking in the sun at near 50C (120f) temperatures with zero wind and 90% air humidity? you know... when the sun is so hot that its simply incidence on the roof of the house, over the water storage make the water of your bath come boiling from the shower? It's always greener on the other side. I mountain bike in the summers (our summers). It gets plenty humid here too, but when the thermometer reaches 35 deg. C, I'm pretty much done. My body can't handle it. I could probably get used to it, but it doesn't happen often enough for me to say "F&&k it, I'm going riding anyway!".
I lived in south germany for a while, the colder I faces was -24c.. but I felt that at least I coudl do somethign about the cold.. put more clothes.. move.. etc.. But when temperature goes above yoru body temperature you feel like you cannot do anything about it.. and that is what i hate. My dog almost dies in summer every year.
"If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
Kira Enomoto
EVE University
Ivy League
45
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:35:00 -
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Mean while. Scandinavia has got the hottest winter as far back as I can remember. Denmark have had temperatures between 12(!) and 5 C most of the winter. We have only gotten snow a week ago. |
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
1005
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Posted - 2014.01.31 14:06:00 -
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I find it funny when southerners experience winter weather, just like they probably laugh at us northerners when the temperature gets above 90 F (32 C). |
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
1130
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Posted - 2014.01.31 15:45:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
Come summer time we get the last laugh when it's 100 degrees F (38c) down here which is good spring time weather for us, yet up north people start literally dying of heat stroke when it reaches 90 degrees F (32c).......
Been there, done that - Every summer - and have no problem with it. Musn't forget the humidity, which can hit 80% at times. Still survive it. AND have the cold and occaisional snow as well.
Come to the Mid-Atlantic region. We get it ALL - tornadoes (not too often, though I *have* stared straight up into the rotation as a funnel formed. It's fascinating), killing heat, and bone-chilling cold. Only thing we *don't* get is HUGE snowfalls. Except when we do. |
Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction
The Pursuit of Happiness
1209
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Posted - 2014.01.31 17:21:00 -
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Plastic Psycho wrote:Jenn aSide wrote:It's the same for me in Texas as it is for them in Georgia, we get snow/ice so infrequently that when it does everything just shuts down. And the Yankess up north laugh at us and say "that's nothing".
Come summer time we get the last laugh when it's 100 degrees F (38c) down here which is good spring time weather for us, yet up north people start literally dying of heat stroke when it reaches 90 degrees F (32c)....... Been there, done that - Every summer - and have no problem with it. Musn't forget the humidity, which can hit 80% at times. Still survive it. AND have the cold and occaisional snow as well. Come to the Mid-Atlantic region. We get it ALL - tornadoes (not too often, though I *have* stared straight up into the rotation as a funnel formed. It's fascinating), killing heat, and bone-chilling cold. Only thing we *don't* get is HUGE snowfalls. Except when we do.
Here in brazil our local speciality are the 100mm of rain in a single hour.... with something like 1 lightning bolt per second during the same period...
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Thead Enco
Killing is Business
Get Off My Lawn
87
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Posted - 2014.01.31 18:19:00 -
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it's not like anything of value is being produced there anyways.
"Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king."
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Nyla Skin
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
297
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Posted - 2014.02.01 07:35:00 -
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To be honest, its kinda fake.. This winter has been abnormally warm with little snow. Last two winters were like the picture but not this one. This winter all the cold air seems to be over north America..
In after the lock :P -á
- CCP Falcon
www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies |
ctx2007
Wychwood and Wells
Beer needs you
375
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Posted - 2014.02.01 08:10:00 -
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"Winter is coming"
You only-árealise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead. |
Vyl Vit
Cambio Enterprises
553
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Posted - 2014.02.01 08:38:00 -
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Not to be unduly alarmist (which is rather fun, actually), a few comments about North American weather. Living in hurricane country tends to make one glue the nose to the weather map. Having grown up in tornado country got me started early on this.
I can say unequivocally, and will argue with anyone who disputes this, that the weather patterns over North America we've come to see as "normal" have NOT been following the normal pattern over the past three years, for certain - two years previous to that (taking into account natural variations we should expect occassionally.)
Several things point to this by way of events, the most significant of which is the long-standing drought in the area once known as "The Breadbasket Of The World" (where we grew scads of wheat and corn, but now where a huge amount of cropland is drying up and blowing away;) tornados appearing as far north as Vermont, but with more frequency in west Pennsylvania and parts of New York state; the absence of hurricanes threatening my house, but finding themselves heading for South Carolina (all the way up to New York - Sandy for a good "instance";) AND - severe storms that normally would hit where I live doing a nice tight curve in the Atlantic and hitting Portugal and Spain (of all places!)
Because the weather (of all things) has been turned into a political hot-button issue (as though there aren't more suitable things to fight about), I've been quietly watching the weather maps, and satellite imagery provided by GOES http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ . One significant change that is different than (say) 35 years ago is the path and trajectory of the Jet Stream (the high-altitude air current that guides arctic air into, or steers it away from the U.S.) This shift takes rain that historically fell on the mid-western wheat growing region and shifts it northward to fall upon Alberta (and parts thereabouts), where now unprecedented flooding is beginning to occur. (Fancy that!)
Had you been tracking the last two arctic air surges, you'd have seen that rather than coming in from the northwest, and surging in on a southeastern trajectory, both came directly south from over central Canada. You may recall The Alberta Clipper. These two weren't that, and they are so unprecedented we have no cutesy name for them. If this persists, over time we will, of course.
I've been sitting here for the past five years now, waiting to see if my neighbors will get their money's worth from the $10K steel shutters they had placed on their windows (a deal I passed up), or if (as it's now looking) for once I was clever in not doing what everyone else was. Our hurricanes just don't seem to want to show up. Most of these storms coming off the west coast of Africa are finding themselves dissipating in the mid Atlantic Ocean, or as I said, hitting the Eastern Seaboard from South Carolina all the way up to New York City; quite a few hitting Spain and Portugal. Europe is seeing corresponding, unusual flooding from these weather systems that used to head due west from Africa and land on us here in South Florida.
Average temperatures, rainfall amounts, calendar marks for seasonal shifts have all been altered in every state in the U.S. without exception; nothing radical, but noticeably. And, I really don't MISS my hurricanes. They are a royal pain in the butt. However, we're pretty much prepared to deal with them here, which apparently is not the case in the areas they now seem to like. (Fickle tourists. Go figure.)
tl;dr The weather is out of whack everywhere!
Anyone with any sense has already left town. |
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Reckless Ourtomineng
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
24
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Posted - 2014.02.09 23:15:00 -
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Yes I Know. |
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
2308
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Posted - 2014.02.10 00:43:00 -
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Yesterday it was 19F in Detroit and 31F in Moscow.
So you'll excuse me if, when Atlanta shuts itself down entirely over OMG 2 whole inches of snow, I laugh my ass off.
I could go skateboarding in two inches of snow.
Nullsec in a Nutshell:
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45thtiger 0109
AL3XAND3R.
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Posted - 2014.02.10 02:24:00 -
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GM Nythanos wrote:We got some snow and the roads were rough in a lot of places. I drove around yesterday and today, but I also grew up in Pittsburgh so ice and an inch or two of snow isn't new to me and I have a lot of experience with it. Had I grown up down here it'd be like seeing a tornado in western PA. It can happen, but rarely, and not often enough you'd really get used to it. It's been warmer in Reykjavik recently than it has been here. e: Even having experience with this kind of weather it's never good to be out on icy roads and still plenty dangerous.
CCP should move to Australia to enjoy the heat .
Where I live it is a HOT 39 degree Celsius which is converts to 102.2 degree Fahrenheit yesterday the 09/02/2014
Some other parts for Australia was up to 45 -¦C - 113 -¦F
I am getting sick of this heat here in Australia.
Yes I know its still summer I cannot wait till winter arrives I prefer the cold.
I am not a CCP employee-ájust having a input in the EvE forum
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