Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Respect. (From someone who lived through the Blizzard of '78. In my lifetime, we've never gone below -20 here.)

As bad as I had it, I was stunned watching news of Canadians suffering temps too low for their thermometers to register. They were talking about vehicles cracking their engines even though they were using bloc heaters.

Up to that point, I thought even AVERAGE Canadians had the same kind of cold-weather equipment as arctic researchers.

Nope. Polar cold is a whole other category.

 

[Scribe]

-80degF

Yes! The only temperatures at which my school was actually closed growing up, my Father still had to go and open the doors, on a bike because the car couldnt run, because if some parent mistakenly brought their kid to school somehow, they needed to get in or die.

I only remember it happening once though.

 

[payn]

Blizzard you say? @payn you want to tell them about the Halloween Blizzard of '91?

Halloween '91. Trick or treater's tears for as far as you could see.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes! The only temperatures at which my school was actually closed growing up, my Father still had to go and open the doors, on a bike because the car couldnt run, because if some parent mistakenly brought their kid to school somehow, they needed to get in or die.

I only remember it happening once though.

I started working at the uni in December of '98. January of '99 was when we had the massive snowstorms that had Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman call in the army (and the rest of Canada won't let us forget it). I was still probationary and got to work EARLY every day through that, as I didn't want to lose the good job I'd just gotten. The uni's administration, at the time, was proud of being the last in the area to close, during bad weather. They wouldn't announce until 10:00am, at which point I'd been on campus for 3 hours. By that point the trains would no longer be running and they'd switch to busses. I was leaving a little after 10:00am and not getting home until some time after 4:00pm.

 

[Velderan]

Halloween '91. Trick or treater's tears for as far as you could see.

Ok, I think we both met our requirement as Minnesotans to mention it anytime someone mentions a blizzard.

 

[Scribe]

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"Actually, I want to have this problem so I can continue to complain, please do not solve this problem."

 

[Scribe]

Well, thats a wrap on football, my fitness is changing gears (really just means I no longer have to think about food its going to be the same thing for the next month and a half...) so...

Back to the Shadowdark!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I no longer have to think about food its going to be the same thing for the next month and a half...

Yikes! I hope you're OK with the food you're eating for most of that time.

 

[Scribe]

Yikes! I hope you're OK with the food you're eating for most of that time.

Yeah, nothing special, but my 'lets gain a bunch of muscle/weight' seems to have been managed by my body less than perfectly so its time to pivot to something more realistic and maintainable. It is actually a plus for me to not have to think about what I'm eating, but I've got a poor relationship with food.

"Do you enjoy Chicken and Broccoli? Well then I've got a treat for you!"

 

[payn]

"Do you enjoy Chicken and Broccoli? Well then I've got a treat for you!"

/raises hand