Cancer Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Heh. It broke 80F here the previous couple days, unusual but not unheard of in mid-September. It'll cloud up a bit today, according to the forecast, but that'll disperse. It has not yet rained in Seattle this September. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word The sun is out now, and it's still cool. Mmm. Bliss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Autumn is pretty solidly here, here. Nighttime temps are creeping down towards freezing, and daytime seldom gets warmer than ten centigrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word That's autumn where you are? Yeesh. Remind me to never move there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Just I wait 'til october -- almost no sunlight, and no snow yet to light the place up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word So L. Marcus comes from the Great White North. I thought he had a Viking ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Look at a map, dear lady -- I live at the same latitude as the Great Bear Lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word The what . . .? Are there bears in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word It's in the Canadian Northwest. I bet the winters are chilly. And I guess bears enjoy a nice bath as much as the next carnivorous mammal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm an American, remember? All of Canada registers as "brr," to me. The news that it gets hot there in the summer came as quite a surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word It's that stoopid Continental Climate thing. Don't talk to me about mosquitoes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Hrmph. Try black flies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . The biting kind? Have those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word The kind that are so thick in early summer that the front of your car is plastered with a layer of dead black flies that takes the paint off when you finally clean it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Not that thick, no. But I might suggest using a flyswatter instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm in the northernmost major metropolitan area of the contiguous US, but our climate is moderated by the ocean. I've seen it referred to on these boards as "the Great Northwet". The gloom has not yet settled in for the non-summer, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Gloom . . . Almost onomatopoetic, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Poetic, in a dirge kind of way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ouchie. Brownouts are bad. Hope you and your stuff are OK' date=' Tim.[/quote'] Yeha it was rough while it was out, but we minimized our opening and closing of the fridge and freezer, and stuck bags of ice in them to cool them, so we didn't lose much in the way of food. Luckily neither motor burned out either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word Rather strange unexpected heat in that now-locked women striking men thread. And that without any discussion of RL experience cases, either. Peculiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . That word pretty well sums up the NGD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, not always the heat part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Isn't peculiar heat a physics term? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word In English the phrase is "specific heat" although one sense of "peculiar" is very close to that of "specific". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Peculiarer and peculiarer . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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