Soup-sandwich weather.....

[Pjturbo]

Whusses, all Whusses! It's what dirt bikes are for.

Phil

 

[wfooshee]

62 in Atlanta today. Supposed to meet the gang for lunch and some riding before the kiddies get home. Fresh air BBQ or pizza, no gloves or thin gloves? I guess being in a bad drought has advantages if you ride year round. I'm getting cold just looking at all that white stuff. Still riding to work most days in January, i love mild winters.

What the hell??!?! We had frost this morning! (Our equivalent of Warchild's misery.)

This is like the beginning of one of those disaster movies where the weather goes haywire all over the world, then BANG! everybody's dead except 5 good guys and 50 bad guys.

Which side are YOU on???

 

[juniorfjr]

It's not all a loss. Just like we're in elementary school, Warchild and I don't have to report to work until noon tomorrow. Yea....I think I'm going hookybobbing! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

You guys are soft. Taking a snow day for a few flurries!

Not wusses, but govment.

 

[NoCage]

62 in Atlanta today. Supposed to meet the gang for lunch and some riding before the kiddies get home. Fresh air BBQ or pizza, no gloves or thin gloves? I guess being in a bad drought has advantages if you ride year round. I'm getting cold just looking at all that white stuff. Still riding to work most days in January, i love mild winters.

What the hell??!?! We had frost this morning! (Our equivalent of Warchild's misery.)

This is like the beginning of one of those disaster movies where the weather goes haywire all over the world, then BANG! everybody's dead except 5 good guys and 50 bad guys.

Which side are YOU on???

Crazy patterns... it was 29 with frost in Birmingham for the ride in today at a little before 0700, and now it's 59 at 1300. :blink:

 

[tcfjr]

Even though SoCal's rainy weather doesn't compare to eastern Washington's, my wife and I had chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches (sharp cheddar on sourdough) for dinner on Saturday night, in honor of the cold and wind. There's a restaurant nearby that makes really good chicken pies - also great on a cold, wintery night.

 

[Warchild]

It's not all a loss. Just like we're in elementary school, Warchild and I don't have to report to work until noon tomorrow.

So I thought I beat all the carnage the BDC's will likely cause, and try to go in a hour early. I depart for work around 10:20 am

This is pretty sweet..... after a 30 minute ordeal through ice-pack roadways chock full of brain-dead cagers (who can't even drive in the rain, much less this ****), I get to work to discover they didn't bother to even attempt to plow our parking lot. An average of 1 out of two vehicles immediately get stuck in the deep 9" snowdrifts.

Including me. :glare:

I get a push from some colleagues and find a spot to park, and immediately get stuck there. Fuckit, I'll deal with it later.

I go inside, log on and start going through email. A Hanford site-wide alert flashes across my screen: the Powers That Be have decided that it's too dangerous to drive, and have now called a site-wide Snow Day. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Fuckers. That's just..... great.

You would've thought they might have announced this a lot earlier, as we already had one dude killed locally by a snow-plow (dumb-ass was walking on the side of the road in the dark), and the WSP have said there have been hundreds of accidents since the snow started flying yesterday.

Got a push out of my parking spot snowdrift, and narrowly missed 3 accidents on the 7-mile drive home.

I am on the verge of adopting a piss-poor attitude. :glare:

 

[Ignacio]

So I thought I beat all the carnage the BDC's will likely cause, and try to go in a hour early. I depart for work around 10:20 am
This is pretty sweet..... after a 30 minute ordeal through ice-pack roadways chock full of brain-dead cagers (who can't even drive in the rain, much less this ****), I get to work to discover they didn't bother to even attempt to plow our parking lot. An average of 1 out of two vehicles immediately get stuck in the deep 9" snowdrifts.

Including me. :glare:

I get a push from some colleagues and find a spot to park, and immediately get stuck there. Fuckit, I'll deal with it later.

I go inside, log on and start going through email. A Hanford site-wide alert flashes across my screen: the Powers That Be have decided that it's too dangerous to drive, and have now called a site-wide Snow Day. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Fuckers. That's just..... great....

Hmmm...mine was much better. Even though the Jetta rides low I worked the slight downhills of parking lots better I guess. I got up at about 9 a.m., wandered to sears to get some more Craftsmen stuff since I have too many farkles for this bike to store in one toolbox, had lunch at Mandarin House, got some more washer fluid at NAPA, and as I pulled into what I absolutely agree was soup sandwich parking lot (finding an available blade in this community will be nearly impossible this week) I badged the door as LeGore was coming out and he looked like a third grader on a sunny day with a new saucer and private hill on his culdesac.

Dumb me for listening to The Eagles CD rather than the local information radio station.

Leaving the parking lot I took a left rather than your slippery right...MUCH better choice.

Back in the garage, pellet stove cranked, organizing pictures of our latest little trip we're going to share with the forum later (subtle teaser folks).

I figure I'll go shovel the neighbor's sidewalks to be friendly and then update my council website to remind folks to be patient in this snow event and hope for a frickin' Chinook to blow through.

 

[FJRay]

Same **** here. I spent 2hrs on the tractor moving white **** around.

 

[vectervp1]

I’m with you guys! Here it rained all day yesterday and most of the night! By this morning the ground was still wet. On my ride into work, I actually got my boots wet from the spray riding down the freeway. It was brutal.

Actually the rain played hell on the electrical systems out here. We had multiple T1 circuits down, alarm systems going ape ****, some flooding in areas, and no water in some buildings. Things have just now started to calm down so I can get back to screwing around at work.

 

[FJR_pig]

Beat that? :glare:

I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy...

 

[twowheelnut]

Yeah? That **** is puss. Try tackling the 'friendly skies'. **** the air travel industry and the plane they flew in on. Gimme snow, sleet and ice any day. <_<

 

[worldbound4now]

Yeah? That **** is puss. Try tackling the 'friendly skies'. **** the air travel industry and the plane they flew in on. Gimme snow, sleet and ice any day. <_<

Man, two posts of anger on one incident in such a short time. Spill

 

[rapd-rob]

I've looked at that crap since Thanksgiving and will until the end of March. I'm planning on heading to the Cycle show in Chicago next weekend and see they just got another 6 inches of stuff. Spring thru early Fall is sweet in WI. , but somewhere way South is looking better all the time.

 

[Warchild]

After four depressing, demoralizing days of having to take the daughter's cage into work, I finally braved the sandy, salted roads and took the FJR into work today, since it is a balmy 37 degrees.

One one pucker factor moment... coming into this stupid-ass parking lot at work, slipped about 3" on the 90-degree turn off the entrance road. The ride wasn't too bad up to that point.

Jeeze.... come ON, Spring, move your ass and get here, dammit...... :angry: