manofmisteree 02-22-2005, 03:15 PM i was watching the weather portion of the news...looks like southern california is on tornado warning.
yes, it's been raining like crazy...but tornadoes? that's just weird. wonder if there has been any tornadoes here before.
what wonderful weather we're having here... heavy rain, lots of destroyed houses sinking into the mud, floods, and now tornadoes... :confused:
Inahnia 02-22-2005, 05:18 PM OK thats just scarey....did anyone watch "The Day After Tomorrow"?
ravenglow 02-22-2005, 05:21 PM I did...I think California is having the worst weird weather this week but its kinda wacky all over the country really....makes you wonder
Chad Stieger 02-22-2005, 07:58 PM I've talked to some of the old timers at a bar. (Yep there are still a few old timers who are healthy enough to only need a nursing home for a good night's sleep.) and they can remember as children running around in 50 degress farenhiet weather in the middle of December. Even though it's in Minnesota.
babes66 02-22-2005, 08:13 PM Originally posted by Inahnia
OK thats just scarey....did anyone watch "The Day After Tomorrow"?
Has anyone read "State Of Fear" by Michael Crichton?
Lorena 02-23-2005, 12:28 AM I've been watching the weather there on tv........it's so sad, and yes weird........to me this is the signs of the times.........I noticed that in places where its warm year round the weather has been acting very weird lately.......look at Florida too, with the hurricanes and other places, makes you think doesn't it? I know it does me.:(
LADave 02-23-2005, 01:30 AM This weather is driving me absolutely NUTS! Sunshine, and lots of it, is absolutely essential for me to feel well. I've never liked any amount of rain, not even an overcast sky.
So here I am in Los Angeles, traditionally famous for wonderful weather, and for most of the time since Christmas, it's been raining or at least cloudy. I've always figured that I could never live in the Pacific Northwest, beautiful as it is, because of the rain. Fast forward to today. I'm sitting at lunch in downtown LA with rain pouring down outside, reading a story in the newspaper about how Seattle has been unusually warm and dry. What is this!?
fos4snt 02-23-2005, 06:39 AM Well, fine... if we're all carping on the weather here... Give me my dang SNOW already. I mean, I DID move up into the Shenandoah mountains and should have gotten some decent snowfall this year, but noooOOooOoOooooo.
The Day After Tomorrow was a terrifically cheesy movie and did not succeed in the suspension of disbelief. :p
Anyway, if people want to start thinking revelations or Nostradamus, all I can say is: Television, people. It only SEEMS like more or weirder, because we're all so dang connected now. 50 years ago, you think I would have known about, let alone CARED, what's going on in southern California? Nope. I might have heard about it weeeeeeks after it happened, IF it was considered newsworthy.
LOL. And I remember 90+ degree weather in December here... Indian summers we call those. They happen every few years.
~phosphorescent
Inahnia 02-23-2005, 10:13 AM Actually the movie was about what could/will happen when/if global warming gets out of control....a repeat of the climate shifts that took place ages ago when the first Ice Ages came about, not so much Revelation or anything. And it is undeniable that we are experiencing global warming because of the excessive use of fossil fuels and the destruction of earth's large forests. Just wish there was anything we could do about it, but it would take major changes right now by everyone on the planet and it might even be too late anyway. Guess we just have to see what the gods have in store.
Babes, I am reading that book now.
babes66 02-23-2005, 01:20 PM Originally posted by Red's_Daisy
Babes, I am reading that book now.
Let me know what you think..I am looking at Global Warming in a whole new light these days!
Originally posted by fos4snt
Anyway, if people want to start thinking revelations or Nostradamus, all I can say is: Television, people. It only SEEMS like more or weirder, because we're all so dang connected now. 50 years ago, you think I would have known about, let alone CARED, what's going on in southern California? Nope. I might have heard about it weeeeeeks after it happened, IF it was considered newsworthy.
LOL. And I remember 90+ degree weather in December here... Indian summers we call those. They happen every few years.
~phosphorescent
I agree.
With the media being able to bring these events to us in an instant, it does seem like the 'beginning of the end', but the truth is these type of weather happenings have all taken place in the past, but we weren't living the experience by way of TV that we are now.
I will admit, it is all a bit unnerving and it all 'seems' like our inevitable damnation might be upon us. It is a good message to not take for granted our gifts of the earth and to live each day to the fullest.
Seattle has been having a rare sunny and warm winter, althought the nights are bitter cold and the frost is thick come morning. The mountains didn't get the snow it usually does and the skiers and snowboarders are bummed! It concerns me that because of the low snow levels we will have a water shortage this summer. Guess all we can hope for is that California sends us some of that rain they are having now - a very wet spring and summer might be enough to ward off an impending draught.
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