Fuck this shitty weather!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Why are hurricanes not pummelling the coast of florida right now? Show a bit of effort amerispags

http://magicseaweed.com/news/Wot-No-Hurricanes-by-September/5545/

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Why are hurricanes not pummelling the coast of florida right now? Show a bit of effort amerispags

http://magicseaweed.com/news/Wot-No-Hurricanes-by-September/5545/

Don't blame us. Hurricanes come from the Carribbean.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Fucking Caribbean. Who do those bastards think they are?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Fucking Caribbean. Who do those bastards think they are?

Damned if I know. I'm in Massachusetts. We get the occasional hurricane but usually it's all Florida'd out by the time it comes up here. No, here we get Naw'reestiz (normally spelled Nor'easter, or in Queen's English, HolyShitWinter)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I apparently have very shitty memory:

The 2011 Halloween nor'easter - was a rare, historic nor'easter, which produced record breaking snowfall for October in many areas of the Northeastern U.S., especially New England. The storm produced a maximum of 32 inches of snow in Peru, Massachusetts, and killed 39 people. After the storm, the rest of the winter for New England remained very quiet, with much less than average snowfall and no other significant storms to strike the region for the rest of the season.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter#Notable_nor.27easters

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I say that, not because we had a nasty storm and people were killed, but that it was a relatively tame winter. Feels like to me December is cold, and when January rolls around, the sky dumps a bunch of frozen water on us, and we all get a good work out with the shovel.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Usually around August-September we can expect to get epic swell on the west coast from a bunch of atlantic hurricanes and then in the winter it's all east coast.

So far - fuck all. It's been a long, hot, high pressure, shitty, sunny, flat summer and now we're into autumn and it's still the fucking same. Fine if you happen to like lying on a deck lounger like some kind of bipedal whale, basting in your own juices. For anyone with a pulse, this year has been complete shit so far 

[Sita]

There's been a few storms this year but anytime they get close to us they seem to get scared and disappear

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Usually around August-September we can expect to get epic swell on the west coast from a bunch of atlantic hurricanes and then in the winter it's all east coast.

So far - fuck all. It's been a long, hot, high pressure, shitty, sunny, flat summer and now we're into autumn and it's still the fucking same. Fine if you happen to like lying on a deck lounger like some kind of bipedal whale, basting in your own juices. For anyone with a pulse, this year has been complete shit so far 

You know, I'm with you there. I've never seen the point in slow baking yourself in the glow of the great melanoma giver. Melanoma aside, it's, well. Boring. Just picture it. Some mostly naked person is just lying there. Outside. For fun. Not looking at anything because from that angle you'd burn your retinas. It's the equivalent at sitting there and staring at a wall, except the wall is your eyelids.

[Sita]

Fucking hate summer.
Not enough rain this year to make this damned heat worth it. I'm tired of instantly wanting to sleep as soon as I step outside my door.
What we laughably call winter can't come soon enough.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

We're getting a tropical storm this weekend.  Hundreds of miles inland.

[Telarus]

Usually around August-September we can expect to get epic swell on the west coast from a bunch of atlantic hurricanes and then in the winter it's all east coast.

So far - fuck all. It's been a long, hot, high pressure, shitty, sunny, flat summer and now we're into autumn and it's still the fucking same. Fine if you happen to like lying on a deck lounger like some kind of bipedal whale, basting in your own juices. For anyone with a pulse, this year has been complete shit so far 

You know, I'm with you there. I've never seen the point in slow baking yourself in the glow of the great melanoma giver. Melanoma aside, it's, well. Boring. Just picture it. Some mostly naked person is just lying there. Outside. For fun. Not looking at anything because from that angle you'd burn your retinas. It's the equivalent at sitting there and staring at a wall, except the wall is your eyelids.

And just like Meditation, if you fall asleep while doing it, your doing it wrong.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Usually around August-September we can expect to get epic swell on the west coast from a bunch of atlantic hurricanes and then in the winter it's all east coast.

So far - fuck all. It's been a long, hot, high pressure, shitty, sunny, flat summer and now we're into autumn and it's still the fucking same. Fine if you happen to like lying on a deck lounger like some kind of bipedal whale, basting in your own juices. For anyone with a pulse, this year has been complete shit so far 

You know, I'm with you there. I've never seen the point in slow baking yourself in the glow of the great melanoma giver. Melanoma aside, it's, well. Boring. Just picture it. Some mostly naked person is just lying there. Outside. For fun. Not looking at anything because from that angle you'd burn your retinas. It's the equivalent at sitting there and staring at a wall, except the wall is your eyelids.

And just like Meditation, if you fall asleep while doing it, your doing it wrong.

Well at least if you fall asleep during meditation you dont wake up full of uv rays

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Usually around August-September we can expect to get epic swell on the west coast from a bunch of atlantic hurricanes and then in the winter it's all east coast.

So far - fuck all. It's been a long, hot, high pressure, shitty, sunny, flat summer and now we're into autumn and it's still the fucking same. Fine if you happen to like lying on a deck lounger like some kind of bipedal whale, basting in your own juices. For anyone with a pulse, this year has been complete shit so far 

You know, I'm with you there. I've never seen the point in slow baking yourself in the glow of the great melanoma giver. Melanoma aside, it's, well. Boring. Just picture it. Some mostly naked person is just lying there. Outside. For fun. Not looking at anything because from that angle you'd burn your retinas. It's the equivalent at sitting there and staring at a wall, except the wall is your eyelids.

I love laying in the sun! Every year I try to make it to the nude beach at least a couple of times, to read a book and soak up some vitamin D. Total fail this year.

Here is the problem. We only get a few weeks of sun every year here. As a result, everybody is chronically vitamin D deficient, depressed, and groggy. It's a proven scientific fact that the less vitamin D you have in your system, the better you can hear the bridges. That's why when people first move here from California or Arizona or wherever, they can't hear them; it can take a couple of years for their vitamin D stores to become depleted enough to start hearing them. And then, after you've been here a while and you're at a near-critical level, they get really loud and you can't ignore them anymore.

This is the exact point at which most newcomers lose their shit and move back to wherever they came from. This is why you hear people who have been here a couple of years saying things that sound completely insane, like "Fuck Portland, I'm moving back to Detroit where at least I can get a job and people are friendly".

What they actually mean is that they have started to hear the sinister yet seductive undertone that pulses through the city, and worse; that they have started to feel the grip of the limp apathy that makes it sound like a lullaby, like like maybe if you just went for a walk across the nearest bridge everything would be OK. Resist the urge to look down. No, don't resist the urge to look down. The water is so calm.

That, my friend, is why it's so important to spend at least a couple of days each summer lying in the sun. It's either that or you end up at the doctor for shots when you realize you haven't washed your hair for weeks and eating solid food sounds exhausting.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That said, after a last beautiful sunny weekend it has become September here, with all that implies. I'm not sure I'm really ready for September, but I do like hearing the rain come down at night.