Snowfall

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Does Portland rain slush?

[Telarus]

Sometimes. A few years ago, I went for a walk to get out of the house and it was lightly sprinkling. By the time I got to the park it was hailing Ping-Pong ball sized chunks, so I hid under a pine tree.

20 minutes later it was raining again....

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's Goddamn 43F here.

This is BULLSHIT.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, sometimes it's just that slushy snow crap, which usually melts off pretty quick. Every once in a while it's freezing rain, where it makes everything it touches into an ice sculpture. I don't think we've had a serious amount of that since 2004 though.

THINKING ABOUT DRIVING?

LOLNOPE, CANNOT OPEN CAR.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sometimes. A few years ago, I went for a walk to get out of the house and it was lightly sprinkling. By the time I got to the park it was hailing Ping-Pong ball sized chunks, so I hid under a pine tree.

20 minutes later it was raining again....

For reasons that I don't really understand, it usually only hails in the summer. What gives with that? I need a meteorologist.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's Goddamn 43F here.

This is BULLSHIT.

It's 23 degrees here right now.

I don't like it at all.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's Goddamn 43F here.

This is BULLSHIT.

It's 23 degrees here right now.

I don't like it at all.

Our low so far this year was last Friday night, at 32F.

I expect we'll see worse next month.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, sometimes it's just that slushy snow crap, which usually melts off pretty quick. Every once in a while it's freezing rain, where it makes everything it touches into an ice sculpture. I don't think we've had a serious amount of that since 2004 though.

THINKING ABOUT DRIVING?

LOLNOPE, CANNOT OPEN CAR.

FUCK THAT SHIT.  This is EXACTLY why I moved to the desert.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's Goddamn 43F here.

This is BULLSHIT.

It's 23 degrees here right now.

I don't like it at all.

Our low so far this year was last Friday night, at 32F.

I expect we'll see worse next month.

That shit ain't right.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's Goddamn 43F here.

This is BULLSHIT.

It's 23 degrees here right now.

I don't like it at all.

Our low so far this year was last Friday night, at 32F.

I expect we'll see worse next month.

That shit ain't right.

There are only two good things about living in Tucson.  The second one is that it's SUPPOSED to be warm.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, sometimes it's just that slushy snow crap, which usually melts off pretty quick. Every once in a while it's freezing rain, where it makes everything it touches into an ice sculpture. I don't think we've had a serious amount of that since 2004 though.

THINKING ABOUT DRIVING?

LOLNOPE, CANNOT OPEN CAR.

FUCK THAT SHIT.  This is EXACTLY why I moved to the desert.

My favorite is when it fluctuates between 31 and 33 degrees throughout the day, so you can't even get out of the house without spiked shoes because you risk falling and splitting your head open on the ice. At least when it stays below freezing you can WALK places. One year I was trapped in the house for three days because my front steps solidified into an ice ramp. I could have gone out with a pickaxe and broken it up, but I didn't want to risk damaging the concrete and I had enough food to stay in.

Like I said, though, that kind of thing is a rarity and it only happens once every ten years or so.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Here when it gets cold, it gets DRY.  And all the moisture is pulled out of your body like Goddamn Magneto was hauling the iron out of that one dude's blood in that shitty fucking movie.  So you shrivel up like a mummy, and then everyone dies.  Again.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here when it gets cold, it gets DRY.  And all the moisture is pulled out of your body like Goddamn Magneto was hauling the iron out of that one dude's blood in that shitty fucking movie.  So you shrivel up like a mummy, and then everyone dies.  Again.

Yet another reason I hate cold. 

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Freezing rain is the ABSOLUTE GODDAMN WORST. I was out shoveling in that crap once when I was a kid and ended up with a layer of ice on my shoulders.

[Suu]

Yeah, sometimes it's just that slushy snow crap, which usually melts off pretty quick. Every once in a while it's freezing rain, where it makes everything it touches into an ice sculpture. I don't think we've had a serious amount of that since 2004 though.

THINKING ABOUT DRIVING?

LOLNOPE, CANNOT OPEN CAR.

That's...impressive.