Oh come now ... don't tell me no one in the Bay Area ever complains about earthquakes! ;)
Complaining about the weather is a longstanding Alaskan tradition. It's how we keep from going postal during eight months of freakin' winter.
IT'S MAY! Though I've actually seen in snow in June. *looks out window* And it seems to have stopped without anything sticking around. It was kind of raining and snowing ... and now it's doing neither, just sort of gray and dark.
See, if we could split the difference between HIS weather and MY weather, we'd have something vaguely resembling a comfortable day ... like about 70 degrees, breezy and nice...
If Alaska ever figures out a way to export COLD, we could become our own nation and live comfortably on the proceeds.
My sophomore year of high school it snowed on my birthday, May 16th. It was that exact moment I determined I was going to leave Alaska as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
Weather must not be criticized; it just is. Here in Florida, we have had thick smoke from wildfires for several days; closed roads, coughing cits, lots of headlights trying unsuccessfully to pierce the stinking smoke.
I check the Fairbanks weather daily, and am usually horrfied by the contrast with our central Florida lovely outlook. For several days now, tho, we have had major smoke pollution from wildfires in southern Georgia and northern Florida. Coughing cits, closed highways, population huddled in the air conditioning, really poor visibility! Today I got up to the now customary pall of smoke-I couldn't see across the canal! I went out to get the daily paper, and was relieved to find we had a good healthy fog, not smoke! Looks the same, but smells ever so much better. So, don't complain about weather; it's even worse elsewhere!. Much love, deolgr
I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.
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[ raised eyebrow ]
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
That would be like me complaining about earthquakes after living in the Bay Area for 26 years. ;)
Next, you'll be complaining that the days are too short in winter.
On second thought ...
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Complaining about the weather is a longstanding Alaskan tradition. It's how we keep from going postal during eight months of freakin' winter.
IT'S MAY! Though I've actually seen in snow in June. *looks out window* And it seems to have stopped without anything sticking around. It was kind of raining and snowing ... and now it's doing neither, just sort of gray and dark.
Re: On second thought ...
If Alaska ever figures out a way to export COLD, we could become our own nation and live comfortably on the proceeds.
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Oh, that's just so wrong.
Here in Florida, we have had thick smoke from wildfires for several days; closed roads, coughing cits, lots of headlights trying unsuccessfully to pierce the stinking smoke.
Weather
So, don't complain about weather; it's even worse elsewhere!.
Much love,
deolgr
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Re: Oh, that's just so wrong.
I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.