Sick of this weather!!!

[lostalgic-s]

This probably isn't gonna go in the direction you're thinking:

This is the second time this week that I've been watching TV and it's been interrupted by the weather dude telling me that there is "severe weather" heading into the area. And what happens? It rains for maybe a half hour, and within that half hour, there's about 10 minutes of light thunder and a handful of lightning flashes. That's one thing that I miss about Minnesota, we used to have SEVERE WEATHER, the sky would get green then black, and it would thunder so loud it would scare you and lightning so much you could read a book when the power went out. My dad and I would watch out the windows and point out wall clouds, and even a couple times, the beginnings of tornados, and when I was really little, my sisters and I would hang out in our 3-season porch and listen to the rain hit the skylights and watch the lightning flash across the sky.

Which leads me to a question:

Are Virginian's just wimpy when it comes to weather? They interrupt TV for small storms like what's going on right now, the schools are shut down as soon as a snowflake sticks to a blade of grass, and heaven forbid you're on the roadways while it's raining, you'd be safer in a bumper car. Isabel was my first experience with a Hurricane, and I really wasn't impressed, I know you should expect the worst, but that thing wasn't even half as bad as people were making it out to be, at least I didn't think so.

[incudose]

yeah alot of Va is like that. people get out of school all the time further south just because they are like holy crap, its snow. go have fun. tech sucks, we are never out. we got out twice this past year just cuz there was atleast a foot of snow/ice. that totals up to 4 time schools out in the past 12 years

[Born 2 Be Low]

You are right I'm sick of my programs being interuptued by a rain storm and they say the sky is falling. I'm convice Virginia doesn't have anything to report on and if a sailor hasn't rob or stole something then they report on the weather. Here to Virginia

[brewthru85]

it was kinda bad out this way, but it's slacked off now.





we lost power at work, but of course, the generator kicked in. when i was leaving it was pouring and lighting.

[fi istaylo]

hell man, it was nasty up here...past 3 nights really...i hate it, fockin nice during the day...crappy at night...hail, wind, rain, lightning...all the good stuff...

[nickf829]

no kidding man, when i lived in wisconsin(waukEshau) we'd have CRAZY storms.. itd lightning so much that at night you couldn't sleep cuz it was so bright... and they lasted ALL NIGHT LONG.. not like here in Va where it sprinkles for a half hour, thunders a little then sunny again... northern storms are so much cooler for some reason... another thing i liked, the lightning was different, like here its just usually heat lightning or random bolts.. up there we saw lightning branch out and cover the entire sky, looked like 500 little bolts going any which direction.. now that is truely awesome... the clouds would be so low sometimes youd think you were starring up into the storm only to find out the storm/cloud are like 100 ft off the ground when the lightning flashes above the clouds, kinda creepy yet badass at the same time

[lillitnn92]

i'm in one of those areas where snow shuts down everything. it's not because they want to though. most of the time it's county schools first(like most places). it comes down to 2 things, possible lawsuits and really bad backroads. here in the valley we are made of hills, so put snow and ice together with that and schools out! there is no way out of staunton without going up a hill. i remember when i worked at the hospital and leaving at 4:00am trying to get to out of staunton. i went one way, couldn't get up the hill, went back the other way, couldn't get up the hill. tried going a third route, didn't make it. turn around went back home and got stuck going back up the hill to my apartment.

i do agree with you though, if there' a chance of snow, everybody and the brother are talking about 5 times a minute. i've gotten to the point that i fuss at people who get so worked up about it. my weather report is.

put on clothes(optional)> step outside> look up.

now hurricanes are one thing i watch, only because i want to be there during landfall most of the time. :) i've always like the idea of being a storm chaser. what's realy fun, go up on the parkways during big storms, i almost get excited thinking about it.

[chameleons10guy]

I love me some hurricanes. Chasing them would be really exciting and interesting. its not the snow that cancells everything, its really the ice. but who cares, life goes on.
U dont like the way we caution weather, carry ur ass.



Ryan

[lillitnn92]

I love me some hurricanes. Chasing them would be really exciting and interesting. its not the snow that cancells everything, its really the ice. but who cares, life goes on.
U dont like the way we caution weather, carry ur ass.



Ryan


yeah, south gets the ice, but we get the snow that never leaves. i would say it's the after effects of the snow that becomes the problem. the melting snow, slush and coldness makes it a *****.