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Offline NHSparky

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Happy New Year--sorta...
« on: December 31, 2008, 06:50:42 AM »
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Issued by The National Weather Service
Portland, ME
3:17 am EST, Wed., Dec. 31, 2008

... STRONG WINDS AND VERY LOW TEMPERATURES WILL MAKE FOR BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES TONIGHT...

TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE SINGLE NUMBERS AND TEENS DURING THE EVENING HOURS AND WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PICK UP OUT OF THE NORTH... GUSTING OVER 30 MPH AT TIMES. THESE WINDS COUPLED WITH THE VERY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL MAKE FOR BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES THAT WILL BE BELOW ZERO DURING EVENING CELEBRATIONS. THE WIND CHILL VALUES WILL THEN FALL TO AS LOW AS 29 BELOW ZERO BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

BE PREPARED FOR BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATIONS. DRESS IN LAYERS AND KEEP EXTRA CLOTHING AND BLANKETS IN THE CAR.


Just one more reason to stay home and celebrate tonight.  No need to go out in that.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2008, 07:40:02 AM »
It's going to be cold here today and tonight, so we'll be staying in tonight also. 
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2008, 08:00:22 AM »
The weather should be OK, but we're staying in. We'd rather have a quiet night together.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2008, 08:30:14 AM »
We're meeting a large group of friends at a social event.  I would prefer to stay home but the Spousal Control Unit says otherwise.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2008, 08:32:24 AM »

No matter what the weather conditions, I never, ever, ever go out New Year's Eve.

Way too many crazy and (potentially) drunk people on the road.





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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2008, 08:32:47 AM »
Cold and very windy with sporadic snow in the wind for now.  Not going anywhere tonight (although my daughter is going over to the boyfriends house...they are picking her up and bringing her home).  Mr Flame and the boys and I will just hang out and play the Wii or watch a movie.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to my sister's.  Not sure if that will happen or not, as she had drama in her life yesterday and things are up in the air.

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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2008, 08:35:13 AM »
Quote from: Flame on December 31, 2008, 08:32:47 AM
Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to my sister's.  Not sure if that will happen or not, as she had drama in her life yesterday and things are up in the air.

Don't you just hate it, when that happens?
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2008, 08:36:10 AM »
We are getting 6-8 inches of snow today, so we are staying in tonight also.     :yawn:   I barely stay awake for midnight anymore.  
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2008, 08:54:35 AM »
Quote from: Scoobie on December 31, 2008, 08:32:24 AM
No matter what the weather conditions, I never, ever, ever go out New Year's Eve.

Way too many crazy and (potentially) drunk people on the road.







The guys at the bar reason (correctly, for the most part) that storms are better to try to get home after a few because the cops are already busy with other accidents, cars in ditches, etc., and even if you are slipping around, hey--it's SNOWING!

That and when you live in a town of 30,000 where on any given Friday/Saturday night there are FOUR cops on patrol at any given time...

I'm certainly not encouraging it, but if people really knew just how thinly spread the "thin blue line" really was...


Finally, isn't it strange that when I was living in SoCal, all the idiots, gangbangers, etc, like to pop off a few hundred rounds at midnight, despite people dying/shot nearly every single New Year's Eve and all the stories on the news.  Yet here in the middle of nowhere, nary a gunshot to be heard at midnight the last two years.  Go figure.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2008, 09:06:37 AM »
Quote from: formerlurker on December 31, 2008, 08:36:10 AM
We are getting 6-8 inches of snow today, so we are staying in tonight also.     :yawn:   I barely stay awake for midnight anymore.  

I think Red and I slept through it last year. And he's on night shift this week, so there's a good chance the same thing will happen this year.

I'm a big party pooper.....I feel so old.  :bawl:



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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2008, 09:13:58 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 31, 2008, 08:54:35 AM
The guys at the bar reason (correctly, for the most part) that storms are better to try to get home after a few because the cops are already busy with other accidents, cars in ditches, etc., and even if you are slipping around, hey--it's SNOWING!

That and when you live in a town of 30,000 where on any given Friday/Saturday night there are FOUR cops on patrol at any given time...

I'm certainly not encouraging it, but if people really knew just how thinly spread the "thin blue line" really was...


Finally, isn't it strange that when I was living in SoCal, all the idiots, gangbangers, etc, like to pop off a few hundred rounds at midnight, despite people dying/shot nearly every single New Year's Eve and all the stories on the news.  Yet here in the middle of nowhere, nary a gunshot to be heard at midnight the last two years.  Go figure.

My crazy stupid neighbors next door love to shoot off fireworks on New Years Eve. Which in and of itself I could care less about, but instead of doing the smart thing and keeping them over the field, they insist on shooting them up over my house. My house is a million years old and a tinderbox to say the least. One spark on my roof and POOF. Needless to say that 4th of July and New Years Eve the police know that they will most likely be summoned to cruise by my place a time or two. Hopefully with the weather forecast for the night (bitter cold with 40+ MPH winds) it won't be an issue.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2008, 09:44:39 AM »
Since I stopped tippin 15 years ago, I'm going to bed. No more Guy Lombardo for me. :-)
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2008, 09:54:32 AM »
I'm going out with Sweet Dee tonight.  I'm a little scared, I think she's trying to corrupt me.

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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2008, 10:50:22 AM »
A balmy 10 below here with the windchills.  My ManCave feels like a fridge.

And no, that was not an anotomical reference.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2008, 10:58:59 AM »
Damn Sparky, now THAT is cold! We're supposed to get down to 13 degrees with a 7 degree windchill here in the State Of Corruption, but I wouldn't be able to handle going out in that. Wow.

Me and the Mrs. are probably gonna celebrate the new year at home, but by the time I get off work, the countdown (5...4...3..2...1) will be watching the clock not for the New Year, but when it's time to go home. "Yay! Off work! Oh, yeah... eerrr... HAPPY NEW YEAR!" lol

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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2008, 11:18:30 AM »
The wind is whipping hard here!!! It was around 45mph the last time I checked. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

No going out for me. I've already been to the grocery store and Costco. I could bunker down for a long time if I had to.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2008, 11:37:49 AM »
There isn't an especially large volume of snow falling now, but the wind is whipping it around quite nicely into some good-sized drifts.  The met tower at the plant currently says we're at 18 degrees with a 17 mph wind, for a calculated wind chill of +2 deg F.  At 12:30 in the afternoon.  And we're at the seacoast.  At my humble abode, it's a wind chill of -3 F.

Oh, it's gonna be a FUN night.  Like the lady in the AT&T commercial says upon seeing her children terrorized by T-Rex, "Yay!"

But, fear not!  Mount Washington is currently at +2 degrees, windchill at -23 F.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2008, 12:32:12 PM »
I could easily be talked into staying at home.....
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2008, 12:33:15 PM »
I jusst got back from the grocery store to get my beverage of choice.....100% whole milk and it's colder than a witches, well, er, one of her appendages.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2008, 12:41:47 PM »
Quit your whining about wind chill. Wind chill means NOTHING IF one dresses properly for the weather. Of course, I'm enjoying a nice, sunny 60° day here in N Central Texas...  :tongue:
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2008, 01:26:31 PM »
Quote from: Thor on December 31, 2008, 12:41:47 PM
Quit your whining about wind chill. Wind chill means NOTHING IF one dresses properly for the weather. Of course, I'm enjoying a nice, sunny 60° day here in N Central Texas...  :tongue:

Oh for Pete's sake, yer gettting soft!  :evillaugh:
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2008, 04:18:54 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 31, 2008, 01:26:31 PM
Oh for Pete's sake, yer gettting soft SPOILED!  :evillaugh:

fixed it for you!!   :-)


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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #22 on: December 31, 2008, 06:20:44 PM »
Its going to be 20 degrees tonight and clear with some wind. Going out to a local bar for a few hours with someone and then probably call it a night.
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #23 on: December 31, 2008, 06:44:09 PM »
Quote from: SaintLouieWoman on December 31, 2008, 08:00:22 AM
The weather should be OK, but we're staying in. We'd rather have a quiet night together.

What she said! And with Filet Mignon for dinner!  :-)

Happy New Years everyone!
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Re: Happy New Year--sorta...
« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2008, 06:58:36 PM »
Currently 66 degrees here and according to Yahoo, the low tonight will be 47 with light and variable winds. Suckers.  :-)

I'm going to a friends house for a New Year's Eve Bash in a little while here. Last I heard, over 40 folks had RSVP'd. So it will be a good turnout but nothing like that nightmare Insight Fiesta Bowl Block Party in Tempe. I did that a few years ago and almost swore of New Year's Eve gatherings for good.
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