Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Tailgunner · Vociferator Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 327

Bah humbug I say! I got to drive in that crap to work tomorrow.

mouse · Needs to get out more Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 1192

Bah humbug I say! I got to drive in that crap to work tomorrow.

...what the FUCK ?

u see my location , bitch ??

:)

I dont wanna hear about it. I drove a rear wheel drive '88 merc with bald tires (drag slick style) thru a 6 month winter the one year.

Kadius · Needs to get out more Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 911

If two inches of snow falls here, people shit their pants. Kentucky, I mean.

The New Meat · Needs to get out more Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 933

But it's so nice out here in SUNNY CALIFORNIA.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

mouse · Needs to get out more Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 1192

But it's so nice out here in SUNNY CALIFORNIA.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Is it true it never rains in california? Cuz it seems I've often heard that kinda talk before....

I found this comparison amusing lately, or this one.

Im aware youre 'filthypotsmokinghippyville' probably refers to SanFran... well: as of March '05 Buffalo, NY (erie county) is going to paying a 9.25% sales taxes. Thats 9.25% in addition to sky-high property tax and everything else ... and thats for living in one of the most fucked-up, corrupt, broke-ass areas of the entire country..

As long as I had COL adjustments reflected in my paycheck - the expenses of living in a state like CA wouldnt even phase me in the slightest. No BS.

Tho I think I'd aim for something a little bit more familiar, more like home ... Id be shooting for Bakersfield, CA :)

SquareMoogle · Vociferator Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 357

8% sales tax is our current. Welcome to California, land of expensive housing and low rain. Where I live it rains a couple days out of the year, causing mudslides from the general lack of water. Just recently it "snowed" for the first time in over a decade, at a "freezing" 35 fahrenheit. (Lowest temp in years.) How much you wanna bet it didn't reach an inch :D

Gargoyle · Vociferator Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 455

I fucking hate snow, and I want the spring NOW.

mouse · Needs to get out more Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 1192

8% sales tax is our current. Welcome to California, land of expensive housing and low rain.

Thats about all thats different - I could become a slum lord using my visa card here, no shit :)

buy a ghetto property - cash , $5k-$10k. And Ive seen lower

I actually had a semi-joking, but serious-enough offer to purchase a house/property for $900 at one point in my life. (Im 23 years old) :D

edit:

at a "freezing" 35 fahrenheit.

T-SHIRT

SquareMoogle · Vociferator Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 357

Look in at Longbeach and LA, you'll pay 150k for a shack on stilts, it's dismal.

The New Meat · Needs to get out more Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 933

Is it true it never rains in california? Cuz it seems I've often heard that kinda talk before....

Actually, it's been raining no and off pretty hard here for the last few weeks. That's kind of unusual, though.

Im aware youre 'filthypotsmokinghippyville' probably refers to SanFran

Close. Berkeley.

Mastertran · Venter Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 275

Man I used to live in a desert to inches of snow is heaven to me. Make it more cold then I'll be happy.

Tailgunner · Vociferator Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 327

Mouse! WTF man!? We came up last Saturday! Why weren't you there?

Dr. Dos · Vociferator Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 718

-2 degrees Fahrenheit = -18.8888889 degrees Celsius

that was the temp when I woke up today in lovely northeastern Pennsylvania.

m_estrugo · Vociferator Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 534

Being the habitual son of a bitch I am, I couldn't lose this opportunity to take a picture of the sights from my window and make those of you living closer to the North pole than me to pale with envy.

Yep. The peaks at the bottom are coated on snow. And there's not even a single cloud on the sky, yup. and the temperature is warm enough to let me be at home with the window open, and wearing only a shirt.

I've got a ski resort a few miles away from home. So if I want to enjoy the snow, I just go up. And if I get tired of it, I just come back.

I authorize all of you to hate me. :)

DA · Vociferator Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 595

I authorize all of you to hate me. :)

*hates you* it's fucking cold where I am.

MagKnightX · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 415

m_estrugo: Are those the Pyrenees or the Iberians or what? Or are you on the awesome side of the Atlantic?

m_estrugo · Vociferator Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 534

That one over there is Sierra Nevada (the original one). And the town is Granada. :)

mouse · Needs to get out more Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 1192

Mouse! WTF man!? We came up last Saturday! Why weren't you there?

...That information is classified.

Is it true it never rains in california? Cuz it seems I've often heard that kinda talk before....

Actually, it's been raining no and off pretty hard here for the last few weeks. That's kind of unusual, though.

hehe
:)

Its only funny that you say that cuz I was kind of/sort of quoting that Albert Hammond song: "It Never Rains In Southern California". I dont think anyone noticed or knows the song off the top thier heads.

(#5 US Chart - 1972, thank you google)

<...>
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours.
<...>

MagKnightX · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 415

Of course, one thing you have to consider is that California is so friggin' big that EVERYTHING happens and doesn't happen there... I imagine (not entirely certain) that it rarely rains in the Mojave area.

Dogthing · Vociferator Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 700

Sup guys 8)

Quantum Coyote · Venter Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 221

Of course, one thing you have to consider is that California is so friggin' big that EVERYTHING happens and doesn't happen there... I imagine (not entirely certain) that it rarely rains in the Mojave area.

Yes, basically the southern half is semi-arid desert, but I dunno what the eco-designation for the more northern part is. We get enough rain however to have a rich native flora and fauna, which we LOVE to constantly crush under earthmovers and build houses over. Alot of the natural habitat along the southern coast was cleared for grazing by the Spaniards (and other later on) as well. It can be hard to find native terrain around the L.A. major metropolitan area (I'm including orange county here as well as san diego and riverside counties), if you don't know where to look. On steep areas of hillside where cattle couldn't reach you can often see a destinctive change in flora, and the natural plants TEND to keep the European and Asian weeds out, but most of the plants in areas not like this are foreign weeds.

Urbanization has had a dramatic and interesting impact on the fauna as well, critters such as skunk, coyote, and crow benifit particularly. While others, like the fox and cougar (mountain lion, and if you've never seena pic of one, yes, they are friggin LIONS, kinda scarry for hikers) suffer greatly from domestic expansion.

Umm, back to the weather, yea like you said about the Mojave, theres a predictable patern of rain shadows east of the coastal ranges of low mountains. Moisture hits us from the ocean, unless there is a monsoon system occuring in the states east and south-east of us, then sometimes thunderstorms sweep in from the east.. The deserts, like the Mojave, are high deserts, some up at about 3-4 thousand feet if I'm correct. I'm not gonna get into the physics, but onshore flow will reverse and hot dry air will come screaming out of the high deserts and down the valleys, causing the infamous Santa Ana Winds, the major cause of our nasty little firestorms (Thanks Australia! those dudes help us out in bad fire times and bring in 'copters and other equipment, and I'm pretty sure we do the same for them. We both get those nasty dry fires.. I refer you to "The Hills of Los Angeles are Burning" by Bad Religion for a musical take on the winds and flame.)

Up north, lots of rain, lots of trees. At keast on the coast. The jet stream brings in a lot of moisture. I love it up there, but I don't know much about the ecology.

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mouse · Needs to get out more Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 1192

Umm, back to the weather, yea like you said about the Mojave, theres a predictable patern of rain shadows east of the coastal ranges of low mountains. Moisture hits us from the ocean, unless there is a monsoon system occuring in the states east and south-east of us, then sometimes thunderstorms sweep in from the east.. The deserts, like the Mojave, are high deserts, some up at about 3-4 thousand feet if I'm correct. I'm not gonna get into the physics, but onshore flow will reverse and hot dry air will come screaming out of the high deserts and down the valleys, causing the infamous Santa Ana Winds, the major cause of our nasty little firestorms (Thanks Australia! those dudes help us out in bad fire times and bring in 'copters and other equipment, and I'm pretty sure we do the same for them. We both get those nasty dry fires.. I refer you to "The Hills of Los Angeles are Burning" by Bad Religion for a musical take on the winds and flame.)

I dont understand all of it , but I actually do find this sort of information interesting :)