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Post by herron on Oct 24, 2006 9:52:04 GMT -5
I only follow baseball in the playoffs and Series...and I might skip the playoffs altogether, when Detroit isn't playing (which has been a long time now). Nothing against baseball. I'm the same way with basketball and hockey, too. And football is one of those sports I watch only when there's nothing better to do and, since the Detroit Lions last won a championship in 1957, the incentive to cheer them on wore off a long time ago! As to the current Series, and this "stuff-on-the-hand" flap...isn't it interesting that the announcers that made such a big to-do over it both have ties to the St. Louis Cardinals? The NCAA college basketball tournament is probably (after soccer) my favorite spectator sport. Soccer would be first, but there is so little good soccer available locally...or on the tube. Alas, American sports audiences seem to need the commercial breaks as time to comprehend what just went on (or is it strictly to run out for more beer?)
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Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 3:45:33 GMT -5
In this neck of the woods we have had the worst summer for years. The South Island had all the good weather, here in the North Island, the La Nina weather pattern brought a lot of wet weather down from the tropics. Here we are in our autumn (fall for you Yanks) we have wet wild weather all weekend, The main road from Bay of Plenty to Povery Bay through the Waioeka Gorge is closed by slips and it's a 3 hour drive round the coast. The Manawatu Gorge (the river is the only other apart from the Brahmaputra/Ganges to cut through a mountain range) is closed until at least the middle of the year with an enormous slip, We are having heavy gales and some places are expecting 7 to 8 inches of rain overnight with 1 to 1,1/4 inches an hour at times. Is the World Series baseball or American football? That seems to me to be all body armour and committee meetings! I prefer Rugby myself. At least in that you really do have to touch the ball down for a try. Just getting to the line isn't good enough, and you can't pass the ball forward.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 14:48:58 GMT -5
It's Tuesday morning here and I was getting ready to go to work. I work in the kiosk at The Craters of the Moon, a thermal area about 5km (3 miles) north if Taupo. Just had a phone call, there are several trees down across the access road which will take some time to clear so I have the morning off. It's been a wild and windy night, several roads are closed in the central North Island with fallen trees and/or flooding. The power has been off during the night, my UPS has gone flat although it's charging up again now the power is back on. And the Met people say it could stay around for a day or two yet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2012 16:12:50 GMT -5
There also is a Crater's of the Moon National Monument here in Idaho, near Arco in the south central area of the state. The Idaho Nuclear Engineering Laboratory is near there--where a good share of the nuclear research is conducted. The Apollo astronauts did some of their training at the Craters of the Moon.
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 20, 2012 17:36:16 GMT -5
We have huge craters in Canada too. They were also created by lousy weather.
Here in Toronto we call them Pot Holes.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 19:46:44 GMT -5
THe road into our Craters of the Moon thermal area is open now after 30 trees were removed, The road is still very rough though. The access to Huka Falls is closed with fallen trees, that should reopen before very long I expect.
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Post by Steeler Fan on Apr 4, 2012 6:35:38 GMT -5
We have huge craters in Canada too. They were also created by lousy weather. Here in Toronto we call them Pot Holes. Mickey I can sympathize with you Mickey, in Pittsburgh we have 4 seasons...Summer, Winter, Pot Hole and Road Construction!
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Post by daveh on Apr 4, 2012 7:21:09 GMT -5
This time last week we had temperatures around 70oF. This week it's around 38oF, but some areas have had it below freezing and/or snow.
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Post by grenouille on Apr 4, 2012 14:17:34 GMT -5
We are getting the same effect, crazy weather
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2012 16:16:28 GMT -5
Yep. One day it will be near 70F and sunny and the next two days it will be in the 40s, 40 mph winds and raining buckets. Not normal from what I remember over the years but the weatherman claims it's not that unusual.
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Post by Randy on Apr 4, 2012 22:11:08 GMT -5
Been in the 40s here for over 2 weeks. Rain is better than snow.
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Post by photax on Apr 9, 2012 12:10:50 GMT -5
Here is yesterday`s April weather at the northern part of Austria: snowstorm at -1° C. My hike ended after 20 minutes :-( MIK
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Post by Doug T. on Apr 9, 2012 12:22:31 GMT -5
Hi Mik! Lousy weather, but great for photos That's a nice one. Doug
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Post by daveh on Apr 9, 2012 16:08:04 GMT -5
Did it take you that long to realise it was cold and it was snowing? I like the photo - any more in the series? Dave.
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Post by Steeler Fan on Apr 10, 2012 6:46:32 GMT -5
This is one Pittsburgh winter I can not complain about. We have had on a couple of "major" snow storms, our total accumulation is well below the average. We have had an early spring with temperatures in the 60s and 70s for a lot of March. But now they are saying we are supposed to get snow showers tonight with the low temperature of 32 0. Well at least with the temperatures being so warm there is little chance of the snow sticking on the ground.
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