L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... According to Wolfram|Alpha, we've got 100% right now ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word We had over 4and a half inches of rain here last night over about 5 hours. that's about 12cm for our non-American members Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word When it gets to 90 F/32 C in these parts, usually the airflow is from inland rather than the ocean, and one doesn't have to go far inland on this side of North America to reach rather arid regions. That means the incoming warm air has been well dried. So when it's really hot here, it is not humid, usually. I've experienced hot and humid days here, but very rarely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word That's what I miss about the bay area. Got hot, it would suck cold air off the ocean and we'd get 100% humidity in the form of fog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Good old SF weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word if I understood what that means, I could respond. Once upon a time, audio was sold on flat vinyl platters called "records" or "LP's". Records were played on a device called a "turn table" at various speeds represented in terms of revolutions per minute (RPM). "LP's" were usually played back at 33 1/3 RPM. Thus ends the history lesson. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word It's Seattle. Seattle is a byword for "moist". Actually, despite the frequent precipitation, Seattle is in an arid zone. They get rain almost every day, but not much rain. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... Is it BC that has a rain forest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word I wouldn't know. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Right, you're on the wrong end of the continent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Wrong country, too. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... I thought Maryland was in Quebec? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Only if Quebec has annexed the mid Atlantic region since I got up this morning. And people say Americans are bad at Geography... Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word All in good humor. I meant of course Tijuana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word No, we seceded from Tijuana. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word So sad. If Maryland and Tijuana had stayed together, we could call them Mary-juana. *rimshot* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word But then we'd get sued by the drug lords for brand dissolution and trademark infringement. And they don't stop at lawyers! Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word ... Lawyers with really thin watches?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word One kitten left from the previous batch. That one had surgery Friday ... he had one undescended testicle (which made the quicky spay & neuter clinic reject him in the first place) so they had to find the undescended one. Also turns out ... he has only one kidney. So he'll be labeled a "special medical needs" kitty. Oddly enough, I know a human who also was born with only one kidney. He didn't find out until it started failing. Fortunately his brother was (1) a tissue match and (2) had one to spare, so the transplant was done, and he's doing fine now, some 10+ years later. Cats, of course, don't have that option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Actually' date=' despite the frequent precipitation, Seattle is in an arid zone. They get rain almost every day, but not much rain.[/quote'] ... Is it BC that has a rain forest? Seattle is on the east side of the largest fjord system in the world, Puget Sound. That system is partly glacial cut, of course, but it's also atop a tectonic plate boundary. West of it is the Juan de Fuca plate, which is being subducted under North America, and is a big part of the reason for the nice explosively-active volcanos in the Cascades. Most of the Juan de Fuca plate is mountains, the Olympic Peninsula. Seattle is in something of a rain shadow of those mountains. There is a temperate rain forest in Washington, but it's on the west side of those mountains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Why oh why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Because. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Just delivered the last two cats a group in Keller, TX are taking on from us. We took four FIV+ kittens from them, they took four black kittens, and mom, and suspected grandmother. (Grandma is not even two years old) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word How's that for no generation gap at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word How's that for no generation gap at all? Good argument for spay & neuter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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