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[DireKitty]

WARNING!
"Eastern Ontario will experience the heavier rainfall later Saturday into Saturday night. Widespread rainfall amounts of 25 to 40 mm are expected tonight through Saturday night"

.... i mean, really? Shut your shutters! Bar your doors! WE WILL BE GETTING SOME RAIN... and it will come down over 24 hours!


Anyone else find dumb weather warnings?

[Chipface]

They kept referring to the heavy snowfall in London back in December as 'Snowmaggedon". I thought that was kinda dumb. It didn't kill anybody I don't think.

[DireKitty]

Originally Posted by Chipface

They kept referring to the heavy snowfall in London back in December as 'Snowmaggedon". I thought that was kinda dumb. It didn't kill anybody I don't think.

Well the worst of it shut down the highway that heads to Sarnia... but they always make everything seem more EXTREME then it is.

I mean... it's just a bit of rain... no torrential downpours. It's actually a soft light rain. Who knew a rainy night would be a cause for alarm?

Next we will have sun warnings. WARNING: Sun will be shining all day long!

[kiratsukai]

If you live near a river or in a valley downstream of all that rainfall (especially if it's all running down off a mountain range) it can be pretty big business...

Half of New York was almost completely underwater 5 years ago after one of those warnings.

We drove through it on the way to NYC for my JET orientation. It was pretty crazy! Didn't seem like anything out of ordinary when the rain was falling... but the amount of area it was falling over created a huge runoff effect by morning.

[nannyogg]

25 to 40 mm?? LOL.
When we get weather warnings here, I listen- we get some pretty extreme weather. Tornadoes, floods, sheer winds, ice storms... ick.

[DireKitty]

Originally Posted by kiratsukai

If you live near a river or in a valley downstream of all that rainfall (especially if it's all running down off a mountain range) it can be pretty big business...

Half of New York was almost completely underwater 5 years ago after one of those warnings.

We drove through it on the way to NYC for my JET orientation. It was pretty crazy!

No mountains here, and the rivers could use the rain (they are looking pretty empty these days).

It's not a heck of a lot over a day (at 25mm, 40 is pretty decent), and well, their weather predictions are usually wrong too. We get missed by most storms, the lake effect kills the steam out of them. They will say 5cm of snow, we get maybe 1.

Weather prediction in general seems pretty weak, after all this technology... we can send people into space... but are uncertain as to how much rain will fall in the next 24 hours.

[ShinobiXikyu]

Snowmageddon DID (indirectly) kill a few people, FYI.
...But yeah. Rain? Whatever. It's not snow. It's melting the snow and that means winter's going away and IT'S NOT FREEZING OUT.
Bring it on, rain. And my boots are skid-resistant, so no slipping o nice for me.

[rubyspitfire]

Originally Posted by Chipface

They kept referring to the heavy snowfall in London back in December as 'Snowmaggedon". I thought that was kinda dumb. It didn't kill anybody I don't think.

the blizzard here in the midwest US last month was kalled "snowpocalypse". it really wasn't so bad, just kovered a large area of the kountry and a few plases that normally don't get snow were blanketed

a really nasty thunderstorm went through here today, komplete with tornado warnings to the south, and yet expekting snow tomorrow. i really wish the weather would make up its mind, i wore shorts today and am not looking forward to getting sikk again D:<

[penny_dreadful]

They have to give some people those weather warnings, just like they have to give some people warnings not to use blowdryers while sleeping, or that cans of tuna may contain tuna.

[DireKitty]

Originally Posted by penny_dreadful

They have to give some people those weather warnings, just like they have to give some people warnings not to use blowdryers while sleeping, or that cans of tuna may contain tuna.

...and on a knife, don't touch with your finger... it's sharp!

[nannyogg]

Originally Posted by rubyspitfire

the blizzard here in the midwest US last month was kalled "snowpocalypse". it really wasn't so bad, just kovered a large area of the kountry and a few plases that normally don't get snow were blanketed

a really nasty thunderstorm went through here today, komplete with tornado warnings to the south, and yet expekting snow tomorrow. i really wish the weather would make up its mind, i wore shorts today and am not looking forward to getting sikk again D:<

Snowpocalypse was pretty bad for me... my central heat downstairs died the morning it was arriving and the roads were bad enough that it took 4 days for parts to get here, so it could be fixed. I was grateful my house has zoned heating upstairs so upstairs was warm and a space heater on my sink pipes downstairs kept them from freezing, but it got so cold, even trying to run a space heater near them (since walmart, the only place to shop within 90 miles that has pet stuff, had no tank heaters), that all my fishies except my giant goldfish passed on, and snow tracked in my front door didn't melt. They also don't clear the side roads here so travel in town was horrible for 2 weeks. Made an impression on me.

[Lithium Flower]

Well, I live in Michigan...where it snows. Like through APRIL. And some how when the Snowpocalypse was predicted everyone took a collective shat and went Y2K on the local grocery stores. The store I work at is in the same shopping center as a Target and a Kroger, we where DEAD. Everyone was flocked to the grocery stores getting bottled water and canned food.

~,~ Rly people you live in Michigan don't act like you've never seen snow before..

On the other hand two weeks ago me and a bunch of my friends where helping our pal Jen move-and as soon as we got to her new apartment to unload the truck it was snowing...really really badly. Within an hour the entire drive was submerged and it took almost 2 hours for our pizza order to get to the apartment-from half a mile down the road.

Imagine a bunch of middle-aged goons, in the deep snow for several hours just crying for a pizza.

Thatwas a Snowpocalypse man.

[tn_scotsman]

Just this week here in TN, we had one afternoon where we got 3 inches of rain in an hour. My backyard was washed away, and most of the places anywhere near a river we heavily flooded. Pictures here, just took everyone by total surprise and they're calling for 2 more inches of rain today.

[Arc_The_Lad]

London (Ontario) called it "Snowmaggeddon" because for the last few years the city couldn't figure out how to deal with snow due to how retarded they are. Me and my friends made a game where we would keep track of snowplows going down roads or past roads that need plowing and doing jack shit about it. I don't care if you weren't paid to do it, god forbid you help SAVE LIVES.

London gets scared when the wind picks up, nevermind the other glaring problems with this city.

[shortsheik]

Originally Posted by kiratsukai

If you live near a river or in a valley downstream of all that rainfall (especially if it's all running down off a mountain range) it can be pretty big business...

Half of New York was almost completely underwater 5 years ago after one of those warnings.

We drove through it on the way to NYC for my JET orientation. It was pretty crazy! Didn't seem like anything out of ordinary when the rain was falling... but the amount of area it was falling over created a huge runoff effect by morning.

I lived in the middle of that! Two truck drivers ended up being swept off a road to their deaths just a town over from me. The elementary school down my house was turned into a Red Cross center, so I spent the next two weeks volunteering there and got to see a lot of the damage down first-hand, as well as speaking with a number of the victims. Nasty piece of work, nature.

Although, as it turned out, part of the reason the flooding was so bad was because of construction companies cutting away at the natural flood plain.