The Weather Thread.

[yanpa]

Should be pissing it down in the centre of Tokyo right now judging by what's just passed here on the western edge going east.

[matsuki]

Should be pissing it down in the centre of Tokyo right now judging by what's just passed here on the western edge going east.

Was coming down hard enough to skin a cat for awhile...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Should be pissing it down in the centre of Tokyo right now judging by what's just passed here on the western edge going east.

Was coming down hard enough to skin a cat for awhile...

Only lasted about 15 mins though. Unfortunately it started just as I was about to walk back from the convenience store to my office. Or maybe fortunately since I used it as an excuse to hang out under the awning drinking my coffee instead of hurrying back to the office.

[Coligny]

Should be pissing it down in the centre of Tokyo right now judging by what's just passed here on the western edge going east.

Was coming down hard enough to skin a cat for awhile...

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Your death...

Will be painfull...

[matsuki]

Shhhhh, I just poured out a chuhai for the kitty with thumbs. Poor lil guy had the mythical "thyroid condition" that fat chicks claim they have...only his was overactive...giving him the type of life that said fat chicks could only dream about. Eat, poop, eat poop, eat, poop, eat poop, eat poop...all day, everyday, non-stop....and turned him to skin and bones.15 years isn't so bad...though my cat just hit 18 and she's still in decent shape. (and probably the only animal I know to live years and years after a life threatening surgery)

[yanpa]

Wow, it's like a borg-fusion of Coligny and Kurogane hijacked matsuki's account.

Anyway... anyone for more rain?

[Coligny]

We see ourselves more like Voltron...

[kurogane]

Is it windy up there in Japan-land? It hasn't stopped howling for days down here in the Deep South. I can't even open the damn windows and was feeling rather sorry for myself until I read about those poor buggers in the Phillipines. We must be at the whip end of that typhoon. I hope they're alright.

On a broader note, has this whole global warming thing not turned out to be a bit of a bust? As a Canadian it sounded not so bad, but this new 12 month long typhoon season thing and the fact that Global Warming was a total misnomer has sort of taken the glitz and glamour off it all. I don't see how the re-labelling and this big new international treaty is going to help sell it, to be honest, unless they figure out a way to perfect underwater shopping and cellphone reception.

[Coligny]

The cold has come... And god he's pissed...
Lucky it's dry or I'd be neck deep in watery cocaine...
Pretty sure there was a thin sheet of ice in the shitter this murnang.
Dropped an icebreaker... Eh eh eh... (Mode cornholio:OFF)

[Coligny]

Don't know what the fuck is going on but reaching the 7th hour of typhoon force storm
winds. If that stuff move toward Tokyo tomorrow don't count too much on trains or planes or even walking outside. The windows are rattling like crazy inside doors are slamming open and shut from the drafts and I think I just saw a low flying cow passing by the window. Before there was rain in the mix too but i'm not so sure anymore.

[yanpa]

White stuff on the ground here.

[Russell]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

[yanpa]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

Just waiting for comments here and on other forums wondering why Tokyo doesn't have a fleet of snow clearance vehicles ready to go at the drop of a snowflake.

[Coligny]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

Just waiting for comments here and on other forums wondering why Tokyo doesn't have a fleet of snow clearance vehicles ready to go at the drop of a snowflake.

For the same reason there is no central heating in the houses dummy:
In summer it's hot so why bothering with snow in winter, just wait 6 month and it'll be fine.

[yanpa]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

Just waiting for comments here and on other forums wondering why Tokyo doesn't have a fleet of snow clearance vehicles ready to go at the drop of a snowflake.

Whoosh.

[Samurai_Jerk]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

Just waiting for comments here and on other forums wondering why Tokyo doesn't have a fleet of snow clearance vehicles ready to go at the drop of a snowflake.

Whoosh.

[matsuki]

I somehow think it would be less wasted on that than you might think. Drove around the city all morning...idiots walking in the middle of the fucking roads (in tire tracks), cars without chains or snow tires sliding into things (caught one on video) or getting stuck trying to go up hills, and just plain old morons that don't adjust their driving to account for the weather conditions. That being said, they're probably better off doing something with the railways first. (like burying them?)

[Samurai_Jerk]

I somehow think it would be less wasted on that than you might think. Drove around the city all morning...idiots walking in the middle of the fucking roads (in tire tracks), cars without chains or snow tires sliding into things (caught one on video) or getting stuck trying to go up hills, and just plain old morons that don't adjust their driving to account for the weather conditions. That being said, they're probably better off doing something with the railways first. (like burying them?)

Most places that seldom get snow don't keep a big expensive fleet of snow plows and other equipment around and it makes sense. It's the same reason I don't own any heavy duty winter boots. At most I'd need them one or two times a year.

[matsuki]

I somehow think it would be less wasted on that than you might think. Drove around the city all morning...idiots walking in the middle of the fucking roads (in tire tracks), cars without chains or snow tires sliding into things (caught one on video) or getting stuck trying to go up hills, and just plain old morons that don't adjust their driving to account for the weather conditions. That being said, they're probably better off doing something with the railways first. (like burying them?)

Most places that seldom get snow don't keep a big expensive fleet of snow plows and other equipment around and it makes sense. It's the same reason I don't own any heavy duty winter boots. At most I'd need them one or two times a year.

Mine aren't winter boots but a nice pair of waterproof boots are pretty handy year round.

Of course I understand what you're saying and I'd agree if it were some inaka city...but it's friggin Tokyo. At least have a small fleet to handle the major roads and highways.

[wagyl]

Of course I understand what you're saying and I'd agree if it were some inaka city...but it's friggin Tokyo. At least have a small fleet to handle the major roads and highways.

... so that people can drive along the major highways and then dump their cars on those major highways when they can't get in to the minor streets, making ploughing the following day impossible due to all the dumped cars.

I hope you understand just how big that small fleet would have to be, and how small an area a single plough can handle, quite putting aside the fact that there is nowhere in Tokyo to put the piles of snow. Snowploughing is an art, and I know from experience in towns which get a lot of snow and a lot of practice at ploughing, and in towns which don't: there is many the time that an unploughed road is better than a badly ploughed one.

But hey, if you want to pay the tax to support the little used fleet, I'm not going to stop you. Just don't expect me to put my hands in my pocket too.

[Yokohammer]

I would like to report that Miyagi prefecture also experienced some weather today.


~ Tapatalking ~

[matsuki]

Soooo better off with heated/sprinklered streets?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Soooo better off with heated/sprinklered streets?

Not in a city that gets 1 or 2 snow days a year.

[Mike Oxlong]

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/09/000000

[wagyl]

My, you folk really do have a lot of snow for Tokyo.

Incidentally, I have no snow accumulation here, practically unheard-of for this time of year. I wonder if I will be getting payback for that in the coming months.

[Samurai_Jerk]

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/09/000000

But how many of those days actually see accumulation? That's what I was talking about. Not every day there are some flurries or snow on Mt. Takao. Plus it's not unusual for the western suburbs like Hachioji to get some snow when the rest of Tokyo doesn't.

[Coligny]

White stuff on the ground here.

One would almost think it was winter...

Just waiting for comments here and on other forums wondering why Tokyo doesn't have a fleet of snow clearance vehicles ready to go at the drop of a snowflake.

Whoosh.

Atchoum atchoum atchoum...

Still don't get why the next door truck shop spend its summer maintaining the local fleet of snowplow salt and sand spreaders with exactly 4 hours of snow on the ground every 2 years though...

[Coligny]

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/09/000000

But how many of those days actually see accumulation? That's what I was talking about. Not every day there are some flurries or snow on Mt. Takao. Plus it's not unusual for the western suburbs like Hachioji to get some snow when the rest of Tokyo doesn't.

Ready to get wooshed again (actually with my blood oxygenation level today I'm surprised I can brain enough to operate the shitter without catastropic results)

Maybe one day the: cost if it happens even once will rule over the calendar based logic of "it happens only 2 days a year anyway"

#fukushima

[Mike Oxlong]

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/09/000000

But how many of those days actually see accumulation? That's what I was talking about. Not every day there are some flurries or snow on Mt. Takao. Plus it's not unusual for the western suburbs like Hachioji to get some snow when the rest of Tokyo doesn't.

Yes, let's move the goal posts. How about sanding trucks (or the newfangled ones that spray calcium chloride) then for the melt/freeze times, or for the sleet/freeze times, or the rain/freeze times? It's not only snow accumulation that disrupts traffic, which makes it curious as to why you shit all over Matsuki's idea.

[Mike Oxlong]

I somehow think it would be less wasted on that than you might think. Drove around the city all morning...idiots walking in the middle of the fucking roads (in tire tracks), cars without chains or snow tires sliding into things (caught one on video) or getting stuck trying to go up hills, and just plain old morons that don't adjust their driving to account for the weather conditions.

Yeah, this is right on the mark. I can't count the number of times I went skiing and saw people who had slid off the road, had traffic accidents with barriers, poles, and other vehicles, all well past the snow line and whose vehicles did not have snow tires or chained tires. Well, that and idiots who don't comprehend that while 4WD may give them better traction in slippery conditions, it does nothing to improve their braking effectiveness under those same conditions.