BF2S Forums Worst Summer Ever # 2

ATG wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

God Save the Queen wrote:

The weather here has been the same for summer as long as I can remember.  Never rains.  Doesnt stay too hot.

In an unprecedented third trip to the US in one year I may be visiting your part of the world this Sep/Oct. Weather still good then?

Yes, that's when it's the best.

Come look me up. I'll make you an awesome meal and take you rock climbing.


Or we can just get drunk.

you climb?

Man never seen this many thunderstorms in such a short space of time, and the rain as well. It must've been bouncing close to two or three feet off the ground.

usmarine wrote:

ya thats prolly why he said rock climbing jimmy

when i say climb i mean regularly..

it's always hot and humid here

usmarine wrote:

i g wrote:

it's always hot and humid here

shut up

no u

o shi

SEREVENT wrote:

Welcome to the UK...

Enjoy your stay, and please sign this contract waiving all of your rights to us *shifts eyes*

You forgot to say 'rock out with your cock out' so we can deport you for indecent exposure..

i g wrote:

usmarine wrote:

i g wrote:

no u

come play bf2 later bitch.  i got me some molson ice.

sounds good eh

aboot 8pm?

Dammit, my summer was going great until I looked at this topic. The story:

So yesterday, around 8:00 PM, I happen to look on a weather radar website. I seems there is a great deal of thunderstorms off to the west and heading this way. I went outside to look and was watching the clouds. Soon I was able to see cloud-to-cloud lightning through the trees in my backyard and the dead calm was shattered by a wind that picked up and was shaking those tall trees within seconds; then the rain came. Roughly one or two minutes into this ordeal, the power began skipping on and off (which happens when the wind knocks tree branches into the wires). However, it soon went off for good at 8:22 PM. There was constant lightning for the next FIVE hours. The longest instance was I was able to count to three before I saw another flash. There was house-shaking thunder that accompanied it. We decided if power didn't come back on by 2 AM, we would have to start up the gasoline generator to power the refrigerators and sump pump (the pisser was that the people across the street are on a different power circuit so they had it all this time like bastards). So when that time came (as not much sleep was allowed by Ms. "Bitchy" Nature in the meantime, and the repair crews couldn't work until the lightning stopped) we had to pull up the garage door and fire the generator up and power the essentials by running extension cords through the house. After maybe 45 minutes, it started to pick up some rain again (while the cloud-to-cloud thunder was still visible all this time, mind you) so we headed back inside to retire for the night. I'll be damned if some other lightning wasn't directly over us. It was the kind of lightning you could see through your eyelids. The clouds were moving past at breakneck speed, but the storm simply would not pass. It seemed to just be hovering there. I then was lying in bed but was too damn hot (we were at about 65% humidity, so not bad but enough to be uncomfortable) that I decided to get up, grab my flashlight, and take a pee. I'll be further damned if not during that break of urination that the local tornado sirens sounded. In response, the family got the weather radio and chilled in the basement for about half an hour. After this I was finally able to get to bed and managed to get around three or four hours of sleep.
Daybreak- There's still no power, but it is cooler than it was before. It seems now though that the phone lines and water isn't working either (apparently a water main broke somewhere else, I don't know what was the deal with the phones, though). We ran the generator again and hoped that we would get electricity back soon. We didn't. The downstairs was slightly cooler than being upstairs with a 75-80% humidity in the middle of summer. Time passed slowly but with the help of Scrabble and a nap, the sun was starting to go down. I certainly wasn't looking forward to another night without power in the heat. We were finally seeing repair trucks up and down the street at infrequent intervals though. My neighbor came by and we were just starting to use the generator to make sure their fridge wouldn't spoil everything in it when lights on the ceiling fan turned on. It had been just over 21 hours without electricity when we got it again. Huzzah!

The funny thing was that this was quite similar to the day before school started last year. We lost power right before the first day, when at 3 AM, it kicked back on and suddenly all the lights and TVs were on again as they were in the middle of the day when it went out. Also, during the speech of one of our three valedictorians during graduation ceremony, the high school lost power but got their generator working within 10 minutes (thank God, because the hot gymnasium was bad enough without the fans running. It was a truly epic ceremony.

China is hot.

I want Cam's job.

In other news, Nhulunbuy in the far north of NT, Australia, HAS HAD SHITLOADS OF UNSEASONAL RAIN. They call it a dry season but ffs... It's been pretty wet at times this year.

DesertFox- wrote:

Dammit, my summer was going great until I looked at this topic. The story:

So yesterday, around 8:00 PM, I happen to look on a weather radar website. I seems there is a great deal of thunderstorms off to the west and heading this way. I went outside to look and was watching the clouds. Soon I was able to see cloud-to-cloud lightning through the trees in my backyard and the dead calm was shattered by a wind that picked up and was shaking those tall trees within seconds; then the rain came. Roughly one or two minutes into this ordeal, the power began skipping on and off (which happens when the wind knocks tree branches into the wires). However, it soon went off for good at 8:22 PM. There was constant lightning for the next FIVE hours. The longest instance was I was able to count to three before I saw another flash. There was house-shaking thunder that accompanied it. We decided if power didn't come back on by 2 AM, we would have to start up the gasoline generator to power the refrigerators and sump pump (the pisser was that the people across the street are on a different power circuit so they had it all this time like bastards). So when that time came (as not much sleep was allowed by Ms. "Bitchy" Nature in the meantime, and the repair crews couldn't work until the lightning stopped) we had to pull up the garage door and fire the generator up and power the essentials by running extension cords through the house. After maybe 45 minutes, it started to pick up some rain again (while the cloud-to-cloud thunder was still visible all this time, mind you) so we headed back inside to retire for the night. I'll be damned if some other lightning wasn't directly over us. It was the kind of lightning you could see through your eyelids. The clouds were moving past at breakneck speed, but the storm simply would not pass. It seemed to just be hovering there. I then was lying in bed but was too damn hot (we were at about 65% humidity, so not bad but enough to be uncomfortable) that I decided to get up, grab my flashlight, and take a pee. I'll be further damned if not during that break of urination that the local tornado sirens sounded. In response, the family got the weather radio and chilled in the basement for about half an hour. After this I was finally able to get to bed and managed to get around three or four hours of sleep.
Daybreak- There's still no power, but it is cooler than it was before. It seems now though that the phone lines and water isn't working either (apparently a water main broke somewhere else, I don't know what was the deal with the phones, though). We ran the generator again and hoped that we would get electricity back soon. We didn't. The downstairs was slightly cooler than being upstairs with a 75-80% humidity in the middle of summer. Time passed slowly but with the help of Scrabble and a nap, the sun was starting to go down. I certainly wasn't looking forward to another night without power in the heat. We were finally seeing repair trucks up and down the street at infrequent intervals though. My neighbor came by and we were just starting to use the generator to make sure their fridge wouldn't spoil everything in it when lights on the ceiling fan turned on. It had been just over 21 hours without electricity when we got it again. Huzzah!

The funny thing was that this was quite similar to the day before school started last year. We lost power right before the first day, when at 3 AM, it kicked back on and suddenly all the lights and TVs were on again as they were in the middle of the day when it went out. Also, during the speech of one of our three valedictorians during graduation ceremony, the high school lost power but got their generator working within 10 minutes (thank God, because the hot gymnasium was bad enough without the fans running. It was a truly epic ceremony.

Holy hell. I'm staring at that paragraph like I'm waiting for a picture to pop out.


Driving home before a storm tonight. You can hear my dog panting next to me
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Ultrafunkula wrote:

Completely shite weather here in southern Finland also. We had one week decent +25C sunny weather. Now it's like +8C in the morning and max +15C in the afternoon. Blaah.

come to Wisconsin