Posted on 02/09/2013 6:32:26 AM PST by navysealdad
The National Weather Service is issuing blizzard warnings as winter storm Nemo barrels toward the Northeast, bringing with it 50 mph winds and an estimated 10-14 inches of snow. Up to three feet of snow is expected in some areas in between costal Maine and northern New Jersey. And those predictions are cancelling flights across the country.
Michael Oppenheimer, a climate change expert at Princeton University, said global warming is increasing extreme winter storms.
Why did the left change the term global warming to climate change? Guess they got tired of holding global warming protests during snowstorms.
Global Warming dicktators predicts that global warming will soon be positioned as a threat to Nemo, the baby clownfish in the 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Don't tell them
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The other 3 seasons, especially the summers
Fall foliage
Short drive to everything
I miss some stuff, but not enough to go back and endure Nov - Mar or the politics. It’s a great place to visit.
I’ll be in my doomsday bunker until the threat of any near-earth asteroids passes and I should still be able to pick up the Golf Channel at Pebble Beach.
I believe it was the Weather Channel. It gives them a shorthand way to talk about the storms. Right now they're still talking about 'Nemo' in the Northeast, and 'Orka' in the Western Plains.
Nemo spelled backwards is “Omen”.
Looking at the picures from the Blizzard of '78, it's apparent some people don't have common sense. Getting people off the roads in advance of the worst of the storm made it easier not only for people to get home safely, but reduced the possibility of pile-ups like what happened in ME.
Yeah, it sounded fascist, according to the news reports, but looking at what had happened before, I think it was prudent. If there hadn't been those 'official' announcements, some folks night have stayed at their jobs until 5, and they would have been clogging the roads until well after 7 or 8, when the really heavy snow and winds were getting going. And other companies that had later closing times decided on their own to close early, for the safety of their employees. Having the cars off the roads made it easier for the plows to keep the roads clear; they didn't have to dodge idiots on the road, or the cars they might have had to leave behind after getting stuck in the slush and heavy snow.
Our company closed at 11am, which gave me time to make a last minute grocery run on my way home. Hubby made a quick run for a little more gas, just in case we needed to make extra passes with the snow thrower, but we were all safe, snug and warm at home, by 4pm, when the snow started really falling
We never lost power. Our next door neighbor is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and is on call, but the person he hired to plow his driveway hasn’t shown up yet. Hubby offered him the use of our car, if he gets called in before the plow shows up.
Global warming yurass; like we never had a snow storm here before.
What a crock.
Gee, I remember the huge blizzards of my youth in Wisconsin in the late fifties and early sixties. A lot of records were set. Both snow and cold records. Little did I know that I was actually roasting from global warming. Could have fooled me. I guess my frozen nostrils from walking to school in sub-zero weather was actually a symptom of tropical weather. (snicker)
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