[Editor's note: This post will make a lot more sense if you've been a long time reader. Sorry if you're not, this is just too insidery funny to pass up.]
*This picture* explains all the nails-on-blackboard screeching I've been getting on the Castle Communicator. I thought it was sunspots, except we're apparently still in a Maunder Minimum, so... Turns out it was Bad Cat Robot, apparently busy doing arcane calculations on her blackboard. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, near the coast, *precisely* because... she.hates.snow. When she's really annoyed, she neglects to retract her clawz.
Now things have gone strangely silent. And a *quiet* self-aware misbehaving felinoid automaton with the stated goal of being the Evil Overlord of the Universe is, well, worrisome.
All the climate scientists in the world aren't going to be able to stop BCR if she decides Glowball Warming is the answer to Never.Being.Snowed.On.Again. She believes in terraforming, not moving.
Update: Prestonius found the following photograph. While not of BCR herself, this mis-labeled photo does show one of BCRs minions testing the anti-snow implantable hover device.
*This picture* explains all the nails-on-blackboard screeching I've been getting on the Castle Communicator. I thought it was sunspots, except we're apparently still in a Maunder Minimum, so... Turns out it was Bad Cat Robot, apparently busy doing arcane calculations on her blackboard. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, near the coast, *precisely* because... she.hates.snow. When she's really annoyed, she neglects to retract her clawz.
The first snowfall of the season at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Nov. 22, 2010, covered the aircraft and the flightline in a sea of white. Despite the snowfall, McChord Airmen worked to generate five sorties. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Oshawn Jefferson)
Now things have gone strangely silent. And a *quiet* self-aware misbehaving felinoid automaton with the stated goal of being the Evil Overlord of the Universe is, well, worrisome.
All the climate scientists in the world aren't going to be able to stop BCR if she decides Glowball Warming is the answer to Never.Being.Snowed.On.Again. She believes in terraforming, not moving.
Update: Prestonius found the following photograph. While not of BCR herself, this mis-labeled photo does show one of BCRs minions testing the anti-snow implantable hover device.
The photographer's remains were later found distributed throughout litterboxes in the Puget Sound area. BCR does not like snoopy photogs. Prestonious better be caref*gaaaaaaaaackkkkk*....
In laymen's terms, they got five airplanes launched.
Five. Freakin'. Airplanes.
What'd they do, clean the runways off with a toothbrush?
They shut down the installation and sent us home. By the time we got setteled at home the snow had turned back to rain and they recalled us all back.
I'll never forget it because on my way back one of my neighbors was watering his lawn. In the rain.
I'm not going to putz around with terraforming. The Sun is getting an electromagnetic enema until it sees the error of its ways.
That's just terraforming in an unsubtle fashion there, BCR...
They start all right, if you take it slow, but going from 60-to-0 or even 35-to-0 in snowy conditions doesn't occur any faster with 4WD than with ordinary vehicles.
If they had the brains to shift to first and let the engine jake brake then the 4WD would stop faster, but most people only remember their non-Drive gears after they are stuck in mud or a snow drift.
D*mn screwed up Internet Proxy system reported that the first attempt didn't go through. After checking the entry and only seeing John's comment added I tried again and get a double post. Grrr.
An old classmate of mine was stationed in Ft. Lewis for predeployment back in '08, and apparently they got a snowstorm. He being a PRNG, this was a special treat for him, and apparently for Ft. Lewis also.
Pictures: HERE and HERE
This ain't Colorado but a few years ago we had a total one season accumulation of over 10 feet. You see the weather pattern here in NJ is to take the Atlantic Ocean and put it in my driveway in the form of white toxic waste.
How many sorties were on the schedule?
I was there 2 days after that storm came thought, BTW. Very unusual conditions for Seattle. Got there Thanksgiving Eve (24th). Taxiing in was a tad squirrley, even in a heavy jet like ours. The limo driver that took me to the hotel said the traffic snarl was so bad after the initial snow dump on the metro area Interstates that some people didn't get home until the next morning. Yeah, you read that right...and it was cooooold (for Seattle) on Thanksgiving Day.
And you all thought that there was nothing but sweltering heat back home.
The video: HERE (My apologies to the language challenged, though the visuals speak for themselves)
Reminds me of the Rip Torn character in Dodgeball.