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In reply to the discussion: Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]cordelia
(2,174 posts)115. I thought for a minute it was Dick Cheney.
Maybe because of the nature of the post.
My bad.
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Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]
CreekDog
Jan 2014
OP
I think "Global Climate Destabalization with an overall trend to warming" is a better descriptor
Electric Monk
Jan 2014
#2
catastrophic climate change-C3, is how it was referred to at the copenhagen climate summit a
niyad
Jan 2014
#137
I am here in Houston, and I am laughing my butt off over the fact that my
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#4
There was not a speck of ice on the roads in Spring by 6:30 a.m. when I ran out to grab
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#44
I am sorry, but I am going to maintain my right to giggle like a fiend over my son's
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#52
Food scarcity is nothing to laugh at when you go a week or more being stuck indoors.
Neoma
Jan 2014
#120
I'm in Spring/Houston and I giggled too. BUT, realize ice/snow is rare here and what looks like
txwhitedove
Jan 2014
#106
You have some but you have nothing compared to what northern cities have. And you shouldn't.
pnwmom
Jan 2014
#56
I probably wouldn't drive anywhere if 2 inches of snow fell here in the Bay Area
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#12
You mean our idiot elected officials don't want to give funding to Sandy victims.
Fawke Em
Jan 2014
#14
I'm rather certain you can in fact, help yourself; you simply choose not to
LanternWaste
Jan 2014
#20
I live by the Maine coast. We have snow years and we have wet, glare ice years
magical thyme
Jan 2014
#46
actually when Sandy hit NJ and NY, many DUers did laugh, scoff and chide storm victims
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#24
Many of us also gave advice on what to expect and how to prepare for Hurricane Sandy,
kentauros
Jan 2014
#93
The north had good plows 50 years ago. They've always been more prepared than the South
pnwmom
Jan 2014
#61
Exactly. Everyone's region has an aging infrastructure, anti-govt Repubs in office, and
FSogol
Jan 2014
#21
Exactly. No different than Southerners not understanding how people in NYC die from heat.
Dawgs
Jan 2014
#27
Personally, I don't even break out a shovel for 3 inches of snow. Maybe a broom. OTH - I would have
geckosfeet
Jan 2014
#37
DU is full of assholes with absolutely no compassion for their fellow human beings.
kentauros
Jan 2014
#97
My husband is from California. He said the MD/Va quake was the scariest he has ever been through.
pamela
Jan 2014
#111
Agreed. I can't imagine that Birmingham AL has a very big ice/snow removal line item
catbyte
Jan 2014
#74
Extreme weather events cannot be separated from climate change and that's not a laughing matter
onenote
Jan 2014
#85
It is only funny when their hardship is trivial and much less than others regularly live with
Taitertots
Jan 2014
#118
That's seriously unfunny considering CA is in great peril from lack of rain
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2014
#136
I used to have a cartoon on the bulletin board with two drawings of "California Drivers"--
deurbano
Jan 2014
#144
Likewise nobody from a Southern state should gloat about their "superior" weather
BlueStreak
Jan 2014
#152