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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:16 AM Original message |
MSNBC (About blizzard in North Dakota): "Visibility will be AT or BELOW ZERO!" |
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DonEBrook (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. There is a teevee "weather"man here who often talks about hail as being nickel or even dime-sized. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Yup... because "dime-sized" is obviously twice as big as "nickel-sized." |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. lol! |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. well it's worse than being blind |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. *snort* |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. Guess all the interns are at work this morning. The weekends |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think it means your face freezes off |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Here its 63 and heading for a balmy mid 70s |
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islandmkl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. i think one will be able to see 'inside' oneself... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. North Dakota license plates: "Land Of Winter Introspection" |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
9. It's called a white-out. |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Negative visibility, though? |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. In an odd sense, it's accurate. |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I think the point of the post is... |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Exactly. It's like that sports cliche that "This team gave 200% today." |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. I was in one driving on the Penn. Turnpike a little E. of Pittsburgh |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. That's pretty much SOP during snow squalls off the Great Lakes. |
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stubtoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Glad you made it OK. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 12:08 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. yes, I one point I stopped but then thought of the 18 wheelers on |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 12:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. When I lived in Rochester (NY) and drove either to Detroit (MI) or Columbus (OH) for the holidays .. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
28. They're really scary and very dangerous. |
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Qanisqineq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
12. Ah, how I miss my homestate |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. From the map they showed, all the counties in North Dakota have blizzard warnings. |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. The whole state has a no travel advisory, it's blowing snow all over the state |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
14. You can see Russia from Bismarck by looking toward New York |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. Visibility blow zero happens a lot in the Dakotas. |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
17. Maybe they can see into parallel universes? nt |
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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
19. It's when you can't see anything & you can't believe what you do see. n/t |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
21. North Dakota entering a new dimension? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
22. What about the time the announcer referred to snowfall in the center of |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. "Lake effect"? That's a good one. |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
29. It means the snow is blowing so hard it gouges your eyeballs out. |
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Blues Heron (397 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
32. It's a blackout wrapped in a whiteout surrounded by a massive black hole! |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
33. How does one see less than nothing? |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
34. People here are used to it, tahitinut, it happens nearly every winter |
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Qanisqineq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. funny story about plugging in cars |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 02:58 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. LOL! When I drive to Texas in the summer I have had people ask |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
36. So the surrounding environment will suck your sight out? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
39. The weather is F-ing NASTY here in Fargo. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Well, isn't that why it's called Fargo? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. I love this! |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-14-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
42. I suppose if the visibility is BELOW zero, you can't even see the snow |
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