Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update

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34 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update”

  1. I’ve driven through crap like that on Interstate 80 except it was between Laramie and Rock Springs Wyoming.

  2. That is fake photography and a figment of their imagination as there hasn’t been any snow since at least 2014. Just ask Al the internet inventor and David Fruitfly.

    Furthermore, all the -30 plus temperatures we have had around here this winter have been lies I told my grandchildren.

  3. I’ve driven through drifting snow like that and abandoned my car when the driver in front of me also did the same. I had no choice, he was a neighbour and the RCMP. I was ICE WOMAN!!

    1. As a native Californian, the idea that driving your automobile could lead to the loss of your life in a matter of minutes from exposure … is something entirely foreign to me. I can only assume the hardy folks living in these environments are ready for such circumstances – travel with a survival kit.

      It reminds me of a story about a young woman attending a concert in So. Lake Tahoe several years ago, who had a little to drink and smoke during the concert and decided to walk back to her hotel room … and ended up dying from exposure. It gets cold in the snow. Those of us who live in Mediterranean climates need survival lessons before traveling in unforgiving climates.

      1. Lucky you to be in the lovely California climate! It is -21°C tonight where I am. Brr!

        You’re absolutely right about traveling with a survival kit. Normally, in our climate one listens very cIosely to weather reports. If it looked bad I’d not head out, if I was already out and it would start to snow and looked like the weather was changing for the worst, I’d head home. I normally stocked flares, a blanket, and a shovel in the car. That day I did have proper clothing but forgot a wool hat – hair and eyelashes got caked on with ice – luckily I wasn’t far from home. The snow drifted about a foot or more deep and it was difficuit to walk in. Man, what an ordeal! I have a selfie of moi as “Ice Woman”, ha!

      2. Those who live in Mediterranean climates need to quit listen to the warming climate crowd and believe when they are told that there is and likely will be forever conditions like this 365 days a year somehere in the world…… .-23C high where I live today and two feet of snow as far as the eye can see, fortunatly no wind so you might survive.

  4. Reminds me of a trip “home” one Christmas with husband and infant offspring. We were headed south towards the Crowsnest Pass on Highway 2 when a blizzard sprang up around us. Husband kept driving, with my help navigating, as we slowly crept southward. At one point, we narrowly avoided some snowmobiles headed north. Finally got through the storm, only to find a cop car parked across the road. The RCMP had closed the highway, but had missed us. The rest of the trip was a picnic in comparison.

  6. Snow was NEVER this INTENSE! Ohhhh mammmma … the 12 year countdown to our planetary destruction has begun!! AOC is right!! I am sooooooo frightened!! I willingly will give her all my money, give her my house, my office, all my freedoms, if she will just SAVE me … SAVE all of humanity … and SAVE our planet!! At least … she … has a plan. Uggggh.

    1. And if we don’t make it like she has ordained, will we all commit mass suicide like in Nevil Shute’s novel, and its movie adaptation, On The Beach?

      AOC is yet more evidence that politicians should be given an IQ test before running for office.

        1. Elzar Ocasio-Cortez; BAM! Another blast from her spice weasel of policy. BAM! BAM! BAM! Knock the taste out the mouth that policy spice weasel!

    2. Yes and until you “do it” and come up with a plan, she’s the BOSS!!

      This Green New Plan hasn’t worked out very well elsewhere, why should USA even go there? The woman is delusional, sometimes her eyes go crooked and she literally has the look of a mad woman!

  8. We were warned there would be more severe storms if we didn’t stop burning fossil fuels. We have only ourselves to blame for this type of consequences of global warming.

  9. The end of snow.

    This comment from Calgary, where the temperature has been in the minus teens and mostly the minus 20’s all effing month.

    10 to 12 degrees colder than normal.

    1. Yes, I’m in SW Calgary…we seemed to have had a switch in January for February’s occasional Chinook. It was a balmy 10 to 12°C ish on the 31st of January ….I had workers here and they left the front door wide open all afternoon. The air was pleasant! Steakdude and I were rejoicing here online – at SDA, he said was a short distance South of here, enjoying the same.

      2. I’m in the morass of city centre somewhere…just…ugh! So sick of this.

        An interesting account of weather stats for Calgary: https://www.twitter.com/YYC_Weather

        Using his average temperature metric, this is the coldest February on record. It’s certainly the coldest (and snowiest) winter since I moved here. Reminds me of my high-school years in S’toon.

        1. It ain’t over, till it’s over. Yogi Bera once said.
          I had moguls of snow past April 7th last year. They’re back now.

  10. I made it through that stretch just fine.

    Of course, I was driving a 1-ton Dodge 4×4.

    (We’re asking that everyone start up their cars and let them idle for hours, fire up their charcoal grills, burn down some trees, and maybe leave all your lights on for a week or two. Global warming is within our reach, people!)

    /s
    Minnesotans For Global Warming

    1. That is my neighbour’s idea too every year on “Earth Day”…. I defy it by leaving lights on too. In fact many do so here as well. What a hoax these ‘Gang Greeners’ are pulling! They just want to suck us dry and call us Dusty.

  11. I’m currently work 2 hrs north of Fort McMurray.

    Saturday, worked 1.5 hours outside at the end of the 10 hr work day trying to get a heating unit started and blowing hot air under tarps to thaw a frozen pile of sand we needed to use for the construction of a new oil sands crusher. Temps were -34C, windchill below -50C.

    That was cold, but I was dressed for it and was even perspiring, had to open my jacket to cool off at times. Being prepared is life saving!!

  14. I went to visit an old trapper buddy of mine north of Winnipeg on the weekend. Yesterday morning we got up at 6am and went ice fishing. His old F150 wasn’t plugged in but hey it’s a Ford and it started. We got out on the ice and it was -39. Good thing there was no wind. Had a tent and a propane heater which barely lit. Even propane doesn’t like cold.

    We lasted about an hour – ha ha.

    On another topic. I flew the new discount airline Swoop. This is my 4th flight. Less than 1/2 full. No bums in the seats even tho an Edmonton/Wpg flt is $50. 1/2 full seems to be their business model.

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