Weekend Diversion: Night Of The Ponies
Pedway, First Store Open At Block 37
Around Town
Around Town
Red-Light Cameras Not So Special?
It's raining, it's pouring, we forget how the rest of that song goes, la la, bring an umbrella the rest of this week. We're looking at days and days of stormy weather, which puts our area under a flash-flood warning and a regular flood warning. Hazardous conditions, ahoy!
The Chicago area isn't braving the storm alone, though. The storm system is 1,800 miles wide (yes, that's big), and other areas are getting it way worse than we are. According to the Storm Prediction Center, parts of Arkansas, Missouri and southern Illinois are looking at "long-lived rotating thunderstorms" in the next day or so, and parts of Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee and southern Illinois are also facing tornado warnings "in addition to damaging winds and large hail." (Another kid weather joke: What's a king's favorite form of precipitation? Hail! Ahaha.) [Trib, NWS]
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THE OLD MAN IS SNORRRING!
It's raining,
It's pouring,
The old man is snoring,
He went to bed,
And bumped his head,
And couldn't get up in the morning.
Oh, and this weather SUCKS! Where is that beautiful weather that we had last weekend? Snow, motherfucker, snow?! Chicago you're a dirty bitch.
the old mofo is snizzoring.
and I HATE YOU CHICAGO. i'm sorry, i'm sorry. you know i love you. you know i do. please come summer, please come. you know i'll be good. please don't hit me.
my dad says he thinks it's "going to be a 'cold summer.'" for fuck's sake.
my dad says he thinks it's "going to be a 'cold summer.'" for fuck's sake.
@smussy -- Someone told me that the farmer's almanac ( with extreme sarcasm : the ONLY source for weather info) says we are supposed to have an unusually hot summer.
Thank goodness for bourbon.
What?
clusterfuck:
NOUN:
1. Military term for an operation in which multiple things have gone wrong. Related to "SNAFU" (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up") and "FUBAR" (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair).
2. Planning a bachelor party for 30+ people. A block of tickets had already been purchased in advance for the White Sox game tonight along with a chartered Chicago Trolley to transport the group from U.S. Cellular Field to various bars. Half the people are having trouble even making it into Chicago because of the mass flight cancelations, and now the baseball game has already been called due to inclement weather.
There's another saying: April showers bring May flowers.
Why all the whining? Spring in Chicago is like this EVERY YEAR. We get two or three spectacular days, then it's cold and rainy until June, and then suddenly you wake up one morning at it's 85 degrees and 90% humidity. Thwack!
@pinko -- you forgot "BOHICA" (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
frp: it was right on with the super snowy, shitty winter, though. we've wacked out our weather good. end times, anyone?? (see: sarcasm-orama. if jesus is a-comin', bring it.)
i can't wait until it's 98 with humidity in 10 seconds.
i keep telling folks i love/stay in the midwest for "the seasons." i guess i mean the two we have left.''
i was just hoping for a couple weeks of that pretty, fresh, breezy, fun bike-riding and kite-flying weather before it gets all balls hot.
pussification(noun): the state in which a society becomes less and less tough. This noun's originator is the famous comedian George Carlin.
this is what a majority of Chicago-folk are going through these days with the weather being the way it is ... buck up, buy some booze and settle in ... it's Sprinter! (spring-winter) get it? get it? ...