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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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Severe drought (or swarms of locusts)? Farmageddon.
People dying from tainted cheese? Parmageddon.
The breakdown of the natural order of things? Dharmageddon.
@5: our poor behavior coming back to collectively bite us in the ass: karmageddon
Cliff Mass formula
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When 15 inches of snowfall in a short period of time is a common occurrence where you live, then of course it's not "news". When the same amount drops on an area that gets that much snowfall perhaps once in every five or six years, it does, by definition qualify as newsworthy.
And what is it with people anyway and their pathological obsession with pointing out things like this? Every year somebody feels compelled to utter something along the lines of, "well, WHERE I LIVE ______ (insert favorite local excessive meteorological phenomenon) happens ALL THE TIME, so the rest of you are pathetic nincompoops for not knowing how to deal with it EVEN IF IT ONLY HAPPENS TO YOU ONCE IN A BLUE MOON!"? Seriously, I don't get this neurotic need to one-up people who don't normally experience the same kind of shitty weather conditions you seem to live with on a more-or-less permanent basis. As if shitty weather, like a consistently losing sports team, is something to be proud of?
Drive safely and walk carefully, everyone.
"Snowlocaust."
You're welcome.
Years (okay, decades) ago I made up my mind to go to summer school at either the U of Oregon in Eugene or UC in Boulder. I ended up choosing the U of O which is how I eventually ended up in Seattle. Had I chosen Boulder, I'd probably be living in the Denver-Boulder area.
Nice one, robotslave!
My favorite cartoon (in The New Yorker) from last year.
No. I have no sense of humor regarding the coming plague of rabid snow cats forecast for this evening. And I'm sorry if all y'all in the Mile High City, with your permanently frostbitten toes, and 17 broken down snowmobiles ensconced in your yards, think that we here in Seattle are weenies about it.
Bicycles win again.
How did you like MSP?
But then, @13, when you live in a place with so many "America's worst..." designations as Denver (worst airport, worst bedbug infestation, second worst-selling housing market, worst city for DUI's - not to mention some of the nation's worst air pollution, violent crime rates, incidents of police misconduct - well, apparently, there's a very long list of attributes that Denver is worst or near-worst at), I can certainly understand why anything happening up here in Seattle (consistently ranked at the top of most annual "Best City" lists for just about anything you can think of) might make you feel a little hypersensitive.
Nevertheless, hie thee to the liquor store, Seattle; you've been duly warned.
That said, we do get a hell of a lot more sun than most places. (I was going to say "more than Seattle, but the whole fucking world gets more sun than Seattle.)
My theory on the downfall of civilization/why people in MN can't drive in general (rain gets them also) is the proliferation of the SUVs and 4 wheel drive, with the acccompanying belief that 4 wheel drive makes one impervious to the laws of physics. Invariably, those are the vehicles in the ditch, upside down, in the lake....
I heard the story from none other than Bob Newman (Gertrude of J.P. Patches fame), so it MUST be true.
May you all get at least 8 inches. (if you want it, of course)
@ 24, I know why snow is a problem for Seattle. I'm not making fun of Seattle, just Comte's ridiculous and predictible responses to them. They're quite unbecoming.
Yeah, when it's bitter cold for those long periods it can be quite trying. In fact, during my final year of college, what prompted me to make the move out here was one of those 2-3 week stretches of subzero temps.
Your theory about SUVs and 4 wheel drive seems quite plausible. SUVs didn't exist back when I lived there.
Most of the world gets more sun than Seattle but I suspect that the UK and Ireland are about as dreary.
I found this website, which lists large US cities where it rains or snows over 130 days each year. Seattle is topped by Rochester, Buffalo, Portland, Cleveland and Pittsburgh but if you removed "or snows" then Seattle would be the drizzly runner-up to Portland.
How about (soon-to-be) Best City for Chihuly museums?
As someone who has driven, biked, walked in heavy snow in lots of differnt topographies, I think seattle can be pretty challenging. There are a lot of people who are not familiar with the tricks of the trade..starting in second gear, parking at the bottom of the hill, knowing when to stay put.
What "shit" exactly is made up? Presumably, you have the power of teh Google, look it up for yourself.
@37:
I have a feeling that, at best, we'll tie with either Tacoma or perhaps Venice for that particular, um, accolade...
Not that any of it matters. I could go out an cherry pick a bunch of various things too (why didn't you bring up traffic? Oh, yeah) and "prove" Denver's superiority. But so what? On the one hand, NYC, LA, Chicago and other places score worse on most of those accounts. Would you say that Denver is therefore superior? On the other, civic pride is about as dumb as racial pride.
Comte, just havin' fun with you. I recall your visceral hatred of the new museum (and, I believe, all things Chihuly.)
Yeah, but you have to give the nod to Denver as a surname. John Seattle and Bob Seattle just don't have the same ring to them.
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I didn't bring up traffic, because it's one of the few data points that Denver & Seattle share almost equally, so it's something of a wash in that particular regard. Same with public transportation, where Denver currently ranks #1 in terms of investment & overall safety, but Seattle also appears in the Top 10 nationally. Violent crime rates and air quality are also essentially on-par between the two cities. But in pretty much every other relevant criteria used to determine overall livability: general health, education level, creative and cultural amenities, job creation & unemployment rates, median income, etc., there's simply no comparison.
Now, if you lived in Boulder, or even Colorado Springs you might be able to make some more favorable comparisons, but Denver? No way.
True, but does he have an omelette named after him?
ROFLMAOPIMP.....
And if you think Somalia Springs, with its untended parks and turned-off street lights and cancelled suicide hotlines, has anything going for it at all, that's just something else you're displaying your ignorance. (You have a point about Boulder, where I have also lived, but if there's a place that makes Seattle seem down to earth in comparison, it's that place. "Portlandia" could just as well be called "Boulderado.")
As far as god(s) go, science doesn't conclude anything from the absence of evidence.
Now, go, enjoy your municipal shutdown and your diminished reputation. Thanks for the laugh.