Freebie Day

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surrealvol

surrealvol

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Just for all those of you who really probably don't care, I still thought I should relate to someone somewhere in the world that I am having a freebie day because we have about 5-6 inches of snow here in Virginia and I do not have to teach today! :3cheers:
 
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We only had about 2 to 3 inches here in this part of Va....hopefully we will get more tonight.
 
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enjoy, my wife is ticked, they were calling for snow here but it turned to rain, so she has to teach today.....some of us have to work regardless of the weather so I don't feel too sorry for her
 
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(..... sorry, misunderstood the use of the word "freebie." This is much less exciting than I had hoped.)
 
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We were warming up... Brief rain today, but Oregon's been getting into the seventies. It's pretty nice. I need to make a trip to the beach soon.
 
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Milo, what is the weather like over there in Oregon? Does it rain a lot? How hot does it get during the summer......how cool in the winter? Get much snow?
 
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Just getting this out of the way, stereotypical northwest weather is NOT as bad as most think it. Pretty mild weather through most of the year, as Portland and most areas south of it are nice and tucked in between mountain ranges.

Summers are nice, usually 80-85 degrees, ocasional stretches of 90 or so. No rain in summer, whatsoever. Usually starts around May and lasts into September, so we have about 5 months of great weather.

Fall sees a pretty big dip in the temperature. Not very much rain, still, but some. Usually sticks around 30 degrees, and does that for the rest of winter. We barely get any snow, though. I've lived her for over a decade now, and I recall having maybe four years where it snowed. Winter is just cold and rainy for the most part, sticking around 30-35 degrees.

The transition into spring is usually marked by a pretty sharp spike in temperature. One day you're freezing your rear end off, the next you're starting to wear shorts and flip flops. Usually comes in March, and the rain starts fluctuating. The temp gradually rises from 70's through March and April, and it starts raining less frequently until it becomes summer.

So yeah... Oregon rules in the summer. Beautiful weather all of the time from May through August at least. Great for sports as well... I have snowboarded and body surfed in the same day before. It was pretty nice.
 
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Thanks for the term paper! When I spent some time in Washington and Oregon in the summer, I thought it was great. I really like the northwest and have always thought that it would be a great place to call home one day. If nothing else, way down the line, I might retire in the Northwest. That would be years and years from now though.

Our weather here used to be like you described yours as being, but the past 4 years, we have had rain more than anything. The past two summers, I haven't even been able to get in the pool and have hardly been able to get out to the lake because of rain.

I am snow/cold weather person myself. Wherever I end up will have to have some good winters.
 
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Why don't you guys come experience one of the wonderful summers that we have here in middle Georgia? Nothing like 3 straight weeks of 95 degrees with 80% humidity to make you lose about 10 pounds.
 
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Yeah man, it is the humidity that kills me. I blame global warming for all the rain that we have been getting here in Va and because of it, it is becoming very very humid in the summer.

What part of Georgia are you in again?
 
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What a lot of people don't realize is what most of Oregon is... The majority of the state is desert.

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The green portion is temperate, for the most part, while the brownish part is mostly high desert.
 
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Washington is kind of like too isn't it. The eastern parts anyway......

I remember thinking to myself .......this isn't what I expected.
 
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Originally posted by Orangewhiteblood@Feb 28, 2005 8:29 PM
Yeah man, it is the humidity that kills me. I blame global warming for all the rain that we have been getting here in Va and because of it, it is becoming very very humid in the summer.

What part of Georgia are you in again?
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Smack dab in the middle in Macon. The home of Little Richard, Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers.
 
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My best friend in undergrad school was Otis Reddings nephew... I think it was nephew..I could have heard it wrong.

He was from Georgia, somewhere close to stone mountain. I forget the county.
 
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Yeah. Oregon and Washington, both from the middle part to the Idaho border SUCK. Generally very flat, very dry, very baren. Seattle has more of that stereotypical cold weather/rain of the PNW.
 
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Originally posted by Orangewhiteblood@Feb 28, 2005 8:34 PM
My best friend in undergrad school was Otis Reddings nephew... I think it was nephew..I could have heard it wrong.

He was from Georgia, somewhere close to stone mountain. I forget the county.
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That would probably be either Dekalb or Gwinett County.
 
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I looked at the county map of Georgia and I believe it was Clayton County.
 
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Could be - That's a pretty good ways south of Stone Mountain, but it's in the general vicinity (30-40 miles).
 
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Giving it for up here in G-Burg but don't know if we're going to get any...Supposed to have 10 days of practice in baseball until our first game but I don't know if Mother Nature will have it....Wish it would snow butthole deep though...Wouldn't have to worry about 6 weeks exams or anything like that :good:
 
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Hey milo,

My youngest son got to parachute into the big world championship rodeo they have out there in Oregon a year or two ago.

He was with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Airborne, and they parachuted in as part of the entertainment.

He said the rodeo was a blast!
 
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