Climate change

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Last time that happened was about 9500 years ago,

9500 years ago?  Whew! You had me going, there for a minute, and then I remembered: this would put the event BEFORE the earth was created, so we're all safe.  

[Swatopluk]

Depends wich school of YEC you follow. If you are from the liberal 10000 year fraction, you should worry post festum.
If you are orthodox "World is half as old as Jericho"*, then you may sleep well.

*Jericho is estimated to be about 10000 years old (though the walls were erected possibly a bit later)

[Outis the Unready]

How cansomething on the world be twice the age of the world.

Okay. That's it, YEC gave me a headache.

It is now, also, on my list.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Well, in the beginning there was Void... maybe Jericho wrote some bad cheques?

[Griffin NoName]

Would global freezing unstrain your back?  Clearly there's a need for some new diagnostic publications. Hope the pain is not unbearable but I suspect it must be.

[Swatopluk]

Maybe we could interest the YECs in the idea that the big bang was actually the fall of the walls of Jericho.
"A musical performance that not just brought the house down."
Actually the sirens built into Stukas were called Jericho fanfares.
Hm, maybe G*D provided Joshua with dive-bombers on the occasion.
Anyway, weather too warm around here for the season (and Moscow is even 25-30°C warmer than normal for mid-January)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Maybe we could interest the YECs in the idea that the big bang was actually the fall of the walls of Jericho.
"A musical performance that not just brought the house down."
Actually the sirens built into Stukas were called Jericho fanfares.
Hm, maybe G*D provided Joshua with dive-bombers on the occasion.
Anyway, weather too warm around here for the season (and Moscow is even 25-30°C warmer than normal for mid-January)

I can offset that with colder-than-normal around here.  Been below freezing for almost a week now, and ice all over everything.

(Of course, "normal" has only been the past 10 years.  Prior to that, this weather was "normal" for January. ... Will Rogers had it right about Oklahoma:  'don't like the weather? wait.' )

[Swatopluk]

Extremly heavy storm announced here for the afternoon (130-150 km/h in squalls).

[Outis the Unready]

That'd be the freak "German Hurricane," eh?

It actually made our news.

Our whole city is under 2cm of ice since the day before yesterday. It's finally starting the melt.

It was beautiful.

Schools, of course, were not closed.

[Swatopluk]

The storm obviously uses German Railways. It is clearly late.
It is raining heavily but no sign of a hurricane around here (not even a Spitfire).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

The storm obviously uses German Railways. It is clearly late.
It is raining heavily but no sign of a hurricane around here (not even a Spitfire).

Nice WWII reference!  As it happens, I had the history channel on as background noise.... <grin>

[Swatopluk]

The storm was late by almost 6 hours. The railway stopped its service all over the country for the first time in recorded history (including WW2) but the airport north of here audibly still worked.
I read in the papers that the name of the depression causing the storm was bought as a gift.
The donors now are a bit ambiguous about "Kyrill racing West!". [headlines]

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

The storm was quite powerful even around here.

It actually reached a around 200 km/h in a few places in the Czech Republic. And over 30 people died around Europe.

And it appears that the storm will be causing trouble till Sunday.

[Swatopluk]

They have sounded the all clear here in the early morning.
Now even the sun is shining a bit.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

It's all clear here as well.

But the forecast says that it should start again in the afternoon (around 15:00) and last till Sunday late evening.

Don't know if we can trust the forecast, but the sun disappeared very quickly.