Sandy Coming to Visit Pittsburgh? (Lebanon: for sale, rental, homes)

[Tirade]

I love how h_curtis switched from repeatedly insisting that "it is barely a hurricane at all" to arguing about dogs and military spending as soon as it became obvious that Pittsburgh was going to walloped with rain and high wind.

Classic deflection.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

If your dogs are barking all the time, I suspect you aren't a very good dog owner. No offense, but none of my dogs barked all the time. I never understood why dogs are always barking with some people. Funny little story, my neighbors have 3 dogs that bark every time they take them outside and it is VERY early in the morning and wakes the neighborhood. When they are out of town and have someone staying with the dogs they don't bark at all. It is all about the master of the dogs and not the dogs. Anyway, you should be the leader, not them.

Don't be silly. My dogs don't bark all the time either. Just during trick or treating when people knock on the door. Nobody else can hear them because they are inside. Dogs are supposed to bark when people knock on the door. It's their job.

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Cancel Halloween? That is sad. Kids love it and considering what we are leaving them with that massive spending spree on our military machine and wars, the least we can do is have a nice Halloween for them. They will have it very hard due to our odd decision making.

I'm LMAO! Do you really think having Halloween makes up for the debt we're passing to them? That's too funny. I've never been a fan of Halloween. I always caught the flu while trick-or-treating. I do my duty. I give out the candy. I compliment the kids. I'm not turning off the lights and going out to dinner with hubby instead. But I should.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Tirade

The Weather Channel has a new map up that shows Allegheny County getting an inch or more of snow. Nothing about snow in their Pittsburgh forecast, though.

http://i.imwx.com/images/maps/truvu/...us_320x180.jpg

I hope we get snow!

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Tirade

The Weather Channel has a new map up that shows Allegheny County getting an inch or more of snow. Nothing about snow in their Pittsburgh forecast, though.

The temp predictions don't go below about 40 though the next few days, in fact warmer temp predictions than they were a few days ago. Not sure why they drew that snow map that way, but my guess would be it's just off a bit in where they mean the boundaries to be.

[Hopes]

I suspect they have NO CLUE what will happen and they're just drawing maps.

[sskink]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Cancel Halloween? That is sad. Kids love it and considering what we are leaving them with that massive spending spree on our military machine and wars, the least we can do is have a nice Halloween for them. They will have it very hard due to our odd decision making.

So what Hopes should do is put out a milk crate of black walnuts on the curb with a sign telling kids to take some and plant them and in 20 years they'll have a $10,000 tree to help pay down their college debt. Kids don't come to the door so no barking, the kids have to take on personal responsibility for growing a tree which makes them better citizens, Hopes gets rid of her walnuts, everybody wins.

[Tirade]

Originally Posted by greg42

The temp predictions don't go below about 40 though the next few days, in fact warmer temp predictions than they were a few days ago. Not sure why they drew that snow map that way, but my guess would be it's just off a bit in where they mean the boundaries to be.

I agree, but the North American Model now has Allegheny County in their snow projections, too.

[Tirade]

Just had a power outage here in Brookline. Considering we've only had light rain, I fear for what will happen when the actual bad weather shows up. Charge your phones and get your flashlights together just in case.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Tirade

Just had a power outage here in Brookline. Considering we've only had light rain, I fear for what will happen when the actual bad weather shows up. Charge your phones and get your flashlights together just in case.

Hard to know for sure that it's related to the weather unless you find out the precise reason for the outage. It has been raining, and the wet ground alone can fell trees especially on hillsides. Or it could be a reason completely unrelated to the weather like a transformer failure.

Hope your power is back by now.

[ex-burgher]

I'm worried about my elderly mom in Pine, last year the combination of a power outage and rain led to major basement flooding (she has a sump pump). She really needs a a generator but does not have one.