So it's really fucking rainy.

[EX12693]

Well, I am bored out of my mind. It is raining so much that my back yard is in about a 1/2 inch of water. The storm arrived last Sunday and isnt supposed to stop till Saturday. Just look at the weather map for the western US. I live in Los Angeles. It NEVER rains like this here. At most it's a light sprinkle for a few days. But WTF at this bipolar weather. I'll take some pics and make a vid after school tomorrow.

[Inferno]

It's raining?

Make a thread about it.

[EX12693]

What else is there to do? I'm stuck inside.

[Huero]

you could post in other topics

[Horns]

You could find another forum to spare modacity the pain.

[EX12693]

@ Horns Do not trole.

@ Huero Why don't you do that. Not like you couldn't have just ignored this one.

[Ganon]

masterbate

[EX12693]

Did that already. Good suggestion though. How soon can you get here?

[SnaFuBAR]

just a half inch of water? bro my entire yard was flooded with 4+ inches, my street was entirely submerged.

also, PCH was flooded, so I know my old neighborhood had at least a foot of standing water because it has shitty drainage. The last time it rained this hard and i was living in the other city, the only vehicles that were going anywhere were suv's, trucks and jeeps.

[Abdurahman]

Aw I love the rain, and thunder and lightning. I wish It rained more often here in Los Angeles.

[Heathen]

You could find another forum to spare modacity the pain.

http://nuclearcoffee.tk/ :realsmug:

[ultama121]

I'm feeling the rain too over in San Fernando, Snaf. Fuckin' rainyyyyyyyyyy.

[legionaire45]

Cool, so I left the state right before it begins to sink into the Pacific

[ultama121]

California is going to become its own island. :haw:

[Rook]

*checks outside*

Yeah it's a pond out there

[SnaFuBAR]

So anyone else hear about the two tornados in the harbor? heh, i was going to dock my boat there, thank god i didn't.

also, fun, first lighting strike of the night and some street lamps went out.

[EX12693]

Yeah. Oh when i was saying 1/2 an inch that was about... i dunno. Tuesday? Went out and checked just now. Holy crap wtf happened my backyard is a bowl of mud.

Also, who was the brilliant guy that put those leaf catchers covering the stormdrains? They did their job. They caught all the leaves, but now they are clogged. Now I can take my canoe up and down the gutters of my street. I also live in the Sepulveda Basin. Right smack in the middle of the San Fernando valley; the bottom of a giant spoon. Now, there's a flood control dam not too far from my house. It was designed to catch the LA river floodwaters from up north. But God damn, I've never seen it rain this much, this hard, and this quickly. They had the streets going through the very lowest part of the basin closed by Monday night. I rode my bike there Wednesday, and the place was under like, 2 feet of water. I'll take some pics after school tomorrow.

Oh yea I did hear of the tornadoes in the bay. I don't live down there though. Much farther north.

E: Forgot about the lightning! Damn it was loud near my house. At every strike I thought a tree was about to fall on my house. Damn loud noises. I hate them.

[annihilation]

just a half inch of water? bro my entire yard was flooded with 4+ inches, my street was entirely submerged.


I should post pics of my backyard.
The whole thing looks like a rice field.

[BobtheGreatII]

masterbate Masturbate :eng101:

Take spelling lessons. :downs:

[Needles]

I should post pics of my backyard.
The whole thing looks like a rice field.

At least your not in florida.
You get nasty raccoons and mosquitoes living in it =/

[annihilation]

At least your not in florida.
You get nasty raccoons and mosquitoes living in it =/

Raccoons living in water?
:raise:

[ICEE]

haha. I moved to northern california the day before this massive storm raped southern cali. I avoided it. Enjoy

[annihilation]

haha. I moved to northern california the day before this massive storm raped southern cali. I avoided it. Enjoy

But now the storm is in northern cali. I think the worst of it has passed already.

E: I forgot to mention that a bunch of frogs come out after it rains.
Tons of frogs which I think is wierd being in the middle of the city and all.

[blind]

cool story bro

[ultama121]

haha. I moved to northern california the day before this massive storm raped southern cali. I avoided it. Enjoy
You're gonna get yours ICEE.

You're gonna get yours.

[EX12693]

Lol frogs?

Anyways the rain was blowing sideways a bit earlier. We have an open carport in our backyard where my dad keeps one of his old cars, and an old tractor. They are both gonna get screwed with rust. :saddowns:

[rossmum]

are you for real?

unless they have no paint or other protective surfaces on them, they'll be fine. see, if things rusted because a pretty fucking minor amount of rain fell on them, people where i live would be going through cars at the rate of one a week.

learn some basic chemistry before getting all worked up about things rusting because they got touched by freshwater rain.

[EX12693]

Lol not every surface is painted you know. Especially on all cast iron/steel parts. (inside the fenderwells? underneath runningboards? Hell even all the chips and scratches?) Also, just plain exposure to oxygen will rust metal. Moisture accelerates the process, and salt even more so. Now of course the car won't really sustain any damage, but the paint does have some chips in it (original paint) and cleaning rust is a bitch to do. I'm screwed. I'll be spending all of Sunday probably cleaning all the splashed mud/rust off the car. Unless you want to do it for me, rosssmum. Maybe you should learn where the hell cars are actually painted before you go raging.

[rossmum]

jesus christ you're a retard

it rains practically monsoonally in australia and unless you literally never ever wash and dry your car and you live by the sea or on salt flats or some other such thing, a week of rain isn't going to suddenly destroy your car, painted or not. i know this because i have extensive experience with cars being left out in massive shitstorms and then left to air-dry, and their paint jobs weren't perfect either. unless you're worried about even the tiniest rust spots (and even those take a while to show up), you're making a huge fucking drama out of nothing.

and thanks for the misguided attempt at explaining rust to me like i'm a two-year-old, but it's not needed. i did actually do fairly advanced chemistry at school.

e/ hahah nice ninja edit there, too bad for you i've probably worked on more cars than you ever will in my lifetime and have quite a good understanding of how this shit works. my car was made in 1990. we bought it used in '94. after three years in the uk, during which time we travelled cross-channel on an almost fortnightly basis, we moved to australia and brought the car with us. we have lived in australia, right on the coast, for 13 years. the car has been constantly drenched with torrential rain, chipped and scratched by fuckhead teens and bad drivers, and soaked with salt spray. there are some rust spots in areas where the trim has come loose, but on the whole it isn't in too bad a shape. until about five years ago, it was parked outside in the street and was not covered or sheltered.

if it takes 20 years for it to get to that point, one week in the rain is hardly going to cause problems.

e/ before the spectacular arrival of your next desperate attempt to make me out as some kind of idiot, i should also note that i doubt anyone on this forum really cares if you spend all sunday doing it. fuck, you could spend all your life doing it for all i care. having to spend an hour, maybe two doing some washing and (at most) very minor de-rusting is hardly 'screwed'.

basically, national service should be reinstated because holy fuck you kids would get some perspective fixes. you have to spend sunday doing completely non-intensive maintenance? boo fucking hoo. i had to go for a week and a half without a change of clothes, with only two brief (less than five minute) showers, and for four weeks without tv, internet, radio, decent toilet paper, or any of the shit you take for granted, let alone a method of transport that wasn't attached to my legs and enclosed by boots (the same pair for four weeks).

[EX12693]

a week of rain isn't going to suddenly destroy your car, painted or not.I said this.
I don't care about your chemistry experience, and I pretty much explained my full extent of my knowledge of rust. I only stated that 'the car is going to get screwed with rust' (implied if I didn't do anything about it). Why, just a few weeks ago, we replaced intake manifold because of a hole. Caused by rust. Underneath the paint. Now, since YOU are the one making the drama out of this, not me, I suggest that you ragequit. It would make us both happier.

[rossmum]

you suggest i do what?

wow, we are a bit full of ourselves here, aren't we? you think i'm actually mad? don't be giving yourself too much credit there, kiddo.

[EX12693]

Meh. You started off seeming mad. That has subsided, but I didn't see it. Now if you would stop pointlessly lengthening up this thread I would appreciate it.

[rossmum]

i am never mad. i am merely thirsting for the blood of shitposters.

also, i don't see how it's pointless. you made incorrect assumptions, i corrected you. you know i'd hate for you to continue on being mistaken. if i truly wanted to be petty at this point i'd start with the "I CAN POST WHEREVER I WANT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM" but you're all too familiar with that already, so i won't post it alone just for the sake of illustrating your hypocrisy.

[EX12693]

You cannot assume my situation, for you are not in my situation.

you know i'd hate for you to continue on being mistaken.I do not know that, because I do not know you.

if i truly wanted to be petty at this point i'd start with the "I CAN POST WHEREVER I WANT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM" but you're all too familiar with that already, so i won't post it alone just for the sake of illustrating your hypocrisy.You did just start there, and you did do it just for the sake of illustrating my hypocrisy. (but if you didn't, then what is your reason?)

[rossmum]

my post was badly worded; i meant that i would post for the sole purpose of doing so, rather than append it to a post made for another reason.

your own situation is irrelevant in this regard.

[Good_Apollo]

Went down to DP harbor a few hours ago, waves were sickkk. Wind was strong enough that if you leaned back just a bit the wind alone supported your weight.

My gf's boat got fucked though.

[EX12693]

Yes, it is irrelevant. I never said it was relevant in the first place. Just another random happening in my life.

[Horns]

Lol frogs?

Anyways the rain was blowing sideways a bit earlier. We have an open carport in our backyard where my dad keeps one of his old cars, and an old tractor. They are both gonna get screwed with rust. :saddowns:

heh

[EX12693]

Why is that funny? We have a garage in out front yard, and a carport in out backyard. It's basically a garage without walls. Just a roof.

[Limited]

Big whop? It rains like fuck here in UK. ITs been constantly raining here all day. Is it a big deal? Nope! it rains like 120 days a year here, the other generals are generally shitty and cloudy, only a few are actual sun.

That reminds me I need an umbrella, I got absolutely soaked walking to Uni earlier.

[EX12693]

Well it's not common for it to rain like this here.

[=sw=warlord]

You haven't seen rain untill you've been to wales, everytime i've gone to wales, summer or winter it's rained and i don't mean petty rain i mean fucking bucketed it down.

[rossmum]

that's wales for you.

of course the ultimate irony is that an area where there's so much rain is also so rich in slate, mines everywhere. wonder if they ever got flooded...

[blind]

wahhh uncharacteristic rain is making me worry about my daddys old car

[Huero]

actually for reals
what I do when it rains really hard?
I watch it, listen to it, etc.
shit like that is a blessing to me.
(it also makes for amazing sleep background noise)

[Limited]

I love hearing rain patter against my window pane at night. Just sucks it makes it freezing cold lol.

[=sw=warlord]

that's wales for you.

of course the ultimate irony is that an area where there's so much rain is also so rich in slate, mines everywhere. wonder if they ever got flooded...
It's pretty regular for the mines to get flooded, i remember hearing the news last summer when it poured they had to get the fire services out to pump the water.

[Abdurahman]

ITS FUCKING HAILING HERE IN WEST LA. LIKE A LOT OF HAIL!!! OMFG IT's SO LOUD!!! ALARMS GOING OFF!!! WOW!!!

[rossmum]

It's pretty regular for the mines to get flooded, i remember hearing the news last summer when it poured they had to get the fire services out to pump the water.
do they still have those awesome little double-ended steam engines? i fucking loved those as a kid

also the slate mine tours were a bit awesome

[Horns]

Why is that funny? We have a garage in out front yard, and a carport in out backyard. It's basically a garage without walls. Just a roof.

I know. We have many carports. I'm laughing at the fact that you're complaining about vehicles being exposed to the weather in an open environment.

[JPEG]

haha. I moved to northern california the day before this massive storm raped southern cali. I avoided it. Enjoy

:(

[SnaFuBAR]

loving the rain. though i don't want to jump on the 110 to pasadena and get these sketch pens i need (the only location i know of that carries the damn thing). Someone always wipes out on the 110 when it rains. Seen it many times.

[cheezdue]

I love the rain, for some reason it always finds a way to relax me.

[English Mobster]

Girlfriend: Hey, wanna ride?
Me (complaining about having to walk the 1 1/2 miles home with very few sidewalks while buckets are coming down on my head): Sure!
*Girlfriend gets in car*
Girlfriend: Too bad.
*Girlfriend drives off*
*I get soaked to the point where every book in my backpack is unusable and the water gets into my phone to the point where it doesn't work*

[ExAm]

Jay, you'd better not be feeding us another sob story. If that's true, dump the bitch, 'cause that's cold.

[Warsaw]

^IAWTP

I'd actually slap her and then dump her for theatric's sake.

[SnaFuBAR]

bettin she's mad about about something, justice is served? :-3

[ExAm]

Maybe he gave her a sob story about how the forum he likes died.

[Huero]

Girlfriend: Hey, wanna ride?
Me (complaining about having to walk the 1 1/2 miles home with very few sidewalks while buckets are coming down on my head): Sure!
*Girlfriend gets in car*
Girlfriend: Too bad.
*Girlfriend drives off*
*I get soaked to the point where every book in my backpack is unusable and the water gets into my phone to the point where it doesn't work*

that's what you get for using an open-top purse in the rain

[Inferno]

Girlfriend: Hey, wanna ride?
Me (complaining about having to walk the 1 1/2 miles home with very few sidewalks while buckets are coming down on my head): Sure!
*Girlfriend gets in car*
Girlfriend: Too bad.
*Girlfriend drives off*
*I get soaked to the point where every book in my backpack is unusable and the water gets into my phone to the point where it doesn't work*


If it's that bad don't go to school.

[ICEE]

Girlfriend: Hey, wanna ride?
Me (complaining about having to walk the 1 1/2 miles home with very few sidewalks while buckets are coming down on my head): Sure!
*Girlfriend gets in car*
Girlfriend: Too bad.
*Girlfriend drives off*
*I get soaked to the point where every book in my backpack is unusable and the water gets into my phone to the point where it doesn't work*

She's probably just mad because you wore her clothes and put pictures of yourself in said clothes on the internet.

[EX12693]

*Loving living 1/5 mile from school*
None of you guys have umbrellas?

[DrunkenSamus]

If theres a tornado in Orange County, you KNOW global warming is happening.

[EX12693]

Tornadoes usually happen in storms, which are in no way warm. And what? Almost the entire northern hemisphere has has inclement (cold) weather within the last 3 months? And notice how they're not calling it 'global warming' anymore, it's now 'climate change'.

[cheezdue]

Ever since the movie "Twister" came out I've been terrified of tornadoes.

[Huero]

Tornadoes usually happen in storms, which are in no way warm. And what? Almost the entire northern hemisphere has has inclement (cold) weather within the last 3 months? And notice how they're not calling it 'global warming' anymore, it's now 'climate change'.

i'll bet you're one of those crazy kids that defamed it from the beginning aren't you
heh

[Good_Apollo]

If theres a tornado in Orange County, you KNOW global warming is happening.
It's a water spout, and they've been spotted off the COAST of Califronia all the time when we have heavy storms...which isn't all THAT often anyway.

People are making it out to be like we're gonna have a full blown tornado blowing through LA and that's not the case.