A Survey of This Morning's OMGSNOW TV News
Because the news reports are far more entertaining than the white stuff falling from the sky... KGW is running with a graphic screaming "ARCTIC BLAST," as anchor Brenda Braxton talks about being a...
View ArticleMake it Stop, Please
KATU's Brian Wood has a plea: "We love seeing your pictures. We can only get so many reporters out into so many different locations in our region," he says, begging people to upload photos to...
View ArticleSnowmageddon: A Reaction
I've been getting all of my weather news via Twitter, like this reaction video from the One True b!X that really drives home the severity of the situation: Plus I have learned that the Green Dragon...
View ArticleLiving By Instinct
After watching days of hysterical ARCTIC BLAST!!! news coverage, I've had a kind of epiphany (huh, that's appropriate for the holiday season.) From here on out, I refuse to watch anymore news coverage...
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Arctageddon, The T-Shirt
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Look, All I'm Saying Is That It's Not Totally Impossible, Is All.
The initiation of a Snowball Earth event would involve some initial cooling mechanism, followed by runaway cooling due to increasing ice accumulation. The initial cooling could be facilitated by an...
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This Weekend in PDX
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DIE, OLD MAN WINTER! JUST FUCKING DIE!
While KATU (studio location: NE 21st and Sandy) has been frantically, giddily engaging in nonstop reporting on SNOWPOCALYPSE!!—indeed, they've been breathlessly, repetitively announcing...
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Do You Have a Frozen Baby?
Because if you do, you might want to walk back over to my house and pick up your damn stroller. This frozen block of stroller has been abandoned out in front of my house since Saturday, and I'm a...
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Got Plans on Christmas Eve? Cancel 'Em!
Last Sunday's screening of Silent Night, Deadly Night was canceled thanks to the stupid weather—but never fear, Xmas horror fans. From the Grindhouse Film Fest: Rescheduled for Christmas Eve! On...
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This is Funny
While I'm not going to justify the actions of the rapscallion who wrote scatological words on various snow covered cars on NE 28th—between Burnside and Stark—that doesn't mean I didn't think it was...
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Don't Screw Around With Liquid Nitrogen!
How many times do I have to tell you kids!? It looks like German chef Heston Blumenthal blew off both of his hands while "trying to empty a canister of liquid nitrogen." The use of liquid nitrogen is...
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NE Building Collapses, as Predicted By the Mayans
Could a repeat of last year's snowpocalypse be right around the corner? The streets may be drivable, but that hasn't stopped the cold from leaving a trail of destruction, this time right down the...
View ArticleThis Is My Favorite Song About Snow.
Cadallaca, "Winter Storm '98." It's a song about Oregon and snow. I was 16 in 1998 and that might've been the year my dad took me to a parking lot to teach me how to snow-drive. Last winter I had to...
View ArticleMetrodome Roof Collapses
As Steve mentioned in GMN, the Minneapolis Metrodome roof collapsed under all that snow... and now there's video! Via JMG. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleMan in a Blizzard
Here's the short film shot by Jamie Stuart over Sunday night's blizzard in New York that's been making the rounds on the internet, thanks to Roger Ebert's laudatory appraisal:This film deserves to win...
View ArticleSNOWPOCALYPSE IS COMING!!
Today may be all warm and in the 40s, but tomorrow.... tomorrow meteorologists are already describing as a frighteningly vague "major event." Snow! beginning in the afternoon.Freezing Rain! continuing...
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Bearded While Biking
Look what fugliness Etsy hath wrought this time: However, if you are a woman, or just a man who chooses to avoid the oft-lampooned condition of actually having a beard, this would be a super handy...
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