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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:40:35 GMT -7
I don't know about y'all, but I can't help but believe some of this global warming stuff. Winters just keep getting worse. It's hard to fall asleep with no power or heat, and listening to the sickening sounds of trees collapsing constantly all around you. It sounds like gunshots. Not to mention the exploding transformers on the electricity poles. Why can't us mid-westerners just get some stupid snow? It's always either nasty slush or dangerous ice. Well here are some pics of my yards and the neighboring houses. This is in Tahlequah, Ok. Last year Tulsa got hit like this, people were without electricity for a week. One good thing, it is soooooo much fun to slide around, because everything is covered with ice. And I love knocking down iceicles  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:43:11 GMT -7
Neighbors house last year. This is the only tree that fell down.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:43:50 GMT -7
Our trees last year. And we thought THIS was bad.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:44:24 GMT -7
Ok, now our trees yesterday.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:44:40 GMT -7
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:45:00 GMT -7
Front Hackberry last year.  Front Hackberry yesterday (and today).  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:45:47 GMT -7
Back yard pine this summer.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:46:16 GMT -7
Backyard pine NOW.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:48:16 GMT -7
Atleast we don't have trees over our house like these poor neighbors though.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:49:18 GMT -7
I think these neighbors across the street lost 3 of their huge trees, and all on top of their house.  |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 8:53:03 GMT -7
The temp is FINALLY back up to 30 degrees right now, and it's supposed to get up to 40, and then 60 tomorrow. But we will be cleaning up the town for months. All 3 NSU campuses are closed though, our campus is surround by tons of huge trees. And our poor neighbors are gonna need some new roofs. Atleast now we have room to plant a beautiful Magnolia though |
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 9:03:53 GMT -7
Ha, our neighbors tree JUST collapsed. I really hate that sound. It reminds me of a race horse breaking it's leg. One little break and they die. So sad. Their other trees look like peeled bananas, split right down the middle all the way to the ground. The collapsing trees keep hitting the power lines and they shake and shoot big iceicles everywhere. I hope everybody else is safe and sound and warm! Everyone please feel free to comment or post your own pictures. Weather really does interest me. Texas and Oklahoma means terrifying tornadoes in the spring and fall, heat waves in summer, and devastating ice storms in winter.
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Post by AngelMare on Jan 29, 2009 9:29:56 GMT -7
It's colder than usual, or warmer than usual? If it's global warming I would think it'd be warmer than usual. Is it ice that is causing the trees to fall? Too heavy?
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Post by AngelMare on Jan 29, 2009 9:35:30 GMT -7
I wonder how northwest Kansas is doing. We have a house there that we're renting out, and it has some pretty large trees near the house, but they're pretty strong so I doubt they would fall. Here in New Mexico it is sunny and relatively warm most of the time. Very calm. We had some snow around the end of December, but nothing since then, or any type of precipitation for that matter.
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 17:15:37 GMT -7
Yeah it's the weight of the ice. And Global Warming doesn't just cause it to get hotter, it throws everything out of balance. Wet, tropical areas get wetter, arid areas get dryer, and cooler places get warmer. We are having more hurricanes and more tornadoes too.
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Post by poisonedkissxo on Jan 29, 2009 17:21:34 GMT -7
I actually think it's natural for the Earth to experience Global Warming every few thousand years or so, but it's supposed to be caused by volcanoes and such.
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Post by AngelMare on Jan 30, 2009 8:26:39 GMT -7
Yes I definitely believe that it fluctuate, except I don't know if it's necessarily volcanoes always and it fluctuates more often than every few thousand years. I just wrote an argumentative essay in school about some of this environmentalism stuff, and here's what I found about global warming: "Man's annual contribution to CO2 (carbon dioxide) is roughly 7 billion tons, compared with nature's contribution of roughly 200 billion tons, and yet environmentalists advocate that Man must cut back on CO2 production... The earth's climate tends to fluctuate over long-term cycles. Between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1100 the climate was significantly warmer than at present (known as the Medieval Climate Optimum), allowing grapes and citrus fruits to be grown in England and allowing the Vikings to settle Greenland. By the 1300s, global temperatures dropped sharply (known as the Little Ice Age), causing the colonies in Greenland to die off, and the Thames to freeze over. Temperatures rose again in the 1850s, and began to drop during the 1970s. During the 1980s and 1990s temperatures began to climb once more."
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Post by HorsegirlDylan on Jan 30, 2009 10:24:28 GMT -7
Well, if there's some climate change, it isn't affecting Finland. No snow storms, no collapsing trees, no power cuts.
My bet is that there's an ozone depletion above the US, which would throw everything off.
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Post by AngelMare on Jan 30, 2009 13:15:21 GMT -7
It's not warmer than usual in Finland? I know that the Arctic circle melts more every year that soon the Northwest Passage will actually be passable.
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Post by HorsegirlDylan on Jan 31, 2009 7:14:48 GMT -7
It's -20°C right now. Avrg winter temp is ~-10°C.
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