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The Pacific Northwest is now getting Cyclones (Pacific Hurricanes)

I think I speak for many PNW folks when I say we always thought that was more of a Florida thing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So I’m guessing they don’t mean “bomb” in the good way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm afraid not. Not even in the "I'm Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren't laughing because they are all reading their own notes" kinda way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought it was like "bomb ass pussy," but your way is also a way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Ah, I thought it was also like "cherry bomb firework" that fuckin rocked but yea that too

[–] Carvex 31 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Gawd is super mad at us because gays or something something, it has nothing to do with us polluting our planet to our own extinction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

It’s probably Biden’s fault or because of abortions, or because there is no more prayer in schools

[–] not_that_guy05 15 points 20 hours ago

Nope and had nothing to do with all the oil that has been burned or polluted the environment. Nope, not even that big ass fire ball that was burning under water for a while in the Gulf. Nope nothing with that at all.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 20 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk 'bomb cyclone' is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)

Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.

BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.

(Posted in the dark as I'm told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 1 points 3 minutes ago

Hopefully this is one of those outages where you feel all cozy, light some candles, your blood pressure goes way down and you're sharing what's in your freezer with the neighbours, and not a freezing cold with mobility issues on the 21st floor kind of outage. Stay safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

We lost power since 1 am last night. Even though we're in a major city, we won't have it back till noon tomorrow.

[–] MrVilliam 6 points 18 hours ago

Interesting. Thanks!

Per NOAA, "In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used." Source. I thought that the appropriate term for a hurricane-like storm anywhere in the Pacific was "typhoon," but it appears that that is reserved for the Western Pacific. So continuing your trend of learning a thing about this and helping others learn it today too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My area got hit while I was out on a business trip, so I guess I'm coming back to spoiled food since I got the message saying there was no electricity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh man I'm sorry that sucks. First thing I want when I get home from a trip is a meal :(