"The snowstorm currently lashing the Gulf Coast β which included the first-ever blizzard warning in Louisiana β is being described as a once in a generation weather event, the National Weather Service said Monday."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2025/01/21/how-rare-is-southern-snowstorm-gulf-coast/77846052007/ #snowstorm #unprecedented #climatechaos
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AI6YR Ben
For those playing the game, you can now either take a shot or eat some ice cream.
"once in a generation weather event"
"unprecedented"
"100-year event"
"1000-year event"
"never happened here before"
@ai6yr
thank you, i was about to raid the fridge for a Yukon bar and it's nice to have official authorization.
by Bill Ricker ;
@ai6yr
pretty sure if i took a shot for every time some weather or political event was described that way, i'd be dead of alcohol poisoning before lunch time...
i propose we stop trying to describe them as unprecedented, historic, once in a generation/century/decade/lifetime and collapse it all into these two:
YAWC: Yet Another Weather Clusterfuck
&
YAPC: Yet Another Political Clusterfuck
by Paul_IPv6 ;
@ai6yr No booze, no ice cream in the freezer, so a piece of expensive chocolate will have to do.
π«π«π«
by Kinene ;
@ai6yr the only thing that's getting me through climate change and *waves hands at everything* is cannabis π€£
by Anne Ominous ;
@ai6yr Ice cream for me.
by Mac - VA3WFT ;
@ai6yr butter pecan crunch
by Elle Plaster ;
@ai6yr Didn't Texas freeze, only a few years ago? This generational thing is getting shorter. Gnat is right.
by Hugs4friends βΎπΊπ¦ π΅πΈπ· ;
@ai6yr Bourbon for me. I just stocked up.
by Cookiefiend ;
@ai6yr
Things the climate denying trump appointed head of NOAA would say
Wait we are not paying #10,000 dollar pyramid?
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Jes
@ai6yr once in a generation, so far
@Jesticulated @ai6yr
+1 Classical Allusion
*and* very on point.
Basically knock a 0 off the once in N00 years repetition rates ...
by Bill Ricker ;
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