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"The snowstorm currently lashing the Gulf Coast – which included the first-ever blizzard warning in Louisiana – is being described as a once in a generation weather event, the National Weather Service said Monday."

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AI6YR Ben

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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.

🍫🍫🍫

by Kinene ;

@ai6yr the only thing that's getting me through climate change and *waves hands at everything* is cannabis 🀣

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 β™ΎπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ˜· ;

@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

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@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 ...

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