Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

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HeatherLeigh — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:53:22 GMT

Nobody wants soldiers to have to die. Other peoples misery/misfortune/loss doesn't make me feel better or worse about our weather; it just makes me feel for them. Misfortune is not a zero sum game.

People are always going to talk about the weather. People are always going to bicker on blogs. Just something that you have to deal with.

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

amy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:41:46 GMT

I THINK THAT looking at the the glass.half full is better than half empty.Also it"s so grand that even in this cruel world we still have choices.why u bicker over the weather our soldiers are dieing for us.be thankful ppl!

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

HeatherLeigh — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:28:14 GMT

Whatever. My opinion is still the same. If people want to make it sound much worse than it is (10.5 months...dun dun duhnnnnn). If was really bad, people just wouldn't live here...I just wouldn't. In my opinion, I'll take the rain over snow in winter and oppressive heat in summer any day. If someone feels differently or otherwise doesn't like the climate here (or if they are annoyed by mountains or clean air), they shouldn't move here (but I really don't think that people can know unless they experience it). We each judge what is right for us. I have a friend who moved up here a year ago from the bay area and when they went back to visit, one of his sons asked "was it really this bad when we lived here?".

Like I said before, you pick your thing that you can deal with. There's no absolute objective utopia that works for everyone.

And just for the record, it was partly-mostly cloudy here today...I saw lots of sun and sky and I saw little to no rain and the weather sites called it "showers", so go figure.

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

Tosh Hida — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:18:20 GMT

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/westcomp.clr.html

SEATTLE-TACOMA AP 58 sunny days/yr
SEATTLE URBAN SITE 71 sunny days/yr

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

Tosh Hida — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:15:04 GMT

Well actually, there are an average of 58 sunny days a year in Seattle.

At least that's what it says on this website:

http://www.komotv.com/asksteve/story.asp?ID=26929

58 sunny days a year
226 cloudy days a year
81 partly cloudy days a year
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365 days a year

I'm just giving you the statistics, how you interpret them is up to you.

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

HeatherLeigh — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:05:11 GMT

Oh, and Pat, I'd agree except if nobody moved here I really wouldn't have much of a job ; ) Hmm, maybe they should build a monorail...hahahahaha

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HeatherLeigh — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:03:47 GMT

Tosh-not straight. It's like how they measure "rainy"...if it rains once at the airport, then it's a "rainy day". So it's no 10.5 months of "no sun".

Are you trying to tell me there are only about 20 sunny days here? Seriously? I don't buy it.

re: Rain, tornadoes, earthquakes...take your pick

Tosh Hida — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:12:22 GMT

For the record MarketingGuy, it only rains 155 days a year here in Seattle.

And Heather, he's somewhat correct about the 10.5 months of no sun. We (Seattle) have an average of 266 cloudy days and 81 partly cloudy days.

http://www.komotv.com/asksteve/story.asp?ID=26929

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Pat — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:06:32 GMT

I like the perception of 10.5 months of gloom and bad Microsoft recruiting, keeps people from moving here and Seattle can be all mine, especially during the summer.
Here is to 30 more days of rain!
pat

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HeatherLeigh — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:42:19 GMT

Um, "MarketingGuy", where do I start? Please let me know what opinion I could express here, other than my own, that would actually suit you. My opinion is what I stated above and if you have a problem with it, then I am sorry that there's nothing I can do to help you (and by the way, I don't lie). You are so misinformed that it's funny. Where'd you get 10.5 from? "Constant" and "non-stop" mean the same thing. Both wrong, but same thing.

I'm going to assume that your comment about our recruiting being "bad" is self serving since obviously, you wouldn't ever consider living here so it would be foolish of you to go through our recruiting process, right? Hypocricy or misinformed...you pick.

So you read my blog regularly. Let me guess, you recruit for one of our competitors, right? Mmm, hmm. Why hide? Why pretend to be a "marketing guy"?

Sheesh, usually the weather is the one thing you can talk about that's "safe"...who would have thought it would bring out the blog trolls!