Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Go on....

(ziiiiiiiiiip....)

I just realized that The Goonies was a metaphor for masturbation. A group of adolescent boys going on a search for One-Eyed Willie's hidden treasure.

One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: I just realized that The Goonies was a metaphor for masturbation. A group of adolescent boys going on a search for One-Eyed Willie's hidden treasure.

so what do the fratellis represent?

i mean, we can kinda figure out what the two chicks that tag along represent...

and what about sloth? what's HIS symbolism in this interpetation of the story?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: I just realized that The Goonies was a metaphor for masturbation. A group of adolescent boys going on a search for One-Eyed Willie's hidden treasure.

Plus there was a lot of handling of that statue's penis when it fell off.

ChipNASA: One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

I don't get it either. Before clicking the link, I wondered if they were talking about a hurricane this late in the season (one eye = hurricane eye?) Also, it turns out that if we had two more named storms, the second would have been named William. THEN this headline would have made more sense. As it stands, I don't get it.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: I just realized that The Goonies was a metaphor for masturbation. A group of adolescent boys going on a search for One-Eyed Willie's hidden treasure.

So, what you're saying is, the Fratellis are a metaphor for parents trying to prevent their children masturbating?

jack21221: ChipNASA: One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

I don't get it either. Before clicking the link, I wondered if they were talking about a hurricane this late in the season (one eye = hurricane eye?) Also, it turns out that if we had two more named storms, the second would have been named William. THEN this headline would have made more sense. As it stands, I don't get it.

the goonies took place in astoria.

I hate when they greenlight articles that are behind a truffle shuffle wall. I don't have a webcam on this computer.

"You idiot, that's my mom's favorite part!"

"Wouldn't be here if it wasn't!

khitsicker: jack21221: ChipNASA: One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

I don't get it either. Before clicking the link, I wondered if they were talking about a hurricane this late in the season (one eye = hurricane eye?) Also, it turns out that if we had two more named storms, the second would have been named William. THEN this headline would have made more sense. As it stands, I don't get it.

the goonies took place in astoria.

Huh...I.Did.Not.Know.That.

First thing I thought of:

Storm passed, sunny skies again in Beaverton.

Had been raining pretty hard (even by Oregon standards) the past couple of days, so we had about an inch of water in the street gutters.

I slept under that bridge once.

Across the river, there's a landmark (Lewis and Clark got stuck in bad weather there) called Dismal Nitch. The sign gets stolen every so often.

/csb

Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Yep, if it happened on the other coast, we'd get 24/7 news coverage for a week.

Police cars on fire:


Semi's flipping over left and right:




Landslides, taking down homes and covering railroad tracks:


Urban flooding:


Interestingly, we nearly doubled our *all-time* record for rain in one day. Doubled. But here in the Pacific NW, this kind of weather is called "November."

Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Some would call them total devastation, Superstorm, storm of the century, etc.

Galloping Gertie.



/Get off my lawn.

So long Astoria.

They're gonna need some sort of hidden treasure to get the fundings to help the town.

JackieRabbit: Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Some would call them total devastation, Superstorm, storm of the century, etc.

whereas we PNW dwellers in coastal oregon and washington go 'eh' and zip up our coats a little better.

/umbrellas are useless cause when it's really going, the wind is up too, and you're gonna lose the umbrella one way or another.
//you can always spot a new transplant from out of state in the first weeks of november from their attempts at using umbrellas.

Because God has a sense of humor (or is it irony), it was a 101 mph wind that knocked over the semi on Highway 101.

I was down in Astoria just last week, visiting Goonies landmarks for the weekend. It's a nice city to visit and photograph.

...and here, I thought it was going to be another necrophilia article.

MrSteve007: Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Yep, if it happened on the other coast, we'd get 24/7 news coverage for a week.

Police cars on fire:
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Semi's flipping over left and right:
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Landslides, taking down homes and covering railroad tracks:
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Urban flooding:
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Interestingly, we nearly doubled our *all-time* record for rain in one day. Doubled. But here in the Pacific NW, this kind of weather is called "November."

if it happened on the other coast, we'd be looking at something more than highways in the country, a bridge, and a small suburb. 

/ bad weather sucks wherever it strikes... suffering nature isn't a competition

As a person that spent a good deal of his formative years living along the banks of the Columbia River this isn't news. On the bridge between Biggs Junction and Maryhill there are grave markers attached to it for the spots where semis were blown clear off the damn thing.

pute kisses like a man: MrSteve007: Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Yep, if it happened on the other coast, we'd get 24/7 news coverage for a week.

Police cars on fire:
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Semi's flipping over left and right:
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Landslides, taking down homes and covering railroad tracks:
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Urban flooding:
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Interestingly, we nearly doubled our *all-time* record for rain in one day. Doubled. But here in the Pacific NW, this kind of weather is called "November."

if it happened on the other coast, we'd be looking at something more than highways in the country, a bridge, and a small suburb. 

/ bad weather sucks wherever it strikes... suffering nature isn't a competition

it might not be a competition to weather it(haha, i made a pun), but it IS a point of pride to not get all fecking hysterical about it.

Winds just kicked up again in Astoria, heavy rain throughout the night, time for round two....

Mother Nature = Jerk Alert

buttery_shame_cave:
it might not be a competition to weather it(haha, i made a pun), but it IS a point of pride to not get all fecking hysterical about it.

Right... nearly 10 million lost power, a million of who went nearly 3 weeks before it was restored (some are STILL without), and it destroyed not just part of one small town, but a large portion of nearly 100 miles of coastal cities.

It's kind of hard to compare that to a small town of under 10,000.

It wasn't that much of a storm, really and I've been thru several of the classics (Columbus day, Independence Day, Etc). Ya gotta realize that the bridge is across the mouth of the Columbia, right at the ocean, so it's getting unadulterated wind. A couple of miles in, it was just 60mph. Agreed, it was a lot of rain...Bremerton got 5 inches in just 12 hours. My ancestral home got flooded again. Downtown Port Orchard got its storm drain fail for this decade. but the storm didn't give us that 3 days without power that a memorial storm needs to be considered major.

/just a good blow
//and a chin wipe

buttery_shame_cave: JackieRabbit: Generation_D: Standard Northwest storm. I guess you guys would call that a hurricane where you live.

Some would call them total devastation, Superstorm, storm of the century, etc.

whereas we PNW dwellers in coastal oregon and washington go 'eh' and zip up our coats a little better.

/umbrellas are useless cause when it's really going, the wind is up too, and you're gonna lose the umbrella one way or another.
//you can always spot a new transplant from out of state in the first weeks of november from their attempts at using umbrellas.

This is why god invented macintoshes..... We often get winter rain from PNW storms here in the Southeast, so it's easy to understand the power they pack when they hit the west coast.

Biggest difference between a storm like this and a hurricane is time. With a major windstorm, you get wind at 60mph with gusts of 90 to 100 mph lasting a few hours. With a hurricane, you get constant, straightline winds of 90 to 100 mph lasting three days. Same with blizzards, which is why NOAA has decided to start naming major blizzards as well.

ChipNASA: One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

Dude, you just posted the most off the wall, zany and WTF inducing photo on another thread, leading me to believe that you have in fact seen the ends of the inter webs...and a goonies reference stumps you?
/ no way, you're f ing with us

ficklefkrfark: ChipNASA: One-Eyed Willie?

/I don't get it.

Dude, you just posted the most off the wall, zany and WTF inducing photo on another thread, leading me to believe that you have in fact seen the ends of the inter webs...and a goonies reference stumps you?
/ no way, you're f ing with us

(wink)
You get jokes.
-12/10?
/I got a few bites.

Mikeyworld: It wasn't that much of a storm, really and I've been thru several of the classics (Columbus day, Independence Day, Etc). Ya gotta realize that the bridge is across the mouth of the Columbia, right at the ocean, so it's getting unadulterated wind. A couple of miles in, it was just 60mph. Agreed, it was a lot of rain...Bremerton got 5 inches in just 12 hours. My ancestral home got flooded again. Downtown Port Orchard got its storm drain fail for this decade. but the storm didn't give us that 3 days without power that a memorial storm needs to be considered major.

/just a good blow
//and a chin wipe

Basically - lots of rain, some good gusts, but there have been more spectacular storms in recent memory. This one was just wet, and few folks in the United States do "wet weather" quite like the Pacific Northwest. I mean, hell, we still have rainforests here.

I suppose I'm the only person alive who hasn't seen goonies.

jack21221: I suppose I'm the only person alive who hasn't seen goonies.

Sir, if you haven't seen goonies you just may not be alive.

buttery_shame_cave: whereas we PNW dwellers in coastal oregon and washington go 'eh' and zip up our coats a little better.

As nice as that sounds, my experience has been that whenever it rains, PNW residents get in their cars, panic, and throw their brains out the windows.

FormlessOne: Mikeyworld: It wasn't that much of a storm, really

/just a good blow
//and a chin wipe

Basically - lots of rain, some good gusts, but there have been more spectacular storms in recent memory. This one was just wet, and few folks in the United States do "wet weather" quite like the Pacific Northwest. I mean, hell, we still have rainforests here.

You've been added to my favorites under "wet siders" in a nice shade of gray.

I'm out on the coast nowadays, just south of the rain forests. This storm just blew over the top of us without doing anything. It had to climb up a little to get vicious. We just had another squall blow thru, so Seatlle's gonna feel it in about an hour (their weather mostly comes over Ocean shores. can call my Ma and give her an hour's heads-up)

toraque: buttery_shame_cave: whereas we PNW dwellers in coastal oregon and washington go 'eh' and zip up our coats a little better.

As nice as that sounds, my experience has been that whenever it rains, PNW residents get in their cars, panic, and throw their brains out the windows.

Just Seattle. And even then, just the ones scurrying back to suburbia by 3 pm on a workday.

once they're gone, there really isnt that big a deal in the middle of town. If power stays on. So far so good.

Out yonder is where the trees attack more frequently. And the ever popular sliding mansions down view front property.

I just got back from QFC on Capitol Hill and can report that ALCOHOL SUPPLIES ARE HOLDING STEADY. Remain Calm people. Beer, Wine and hard liquor are all in plentiful supply to make it through not only the deluge but also the long holiday weekend.

/// Supplies.

So, can this storm come through and drop some rain on us here in the midwest? It's only been like 3 weeks since our last significant rainfall, which was only like half an inch.

MrSteve007: I was down in Astoria just last week, visiting Goonies landmarks for the weekend. It's a nice city to visit and photograph.

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Holy crap! You went to Astoria and actually saw blue sky and the sun? Wow: lucky dude.

/Nice pictures

Sorry I'm late...

/not new here

buttery_shame_cave: "what do the fratellis represent ... and what about sloth?"

The Fratellis are, clearly, the Catholic Church: trying to shame and scare the kids away from not only adventure, but adult-hood in general, in being so dismissive of their autonomy.
Not to mention the undercurrent implications of their capturing, torturing and enslaving children for their own purposes. Shades of sexual abuse there. Think on that when you re-watch the scene of Anne Ramsey forcing Corey Feldman to spit those jewels into her hand.

Sloth is a cautionary tale about "use it or lose it".
If you don't use it, you're basically consigning yourself to a lifetime chained up in a basement, taking orders from others.
But if you *use it* you not only have your dignity and autonomy, but you can be goddammed *Superman*.

Has anyone thought to rescue that kid climbing the high voltage transmission tower where he went to place his "lasers"?

/This thread needs more non-Goonies movie references.
//Also: Watch out for booty traps

toraque: buttery_shame_cave: whereas we PNW dwellers in coastal oregon and washington go 'eh' and zip up our coats a little better.

As nice as that sounds, my experience has been that whenever it rains, PNW residents get in their cars, panic, and throw their brains out the windows.

It is astounding that people in Seattle seem to freak out when it rains because, seriously, it rains all the farking time here. But OTOH the average person is a complete idiot and a jerk to boot, so meh, whatever.

Alphakronik: Storm passed, sunny skies again in Beaverton.

Had been raining pretty hard (even by Oregon standards) the past couple of days, so we had about an inch of water in the street gutters.

It's really bad in certain spots in downtown Eugene. Water extending from the curb to a few feet into the street and it's ankle deep too. Part of the problem is that the storm drains covers are getting clogged up with leaves faster than they can be removed.

And coastal areas are even worse. There's some fairly bad flooding on Highway 101 between Seaside and Cannon Beach.