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Kalhoun
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Location: Land of the midnight noise!
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 Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: Where are the rainmakers? |
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The smog in Seoul is getting thicker and tasts terrible! So where are the rainmakers? Are they late? We really need to clear the air in order for us to breath.
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Pyongshin Sangja
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Death to rain. Long live dry weather and dusty highways. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:25 am Post subject: |
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And long live soppy undershirts and moist, clingy underpants!
Before the end of this month, guaranteed.  |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| By this weekend the first sweep is coming from the monsoon...and then it shouldn't be long after that it is permanant |
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Kalhoun
Joined: 30 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| By this weekend the first sweep is coming from the monsoon...and then it shouldn't be long after that it is permanant |
I sure hope so. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:58 am Post subject: |
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If this summer's as bad as has been publicised, I'm instituting a Work-In-The-Nude policy in the office. Or at the very minimum, Topless Tuesdays.
OFF TOPIC: HOLY SHIT was there ever a massive boom just a second ago!! Northern Seoul. Definitely NOT thunder, either. Damn, now a second!! All the dogs are barking... Shit, now sirens... Anyone else hearing this???? |
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Kalhoun
Joined: 30 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| What do you think it was? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: |
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I'll tell you what it was. Just went up on the roof to look around. Lord, that sounded like a bomb exploding. Two, I mean. VERY FUCKING LOUD explosions.
I'm going down to get a closer look. There are sirens & emergency vehicles coming from two directions. Seems like an electrical explosion, from what I could see with the binoculars. Every dog for miles is up, lights going on in houses. Anyway, I hope I can get some juicy photos!
No, I hope nobody was hurt. Then I hope to get the juicy photos.
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:14 am Post subject: |
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I am booking my ticket as we speak  |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'll tell you what it was. Just went up on the roof to look around. Lord, that sounded like a bomb exploding. Two, I mean. VERY *beep* LOUD explosions.
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So what was it???/ |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Kalhoun wrote: |
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| By this weekend the first sweep is coming from the monsoon...and then it shouldn't be long after that it is permanant |
I sure hope so. |
Screw that noise. It needs to wait a week. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| Kalhoun wrote: |
| just because wrote: |
| By this weekend the first sweep is coming from the monsoon...and then it shouldn't be long after that it is permanant |
I sure hope so. |
Screw that noise. It needs to wait a week. |
Right.
I for one am not looking forward to two months of everything you own feeling damp. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'll tell you what it was. Just went up on the roof to look around. Lord, that sounded like a bomb exploding. Two, I mean. VERY *beep* LOUD explosions.
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JB, Calhoun -- It was an electrical power-related accident. Two of those massive transformers you see suspended high on power poles exploded.
The sound of the blasts was nothing short of terrifying. I'm sure we've all at some time or another been badly startled by a sudden thunderclap when there's no sign of rain or a storm. Try and imagine the loudest, most intense of those you've ever heard, and double or treble it. I'm a good 10 minutes' walk from there, but it sounded and felt like it was right across the street from me.
Oh, and yes, everyone there did say they wondered if North Korea were bombing us. Once you realise that the horrendous explosion wasn't God's loudest thunderclap, there just aren't a whole bunch of alternative explanations that spring readily to mind. Also, there's the fact that it came in the dead of night when people are asleep (not during the daytime when workmen might be using explosives at construction sites). We're near enough the Blue House, so that fits in with the NK attack scenario, too. Some people even mentioned that -- "What must the Blue House have thought!" Because God knows, they had to've heard it loud and clear. Wonder if heads will roll for this.
The drums themselves are huge, man-sized, and obviously made of some extremely strong material. Rather like a giant grenede, I gather. So the force that's required to crack one of those things apart must have been awesome indeed.
The hillside was thrown into total darkness. Some families were wandering half-dressed down the hill when I was there, carrying purses, bags and screaming babies.
The explosion took some impressively large limbs off of several trees near the pole, and power lines were dangling or down everywhere.
The battery in my digital camera was dead. Got to buy a new one. It doesn't last even a day after recharging anymore.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I for one am not looking forward to two months of everything you own feeling damp.
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I think you are short-changing the joys of the rainy season. Don't you like the patterns the black mold makes on the wall as it grows? I for one look forward to finding that shirt that fell down in the back corner of the closet...all mildewy and stinky. And shoes that squelch when you walk...how can you not enjoy that? What about the challenge of trying to dry off with a towell that is still damp from the day before? And hanging your laundry up at night and it is still wet the next day...Ahhhh....summer in Korea! |
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