I had to watch UFC 92 at home alone today due to the fact that I can’t get my car out of my driveway.
We’ve had about two weeks of snow and sub-zero temperatures in the Greater Vancouver Area. It doesn’t help that the city workers had neglected to plow the roads around my condo. The layers of snow have been compacted and a dangerous layer of ice is left on the bottom.
To worsen the situation my rear-wheel drive Mustang is shoed with summer performance tires, which effectively turn into hockey pucks in these icy conditions. Vancouver is simply not used to this kind of adverse weather conditions and is not properly staffed nor equipped to deal with the aftermath of such a prolonged exposure.
The Vancouver International Airport measured 41 centimetres (just over 16 inches) of snow. The Vancouver Airport is located in the city of Richmond, which is at sea level. My home in Burnaby is at a much higher elevation so I estimate we have about two feet of snow accumulated over the last two weeks. The bad news is that it’s supposed to snow again throughout the next week.
I can’t wait for the rain to come back.
At any rate, I missed out on another UFC party and had to watch it at home alone.
Just about every fighter I had expected to win had lost. Good thing I’m not a gambling man.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson pummeled Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva to a Knock Out victory 3:21 in the 1st Round.
In the co-Main Event Frank Mir looked his best ever with an impressive TKO victory, 1:54 in the 2nd Round over Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira. After the TKO Mir ran to the side of the cage and faced Brock Lesnar yelling, “You’ve got MY belt!” Clearly indicating that Mir is confident he will once again defeat Lesnar for the coveted UFC Championship title that Lesnar holds after defeating Randy Couture.
Fan favorite Forrest Griffin suffered a disappointing loss to Rashad “Sugar” Evans in the Main Event, a TKO at 2:46 in the 3rd round, even after dominating the first two rounds. Gracious in defeat as he is in victory, Forrest Griffin was full of praise for Evans. How can you not like the guy?
Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Leo
Filed under: Lucid Thoughts
Perhaps you should get a second vehicle for wintertime use
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I would if I thought it was feasible. The thing is that Vancouver doesn’t normally experience weather like this, at least not in the city. We usually get pretty mild, albeit wet, weather.
The last time we saw a white Christmas was over two decades ago.
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Yeah, in that case it makes more sense not to and when you do get weather like you’re having you can just take a few days off work and use that time to stay home and get up on your blog reading and writing
Nicks last blog post..I Found Two More Feeds To Subscribe To
We had the highest snowfall for december ever recorded. It then rained for 2 days and much of it has melted which is just as strange.
How about going down to the tire shope/junk yard and picking up a set of used rims/tires for winter?
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I could have if I was even able to leave my neighborhood. They also had a major winter tire shortage this year due to the poor weather all across Canada. This was also the first year that Quebec made it mandatory to have winter-rated tires during the winter months. In short, maybe next year if I don’t end up getting a new car. Hopefully, it will be another 2 decades before we get weather like this again. Whatever happened to global warming?
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update this fracken thing!
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Yeah boy! I remember that fight, from that day i knew rashad evans was a mean guy with big guns