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Vancouver fog

Oct. 23, 2013, 4:39 p.m.
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At least it's not this:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/131021/china-smog-emergency-shuts-city-11-million-people

Seriously, you could not pay me enough money to live there… Guaranteed lung cancer in 10 years.

"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out."
- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

Oct. 23, 2013, 4:45 p.m.
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Yikes. Thats awful.

Our fog on the other hand can stay! Means no rain. I love it!

Oct. 23, 2013, 5:15 p.m.
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The foghorns from ships are getting annoying, I wear earplugs to bed now. But yeh, first world vancouver problem, glad it's not smog.

Oct. 23, 2013, 5:18 p.m.
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I was just in Peeg this AM, I think the thick fog was keeping in the mill stink and I doubt many planes got in or out

Oct. 23, 2013, 5:21 p.m.
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I was just in Peeg this AM, I think the thick fog was keeping in the mill stink and I doubt many planes got in or out

Peeg mill stank is a special kind of stank. Nasty.

Oct. 23, 2013, 5:21 p.m.
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The foghorns from ships are getting annoying, I wear earplugs to bed now. But yeh, first world vancouver problem, glad it's not smog.

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out."
- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

Oct. 23, 2013, 5:27 p.m.
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yeah but I hadn't noticed it being as bad the last few times I visited peeg, I was on asma meds living in PeeG and I quit using them when I left

Oct. 23, 2013, 7:33 p.m.
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I remember that stink. They said you'd get used to it. No way!

Walked out the seawall from the pool in sunlight fog didn't close in until past 2nd beach.

Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.

Oct. 23, 2013, 8:29 p.m.
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The foghorns from ships are getting annoying, I wear earplugs to bed now. But yeh, first world vancouver problem, glad it's not smog.

Do you have a sweet waterfront place? I can hardly hear them where I am…

Ride, don't slide.

Oct. 23, 2013, 8:35 p.m.
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Hell, I can hear them on Victoria Dr.

Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.

Oct. 23, 2013, 9:34 p.m.
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Do you have a sweet waterfront place? I can hardly hear them where I am…

It's above the highway but there's definitely a clear line of sight to the boats

Oct. 23, 2013, 10:09 p.m.
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Fast Orange is going to turn into Fast Gray pretty soon.

Thread killer

Oct. 23, 2013, 10:54 p.m.
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this fog is bad everywhere, last sunday If fog kept the turbo otter from flying we would have been stuck up at burnie hut with lots of food,beer,wine and a cook …not so bad eh

Oct. 23, 2013, 11:14 p.m.
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this fog is bad everywhere, last sunday If fog kept the turbo otter from flying we would have been stuck up at burnie hut with lots of food,beer,wine and a cook …not so bad eh

That would have been sweet. I'm already looking forward to Vancouver snow days where everything shuts down because of 5cms.

Oct. 23, 2013, 11:23 p.m.
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Joined: Aug. 27, 2007

Beautiful blue bird days in Whistler and Pemby, sucks you guys are all fogged out!

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