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University of Wisconsin football (59-0: Deal With It ... or Quit)

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Nutriaitch said:
the rainfall in Oregon is blown out of proportion.
Corvallis gets about 20" less rain per year than most of the Gulf Coast.

We just don't bitch about it because we're not West Coast pussies.
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It's not the quantity, but instead the duration. It drizzles for fucking-ever. It's a grey, depressing situation for those not native. Louisiana is nothing like that from what I've been told.
 
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muffler dragon said:
It's not the quantity, but instead the duration. It drizzles for fucking-ever. It's a grey, depressing situation for those not native. Louisiana is nothing like that from what I've been told.
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I've never been to Oregon, so can't say other than seeing the numbers.

in Louisiana we get our rain steadily over the course of the year. several inches (3-4) every month with peaking in the summer months (6-8).
it usually comes in 2-3 day spurts, most of the year. summer time we get a lot of afternoon showers just early enough for the sun to bake us into a sauna when it quits raining.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
I've never been to Oregon, so can't say other than seeing the numbers.

in Louisiana we get our rain steadily over the course of the year. several inches (3-4) every month with peaking in the summer months (6-8).
it usually comes in 2-3 day spurts, most of the year. summer time we get a lot of afternoon showers just early enough for the sun to bake us into a sauna when it quits raining.
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I'll sum it up like this: when you see pictures or people on TV in Oregon, 9/10 times they look like they just got out of the shower with their hair laying down and damp.
There ain't no shower involved. It's the Rainforest that the area resides in.

That being said, I have never experienced a more beautiful summer than in OR and WA. The humidity drops substantially, the rain stops and everything is lush, green and vibrant. It may very well be the contrast that sticks out the most. Summer = beautiful, Fall-Spring = bleh.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
I've never been to Oregon, so can't say other than seeing the numbers.

in Louisiana we get our rain steadily over the course of the year. several inches (3-4) every month with peaking in the summer months (6-8).
it usually comes in 2-3 day spurts, most of the year. summer time we get a lot of afternoon showers just early enough for the sun to bake us into a sauna when it quits raining.
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I lived in NOLA for a year. It rained every day between 3 and 4 PM, and the rain drops were the size of a baby's fist.
 
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cincibuck said:
You're overlooking Illinois - school is a top tier math, science and engineering school.
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I was referring to only those 3 schools. Funny you mention Illinois though. Of all the B1G schools I applied to (including Northwestern), Illinois was the only school that deferred me.

The B1G is filled with good engineering/computer science schools. Purdue, Illinois, tOSU, Wisconsin, sCUM all have top tier engineering programs.
 
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Spent a year at Ft. Lewis, half way between Seattle and Portland and a hundred or so miles north of Corvalis. The rain was steady from the end of November through mid February when we had five days of sunshine. Then it rained everyday until sometime in late April. The "I-5 corridor" - roughly from Vancouver to Petaluma, CA -has the highest suicide rate in the nation.

The people were great and when the sun finally came out it was spectacular weather, but you don't know rain and gray until you've wintered in the area.
 
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