"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Just post what kind of severe weather you have in your state. And you can say what you deal with on a day to day basis.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Mike32ct said:
We don't have much severe weather in Connecticut.

Blizzards happen sometimes during the winter.

Hurricanes or tropical storms maybe every 5 or 10+ years.

That's about it.
We're you there for the blizzard of 96?
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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I'm in Canada so we can get tons of snow. I've been a big fan of having a 4x4. When I was married, me and my wife drove around after a huge snowstorm and helped push people out who were stuck.
 

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In the desert, obviously extreme heat is something we deal with most of the year. That's manageable tough. The real killer for us is prolonged heavy rain. Since the ground is so dry, when it rains none of the water is absorbed resulting in flash floods. Those things are nightmares. A kid actually died this year from rain wash.
 

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I live in Florida, the lightning capitol of the states. And I live in the lightning alley of Florida. The narrow corridor between Tampa and Titusville has thunderstorms 100 days out of the year.

And then, of course, there was the year with six hurricanes, with four in five weeks. Hurricanes always ruin your weekend plans, never your work schedule.
 

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This year we had the worst drought in at least 55 years. Last year we had a 100-year flood and killer tornadoes.

The arctic icecap is almost entirely gone in summer now. The drastic weather is only going to get worse.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Deep Dish said:
I live in Florida, the lightning capitol of the states. And I live in the lightning alley of Florida. The narrow corridor between Tampa and Titusville has thunderstorms 100 days out of the year.

And then, of course, there was the year with six hurricanes, with four in five weeks. Hurricanes always ruin your weekend plans, never your work schedule.
I love Florida just to visit.:cheer:
 

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Mike32ct said:
We don't have much severe weather in Connecticut.

Blizzards happen sometimes during the winter.

Hurricanes or tropical storms maybe every 5 or 10+ years.

That's about it.
or last year when we had that ice storm .... that thing sucked. Not to mention all these tornado warnings recently.
 

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Bible_Belt said:
This year we had the worst drought in at least 55 years. Last year we had a 100-year flood and killer tornadoes.

The arctic icecap is almost entirely gone in summer now. The drastic weather is only going to get worse.
LOL not sure if srs
 

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The only remaining vestige of legitimate scientific disagreement about if global warming/climate change is anthropogenic, above and beyond the natural cycles, concerns clouds. If carbon emissions by humans heat up the atmosphere, the dissenting argument follows, then there should be more clouds, cooling the earth back down. If this clouds argument is falsified then we are all fücked.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Deep Dish said:
The only remaining vestige of legitimate scientific disagreement about if global warming/climate change is anthropogenic, above and beyond the natural cycles, concerns clouds. If carbon emissions by humans heat up the atmosphere, the dissenting argument follows, then there should be more clouds, cooling the earth back down. If this clouds argument is falsified then we are all fücked.
What?:woo:
 

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Maybe a bad thunderstorm and lots of rain. I have experienced a hail storm before where it looked like it had been snowing in the middle of summer. :D :D :D
 

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OzyBoy said:
Maybe a bad thunderstorm and lots of rain. I have experienced a hail storm before where it looked like it had been snowing in the middle of summer. :D :D :D
The cities that have it worse are Miami and New Orleans:box:
 
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