Aaaaand here we go again.
Weird weather
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GasBandit
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Oh shit. that looks bad.
Yeah it's not great, but it could be worse. At least it's going to be a tropical storm instead of a full blown hurricane.
Dave
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Yeah, there's no such thing as climate change. None at all.
Check out the frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms for Hawaii over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hawaii_hurricanes
Check out the frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms for Hawaii over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hawaii_hurricanes
Wait, wasn't your coast just on fire?
More often than not, it's the southern portion of the East coast that get beat up during hurricane season, but I'm not going rub that in since a few months later they're having mild winters while I shovel out my windows.
Still is. Or, more accurately, it's on fire again. The big fire south of us around Redding was finally contained, but then another one blew up in its place (obviously not the exact same place, since that was already burnt, but pretty damn close). Apparently our valley rarely burns (no idea why), but we have to worry about the Rogue and Applegate valleys to the south of us.
That new fire sure is a kick in the nuts. *sigh*
Santa Fe is a great town. How about Tucumcari tonight!
Speaking of hurricanes, everyone went crazy at Costco this weekend. Bottled water mayhem!
GasBandit
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I drove through Tucumcari on the way here! Nice place. I didn't quite have enough gas to make it there in one shot from Euless, though, so I had to stop in San Jon again this year.
It smelled like buttered cow manure. I'd never smelled a smell quite like that before outside of an indian restaurant.
It smelled like buttered cow manure. I'd never smelled a smell quite like that before outside of an indian restaurant.
I've never hung out in Tucumcari, but I've been on the stretch of I-40 from Western Oklahoma to California a dozen times (varying lengths). That billboard is etched in my brain.
Stay safe if you're in the path of Florence!
We've got water, batteries, and non-perishable food ready to go. They've closed the University starting Wednesday. Hopefully, it won't be bad this far inland.
figmentPez
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glad I moved my tomato plants inside today.
I picked mine clean yesterday.
Mine only just started. I only have one that's even started to turn.
I'm tempted to plant some.
I'm pretty sure he won't be affected too much, he can always just walk on top of the flood if it comes. Everybody else out there, yeah, stay safe and good luck.
Tuesday morning was the first time since April, maybe earlier, that the outdoor temperature was lower than my A/C setting. I keep mine on 73 degrees.
I read that you can get two harvests out of them if you keep them shaded in the summer.
Four in a greenhouse with the right conditions.
It would be awesome if I could get some actual news on Florence, instead of just political crap about how Trump is the best president ever, Maria's death toll was all made up bullshit, and then idiots shouting down meteorologists for "falsely reporting higher winds than there actually are," because the mets are using MPH and the graphics are using knots.
Intellicast's map seems pretty useful. You can even set the layer mode to wind speed.
If you look on this map, I live just between Lexington and Columbia in the center there. The blue line is Hurricane Florence's current expected path.
Hoping it is going to be significantly weaker by the time it gets to us, but it looks like we are in for a couple of days of rain and high winds. I happen to live within a half-mile of a major hospital, so am not that worried about power going out and we survived the thousand year flood a couple years ago with no issues. I am optimistic that we will not be too harshly affected, but all caution is being exercised nonetheless.
I will update when I get a chance.
Hoping it is going to be significantly weaker by the time it gets to us, but it looks like we are in for a couple of days of rain and high winds. I happen to live within a half-mile of a major hospital, so am not that worried about power going out and we survived the thousand year flood a couple years ago with no issues. I am optimistic that we will not be too harshly affected, but all caution is being exercised nonetheless.
I will update when I get a chance.
This site is also nice for data:https://www.ventusky.com
Yeah, we were watching some of the storm chaser streams last night - most of them were pretty good, but the one that everyone keeps hyping, Jeff Piotrowski (aka blue shed guy) is almost unbearable to listen to. And I'm not talking about his occasional lapses into southern drawl when he's tired, excited, or talking on the phone - I've been out of 'Bama for 22 years now and I still slip into that accent once in a while. No, I'm talking about the constant stream of misinformation - misjudgment or overstatement of water depth; exaggeration of damage being done "whole houses are having their lower walls blown out by storm surge!" was actually "the back walls of semi-attached garages are bowing out from storm surge,"; constantly misplacing the eye of the storm and reporting wrong locations for it; I can understand why he's so popular, but dear god the amount of misinformation that man spewed for hours on end was mind-boggling. And, when you take into account the near constant peppering of shouts of "Wind!" or "Oh my god what was that?!" or "Oh Shoot! Oh Shoot! Oh Shoot! That was close! Oh Shoot! What was it!? Oh god! What's going on?! What is it?! Jeff?! Jeff!? Jeff!? Jeff!? What was it Jeff?! What was it!? What was it Jeff!?" and then you hear, from off camera, "Oh uh, the sign behind us fell down." - yeesh.
So update, I guess. Florence is finally moving out. All we got was a lot of rain with the occasional wind gust. We never even lost power. It felt like a couple of normal rainy days.