[elky] Re: Win 8.1 & weather
- From: JAMES HALLADAY <auh2ofan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:00:22 -0700
Ray is over there near the center of the valley and catches a warm flow
right out of Arizona.
We got 5+" here near the East bench; I was real glad the little white truck
was parked with a gray fence for background.
The yellow "Moon eyes" antenna ball helped, also.
It works real well in parking lots when the unit is hidden behind many
giant elephants (suv s).
My best lady just looked, and we have 05* on the front porch.
Blast! I forgot to bring the brass monkey in. Sure ruined HIS day.
Saw the report from Dallas on TWC; Fresh.
Jim
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When my sons were young (like 3 and 5) we had a pretty severe windstorm
> come thru northern Utah. It was accompanied by some lightning and a lotta
> junk blowing around in the air. It initially scared both kids until I took
> 'em to the front window and explained that wind is only "air in a hurry."
> From then on, neither one of 'em were frightened by weather.
>
> In another example, I was on the salt flats when "Worlds Fastest Indian"
> was being filmed in 2004. A major storm came thru and the wind, clouds and
> rapid drop in temperature caused the "extra herders" (those in charge of
> getting the extras to go where they wanted 'em) panicked. They musta used
> cattle prods to get the extras onto buses before Armageddon happened. Big
> deal.
>
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> I guess they had some basis in their concern cuz overnight the entire set
> area was trashed and flooded. That was on a Friday night/Saturday
> morning. Sunday was an "off day" for everybody but the set builders. They
> thrashed like mad to get all the junk into trucks and Monday's filming was
> in Wendover (swimming pool scene). The next day (Tuesday) the entire set
> had been rebuilt and filming resumed on the salt. Pretty quick work.
>
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> The whole thing is here:
> http://chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2004/wfi/Welcome.html
>
> Since then, I've seen a lotta that happen. Last year (2012) we had our
> 20x10 canopy blown over several times. It ended up bending (destroying)
> several of the frame tubes. Jim can verify this. :) Lemme tell ya, it's
> an interesting experience to be hanging onto one corner of a 20x10
> parachute as the wind tries to get it back to Kansas (I guess it was trying
> to rectify the situation of the Oz incident. LOL!)
> http://chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2012/02-wos/pix/20120908_4175_jpg.html In
> that photo we'd taken it down and secured it. Over the next coupla daze it
> got the parachute treatment a coupla times.
>
> World Finals 2011 is a good example:
> http://chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2011/05-wf/Welcome.html
>
> Well, it's 8 ayem here, 12F and while we didn't get a huge amount of snow
> (3" or so where I live) the street outside my "weather window" looks like a
> skating rink. A lotta black ice there.
>
> I'm gonna take a nap...or at least lie down for a while and listen to an
> audiobook (G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown anthology).
>
> r
>
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> On 12/4/2013 5:25 AM, John Christensen wrote:
>
> I am really not a snow fan, but I find the weather very interesting.
> Hang in there Ray.
>
> Where we are now, the weather is very different, believe it or not. Cook
> and DuPage County have strange phenomenon happening because of the lake.
> Especially when a low pressure center passes over the tip of it. the
> counterclockwise rotation accelerates the air over the lake, then the flow
> splits systems that would normally crash in to us there. The systems end up
> going north or south all the time. We were at the west central border of
> DuPage County before. Now we are at the west central edge of Kane County (2
> county widths distance from the old plate straight west) Those systems that
> are rolling in just keep on rolling. If they say it is coming, it is. Not
> like to old house, where they say the big one is on the way, then it moves
> north or south, or both but misses us.
>
> Cindy and I both used to sit on the porch and watch the extreme weather
> move in when we lived in Iowa. Mother Nature is awesome. I feel bad when
> people get hurt in it, but the power of these systems is awe inspiring.
>
> Back to our regularly scheduled snowstorm.
>
> JC
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> It's on its way Brian. Be there in a few days. We had flurries
>> yesterday and today the temps are crashing. 31* a few minutes ago after
>> dinner. We did have that 55* and 3.62" of rain the other day but its
>> cleared today for the cold.
>>
>> sorry, Ray. Not a snow fan anymore. Pretty picture though.
>>
>> Mary
>>
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