I'm sitting in a pavilion waiting for the storms to arrive. The forecast is for torrential rain and possibly tornados in a few hours. Looking at the radar...it's coming. The rain would be okay. I can do without tornados, though.
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I'm sitting in a pavilion waiting for the storms to arrive. The forecast is for torrential rain and possibly tornados in a few hours. Looking at the radar...it's coming. The rain would be okay. I can do without tornados, though.
This park is pretty nice. There's one guy on duty today and he's out mowing. I suppose he's trying to get the mowing done before the downpour starts. There is also a bunch of equipment stored in a compound here. I saw two people come in and pick up a boat, earlier. I hope they aren't intending to go out in the boat today...but they probably are.
Heh, you said doody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
We're finally getting a break from the 100 degree heat wave we've had for the last week. Only suppose to be 92 today.
At least we don't get tornados. Well, one did appear not to far from here for a few seconds a year ago or so. That's the only one I can remember.
The wind is actually blowing pretty hard here and it is still pretty far out. According to TWC, my parish isn't even under a watch or warning. I think it only goes as far east as Morgan City.
Apple shows wind at 14mph and gusts up to 24mph.
Like I said, the wind aint bad, just present. Which is odd for almost summer.
dday is talking to himself again... :P
It got really bad really quick. We just had a tornado pass through town and have had 6 tornado sirens go off in the past 4 hours.
I just saw a post by WDSU that there’s almost 200 lightning strikes every 15 minutes. That’s what actually woke me up, you’d see the flash then hear the boom almost instantly.
Well, that got scary. All's good now.
Gotta run up that post race count, baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
No flooding in your area??Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Nope, the water went down pretty quickly.
We can't flush some of our toilets, but that should go away in a day or two.
How many toilets do you have??? lol
3!!!
Houma took the brunt of the damage, they got absolutely piléd. Raceland’s pumps were only running at 50% capacity and so the back half of town is flooded. A girl on my daughter’s softball team has about 3” of water and it’s a raised home.
No tornados for me. I heard something coming towards me that sounded like a freight train.
It was a freight train.
Sat in a pavilion and watched it rain until 3, but all the really bad weather went south of me. Weather is nice, now.
Words to live by!!!
Quote:
In the span of 11 years, 115 people died in weightlifting accidents at the gym.
In the same 11 years, only one person died from eating a donut.
Make better choices!
I was hoping it would rain like cats and dogs today since it's so freakin' hot, but this thunder I heard produced nothing. The storm passed us by from a distance.
We've gotten a boat load of rain (correct scientific term).
I guess that's pretty dependent on the size of the boat. :)
Been seeing that Europe is having a pretty bad heat wave. July and August is always one long heat wave around here but we are built for it. All the homes and businesses have AC. As long as it doesn't breakdown we're fine. I remember as a kid living in homes without AC, it sucked. Not sure I could survive that again.
I remember being there being parts of the building in my elementary school that didn't have air conditioning, but I don't remember it being bad either.
It could also be that I was a child and creature comforts didn't matter to me as much.
The worst part of 100+ when your a kid is trying to sleep. Other than that, your a kid and life is an adventure.
Kids sleep?!Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Please, for the love of God, someone pass that information along to my children!
That's your job. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
My dad didn't really leave you any other options. He didn't debate the issue. ;)
Damn, it's hot today! 97 degrees!
And the next two days is gonna be almost 100!
I've seen where Europeans are experiencing a bad heat wave.
I've also seen where a good percentage of Europeans don't have air conditioning, which just blows my mind.
Yeah, here AC is a given. Our average temp in July and August is @97, with days of 110 a possibility.
I think HVAC businesses around here don't have to worry about AI. lol
Mostly in Germany. :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Been checking out Shaggy's bike trip journal now and then. Actually saw a picture of him on it today. It was sort of what I was expecting, then again it wasn't. Kind of strange to see what someone looks like after years of interacting with them only with writing.
I tried Googling for Shaggy's journal and found this gem:
https://youtu.be/hkDD03yeLnU?si=BfWdLL0yh-CRsbKl
Mais la! Il fait chaud aujourd'hui.
The site is "cycleblaze" and his journal is called "the slow road". Here is the link,Quote:
I tried Googling for Shaggy's journal and found this gem:
https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/trailtourist/
The journal entry is at the bottom "The Windswept Summit of Mount Trashmore"
My son caught his first flounder last week. Oddly enough, it didn’t really fight him when he hooked it.
Every flounder I have ever caught takes off down to the bottom and gives me the fight of its life. His was just sort of like "ok, you got me"
All we did was gut it, remove the head, and bake it. It came out so delicious.
The skin peeled right off and you could scrape the meat off the bone with just a spoon.
Went fishing with some adults when I was a kid. My uncle caught a flounder(this was fresh water), it was was fairly big. But no one in our group had ever seen a flounder before and they are a very strange looking fish. No one wanted to even touch it. So he ended up cutting his line and let it swim away. lol
Flounder look weird for sure, but man, they taste soooooo good. The water is technically brackish, but I had caught a small redfish just after him which makes me think this was a saltwater flounder.
I absolutely love redfish, but this one was so small that it hadn't turned red yet and at first, I thought it might have been a croaker. But once I saw the signature dot on its tail I was like "oh man, this is just a small redfish".
His flounder was the only one we kept that day. It was at about 10", which is good enough to cook.
My son's a "boy's boy" which makes it so much easier for me. Anytime I want my fish cleaned/fileted or animals cleaned, he always volunteers to do it for me.
And by "volunteers", I mean that I say "hey boy, go clean that" and he says "yes sir" :D
I didn't know flounder would ever go into fresh water. I've only known them in salt water.
The river we were fishing is fresh water but we were close to were the river and the SF Bay delta join. So there might be some salt water involved. It was Rio Vista, CA., I don't know the area real well.
This is what Google has to say,
I have fished various places in the Delta (the delta is a maze), mainly caught catfish and stripers.Quote:
Rio Vista, California is a charming, small city of about 10,000 residents in Solano County. Located in the Sacramento River Delta about 50 miles south of Sacramento and 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, it is known as the "Heart of the Delta" and offers a peaceful, rural-suburban lifestyle.
There is definitely freshwater flounder, but most of the ones I have ever caught have been saltwater.
Have you ever caught a minotaur while fishing in that maze?
What with the WorldCup going on currently, i came across this joke today:
LMFAOQuote:
Task: Formulate a contradiction with just three words
Answer: "American Soccer Expert"
I rarely watch soccer. Like with the World Cup going on, I'll back the US national team just because... why not? But I can honestly say that I might have watched a grand total of 5 minutes of this World Cup.
For the first time EVERY I had a soccer game on the TV last night, the Mexico vs Ecuador match. But that was only because my son came over for dinner and his girlfriend is from Mexico. I can't say that I actually watched it but it was on while I was cooking.
My son was a fairly good soccer player as a kid. He played youth soccer for 8yrs.
I usually try to catch as many matches as i can, but with the Time-difference it's no fun, especially when my alarm is going off at 6AM each morningQuote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Though, i'll stay awake for Croatia - Portugal tonight (1AM german time)
GO CROATIA!
The only thing I have to reference from Croatia is Cro Cop and his legendary head kicks.
*grml*Quote:
Originally Posted by Zvoni
It's a conspiracy......
They just don't want us to proceed.....
That,Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
and many sites in Croatia, where Game of Thrones was filmed
some Giants in their sport (Alpine Skiing, Men's Tennis, Handball to name a few)
Nikola Tesla
for such a small country (~4.7M citizens --> 3.9M living in Croatia, rest in the world) nothing to sneeze at
I tend not to sneeze at countries. It usually just confuses them.