That's when they do their heavy drinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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That's when they do their heavy drinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yeah, they drink like a fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I just heard a weather junky say that January 2018 saw very similar weather patterns that ended in some serious mudslides in California. It sounds like part of a regular cycle of wildfires followed a bit later by heavy rains for a short interval producing slides in the denuded hills.
Yeah, though I'm not sure it's entirely novel.
The odd behavior of rivers and streams out here was one of the biggest differences I noticed when compared to the east. We have blow outs. How these happen isn't clear, as it doesn't take particularly excessive rain. Any given thunderstorm can cause one, though if we DO get excessive rain, then they become pretty much certain. In a blowout, a stream that may have been running without incident for decades, will suddenly scour down into the ground, moving vast quantities of mud and rock down the hills.
Blowouts can move enough mud and rock to dam significant rivers. I was chatting with some rafters one time, when one of them told a story about rafting the Middle Fork Salmon River, a whitewater stream that is so famous that I heard about it being world famous while I was growing up in NH. It's not a small river, though not Grand Canyon size. This rafter was moving down the swift river when he hit a lake. That river doesn't have any lakes, so hitting a lake surprised him considerably. Once he rowed across it, he found a few other rafters looking at the debris field brought down by a blowout that had completely dammed the river. Of course, that wasn't going to last, and once the river topped the debris field, it would start scouring down. That would result in a new, steep, rapid that would be changing almost by the minute. Rather an interesting challenge for the rafters.
We have been putting much better satellites up for weather analysis - especially in the area of finer details like water vapor content globally.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I've known about pineapple express weather patterns probably since 1994 - geek 101 going on here, lol!
The atmosphere is vaping.
If that is the blowout I am thinking about, Outdoor Idaho had a segment on that one. The Forest Service wound up using a minimal amount of explosives to blow up the logjam and allow the rafters (quite a few groups, actually) to proceed down river.Quote:
Blowouts can move enough mud and rock to dam significant rivers. I was chatting with some rafters one time, when one of them told a story about rafting the Middle Fork Salmon River, a whitewater stream that is so famous that I heard about it being world famous while I was growing up in NH. It's not a small river, though not Grand Canyon size. This rafter was moving down the swift river when he hit a lake. That river doesn't have any lakes, so hitting a lake surprised him considerably. Once he rowed across it, he found a few other rafters looking at the debris field brought down by a blowout that had completely dammed the river. Of course, that wasn't going to last, and once the river topped the debris field, it would start scouring down. That would result in a new, steep, rapid that would be changing almost by the minute. Rather an interesting challenge for the rafters.
Well, after all it is high above us!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It's been hitting the iPot again?
What's going on with car washes? I normally do a spray down and rinse in a coin-op high pressure stall place near me.
A few days ago I opted for an oil change at a place that used to be part of a major chain but seems to have been sold to an independent operator. With a promo coupon it was far less than I normally pay, and afterward they gave me a receipt good for a car wash in the next 30 days.
It said it was for a "Super Duper" wash and wax, but when I rolled up the greeter asked if I wanted to upgrade to "Cosmic" for 2 dollars. I figured, why not? And then it got weird from there.
This music started, and 4 guys came out with buckets and squeegees to do an initial soap and rise of the windows. Then one guy guided me into the conveyor and yelled "put it in neutral and take your foot off the brake" and things really got weird. The music switched to something between hard rock and a circus tune and colored lasers started providing a show as my car moved through the tunnel.
I know I live in the sticks, but the absurdity had me laughing through to the end. Is this just new local weirdness, or a normal thing urbanites yawn at?
I can imagine people with little kids bringing them along for the show as a sort of mini theme park ride.
Sounds like your not their target demographic. lol
I've heard music at car washes before but usually once your inside the wash the machines drown out the music. Never seen lasers at a car wash. Was it a "Cosmic" experience??
All I could think of the whole time was a Family Guy meme they used to use from time to time with Stewie Griffin dancing in some gay disco club. I think they also had one where an airliner was "gay jacked" to Miami.
Found it:
https://youtu.be/tsN4u5UZqno
Pfffft. If they didn't give you mushrooms with that, they weren't really trying.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I'm still not sure if this carnival atmosphere is common elsewhere and just coming here now... or whether the guy operating this place is just hazing new hires to get them to demonstrate a work ethic as they train part time to work the oil change pits.
On a slightly more serious note, this does seem to be a trend, and I don't understand it, either. I'm used to the simple car washes attached to gas stations where you get an option for a discounted car wash when you fill up. However, there are also a bunch of places that sound a whole lot more
That's as far as I got with a reply before my computer got bricked by an update. Now it's hours later, Dil managed a response in-between, but I might as well finish the thought.
What I was saying was that there are a bunch of places out here that sound a whole lot more like what you described. They tend to have a 50's vibe to their outside, but there's lots of neon lighting and vibrant colors. I have no idea what that's about, though I did try one and got an exceptionally clean car out of it. I screwed up and bought more than I expected. In fact, they ended up taking a couple hours to the point where I had to interrupt and say that I absolutely had to have the car back so that I could get to a meeting two hours away. They gave me a rain check to finish the cleaning. When I redeemed the rain check, they cleaned the whole car again. I think they must have spent over five hours total cleaning that car. The result was a car that was probably cleaner than the day it came out of the factory.
No laser show, though.
Never had that round my way. I'm kinda jealous.
What annoys the heck out of me is one of the car washes that has a revolving cylinder at the top of their sign, which has their name and logo on it. This is by a lengthy stop light, so one gets an opportunity to contemplate it. That just gives a petty annoyance time to grow.
The annoyance is that the cylinder is revolving backwards. It should be rotating in the direction we read, so that the name is progressively revealed, but it's rotating backwards such that the end of the name shows first, followed by the rest of the name.
On a totally unrelated note, predictive typing is getting kind of amazing. This whole post resulted from typing a single letter.
That's an exaggeration, but it was feeling that way. I got to the 'totally', and got the 'unrelated note' for free. The preceding post was even more absurd.
Am I that predictable? In fact, with that, once I typed the 'Am' I was offered 'the only one' for free. I did not accept.